Career Planning for Hospitality Students
Table of Content
• Introduction…………………………………………………………….1 • Graduate labor market……………………………………………….1 • Career options…………………………………………………………5 • Competencies required for the Position………………………….5 • Taj group of hotels…………………………………………………….6 • Employee engagement……………………………………………….6 • CV analysis……………………………………………………………...7 • Competencies Demonstrated and Implementations of Them in Job Selection Processes…………………………………………………..8 • Future action plan……………………………………………………..10 • Bibliography……………………………………………………………..13
Introduction
During the global economic downturn it was predicted that India and China would not be affected as much and hospitality industry in particular would undergo minor changes. Besides this Khanna, 2008 outlined that lack of infrastructure in India would not be sufficient enough to sustain growth of hospitality industry. However the argument can be ruled out as a number of private organization both national and international are investing into Indian hospitality sector. This can be said as Carlson group of hotels are planning to open 50 new properties by the end of year 2012 across India. Many More hotel groups like Fairmont etc are entering fresh in India.
It was predicted that the growth in Indian tourism would be around 8.8% till 2013 which is closely related to hotel industry. The jobs in hospitality were also available during the period of time and are still growing. Moreover the number of hospitality graduates is still very low as compared to the demand of the industry. Hence hospitality as a career is still considered as a fair option in order to grow and make life out of it.
Graduate labor market
As outlined by Harvey (2001, cited by Nabi, 2000) graduates should posses certain attributes and skills in order to help them find a job and have sustainable growth in it. This would further help them build a career in the industry. However Graduate
• Introduction…………………………………………………………….1 • Graduate labor market……………………………………………….1 • Career options…………………………………………………………5 • Competencies required for the Position………………………….5 • Taj group of hotels…………………………………………………….6 • Employee engagement……………………………………………….6 • CV analysis……………………………………………………………...7 • Competencies Demonstrated and Implementations of Them in Job Selection Processes…………………………………………………..8 • Future action plan……………………………………………………..10 • Bibliography……………………………………………………………..13
Introduction
During the global economic downturn it was predicted that India and China would not be affected as much and hospitality industry in particular would undergo minor changes. Besides this Khanna, 2008 outlined that lack of infrastructure in India would not be sufficient enough to sustain growth of hospitality industry. However the argument can be ruled out as a number of private organization both national and international are investing into Indian hospitality sector. This can be said as Carlson group of hotels are planning to open 50 new properties by the end of year 2012 across India. Many More hotel groups like Fairmont etc are entering fresh in India.
It was predicted that the growth in Indian tourism would be around 8.8% till 2013 which is closely related to hotel industry. The jobs in hospitality were also available during the period of time and are still growing. Moreover the number of hospitality graduates is still very low as compared to the demand of the industry. Hence hospitality as a career is still considered as a fair option in order to grow and make life out of it.
Graduate labor market
As outlined by Harvey (2001, cited by Nabi, 2000) graduates should posses certain attributes and skills in order to help them find a job and have sustainable growth in it. This would further help them build a career in the industry. However Graduate
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