Careers in Hospitality and Catering
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The outlook for a career in hospitality jobs has never looked better with the future for openings being excellent. The reason for the openings is most food service workers move on to higher paying jobs. However if you are looking for a good career you can stay in the food service business and make a decent living in these hospitality jobs. There are courses available at community colleges, trade schools and universities to help you further your education. Here are some of the jobs available:
Hotel Jobs – One of the hotel jobs is room service which can pay very well hourly and with the tips you receive. Food service jobs are one of the hotel jobs that often requires some sort of college training these employees are normally cooks or chefs. In some instances these employees will have to fill in as wait staff in the restaurant in the hotel. Some times the kitchen will stay open for room service orders and may require longer hours for these workers.
Catering Jobs – Catering jobs are a different kind of hotel job. A caterer is normally a higher paying job than your usual hotel worker because the wait staff do not make any tips and if you are a cook you do not cook from a menu. Catering jobs sometimes are on a as needed basis meaning a lot of evenings and weekends. Catering jobs are highly sought after jobs and normally offered to the best workers.
Bar Jobs – Bar jobs are for the outgoing enthusiastic individual who is a team player and will provide quality customer service.These jobs earn income thru an hourly wage and tips and with good traffic coming into the bar can earn 200 to 300 a shift. Attending a school to become a bartender can help in landing these jobs and previous experience also helps.
Hotel Management Jobs – Hotel management jobs often require a college degree normally a Bachelor’s degree in hotel management. These jobs pay more and is a high status and highly respected job and offers a lot of flexibility as far as the positions offered. This job does have a high rate of turnover and with the job sometimes requiring the person to move in order to keep being considered for promotion. This industry sometimes has a perception of being a very glamorous industry but this stems for lack of knowledge about the industry. Many of these students come straight from college having never worked in this industry before.
A job in the hospitality and catering business is growing by on average 11 percent a year since 2006. These jobs offer opportunities for the regular worker as well as the student with lots of flexibility in this field of jobs.
Louise G
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I am 25, have no degree, all my experience is in hospitality. Where can I get some career advice?
I have worked in catering and hospitality for almost 8 years. It is all I know how to do. I don’t want to do it anymore but have no experience in anything else. I am struggling to find anywhere I can find career advice
soniamaya81
1 Mar 10 at 5:27 pm
With eight years in catering & hospitality, you must have some very valuable transferable skills – cash handling, customer services, problem solving, stock management, stock ordering, stock audit – above all, front-of-house experience in dealing with people, which is one of the most tradeable assets you can have.
My maths tells me you started at 17, which makes me think that you may not have A levels, which could be a problem, as most employers who are looking for any sort of manager want both experience and education. But, often, your knowledge can be more important. Here’s what a bartender friend of mine did: worked for no money in a terrible bar for two years, got supervisor experience, learned all he could about the product (booze), did all the health and safety/BFH courses there were, and then started thinking laterally. Now, he’s area manager for about 15 Oddbins, all suited and booted, with a company car – and he didn’t have a degree either.
If you can’t rely on being able to progress in the roll you’re currently in, then you have to start looking elsewhere. Make sure you make use of specialist agencies – more often than not, you can take a very short term placement in a particular role and end up getting a full-time job in a different department/position. Never give up hope, though – there is a job that you want/may be interested in out there, just keep looking (I like http://www.reed.co.uk because it’s search engine is really powerful and many hundreds of different agencies post there).
Good luck!
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PETER G
1 Mar 10 at 10:29 pm
Colleges have career counselors. Make an appointment and get some assistance in planning your future.
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schoolot
1 Mar 10 at 10:31 pm
Try the job centre. Don’ be put off by the reputation, they’ll do all they can to help you find a new job.
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leafpuller
1 Mar 10 at 10:33 pm
What you should do is use your experience in the hospitality to build an impressive resume for whatever you want to do next. Are you interested in customer service? Then play up all the customer service-oriented angles of your previous jobs and talk about that in the resume. Would you rather do IT? Think of all the things you did with computers, the Internet, etc. in the hospitality industry to list in your resume. If admin. is more your thing, maybe you should reflect on all your front desk experience (if any) in the hospitality industry so your potential employer knows that you have adequate phone, computer, and organizational skills. If you feel like you may need to acquire more skills before you are able to be hired in whatever field you choose next, you may need to enroll in a couple of basic computer classes, or maybe some night courses at a local community college, if a degree is required.
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fizzygurrl1980
1 Mar 10 at 10:35 pm
In the UK phone up your nearest Careers office. They now offer Careers advice for adults and have specially trained advisors who can offer you impartial advice and choices.
Normally you will find the careers centre will have a computerised database system that uses the information you feed into it. It will then provide you with a list of alternative career options based on that information you provided/
Ring up and make an appointment you will find that it will be time well spent. You will have lots of transferrable skills and your experience will be a valuable asset in any job.
Best wishes.
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Retired Careers Advisor.
Boudicca's dream
1 Mar 10 at 10:37 pm
Go to your local citizens advise they will be able to help you
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LOOPY COLLEGE STUDENT
1 Mar 10 at 10:39 pm