<p>I will be earning a Bachelors degree in Hospitality Management until Feb.2013. I have been job searching for 5-6 months so far by internet through various job search sites. </p>
<p>and maybe a few others but I have forgotten or received no offers.</p>
<p>For the past 6 months, the only job offers I got were housekeeper and health insurance salesman. I am not doing housekeeper, and I know I will not do well in selling insurance because nobody is buying during these times.
I already have roughly 2 years work experience. Working as a cashier, waiter, housekeeper and night auditor in various hotels and restaurants.</p>
<p>If you are a hospitality major, have you found a job yet? Any tips for new graduates?
I personally have asked my school for help, but all they did was give me a job search website. (HJR.com). Which was completlely useless, I could have done that myself. I expeceted connections with hotels but sadly they dont really want to help me. </p>
<p>Essentially I am on my own.
To clarify the situation, this school is overseas. And I am really looking for an average salary job to first of all pay off my student loans and help my family. But to also have enough income to live normally and possibly pay for part-time study for a Masters in Finance or whichever field can offer me good job opportunites. I would prefer to be near my family in New York for it offers me the conveinience of not having the pay rent elsewhere and support my family better.</p>
<p>I cannot do anything TOO physical, I am more of an intellect. I have an 88 GPA.
Which means no waiter, or housekeeper work. The only thing I can think of is Front office assitant, but it is difficult for me to find a position, so there are probably other positons available besides front office. Please leave some advise.</p>
<p>College grads in Hospitality or Alumni of College. Please help.</p>
<p>Can you possibly transfer to a school in this country?</p>
<p>A friend’s daughter did the program at Virginia Tech. She found her own job with a company that sells high-end specialty foods.</p>
<p>Another friend’s daughter is doing it at Temple. That program requires two substantial internships, and the school helps you find them (and monitors them).</p>
<p>I’ve met students from Drexel’s program. They also have co-op placements.</p>
<p>Hpospitality management is a hands-on program (unlike, say, philosophy). Can you get into a place that’s more practical?</p>
<p>I took an investment in this European school overseas cause I thought I can get a better job opportunity than the other graduates in USA. </p>
<p>Since it is a very different school system, I cannot transfer any credits I earned. I have already studied at a local community college in USA, and the European way of teaching is far different and I dont think could count as credits towards any University or College in New York or even USA. </p>
<p>As for doing something practical. I can, but to a certain limit. I would like a job that is at most 50-60 percent in an office. </p>
<p>Any advice would be helpful. Possibly new position ideas that I could do with my experince. Recently I am about to give up on searching for Hospitality Jobs and am open to other industries, whether it be government, banking, anything where I can earn an average salary to help pay my student loans and help my future studies as a part time student. Also I have to pay for insurance, that is another issue, I will be no longer able to be under my parents insurance any longer.</p>
<p>You can stay on your parents’ insurance until you are 26 now. It’s part of healthcare reform.</p>
<p>Have you checked airlines, especially if you know other languages? At least in theory, they want happy, loyal customers.</p>
<p>So do banks. Some now are open 7 days a week and need staff for all sorts of hours. Again, language skills could make you a winner.</p>
<p>Is there a casino in your area? Ditto for hours and need for strong employees who make customers want to keep coming back and spending.</p>
<p>Companies that offer translation services or work with exchange students would be worth checking. Or companies that host visiting business executives.</p>
<p>Governments are cutting way back, except for revenue departments (assessing and collecting taxes) and prisons. I’m not sure hospitality management is applicable to jail cells.</p>
<p>Does your city have a public library? Go and ask a librarian for help. You’ll get access to ideas and lists. And it’s free.</p>
<p>I was not a hospitality major, but I worked in the hospitality industry throughout high school and college, and I very nearly went into it as a career.</p>
<p>If you are willing to work long hours, hospitality management is an excellent career path. A job I very nearly took as a restaurant manager for a major US restaurant group would have provided growth to six figures with negligible living expenses and an expense account within two years.</p>
<p>The attitude of “I have [x] GPA so no waiter…” is a surefire way to guarantee struggles after you graduate. Majoring in hospitality is meaningless if you haven’t done the low level jobs… that means you might need to take jobs that you believe are beneath your intellect in order to get to where you want to be. Otherwise, you will get caught in a job that has limited - if any - upward mobility.</p>
<p>To be honest, you sound like a good candidate to wait tables for a year or so and then move into management. If you want to manage people, you need to understand what they do, and the best way to understand is to just do what they do. Besides, if you work at a decent enough place, it’s completely reasonable to make $1,000 a week, cash money (if you do go that route, be careful to save money for taxes because you WILL owe several thousand dollars at the end of the year!). Not terribly physical, just a lot of standing… you get used to that after about a month :)</p>