IS TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY PROGRAM GOOD FOR YOUR CAREER?
After graduation from senior high school
you might be confused what to choose for your future career. Do I need to
continue my study or should I just apply position in company? If you are kind
of “knowledge people” and thinking that you need to gain more useful knowledge,
I really recommend you to continue your study. These are 4 things you will gain
if you are working in hotel industry:
1. Great Income
Honestly, I have been in this industry
since 7 years ago and counting. Hotel has two times salary income, basic salary
and guaranteed service. You will get basic salary in the end of the month and
service salary in the middle of the month. Just bear in mind that you might
have service salary as much as your basic salary or higher than that. Well, I could
have my whole basic salary and never use it for a couple of months because I
only use my service salary. No matter where your department is, you will have
these two things.
2. Increase your communication
Here in my country, we rarely use English
as a main communication. So, by joining this industry, I could increase my
communication either in English or in my mother language. I started to learn
how to speak politely, trough away my problem during working and be a humble
person. Even sometimes my heart is screaming for my problems but my lips have
to be able to smile. Hehehe
Before studying in university, it was
really hard for me to make conversation to many people. But my major has been
forced me to make a good communication through my lecturer and this is the
result. I could make a connection with foreigner, government, Non Government
Organization, local people, professional, etc.
3. Advance Career
If you are smart enough so it will be easy
for you to advance your
career in this industry. You know, one year in Hotel is really enough to stay
and learn about their management. All you need to do just try to figure out
something else in another hotel. Well, perhaps if you could join in Archipelago
group in the first year, try Accor Hotel group in your second year. After 3 or
4 years experiences it will be easy for you to negotiate whether your salary or
position. Friends of mine were saying this to me a couple years ago and now I prove
it, it works well!
4. Numbers of Relations
The most thing I am really grateful is
connectivity. Bear in mind that you will connect to so many people because
usually one hotel has hundreds employee and will be changed every year. One
team has approximately 10 to 15 persons and in one year they will be gone one
by one and changing with new people. These new people usually had a great
experience in their previous hotel and that is our chance. It is really common
in hotel industry moving to one hotel to another hotel. The more you move, the
bigger your chance to have those three things above.
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