Your Hospitality Field Experience: A Student Workbook Contributor(s): Miller, Jack E. (Author), Drummond, Karen E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0471053279 ISBN-13: 9780471053279 Publisher: Wiley OUR PRICE: $163.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1995 Annotation: Make sure your field experience is everything it ought to be with this gold mine of expert tips and guidance Congratulations! You are about to embark on what will be one of the most exciting (and demanding) phases of your hospitality training--your field experience, including internships, externships, co-ops, and practicums. This is your first chance to acquire real experience in the hospitality industry and begin to develop true professional competence. It can also be your first major professional stepping-stone, providing valuable references and contacts that will help launch your career. This easy-to-use workbook helps you make the most of your internship. Written by authors with more than fifty years combined experience preparing students for careers in hospitality and foodservice management, it helps you land a job that perfectly matches your career goals and ensures that your first professional experience is as educationally enriching as possible. Here's how it works: A total job-search guide helps you define your career goals, locate prospective employers, write winning resumes, and ace interviews. Comes complete with career goal worksheets, sample resumes, cover and follow-up letters, and many other valuable tools. Introductory Worksheets help you see the big picture of the hotel, restaurant, or foodservice where you will work. Training Goals help you identify all important job functions that you need to learn about during your work experience. Training Guides--comprehensive lists of job-related questions--help you focus your learning; correlate classroom theory with real-world work experience; involve your supervisor in the instruction process; expand your knowledge ofthe departments where you spend little or no time; and more. Make sure your field work earns you more than just two credits toward your major with Your Hospitality Field Experience. |
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BISAC Categories: - Travel |
Dewey: 647.071 |
LCCN: 95012109 |
Physical Information: 0.53" H x 8.3" W x 11.04" (1.36 lbs) 304 pages |
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Publisher Description: Make sure your field experience is everything it ought to be withthis gold mine of expert tips and guidance Congratulations You are about to embark on what will be one ofthe most exciting (and demanding) phases of your hospitalitytraining--your field experience, including internships, externships, co-ops, and practicums. This is your first chance toacquire real experience in the hospitality industry and begin todevelop true professional competence. It can also be your firstmajor professional stepping-stone, providing valuable referencesand contacts that will help launch your career. This easy-to-useworkbook helps you make the most of your internship. Written byauthors with more than fifty years combined experience preparingstudents for careers in hospitality and foodservice management, ithelps you land a job that perfectly matches your career goals andensures that your first professional experience is as educationallyenriching as possible. Here's how it works: * A total job-search guide helps you define your career goals, locate prospective employers, write winning resumes, and aceinterviews. Comes complete with career goal worksheets, sampleresumes, cover and follow-up letters, and many other valuabletools. * Introductory Worksheets help you see the big picture of thehotel, restaurant, or foodservice where you will work. * Training Goals help you identify all important job functionsthat you need to learn about during your work experience. * Training Guides--comprehensive lists of job-relatedquestions--help you focus your learning; correlate classroomtheory with real-world work experience; involve your supervisor inthe instruction process; expand your knowledge of the departmentswhere you spend little or no time; and more. Make sure your field work earns you more than just two creditstoward your major with Your Hospitality Field Experience. |