A Preliminary Investigation into the Transition and Utilisation of Hospitality Graduates in SMEs

摘要: This paper discusses a pilot research project on graduate employment in small hospitality firms. It examines the transition and utilisation of graduates within these Findings from interviews suggest that their managers were satisfied with levels performance. However, much graduates' time was spent relatively low-level tasks responsibilities, relation to which they relying heavily pre-degree learning. The speculates particular types firms labour may remain underutilised underdeveloped. questions, therefore, prevailing assumptions future for will be dominated by concludes into must focused upon demand by, explicitly, growth SMEs.