Winning the Job Placement Competition: Industry’s Message and Academia’s Response

作者: Miranda Kitterlin-Lynch , James Williams , Tianshu Zheng

DOI: 10.1080/10963758.2015.1064318

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摘要: Hospitality undergraduates enter today’s workforce plagued by the fear of procuring a job in their chosen hospitality career. management graduates’ unemployment rate hovers around an estimated 6.0%. A multitude studies have been done to examine and explore attractive knowledge, skills, abilities attributes needed from quality graduates, but paucity used understand marketing presenting tactics for future graduates. This study seeks strategies actions that are currently being utilized or could be designed implemented improve students’ position competitive market. When these favorable and/or gaps identified, attempts can made execute them academic programs, which ultimately enhance placement success. Academic programs use this information combat teaching issues challenge process educating 21st-century mi...

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