Your Career in Hospitality Read and decide if this is good advice or bad advice?

Good Advice People in hospitality careers definitely work with diverse people. Choose a career in hospitality if you want to work with diverse people.

Good Advice As long as hospitality workers are willing to learn, there will be opportunities for them to advance. You can find many opportunities for advancement in the hospitality industry.

Bad Advice Many jobs in the hospitality industry require one to move around, perform physical work, even just walk around to make sure things are going well. Most jobs in the hospitality industry are desk jobs in which you will sit much of the time.

Bad Advice Travel and tourism are most likely to provide you with travel opportunities. Of all hospitality jobs, restaurant work is the most likely to provide you with travel opportunities.

Good Advice Because many hospitality businesses are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, they provide a variety of work hours and work shifts. Many managers allow employees to fit schedules around other priorities. Hospitality jobs often have flexible working hours, which makes it easier to schedule work around family or school obligations.

Bad Advice Although stress is always present in hospitality jobs, many people thrive on it and thus do a better job. Stress is a problem for all hospitality workers, and it prevents them from doing their best work.

Good Advice Relocation may be essential for promotions Good Advice Relocation may be essential for promotions. Other hospitality jobs may not require it, however. Advancement in many hospitality careers often requires moving to another location.

Bad Advice The occupational outlook is important in any career you study, including hospitality careers. You need to know what the potential for a future in your chosen career will be. However, even in careers with falling numbers, you might be able to find the perfect career for you There is no need to consider the occupational outlook for the career field you select.

Good Advice Following a person in a job allows you to observe what it is like to do the job, what decisions the employee has to make, and what training is needed to do the job. Job shadowing allows you to follow a person at work and learn whether you would enjoy his or her job.

Good Advice Actually doing a job will give you the opportunity to experience whether you like doing the job. Work experience in a job will allow you to decide if it is something you like enough to make a career of it.

Good Advice It provides a great deal of information such as training needed, outlook for jobs, and salaries. The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a great resource to use in learning about careers

Good Advice Often it is essential to prove yourself in entry-level positions, or take a job that is open at that level just to get your foot in the door. You can then use it as a steppingstone toward a better job Even if you are overqualified, it pays to take an entry-level job in order to advance into the career of your dreams.

Bad Advice Higher-level careers do involve more responsibility and more money, but they usually involve more, rather than less, stress than lower-level careers. Each higher level of the career ladder usually involves more responsibility, more money and less stress.

Bad Advice Very few jobs are available to people who have dropped out of school. Many jobs are available In the hospitality industry to a person without a high school diploma.

Good Advice These programs allow students to receive training while in school, and cooperative education allows for on-the-job training with pay. Tech prep programs provide for postsecondary education as well. For students still in high school, tech prep programs or cooperative education programs offer good opportunities for training and work.

Good Advice All these options offer training programs ranging from six months to two years. Students will be well qualified for jobs in the industry when they have completed the program. For students who do not want a 4 year college degree, several options are available, including technical programs, community colleges, and professional career schools.

Classroom instruction is the only way to earn a 4 year college degree. Bad Advice Many colleges and universities offer coursework via the Internet, television, videotape, correspondence courses, and CD-ROM programs. Classroom instruction is the only way to earn a 4 year college degree.

Bad Advice It is very important to know what you like to do Bad Advice It is very important to know what you like to do. For example, if you like data, you may be much better at, and enjoy more, a career in accounting rather than a career as a restaurant server. How well you know yourself and whether you like to work with people, things or data is unimportant to your career.

Good Advice If you do not have a natural aptitude in something, it might be more challenging to learn. Lack of natural aptitude might make it more difficult to do a job well. (However, if you really want to do something, often you can work very hard and overcome a lack of aptitude.) Having the aptitude and ability needed to do a task can make it fun and rewarding Aptitude and ability will make a difference in whether you are happy in a job.

Good Advice This is good advice because it is often harder to get where you want to be if you do not plan for it. A career plan maps out how you plan to reach your career goal. It will help you get where your want to go.