Aspiring Hotel employee

If you want to begin a career in the hospitality, in this article “Aspiring hotel employee” we will explain the basis you should know about this working experience. Are you young and you don´t know yet which career path you should choose? Or maybe your working routine doesn’t satisfy you and you want to change to hospitality?

Why should you work in the hospitality?

There are many reasons why people are choosing to begin a career in the hospitality industry. Let´s describe first some of the most common situations, in whom people decide to start the Hotel career:

• Some Hotel employees are born or are leaving in a touristic village, where tourism is the most important source of income
• Some young people dream to work in the hospitality, travelling around the world, because this kind of job surely allows easily to move
• Dreaming of being a Hotel director
• Some people are passionate about hospitality and tourism
• Parents are working in the hospitality industry
• Parents are the owners of one or more hotels / restaurants
• People love to meet cultures, to communicate, to speak different languages
• Housekeeping, waiter, bellboy and dishwasher are high requested job positions and it is easy to get ones, especially for people leaving abroad and with low language skills

Million reasons and one working path with multiple opportunities: a career in the hospitality is versatile, multi-skilled and the art of hospitality is surely attractive. But as all jobs, there are positive and negative aspects.

Positive aspects

In most of the hotels there are many cultures and people are open mind. One reason is the multicultural possibility: working with people from other countries, meant as guests and colleagues, will improve intercultural and languages skills.

The career is versatile: it means that there are a lot of employees that had the opportunity to change department: for example, talking about my personal experience, I´ve started as waiter, then moved to the reception desk, after changed to the reservation department. Moving to other departments it means to learn another job, most of the times this change it walks parallel with a course or a school. However, career possibilities are high.  

Furthermore, employees are working very close to other departments, allowing them to learn at least the basis of another job.
Everywhere there are international hotel chain and by starting a career in this latter, it means to learn the brand concept, the chain standards and there is a sense of belonging to a community.
For moving out and find a job experience abroad, it will be easier with a background in the hospitality. Hotels and restaurants are everywhere in the world.

Negative aspects

The schedule time is not really the regular office time, well not for all job positions. There are hotel employees working in the office, from Monday to Sunday and there are other employees as housekeepers, waiters, banquette waiters, cookers and bellboys, which are working with early or late shift, with unregular schedule times, during weekends and bank holidays.

Wages are not really high at the beginning. But it depends on management, job title and background. For example, after the pandemics, there where everywhere lack of personnel, a lot of working hours, low wages and a lot of hotel employees decided to change working fields. Now the situation is much better, but compensations and job atmosphere depends how the management works (as for all companies).

Conclusion

For all aspiring hotel employee: Hospitality career maybe is not for everyone, but it is a unique experience. The foundations are passion and dedication. Duties are various, guests are unpredictable and there is always something going on. In all departments, there is the possibility to start a great career. There are educational courses always available, which are allowing to go ahead and earn more. The interculturality plays an important role. Beyond the working experience, hospitality and service are teaching to be empathic, to understand guest´s behaviours and to handle with people.