Savvy Hotelier

  The only thing that is constant is change. - Heraclitus Making a linear, unflexible career plan, in the hospitality industry, is the recipe for failure and disappointment. You should be making flexible career plans. In this blog post, I will tell you how to make flexible career plans in the hospitality industry. But first, let’s understand a few things about the hospitality industry, career, and plans in general. Career planning in hospitality and tourism Hospitality industry careers in the industry are not linear as doctors’ and lawyers’ career are. Hospitality industry careers and jobs are always evolving alongside the industry and the changing demands of the people - that’s the thrill of this industry. To plan or figure out your future career in the hospitality industry you need to first and foremost get comfortable with the hard fact of life: all things change and will change. This makes it hard to plan, or does it? Developing a flexible mindset Change is hard, it’s scary and...

  Lost your hospitality summer internship? Not sure what to do to gain that valuable experience? Let me help you with that. You are going to have the best answer to the inevitable question: What did you do in the summer of 2020? #wdydsummer2020 It will be fine in the end, you are not alone in this Firstly, do not stress that your whole career is now over and you will not get that essential experience that your internship was supposed to give you. Loosing your potential source of income sucks. Many people all over the world have lost their jobs and no one knows when or if they’ll get them back. In perspective, everyone in the world is in this messed-up situation so having “a gap” on you CV will not make it look like you are lazy and not proactive about your career, it will likely be a gap on many CVs. So take a deep breath and think about all the things you could do instead! (This article is not going to be suitable if you need to find an income to sustain your life. This is for you...

  Informational interviews is one really good way to learn about people and different career paths in the hospitality industry. The hospitality industry is super complex and has many different jobs in all 11 sectors of the industry. Starting out, it is hard to see how they are all connected and what career possibilities one has. There is no “one fits all” approach to a hospitality career. This is why I started Savvy Hotelier: to bring all of these pieces together and clear the “hospitality career” fog for you to be able to see clearly where you could go and build your flexible path . What informational interview are and are not Informational interviews are a conversation initiated by yourself, as someone that wants to learn something, from someone else that is in the position to share their knowledge with you. As a student, you can reach out to your professors to question them on their topic of expertise or professionals in the industry to ask them about their careers and day to d...

  The world has changed. The hospitality industry has been irreversibly affected. Thousands of people have lost their jobs. The future is uncertain and impossible to plan for. This uncertainly is an opportunity for you to pause and think about your hospitality career and come up with a flexible career plan. But first, let’s look at some facts on how the hospitality industry has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Where we are in the world today The hospitality industry has been widely affected by the coronavirus pandemic, people have lost their jobs and are going to keep losing their jobs as things escalate further. Even though governments have some financial relief funds, it is not nearly enough. Hotel owners and restaurants owners cannot pay their employees because no one is coming to stay and eat with them. They are small businesses and with government instructions across the world to close the business, such as the UK and Spain for example, it is almost impossible to ...