Your Hospitality Field Experience: A Student Workbook

Make sure your field experience is everything it ought to be withthis gold mine of expert tips and guidance

Congratulations! You are about to embark on what will be one ofthe most exciting (and demanding) phases of your hospitalitytraining--your field experience, including internships, externships, co-ops, and practicums. This is your first chance toacquire real experience in the hospitality industry and begin todevelop true professional competence. It can also be your firstmajor professional stepping-stone, providing valuable referencesand contacts that will help launch your career. This easy-to-useworkbook helps you make the most of your internship. Written byauthors with more than fifty years combined experience preparingstudents for careers in hospitality and foodservice management, ithelps you land a job that perfectly matches your career goals andensures that your first professional experience is as educationallyenriching as possible.

Here's how it works:
* A total job-search guide helps you define your career goals, locate prospective employers, write winning resumes, and aceinterviews. Comes complete with career goal worksheets, sampleresumes, cover and follow-up letters, and many other valuabletools.
* Introductory Worksheets help you see the big picture of thehotel, restaurant, or foodservice where you will work.
* Training Goals help you identify all important job functionsthat you need to learn about during your work experience.
* Training Guides--comprehensive lists of job-relatedquestions--help you focus your learning; correlate classroomtheory with real-world work experience; involve your supervisor inthe instruction process; expand your knowledge of the departmentswhere you spend little or no time; and more.

Make sure your field work earns you more than just two creditstoward your major with Your Hospitality Field Experience.