Careers
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Regardless of your choice for a national or international career, there are plenty of professional opportunities upon graduation from International Hospitality Management. The qualifications represent a flexible and broad-based professional training course that is not only highly regarded by the international hospitality industry but also by other types of business. Therefore, programme graduates are welcome worldwide in all sectors that are primarily concerned with services and service management.
Companies recruiting our students:
Hilton
NH Hotels
Sheraton
Center Parks
Disney World
Marriott
Hyatt
Holiday Inn
Hospitality Marketing Partners
HRC International
Graduates with a qualification in Hospitality Management enjoy access to an almost limitless number of careers in the hospitality industry. A degree obtained from Stenden South Africa is unique in that it prepares students for positions in international hotels, small hotel chains, restaurants, conference and convention centres. Furthermore, graduates are welcome in the service industry at large covering positions in conservation, game lodge management and eco-tourism. Some of the typical positions in the hospitality industry are discussed below.
Game Lodge Manager
Food and Beverage Manager
Rooms Division Manager
Catering Manager
Convention Centre Manager
Banqueting Manager
Sales Manager
Career options
Game Lodge Manager
This is perhaps one of the most challenging positions in the hospitality industry. The manager’s duties include human resources, budgeting, accounting and finance, food and beverage, front office, reservations and housekeeping. Further challenges are the requirement of managing a fleet of game vehicles, hosting parties of guests for up to 18 hours a day, planning of game drives, managing the game rangers, monitoring of fences and implementing the anti-poaching programmes.
Food and Beverage Manager
They work in large hotels, leisure centres, or wildlife game reserves, supervising the daily operations of the different departments where food and drinks are produced and served to the guests. They manage the staff of the food and beverage department. They are responsible for the planning, organising, co-ordinating, and control of the department in addition to maintaining a good relationship with suppliers of the food and drink menu.
Rooms Division Manager
They work in a large hotel or convention centre. Their main responsibility is to manage the services offered to guests by the personnel at the front office, reservations, and housekeeping.
Catering Manager
Their main task is to manage the day-to-day production and service of food and beverages. This may be in a company restaurant, factory, theme park, care-centres or other businesses. Management would include human resource planning, budgeting, accounting & finance, and supply procurement.
Convention Centre Manager
They are responsible for the daily operations and management in a convention centre that has as its main function the organisation of meetings and conventions for large corporations. This job entails all aspects of the planning, organising, co-ordinating, and control, for a successful conference, convention, or meeting.
Banqueting Manager
They are employed in a large hotel supervising the execution of all functions where food & drink are consumed. Such functions may be, a part of a convention, conference, or meeting. A substantial part of this job is to manage the staff responsible for the setting-up of the function rooms and serving food and drinks to the guests.
Sales Manager
They are responsible for the sale of the service products of the hotel. This person would usually meet with wholesale tour operators, travel agents, or corporations wishing to buy meeting or conference space in the hotel.
A Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) degree can open doors in the following industries as well:
- Finance and banking
- Events
- Marketing and Advertising
- Any Service Industry”