Chapter 25: Your Career in Hospitality

Match the following

• internship

• Requires minimum education and no experience; pays lower wages.

• correspondence coure

• Supervised, on-the-job training that students do before they actually go out to work in an industry.

• continuing professional education

• Course in which the student and teacher communicate through the mail system.

• entry-level job

• Moving from one place to another for a job.

• relocation

• Education for people who have already completed their formal schooling and training.

Match the following

• aptitude

• Knowledge and power to perform a task.

• ability

• Feeling of tension that results from a situation such as not having enough time to complete tasks.

• cooperative education program

• Natural talent or natural ability to do soemthing.

• job shadowing

• Prepares students for an occupation through a paid job and classes at school.

• stress

• Following a person while he or she does a job for the purpose of learning about that job.

Match the following

• work values

• List of steps that you develop to reach the highest career level you want to reach.

• career goal

• Aspects of work that are the most important to you.

• career plan

• Highest career level that you want to reach.

• apprenticeship

• Process of learning from a skilled professional.

Priorities are the values and things most important to you.

• true

• false

An entry-level job has the highest requirements for education and experience.

• true

• false

One of the most important advantages of a hospitality career is the opportunity for quick advancement.

• true

• false

Managers who work for large chains often get to travel as part of their jobs.

• true

• false

Management jobs are among the least stressful in the hospitality industry.

• true

• false

The Occupational Outlook Handbook provides a detailed description of each occupation covered in it.

• true

• false

A career plan and a career goal are the same thing.

• true

• false