Your Hospitality Field Experience: A Student Workbook

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.