Using Computer Science in Hospitality Careers by
Hospitality is a huge umbrella industry encompassing a wide variety of careers in guest lodging, event planning, and transportation. This volume explores the intersection between technology and hospitality, revealing the ways in which computers and coding drive and expand the field of guest services. In a world revolutionized by rides on demand and app-enabled home sharing, hospitality combines high-tech innovation with human expertise and charm in order to offer the best possible guest experience in the modern world. This compelling book offers readers an exciting glimpse into the possibilities of future jobs in the world of tech-enhanced service.
Getting a Job in the Food Industry by
This guide to landing a great job in the food industry covers all career possibilities, including food preparation and farming. It provides several great tips on crafting the perfect resume and how to dress for an interview, and includes other important strategies aimed at landing that essential job.
Creating Your Culinary Career by
Aspiring culinary professionals face so many choices as they launch themselves into a career that it can be overwhelming. From traditional restaurants, banquet facilities, and contract foodservice operations to bakeshop establishments, research and development, and food communications, this book provides practical advice on how to achieve success in any culinary field. Chapters of the book include A Culinary Career; Goal-Setting for Your Culinary Career; Résumés, Cover Letters, and Job Applications; Landing a Job: Interviewing and Negotiating; and The Novice Culinarian: Education and Experience; The Journeyman; and The Master Culinarian. This book offers advice to culinarians at all stages, including those in the middle of their careers, and experienced professionals with advice on how to network and how to mentor.
Professional organization websites can provide career information, industry statistics, and give you insights into the issues facing their industry. Many welcome student members or sponsor scholarships for education in their industry.
Another resource both for industry research and career research are trade publications. These are written for—and often by—people working in whatever industry the magazine or journal covers.
Characteristics of trade publications include:
* focus usually on news and trends but can include research
* articles usually short and may not have authors or their affiliations listed
* filled with advertisements aimed at professionals in the field
* often expensive
* NOT peer-reviewed
You can find trade publications in the databases listed below. You can narrow down results of your searches by using the filter for Trade publications to find just articles from these type of journals.