If you’re looking for a job that’s lively and flexible, choose a career in hotels and you’ll be part of a fast-moving industry where you can really go places
Front of House • Restaurant management
• Host/ess • Chef de rang • Commis de rang • Event casual
Kitchen • Apprentice chef
• Commis chef • Chef de partie • Sous chef • Executive sous • Chef de cuisine
Sommelier/bar • Sommelier
• Bartender • Bar waiter/ess
Does my face fit?
For customer-facing roles, you’ll need to be outgoing, fun and keen to meet interesting people. But for any job in hospitality, you’ll need to be energetic and ambitious because that way you’ll go further. For sure, you’ll work long hours and to start with you may not earn much, but who cares when you love your job. And if you work hard and learn fast, you’ll find yourself zipping up the career ladder.
If you’re considering working in a hotel, your options are endless. From the international buzz of a luxury hotel in the city, to cutting edge bolt-hole, a country retreat or a chic bohemian townhouse, there is a business and a position to suit all personalities. Oh, and don’t dismiss the fast-growing budget sector, which needs to fast-track managers to cope with its runaway success. You can opt to build a career in the UK, or work across the
world. You can progress gradually without qualifications, or fast-track into management with degrees and diplomas. The sector is so varied, with opportunities so diverse, that you can make the system work for you. What you might not realise, either, is the surprisingly
diverse number of roles hotels offer under one roof. It’s not just about general managers, housekeepers, chefs and receptionists. They also employ florists, gardeners, human resources experts, engineers, accountants, sales and marketing teams and countless other types of professional. And, fortunately for you, opportunities are abundant, too.
Certainly London is as good a place as any to hone your skills. Some of the biggest brands in the world have their foothold here – Dorchester Collection, Four Seasons, Marriott – as well as some of the coolest – Z Hotels, Firmdale and Red Carnation to name a few. It also commands some of the highest salaries, with general managers in the capital earning an average of £85,000, with top earners banking £200,000, according to Berkeley Scott Hotel & Leisure Salary Survey. London might have a high density of hotels – and the most
rooms in construction in Europe – but there are other hotel hotspots across the country, too. Manchester is motoring in terms of hospitality opportunities, with businesses like Hotel Gotham generating excitement, the Palace hotel nearing the end of a multi-million pound refurbishment and new hotels opening all the time, including Zetter’s proposed new property on the London Road Fire Station site. Another city you may not have thought about is Bath, where a number of new hotels are being launched including a new Travelodge. No 15 Great Pulteney has just opened as the city’s newest boutique hotel. And Edinburgh will soon be home to the 214-bedroom
‘ribbon hotel’, which will add to the numerous hospitality opportunities in the city.
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