Impact of Key Trends on Recruitment of Graduate Applicants in the Travel and Tourism Sector

CAREER RESEARCH
REPORT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
A) THE TASK.................................................................................................................................3
Impact of key trends on recruitment of graduate applicants.......................................................3
Key skills, knowledge and experienced expected from graduate applicants..............................4
Identification of current vacancy in Hilton hotel ......................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
APPENDIX......................................................................................................................................8
PRIMARY RESEARCH...............................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Travel and tourism is one of the fastest growing industry in United Kingdom that lead in
generation of employment opportunities and revenue in the economy. The aim of the report is to
understand about key trends impacting travel and tourism and skills required to get job in similar
industry. So, this report has discussed impact of changes happening in the industry like
globalisation and technology on travel and tourism sector. Moreover, it has consisted information
related to key skills, knowledge and experiences required by graduate applicant in order to
pursue career in travel and tourism sector.
A) THE TASK
The research over impact of key trends on tourism and travel industry has been pursued
through making use of both primary as well as secondary method. The study has also included
crucial information related to key skills, knowledge and capabilities required by university
applicants in order to apply in tourism sector. Such as:
Impact of key trends on recruitment of graduate applicants
Employer or HR manager of company devote high time, efforts in order to select
potential candidate for specific position so that end objectives of enterprise can be attained.
There are numerous changes in external environment or trends that are impacting recruitment of
graduate like globalization, technology etc. So, the way trends impact on recruitment can be
stated as follows:
GLOBALISATION: It is process of integration or interconnection between two or more
countries that lead in exchange of culture and trade across worldwide. With globalization,
companies are able to expand their business operations in different parts of the country in order
to earn higher profit margin. Globalization has impacted on recruitment of graduate in tourism
sector as nowadays employer wants a individual that have sufficient skills to work in global
environment (Robinson and et.al., 2019). Thus, it means it should have sufficient knowledge
pertaining to external environment situation in order to get job in well-established international
organization in future professional career.
TECHNOLOGY: It can be stated that there are various growth and development in technology
that has enforced companies to make use of digital media in order to attract and retained
maximum number of customer's in the organization. Likewise in recent trends many of the HR