Graduate Employment in Hospitality Industry: Statistical Information and Soft Skills

This report provides statistical information on graduate employment in the hospitality industry, including the number of jobs, pay rates, and demographics. It also discusses the soft skills required for graduates in the industry, such as time management, teamwork, leadership, problem-solving, learning, and communication skills. Finally, the report recommends recruitment strategies for the CEO of the hospitality industry to attract the best talent.

ASSESSMENT 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Statistical information on graduate employment ........................................................................3
Graduate skills based on the literature search..............................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
RECOMMENDATIONS.................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Graduate employments market is referred as the students who are studying a specific
degree subjects which helps in lead the dream jobs and career and get degree to become success
in the employments world. After graduation, graduate employments level fall in the such
categories that includes the direct job entry and graduate training schemes or internship periods.
This report will choose the hospitality industry and discussed the graduate employments markets
and emerge trends. This report will elaborate the statical information of graduate employment in
hospitality industry, graduate soft skills requirements and recommend for the recruitment's
strategy.
MAIN BODY
Statistical information on graduate employment
In hospitality industry, graduate employments in United Kingdom fall for the graduate
training schemes and direct job entry. There were 2.55 million jobs in the employments industry
and it represents the 7.1% of United Kingdom employments. The hospitality industry is
consisted the higher portions of foreign born worker, part-time workers, younger workers and
workers from the minority as compared to another sectors in United Kingdom (Atef, 2018).
Median value hourly pay low in hospitality industry as compared to another industry.
There are various numbers of jobs increased in this sector. In previous years the number of job in
hospitality industry was around 2 million and now it was increased by 20% represents 2.5
million. Hospitality industry consist the third largest employments in United Kingdom.
According to the ONS, 54% of the hospitality jobs in 2020 were part-time and 46% were
full time. In previous year 2019, 35% of employees in the hospitality sectors were 16-24 aged as
compared to across all the industry and sectors (Boella and Goss-Turner, 2019). In the context of
ethnicity, 17% of graduate employees in the industry were from the minority ethical background
as compared to 13% of all graduate employee in United Kingdom. All graduate employment
from minority background 7% workers in the hospitality industry. In the hospitality industry, the
many numbers of employees on the payrolls is increasing and supporting that vacancies re
gradually being filled but it very difficult go for the hospitality industries to filled vacant jobs.

UK slowly received the payroll job and employments rather than another country. The industry
faces the challenges to fill vacancies as well as face difficulties in recruiting new staff.

There are graduate employees, post graduate, and non graduate employees which are classifies
on the because of genders such as male, female and others. there are the statically analysis data
which are based on the high skilled, medium skilled and low skilled employment rate’
information of graduate employees in the hospitality industry.
The statistical and facts about the hospitality industry in employments in the United Kingdom
that many people lost their jobs in the pandemic and specially graduate employments
(Fernández-Reino and Rienzo, 2020). This industry is the worst hit because many people leaving
the job age under the 35 and more than loss jobs who are graduate employees and under-age of
25. the office of national statistics show that total paid employments are fell by 813000 and
numbers of graduate employees are dropped again in the paid employments by 56000.

It is the non-statistical data analysis of the graduate employees, post graduate and non graduate
employment rate in 16-64 years old from 2007-2021 in the hospitality industry in the United
Kingdom.
Graduate skills based on the literature search
Graduate employments skills are most important for hospitality industry because they are
required the employments skills from the graduations which are varied by the employers.
Graduate employments skills are most important because of the business environments changes
and not only focus on the developments of graduate skills abuts also focus on the practical
experience which are most essential in the hospitality industry (Osmani, 2019). The enhancing is
employments skills are helps in meet the current workforce in industry as well as helps in
enhance the future skills for the employees. Employments skills are not required for only to
achieve employments in industry but also helps in achieve the potential success to strategic
directions or goals and objectives.
There are various soft skills which are employer’s expectation from employees and required in
21st century in hospitality industry such as:
 Time management: Time management skills important in the hospitality industry for
work done efficiently and quickly as well as guest of company will also happier too
(Suleman, 2018). It also helps in complete task in given periods of time.
 Teamwork skills: Team work is most important in industry to create a successful
environments and cultures. It helps in built trust, self-awareness and tolerance as well as
helps in support and ideas. Team work skill essential for accomplish the projects in the
given period with the understanding. working together in team helps in saves time and
improve the productivity and profitability of industry.
 Leadership skills: Dealership skill helps in manage and handle the staff and employees
of organization with the cooperation and coordination (Succi and Canovi, 2020). In other
words, helps in monitor the works and members of teams.
 Problem solving skills: Its important because helps in identify the problems guests are
having and create the solution to resolve problems and ensure their satisfaction levels as
well as helps in increase the customer's retention.

 Learning skills: learning skill important for graduate employments to accomplish the
career goals and work in hospitality industry without any difficulties. Learning skills
helps in accomplish the multitasking works.
 Communication skills: These skills are most important which helps in every sector and
specially in the hospitality industry because it helps in interact with others peoples and
build relationship with others (Jackson and Collings, 2018). It important for convey the
clear message to customers as well as it's essential because two ways communication
required in hospitality industry for the coordination with guests and customers. Graduate
employments must know about the body language which are essential to provide the
good services to customers in hospitality industry.
CONCLUSION
As the conclusion, the graduate employments are important for hospitality industry for
growth and developments with the emerging trends. Current employments skills help in achieve
the goals and objects of employments effectively and efficiently. In the conclusion, this report
discussed the statistical information of graduate employments market with ONS, identifies the
current soft skills for graduate and recommend the best recruitments strategies to CEO of
hospitality industry.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Recommend for the CEO on a recruitment's strategy to attract the candidate to the
hospitality industry. They should use the strong recruitment's strategy which can help in attract
the best talents (Rowlands, 2018). There are various strategies which helps in attract the
employees to the hospitality industry such as campus recruiting for the recent graduates and
students and should conduct the seminar and workshops to attract them. The CEO of industry
should organize the online talents hunts programs for display the skills and attract the students
who want job in hospitality industry (Ali, 2020). They should set up the employment referral
programs to hire the best talented employees, and they can also use their employees as the brand
ambassadors for company that helps in attract the best talented employees.

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