Strategies for Job Search Success: Travel and Tourism Industry

This assignment explores job search methods within the travel and tourism industry, focusing on online platforms like LinkedIn, Monster, Career Builder, and Google for Jobs. It highlights how these platforms facilitate job searching by providing databases of job postings and employee profiles. The assignment emphasizes the importance of using relevant keywords to find suitable positions and underscores LinkedIn's features, such as job alerts, company research, and networking capabilities. It also references academic sources to support the effectiveness of online recruitment strategies and the growing importance of LinkedIn in the job market. The paper discusses the ease of searching for jobs and the ability to build connections through LinkedIn, which distinguishes it from other job search websites. The references provided support the claims about the use of social media in recruitment and the effectiveness of online job search techniques in attracting applicants within the tourism sector.

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JOB SEARCH IN TRAVEL AND TOURISM
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Answer 1
According to Melanthiou, Pavlou & Constantinou, (2015) there are many ways a
person can find job in the travel and tourism sector. In the modern age, people find jobs on
online sites. There are websites created for this particular need. These websites are LinkedIn,
Monster, Career Builder, and Google for Jobs, Facebook and numerous other such sites.
All these websites create database of the jobs and have profiles of the employee and
the employer. The employees can look for jobs by typing the keywords and a number of
results that are matching to it will come up. The person looking for a job in the travel and
tourism industry has to search for jobs that are in his expertise by using the keywords (Baum
& Kabst, 2014). These websites have the resumes of the employees and thus is an easier
process when applying for jobs.
Answer 2
LinkedIn is a website that is growing and is now one of the most used sites to find a
job. It creates a profile of the employee and uploads the resumes of them. As it is one of the
most used websites employers, post job opportunities roles and descriptions that the
employees can analyse to find a job (Koch, Gerber, & De Klerk, 2018). Searching for jobs is
easy, hassle free on LinkedIn, and can be done by searching the keyword and the location. In
travel and tourism sector many hotel chains and travel agencies post job vacancies that can be
used to apply for jobs in reputable companies that suit the needs of the employees.
Answer 3
LinkedIn has a many features that set it apart from the other websites that are
providing jobs. LinkedIn as site can be used to find jobs and create alerts when a job is

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matching the recruitments of a person. It is a hassle free site where employees can look for
jobs, research about companies; set interviews know about what is going on in your field of
work (Agarwal, et al., 2015). It can also help in building connections that can be used for
finding jobs in the present as well as in the future. Even when someone is not actively
looking for a job one can set an alert that will help in knowing when jobs are created in their
area of expertise. The employee can search about the company, the people that work there
and what the review is of the place. These features distinguish LinkedIn from other websites
and make it one of the best in getting a job.

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References
Baum, M., & Kabst, R. (2014). The effectiveness of recruitment advertisements and
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Melanthiou, Y., Pavlou, F., & Constantinou, E. (2015). The use of social network sites as an
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Agarwal, D., Chen, B. C., He, Q., Hua, Z., Lebanon, G., Ma, Y., ... & Zhang, L. (2015,
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Koch, T., Gerber, C., & De Klerk, J. J. (2018). The impact of social media on recruitment:
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