The New Generation in the Industry: Hospitality/Tourism Students' Career Preferences, Sources of Influence and Career Choice Factors

Making career decisions in a changing graduate labour market: A Hospitality perspective

“…interaction with people, nature of the work) (Chuang and DellmannJenkins, 2010), whereas others suggest it is primarily by extrinsic rewards (e.g. pay, career progression) (Kim, McCleary and Kaufman, 2010). However, these studies are in favour of surveys with little space to make sense of hospitality students' perception towards career decision-making.…”

“…Although, various studies have explored hospitality students' career decisions (see for example, Jenkins, 2001;Chuang et al 2007;Richardson, 2009;Kim, McCleary and Kaufman, 2010;Chuang and Dellmann-Jenkins, 2010), it is an area where many questions still remain unanswered. For example, some studies suggest that hospitality students are driven by intrinsic rewards (e.g.…”

Mind the Gap: Exploring Hospitality Teachers’ and Student Interns’ Perception of Using Virtual Communities for Maintaining Connectedness in Internship

“…Around 80% hospitality educators asserted the value of internship in the curriculum which was also supported by the operators of the industry (Alonso & O'Neill, 2011a;Petrillose & Montgomery, 1997;Yiu & Law, 2012). Prior academic works (Brown, Bosselman, & Thomas, 2016;Kim, McCleary, & Kaufman, 2010) further asserted that hospitality students with internship experiences tend to commit themselves in searching future career in the hospitality industry. Yet, some weaknesses need to be improved to make the internship valuable to hospitality students' leaning and one of these is lack of funding to visit students on-site on a regular basis and such claims were supported by Lam and Chin (2007) who further indicated that student interns' psychological distress, depression and frustration should be well taken care of by the school mentors.…”

The Effect of Information Channel on Information Source Selection: Students' Information Search

“…Existing research covers what students learn from internships (Tse, 2010), how effective internships are in facilitating students' learning and career development (Gruman et al, 2009; B. P. Kim et al, 2010), what aspects of internships affect students' internship satisfaction (Ko, 2007), and what internship partners expect from internship completion (Solnet et al, 2009). Also, previous research reports the gap between students' expectation of internship before and their experiences during or after internship in the area of subjective work environments (e.g., supervisory support, feeling of being a team member, good peer relationship), objective work environment (e.g., remuneration, housing), and job (e.g., interesting and challenging work, good work experience) (Beggs et al, 2008;Cho, 2006;Lam & Ching, 2007).…”

“…Despite the importance of internship in tourism and hospitality education learning (Assante, Huffman, & Harp, 2010;Gruman, Barrows, & Reavley, 2009; B. P. Kim, McCleary, & Kaufman, 2010), there is surprisingly little academic research that studies how students conduct internship information search. Existing studies have mainly examined internship experience (Beggs, Ross, & Goodwin, 2008;Cho, 2006;Lam & Ching, 2007;Solnet, Kralj, Kay, & DeVeau, 2009), career decision making (B. P. Kim et al, 2010;Ko, 2007), and experiential learning (Gruman et al, 2009;S. A. Lee, 2008).…”