What are the challenges I can face during a job in the hospitality sector?

The hospitality sector is a huge industry that includes a wide array of profiles from hotel attendents to chefs to cabin crew to fast food joints to huge resorts. A lot of these setups require a strong number of people in order to run their business successfully. The hospitality sector goes on 24 hours a day and it is a very challenging profession. One needs to be at their toes in order to meet the needs and for the satisfacton of the customers. One may face a lot of irate customers but a person working in the hospitality sector has to face them all without being impolite. As it is a 24x7 sector, the shift timings may change and some shifts may be difficult to do as it would require working though the night. Also, the growth prospect in this industry is based on sheer hardwork and a lot of patience as an aspirant has to follow certain hierarchy in the companies they work for. A person working on a ship or a cruise liner would face even more difficulties both physically and mentally as they would spend sometimes almost 3-6 months at the sea at a stretch. Overall the hospitality sector is a very challenging one but if taken into stride, one can make a good living out of it.

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The Challenges you might face while working in Hospitality Industry are - 1) Long and Extended Working Hours - The working hours in Hospitality Industry longer than any other industry. You need to sometimes work for 12 hours in busy schedule. 2) Irregular Shift Timings - Since the hotel operates 24*7 there are various shifts of employees. Which includes morning shift, General Shift, Afternoon shift, Night Shift, Break shift, Panzer Shift. Initially you might find it difficult while changing from one shift to another but with time your body will adapt to change. 3) Pay scale - Pay scale at initial times in hotel industry is not at par with the working hours. You might feel that you are getting less for working so much. But as you climb up the ladder the pay scale improves drastically.

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Challenges while working in Hospitality industry- 1. Unequal treatment - There is no equal treatment for all type of employees. Women perform 66 percent of the worlds work, produce 50 percent of the food, but earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property. Such circumstances are avail due to the fact that women have lower access to land, capital and education than men women tend to work at home or family enterprises unprotected by law, and women face discrimination and overload of work at business enterprises and family life. 2. Poor pay and working condition - Generally the people working in the Hospitality industry have lower pay than other sectors. Other challenges are inappropriate management style/corporate philosophy and leadership style such as unplanned recruitment, little due attention for staff turnover, imported workforce, considering staffs as cost rather than asset, rigid leadership which is against the concept of democracy, inadequate training, and many tasks, such as making computer bookings and working theme park rides are monotonous.

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The challenges in the industry are not specific. It varies from company to company, department to department and type of career chosen. Every brand has its legacy, which cannot be defined in totality. We have MNCs entering into the sector which follows the international standards in HR practices wherein in the duty timings and off are very competitive with other career avenues. The best part of this Industry is no one goes jobless like any other streams which are more sought after in India than hospitality. Even MBA these days is not able to place more than 50% students from the course but the hospitality course is the only UG degree with 99% plus placement record till date. The only challenge which can be mentioned here will be the salary package which is average in figures. For example, the average salary package at BCIHMCT, New Delhi is 16500 INR per month at present which may go up in coming years as the min. wages are revised in the 7th pay commission.

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The hospitality sector is a vast Industry that is inclusive of multiple profiles. The common sectors being hotels, restaurants, resorts travel setups, etc. All these sectors are quite exciting and offer good salary packages but there are some challenges that are very common to the hospitality industry at large. Some of these challenges include: Long/late working hours: being a people-oriented sector there are generally no limits to the no. of working hours that one may have to invest and the timings are commonly off as they need to cater to events/24 hours services, etc. Late working hours in some cases can also prove to be unsafe for the employees. Mental strength: Despite the day to day stress of every job chores, one cannot afford to show/display his/her emotions and hold a smiling face to all customers. As these sectors are completely customer based. Growth options: Although there are ample growth opportunities, the growth of certain profiles requires long periods of experience to be eligible. So to summarize, every sector has its own challenges and one must be prepared to face these then only you can be able to thrive.

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