Jobs After Completing Hotel Management

Those who have a great passion to travel the world, meet new people and serve guests at their best are the worthy candidates can attend hotel management courses. This can offer a lucrative career ahead. Most of the students who have planned their career in hospitality industry, apply to hotel management colleges to complete their training and kick start their career.

What are the jobs offered to the candidates after the completion of the course?

Candidates are recruited as executive chefs, sous chefs, kitchen managers, housekeeping professionals, bartenders, room service attendants, restaurant managers, waiters, tourism operations managers, human resource professionals and catering supervisors and so on.

Average salary of hospitality management professionals:

• Executive Chefs - Rs 229,814 - Rs 2,755,945
• Sous Chefs in India ranges from-Rs 225,030 - Rs 1,211,526
• Bartenders-Rs 1, 50,000-2, 50,000
• Housekeeping Managers- 178,126 - Rs 1,838,315

Job responsibilities of chief chefs:

Chief Chefs are kings in their kitchens. They have to monitor and supervise the dishes the sous chefs and Jr. sous chefs are producing. Kitchen managers of the concerned hotel or restaurant should update the chief chefs time to time so that he/she might be aware of the latest status of the pantry, freezers and the overall kitchen.

Hospitality Managers: Operations managers, Tourism managers, housekeeping–in-charge, HR managers in hotels and restaurants are categorized under Hospitality management. These professionals have to give their best and sometimes have to cross their limits to help the customers during crisis. Those who can tackle the crisis at their best, the faster they can escalate in their career.

Online Courses Offered By Indian Universities

Online universities in India including ICFAI, Sikkim Manipal University, Symbiosis Center for Distance Learning (SCDL), IGNOU, and many more offer exclusive online courses covering almost all disciplines. Today, with the help of internet, thousands of candidates are fulfilling their dreams of further education. It is very common in India that even intellectual students have to leave education soon after completing their school leaving or graduation. The reason is simple, most of them suffer from finances and they have to work to stabilize the financial situation. 

Besides, there are many women in India who are not allowed to study further or attend colleges by their conservative families. Online or distance education is a boon for them. This is a common picture in Indian villages even after so much of development of the country in almost all sectors.

Most online universities in India have modeled different foreign universities offering online degree courses. Therefore, universities like ICFAI or SCDL offer cutting edge technology to communicate with their students across the country and borderline areas.  

Courses offered by online universities are:

·         MBA

·         LLB

·         MA/BA

·         PhD

·         Teacher’s Training

·         Technical Courses

·         MCA

·         BBA

Students can stay connected with the course coordinators via intranet system or through any online chat or emailing services. Candidates have to choose a center for their examination so that a proctor can take their examinations in a proper manner.

Concept of a global MBA

MBA courses in India are booming just like the rest of the countries across all continents. A certain section of students are looking forward to settle their career at the best strata, for which they thing management course is the best option. In fact to some extent this is true. Even after the major economic set back after the 2008 recession, MBAs with excellent managerial skills and expertise are ruling the industry.

This is not only possible for the skill they have but also for the certification that they have received from the acclaimed B schools in India.

Have you heard of Global MBA programs? This is a new age career course that is also picked by many career aspirants of this era. Some self acclaimed International B schools are claiming to offer such courses to international students. Indeed, candidates are receiving good packages after the completion of the course. But while you are planning to attend such a course make sure that you have picked the best one and you can have a guaranteed career from the course. This is encouraging and students with high career aspirations can look forward to these programs. All the best for the future!

3 Day training shop by Bank Sohar, Oman

Banks and financial institutions are striving to make their employees more proficient in finance management skills. A bank based in Oman, Bank Sohar, conducted a three day workshop for its select employees.

Objective of the workshop

Updating employees of recent developments

Short term programmes or workshops help in updating the knowledge of staff who may have not studied the concerned topics when he or she pursued studies. Such crash courses help employees in facing newer challenges. DGM (the Human Resource & Corporate Support) of the banking institution Ms. Munira Abdulnabi Macki believes that the training workshop will add value to Sohar’s staff and help the bank in providing world class service to its customers.

Better service

When employees are well trained and have updated knowledge, they provide better service to customers on behalf of the organisation. It helps the institution in having upper hand over its competitor. Such banking courses also help the staff to learn about best practices followed by other top banks around the world.

The workshop was conducted by Andre Lanser who has vast experience of 15 years in delivering courses for many reputed banks around the world. He specialises in Financial Modelling, Corporate Finance, Credit, Valuation and related subjects.

New Syllabus for the Company Secretary Course

The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) has introduced new syllabus for the executive and professional programmes. The revamped curriculum is already applicable for the executive course since February 1, 2013. Candidates for the professional programme will get to study the new syllabus from September 1, 2013.

Highlights of the new curriculum

Executive Programme

As per the revamped syllabus, students of the Executive stage of the CS course will have to study for seven papers instead of six in the earlier case.

The first 4 papers are included in Module 1 and the last 3 in Module 2:

·         Company Law

·         Cost and Management Accounting

·         Economic and Commercial Laws

·         Tax Laws and Practice

·         Company Accounts and Auditing Practices

·         Capital Markets and Securities Laws

·         Industrial, Labour and General Laws

Professional programme

Students for the professional course will have to study 9 papers instead of 8 as is the present practice.

Papers are divided into three modules with 3 papers in each set:

·         Advanced Company Law and Practice

·         Secretarial Audit, Compliance Management and Due Diligence

·         Corporate Restructuring, Valuation and Insolvency

·         Information Technology and Systems Audit

·         Financial, Treasury and Forex Management

·         Ethics, Governance and Sustainability

·         Advanced Tax Laws and Practice

·         Drafting, Appearances and Pleadings

·         Electives

Detailed syllabus for the entire course can be downloaded from the ICSI’s website.

Company Secretary Different From a Chartered Accountant

A Chartered Accountant (CA) has nothing in common with a Company Secretary (CS) though for some inane reason there seems to be a prevalent general perception that the professions are related. Chartered Accountants work extensively in finance and business sectors whereas a company secretary is almost always the ‘connect’ that bridges the functional gap between the management, board of directors and employees.

The Company secretary course in India is conducted by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. The entire program is divided into three stages, Foundation, Executive and Professional programs. A qualified CS generally acts as a legal advisor to senior personnel in an organization. In public companies CS professionals look after legal issues related to corporate investments, loans and any other public issue. Chartered Accounts though are more powerful in the sense that they are authorized to conduct audits whereas a company secretary plays a more advisory role.

A company secretary basically is qualified to perform multiple roles including corporate governance, secretarial services, legal advisor, financial management and human resource management.

The minimum eligibility criteria for enrolling for both Company Secretary-ship and Chartered accountant course, i.e. the ‘Foundation Program’ are a 10 + 2 certificate. Graduates and post graduates in any field interested in enrolling for the company secretary courses are exempted from going through the foundation stage and are given direct entry into either the ‘Intermediate Program’ or the ‘Final Professional Program’.

Back To The 1980’s

Designers today are drawing inspiration from the trendy 1980’s when clothes and accessories were inspired by music, creativity and a strong sense of rustic fashion. Those were the days when young girls spent an entire week planning their Sunday wardrobe. Quiet unlike the ‘ready-to-wear’ anything fashion of today.

The eighties were not just about shoulder pads, they were about splashes of bright colors, bold strokes, bizarre patterns and making your own fashion designing statement. When else could you have worn a mini skirt with leg warmers and an oversize jumper! Or parachute pants with finger less gloves and got away with it.

Over sized tops with bold patterns, tights and danglers were so eighties, fun and out of this world. Today’s designers are taking their cue from the era gone by and are trying to recreate that energy, that was so integral to bold dressing trends in those days.

Trends from the eighties making a comeback in 2013

Miniskirts are back with a bang!

Miniskirts, hot pants and daisy dukes are a beautiful woman’s birthright. What better way to highlight those sexy legs!

Time to sport those over sized tops

Wear a trendy over sized top with a pair of tights and high heeled pumps. Even better, make a statement with knee-high boots. Wear a jumper with bright and glittering patterns. Bold patterns and neon colors are back.

Shoulder pads are in again

Power dressing and enhancing your look with shoulder pads is one trend that dominated the eighties and is all set to influence the modern corporate woman.

Metal accessories are back!

Belts, earrings, bracelets, brooches and you name it! They are back and are being sold in a variety of sizes and designs to match gorgeous and colorful outfits being worn by the bold and the beautiful today.