1. Find a job where you can excel at

Everybody has a talent, ability or a skill, that he can mine to support himself and succeed in life. Its all about exploring your talent and skills. If you’re good at bartending and you work as a waiter or a gaming dealer at a casino, you will probably not do well. Likewise, identify your aptitude and apply for jobs where your talent will be used.

2. Sell Yourself

Life is like a fruit market. “Whoever talks: sells his fruit; whoever talks smartly sells even the hard nut inside the fruit and also the skin outside the fruit”. Especially in the hotel business communication is really all that one ever gets paid for …and if you cannot properly communicate… you will have to PAY…instead of getting paid.. If you are really good at managing, say things with will convince them of how good you can be at becoming a steward

3. Optimize your resume

Optimization is very much necessary as it’s the first thing any recruiter sees. Your work experience, skills and how you’ll be beneficial for the hotel/restaurant should be clearly mentioned in your resume. Try to be more specific like if you are a chef mention about your speciality and your strength of cuisines. Take help of websites and other experienced people from the same industry.

4. Maximize Networking

Networking helps expand your knowledge, gather and learn from other’s experiences and success stories. It helps in telling others about your skills and building business relations. It  helps to gain customers, referrals, advice, trust, etc. One simple way of doing that in hotel industry is by interacting with with new people and learning from their stories the requirements of the hotel business, or the current trends at other hotels. Other ways could be getting in touch with the experienced chefs or hoteliers through online medium.

5. Hiring portals

So many hotels, pubs, clubs and other hospitality entities are increasingly hiring employees through job portals. It is nowadays used by almost every recruiter. As a candidate it greatly helps in exploring job opportunities all over the world, receiving regular updates, and gaining a sense of understanding of what the recruiters want or are looking for in a candidate across the globe or country. Some job portals even help candidates learn from other candidate’s interview experiences.