Land a catering job in the hospitality business within 30 days

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(Free-Press-Release.com) January 5, 2010 -- You can land a catering job as an account executive within 30 days and earn 40-60K entry level salaries plus gratuity.

The key to landing the catering account executive job in the hospitality business is doing a little homework. Hotel catering is not like all catering jobs. It's more than just preparing great food and getting it to the venue on time. Catering Manager jobs are also about maximizing the use of the meeting banquet space and understanding your demand dates and need dates.

Catering sales reps in the hotel business must work closely with hotel sales managers on selling groups and conventions. Bottom line, you have to really understand the hotel business before you go to the interview, otherwise you won't land the job.

Do your homework, you need to understand how hotels maximize the use of their meeting and banquet space to drive guest room sales as well as banquet sales. You should learn about the different market segments and the various demand generators in the market.

You can brush up on the hotel business at www.ahla.com, ecornell.com and aprinda.com
Aprinda.com offers some free sales and catering on-line modules.

Bottom line, go to the interview and show your passion for food, but you must combine that passion with the knowledge of how hotels operate and in most cases drive their revenues through the sales of guest rooms. The food and beverage at a hotel is often the amenity hotels offer to sell the more profitable groups and conventions.

Once you understand hotel sales and catering, check out www.hcareers.com indeed.com and hospitalityonline.com for lots of catering manager positions. You can search for catering manager jobs as well as sales manager jobs. Entry level salaries range between 40-60K plus bonus and lead to the Director of Catering job which pays 60-120K or more plus bonus depending on the size of the hotel.

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