Learning More About Your Career Choices Through “Voluntary Faculty Advising”

The Hotel and Tourism industry offers you many different potential career options. Even though the current economic downturn has made finding those opportunities more challenging for you, it is still an industry that gives you many choices.

You certainly learn about many potential career options in your subject lectures and through the industry professionals who come to campus as “Professor for a Day”. However, you might have more questions about specific career paths in the industry and even how to get started. Recognizing that fact, we have created a new career advice support system to help give you direction on the best career path for you. As part of our academic advising programme we began this year through Mr. Willie-Wilson Chan, we now have added a “Voluntary Faculty Advising” support system for him to refer you for career advice.

We have a great deal of industry experience on our SHTM academic staff/faculty and we want you to take advantage of it. Therefore, we invited faculty members to join a “Voluntary Faculty Advising” pool by letting Willie know what our special areas of expertise are so we can provide advice to you. For example, I have a great deal of experience in hotel sales and marketing, so my name is on the list for sales and marketing career options.

Of course, this is open to all undergraduate students regardless of what year you are in. Willie can connect you to one of the “Voluntary Faculty Advisors” who is an expert in your interest area. He says “Don't hesitate and come talk to me. My door is always open for you!!" and now he has even more to offer!