Career in Service Industry
The MBA programme with specialization in Service Industry Management delivers further an advanced education to take over higher positions and roles in the leading management field - a promising perspective for the area of professional Service Management. This course is the ideal qualification for individuals that want to work with people e- both serving and leading them. The two year part-time Master course connects a profound academic education with a strong practice-related focus in Service Management. General and special topics taken out of the professional everyday life are basic contents of the case studies, the training modules as well as part of the project work.
To Enhance Employability of every Youth ITFT provides various training programmes to the students for personality Development, communication Skills, soft skills, resource management skills, situation Mgt. Skills, Time Mgt., Positive Attitude, Mock Interviews, Interface with Corporate and placement Process through Finishing School Network.
The services sector is a vital cog in the wheel of the Indian economy. The sector, accounting for 60 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP), grew 5 per cent in the FY13.
The Indian service industry has emerged as one of the largest and fastest-growing sectors on the global landscape and hence has made substantial contribution towards global output and employment. Growing at faster pace as compared to agriculture and manufacturing sectors, Indian service segment comprises of wide range of activities, such as trading, transportation and communication, financial, real estate and business services, as well as community, social and personal services.
Services sector, including insurance and real estate, grew by 9.1 per cent in January-March quarter of 2013. The segment grew by 8.6 per cent in 2012-13. Community social and personal services expanded by 4 per cent in the fourth quarter of FY13 while they grew by 6.6 per cent in 2012-13. Trade, hotels, transport and communications segment grew at 6.2 per cent in the January-March quarter this year as against 5.1 per cent in the same period a year ago. The sector grew at 6.4 per cent in 2012-13.
Depending on one's qualification one can find jobs in various subsectors of service industry like in hospitality sector as Management Trainee, Customer Relations Executive, Marketing/Sales Executive, Kitchen Management/ House Keeping Management, Catering Officer or Chefs in Hotels, Flight Kitchens, Cruises, Fast Food Chains and allied industry. You can also find jobs as cabin crew in National and International Airlines, as Executives in Tourism Development Corporations and Resort properties or as faculty in Hotel Management Institutes or Food Craft institutes. Moreover the option of being a self-employed entrepreneur also remains open.
Job Prospects
Lots of lucrative and interesting openings are there for hotel management graduates in various fields like:
€ Hotel & Restaurant management
€ Airline Catering and Cabin Services
€ Club management
€ Cruise Ship Hotel Management
€ Hospital administration and catering
€ Hotel and Tourism Associations
€ Forest Lodges
€ Guest Houses
€ Institutional Management (supervising canteens in college, schools, in factories, company guest houses etc.)
€ Catering departments of railways, banks, armed forces, shipping companies etc.
€ Hotel and catering institutes
€ Self employment