[alexisb86]

I basically want to be in the hotel management business when I get older. I am 21 now, what would you recommend me doing now to work my way towards that future? Thanks for your time!

Alexis

[airics]

do you have your bachelor's degree?

[Daddys///M3]

UNLV Hotel Management program. Even then don't expect to get a top tier position straight out of school. Be prepared to work your way up the ladder.

[dynimagelv]

UNLESS, you work very hard and are in the top10%....those people are offered management positions upon graduation.

A degree doesn't buy you much anymore....I have three people workin in my reservations office that have degrees....they are res clerks....I am res manager and have no degree....started at the bottom

[cjski21]

Originally Posted by Daddys///M3

UNLV Hotel Management program. Even then don't expect to get a top tier position straight out of school. Be prepared to work your way up the ladder.

Um exactly. My wife gave up management at a property at Lake Las Vegas to be a concierge on the strip. Less headache and twice the money. She has a degree in Hotel Management from UNLV. She says you have to have a degree or at least ten years experience. Even then, someone younger with the degree may beat you out of the job.

To Damage, she graduated with high honors (top 3%) and still had to work her way up from a low position. So I agree, the degree means little in this town to some, but a whole bunch to others.

[talktobrent]

I can't say how much weight a hospitality degree holds on the strip or vegas ... but from my experience it probably isn't worth the time and money getting a hospitality degree. I worked in hotels for 5 years and everyone basically starts at the bottom no matter what. I worked with people who had degrees and never moved up because no one like them, and I worked with people with no degree who got promoted in under a year because they showed initiative and had good personalities. It's a very high turnover field, if you stick around and have the personality for it you will probably move up fairly quickly. My suggestion is get a front desk job and see if you want to do it long run.

[dynimagelv]

Initiative and personality are key.....we have one person [degree unlv] and the only initiave she has shown in 7 mos is to find all the ways into the games folder on the computer.....

[airics]

dyn - can i have her job?

[dynimagelv]

already filled sorry..........big party tho.....the day after she leaves

[airics]

just curious, what does a reservation clerk position pay? any benefits?