The percentage of hotel management candidates who are directly employable for a hospitality job after college is quite low at 6 per cent to 18 per cent, according to the National Employability Report for Hotel Management Graduates released by employability solutions firm Aspiring Minds.
The report is based on a sample of more than 3,000 hotel management students from over 120 hotel management colleges across multiple Indian states who underwent a 2-hour Hospitality Employability Test, India's only Competency-based assessment instrument for the hospitality industry. Candidates scored low on fundamental skills like English language skill, Logical Ability and soft skills like Self-Management, Quality Orientation, and Managerial Skills, according to a news report by Economic Times.
According to the report, almost 19-43 per cent of candidates are unemployable because of their lack of English Language skill, the preferred language of communication in almost all luxury hotels and premium restaurants. The report also suggested that there are a good number of candidates (20-28 per cent) who can become employable after some orientation and training by hospitality companies. Further, the report stated that females are more hirable (8 -32 per cent) as compared to males (6 – 16 per cent) across all profiles.
Even though females in hotel management colleges have better cognitive skills and behavioural competencies as compared to their male counterparts, the females vs. males ratio in Hotel Management colleges is quite low. Employability of IHMs is significantly higher than non- IHMS and yet almost 50 per cent of the employable pool of Hotel Management candidates is invisible to recruiters. Employability of IHMs (39-49 per cent) is significantly higher than that of Non-IHMs (25-31 per cent) since most companies restrict themselves to visiting IHMs and few other institutes, hospitality companies miss out on almost 50 per cent of employable candidates, i.e. around 3000 candidates who are studying in the bottom 600 percentile Hotel Management institutions.
The report is based on a sample of more than 3,000 hotel management students from over 120 hotel management colleges across multiple Indian states who underwent a 2-hour Hospitality Employability Test, India's only Competency-based assessment instrument for the hospitality industry. Candidates scored low on fundamental skills like English language skill, Logical Ability and soft skills like Self-Management, Quality Orientation, and Managerial Skills, according to a news report by Economic Times.
According to the report, almost 19-43 per cent of candidates are unemployable because of their lack of English Language skill, the preferred language of communication in almost all luxury hotels and premium restaurants. The report also suggested that there are a good number of candidates (20-28 per cent) who can become employable after some orientation and training by hospitality companies. Further, the report stated that females are more hirable (8 -32 per cent) as compared to males (6 – 16 per cent) across all profiles.
Even though females in hotel management colleges have better cognitive skills and behavioural competencies as compared to their male counterparts, the females vs. males ratio in Hotel Management colleges is quite low. Employability of IHMs is significantly higher than non- IHMS and yet almost 50 per cent of the employable pool of Hotel Management candidates is invisible to recruiters. Employability of IHMs (39-49 per cent) is significantly higher than that of Non-IHMs (25-31 per cent) since most companies restrict themselves to visiting IHMs and few other institutes, hospitality companies miss out on almost 50 per cent of employable candidates, i.e. around 3000 candidates who are studying in the bottom 600 percentile Hotel Management institutions.