Opinion on Pre & Post on -the- Job -Training Experiences of under Graduate Hotel Management Students- A Study of Kurukshetra

Abstract

Training is imparting new skills as well as efficiency enhancement of the person and makes one ready for the further new roles and/or new emerging challenges to exceed or better meet the career and personal demands and growth. It helps an individual in increase of confidence and gains some sense of happiness (constructive) that comes through achievement and learning something new (skills/trades/tracts/tricks) that ultimately increases self worth.

Today, every sector of economy whether organized or unorganized; governmental or semi-governmental, public or private the need of training is essential as new working experience (more or less) provides to do best at the job and/ or to ready for new roles either in current job and/or for future endeavor. Hospitality industry absorbs every new recruit by providing on the job to every students coming from various institutes either as travel guides, airlines, tourism marketing and sales, tourism operations, operational areas in standard chain hotels and restaurants etc. They learn practically in that environment by experiencing real life situations, events and occurrences, problems, pressure, fuss, people etc that helps them to understand their job roles and environment very well. It provides timely opportunity for SWOT analysis, understand all ifs and buts, pro's and con's (because and consequences better to say opportunities) that all helps an individual for her/ his career planning. The present paper is an attempt to compare the opinion of pre & post on the job training among Institute of hotel management (IHM), Kurukshetra and Kurukshetra University under graduate students. The paper focus on students' opine before & after training in front office & housekeeping.