Get a job
After completing your graduation assignment, you will be equipped to enter a variety of hospitality-related careers in hotels or restaurants, at home or abroad. Alternatively, you might take up positions at other types of companies; conference venues, holiday resorts, wholesalers to the hotel and catering trade, or consultancy agencies.
Career examples
A few examples of positions and organisations are:
- Banqueting Manager at a conference centre
- Sales and Marketing Manager at the head office of an (international) hotel chain
- General Manager of a hotel
- Purchaser at a catering company
- Consultant at a consultancy agency
- Account Manager of food suppliers
- Food and Beverage Manager
- Rooms Division Manager
You should be aware of the fact that many graduates start at the bottom of the career ladder - in assistant positions - and work their way up to management positions. As a Bachelor in International Hotel Management you may take up a position as a manager in the hospitality branch.
Labour market prospects
In Keuzegids HBO 2012 (an independent guide containing a systematic quality comparison of study programmes in Dutch higher education) you can find an indication of the labour market prospects for recent graduates (average starter salary and percentage of unemployment among recent graduates). For the International Hotel Management programme, the starter salary of recent graduates amounts to € 2.035 a month before tax. Approximately 67% of the graduates have found a job on bachelor level.
