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I have graduated high school. My academic goal is to earn a baccalaureate degree after 4 years, after learning all the foundations, skills, and knowledge of hospitality management necessary to give an outstanding performance in my future career. I have experienced working a food catering company as a server and as the assistant chef. My career goal is to work as a chef in a hotel restaurant and work my way up to become an executive chef. My friends and family would describe as an amiable and generous person. I try to help the people around me with the best of my abilities. I am also a very organized and punctual person, which I consider is necessary in order to excel in any profession of work. My personal interests or hobbies include: singing, listening to music, reading, cooking, and exploring to discover different kinds of food. Reading helps me expand my vocabulary, while listening to music helps me concentrate and focus on the details very intensely. Singing is a great release of stress, and cooking for my friends and family help me practice my culinary skills.
I have graduated high school. My academic goal is to earn a baccalaureate degree after 4 years, after learning all the foundations, skills, and knowledge of hospitality management necessary to give an outstanding performance in my future career. I have experienced working a food catering company as a server and as the assistant chef. My career goal is to work as a chef in a hotel restaurant and work my way up to become an executive chef. My friends and family would describe as an amiable and generous person. I try to help the people around me with the best of my abilities. I am also a very organized and punctual person, which I consider is necessary in order to excel in any profession of work. My personal interests or hobbies include: singing, listening to music, reading, cooking, and exploring to discover different kinds of food. Reading helps me expand my vocabulary, while listening to music helps me concentrate and focus on the details very intensely. Singing is a great release of stress, and cooking for my friends and family help me practice my culinary skills.
Nicaury Espinal
HGMT 1101
Prof. Akan
9/3/17
This is Me
Many people have been asked once or twice in their life to describe themselves in a few word or in an essay. Frankly it is difficult for someone to talk about themselves because it may feel like youāre bragging about yourself. Some people may be comfortable with that but others may not. I have been asked to describe myself and all of my academic accomplishments throughout my life, basically what makes me who I am. It hasnāt been long since i graduated from high school, approximately a year. I graduated from a civil engineering and technology high school. We were taught about engineering, architecture, coding and all kinds of technology throughout our entire high school years. When i started college, i wanted to go straight into a technical major because i believed that it was what i wanted to do, but as some time went by i realised that it wasnāt my dream to be an engineer or an architect, i had a huge passion for anything that had to do with the kitchen. So i talked to my advisor about it and took a personality test, which told me that i had the personality of a helper. Right away i knew that it was true and that i shouldnāt waste my time on something that i didnāt enjoy and i should change into a major that commemorates my personality, so i changed into the major of Hospitality Management. Some of the goals that i have for my future are to graduate college with a good academic standard and an associates degree in Hospitality Management. After graduation i hope to find a good job in my field of work and hopefully be able to continue for my bachelorās degree. Honestly, i do not have much experience in the hospitality field. The only experience i have is getting to learn how cook on my own at home. But although i donāt have much experience i would love to continue learning more about my major and in the future i would really like to work for a chain of restaurants. Some of my personal strength would have to be that i am a very good listener and also i am a very fast learner which can be very important for any kind of job that i get. I believe that some of the things that make me who i am would have to be my passions, which are, music, cooking, learning new things to make, and helping anyone that i can. This is what i believe makes me who i am and hopefully really comes in handy for the future.
Profile Assignment 1
Yanira Vega
Citytech
HMGT 1101
Prof. Akana
Profile Assignment
My name is Yanira Vega, I graduated high school in 1985. Right after graduating I got marry and started my family. After thirty years of being a mother and housewife I decided it was time for me to fulfill my dream of returning to school and become a college graduate. My goal is not only to graduate from college with a Hospitality/ Culinary degree but to finish with a 4.0 gpa.
Since I can remember Iāve been in the kitchen cooking. A home taught cook my grandmother and mother were my teachers. Iāve used my cooking and baking skills to help ends meet for the last twenty years. Catering family and friends functions both small and big. I look forward to finally getting my degree and being able to make my business official.
I consider myself a very organized talented, driven person. Im great at time managing and I enjoy being around people. Nothing makes me happier than being able to help others. Once I set my mind on something I remain focus on my goal. Im working hard in being the best I can be in the field Iāve chosen, Hospitality Management.
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Hi My name is Herson Mark Garcia. I am currently a freshman at City tech. I recently graduated from flushing high school during high school i didnāt take class or work seriously i saw it unnecessary work and a waste time. I currently work as a barista at starbucks my passion for mixing drinks and culinary arts led me to apply and go towards the job i have which i enjoy very much. I started growing interested in culinary arts my junior year i would watch cooking videos and i would recreate them to whatever i think would mix with them and with things i like but exclude the things i didnāt like such as vegetables i hate vegetables not a fan and then i started mixing drinks combining drinks it got me interested like really interested like this one drink i made had red bull strawberry syrup and ginger ale that drink was awesome i grew interest in hospitality management because i love meeting new people and greeting people and helping them as well. My career plan is to get my associateās in hospitality management and then transferring to the institutions of culinary education and getting my degree in culinary arts and moving back to hawaii and working in the hilton hawaiian as a chef or the hotel manager. I am very friendly outgoing charming sweet and caring i never take anything serious i believe life too short for seriousness and i am always smiling and when i set a goal i only have my eyes set on achieving it and i love football my favorite team is the new england patriots. I would say my personal strengths are my charmingness my friendlyness me being able to make friends easily my sweetness and how caring i am and sometimes how flirty i can be. I look forward to this year and making the best out of college years to get to where i wanna be in life.
Chris Raghubir
HMGT 1101
The majority of my academic experience was done on the island of Trinidad and Tobago. I attended school from the age of four until Senior Secondary education. Education wasnāt a big factor growing up back then and my parents never really encouraged me to pursue a higher education.
After leaving school I became a Correction Officer for the Trinidad and Tobago Prison Service. It was a job that I really never liked but stay with it due to my parents. I felt that I needed to expand my horizon and I needed to leave Trinidad. I wasnāt married but was blessed with a son.
I relocated to the United States with my brother in the nineties.
I had to leave my son behind with his mother. When I got to the USA, I started working different jobs to make ends meet, also send home money for my son. My dream in America was to achieve a college degree, but there was numerous obstacle along the way that deterred that goal.
When I finally became a US Resident, I got my son here and he immediately attended New York City College of Technology. He then went on to Georgia Tech and graduated with his masterās degree, and Is now an Engineer with Intel.
Seeing my son accomplished his dreams gave me the desire to attempt a shot at completing a getting a college degree. My son was very instrumental in pushing me towards that goal. He knew that was my dreams and he insisted that I pursue what I love.
I have a love for cooking since a very young age. I figured I have a basic knowledge of cooking but just needed the culinary science behind food. So by pursuing the Hospitality Management degree, I hope to become an Executive Chef one day. I have dreams of opening my own restaurant in Trinidad in a couple of years after gaining some experience.
Fyaad Nazim
Perspectives in hospitality
Prof A
9/3/17
Electronic profile assignment
What are goals? Something that we all hope to achieve one day, but the question is are we all willing to put in the work to accomplish them. It’s not easy but if you really want it you do what you got to do. I have a few academic experiences that led up to my academic goals. Some academic goals consist of completing all assignments, excelling on exams and not just finishing the task but learning from it.
These academic goals will help me achieve my career goal as a hotel manager. Last summer i had a great career experience, which was volunteering at Maimonides hospital. It thought me many things and gave me the ability to network with new people.
Like most people you’re great at some things and your not so great at other things. I have many personal strengths such as being organized, trustworthy, dependable, works under pressure, teamwork, and most importantly I get things done no matter what. Some personal interest that enhances my personal attribute is my obsession for baseball and basketball. When am playing, it gets my mind off things and helps me focus on the main goal, which is to win and always improve. I’ll continue to use those skills in the future which shows me to never settle for less and don’t stop going until you reach where you want to be.
Fyaad Nazim
Perspectives in hospitality
Prof A
9/3/17
Electronic profile assignment
What are goals? Something that we all hope to achieve one day, but the question is are we all willing to put in the work to accomplish them. It’s not easy but if you really want it you do what you got to do. I have a few academic experiences that led up to my academic goals. Some academic goals consist of completing all assignments, excelling on exams and not just finishing the task but learning from it.
These academic goals will help me achieve my career goal as a hotel manager. Last summer i had a great career experience, which was volunteering at Maimonides hospital. It taught me many things and gave me the ability to network with new people.
Like most people you’re great at some things and your not so great at other things. I have many personal strengths such as being organized, trustworthy, dependable, works under pressure, teamwork, and most importantly I get things done no matter what. Some personal interest that enhances my personal attribute is my obsession for baseball and basketball. When am playing, it gets my mind off things and helps me focus on the main goal, which is to win and always improve.
I’ll continue to use those skills in the future which shows me to never settle for less and don’t stop going until you reach where you want to be. There’s always room for improvement, so when you think you did enough, just know there’s never time to stop learning.
My name is Victoria Liao and I am a high school graduate. I am a freshman at New York City College of Technology. Some of my academic goals is to get an associateās degree in hospitality management. I chose this major because I love interacting with people. After many changes in what I want to major in, I decided that I love interacting with customers and other people that are in the same field that I plan to study. My career experiences include I was an intern at Calvin Klein in Deer Park. After I graduate from City Tech in two years, I plan to work front of the house in hotels or restaurant. I also plan to get my bachelorās degree. After the two years at City Tech, I plan to enroll in Pace University and hope to continue studying hospitality management or communication. In the future, I plan to be a receptionist at a hotel. Some of the personal strengths that I have are communication skills and organizational skills. If you see me around campus, donāt be afraid to approach me because I am willing to make new friends. Some of the personal interests that would help me succeed in my future job is that I am a friendly and caring person. Some facts that you might not know is that I am a former Girl Scouts. I joined Girl Scouts when I was in sixth grade in middle school and since then I continue to join them.
Date: 9/6/2017
Course: HMGT 1101
Instructor: John Akana
Name: Yueman Chen (Moon)
Electronic profile
My name is Yueman Chen, it means Moon in English, and my friends can call me Moon. I had lived in USA for 12 years. I went to college in 2010, but I didnāt complete my 4 years bachelor degree in that time, because I decided to go to work. After 5 years of working in retail, I decided go to continue my education. I want to achieve my bachelor degree and maybe will continue with master degree too.
My previous major is international business study, and later I changed to hospitality management now. Most of my career experience is in luxury retail. Also, I had worked in the tourism industry for 2 years and I understand the general idea of tourism business. During 5 years in retail, I had built up great customer service and communication skills. Retail is actually one of the most important aspects of tourism. They are interrelated.
My interests are traveling over the world and cooking. I love to interact with people and learn about other peopleās culture. And that is one of the reason I changed my major as hospitality management too. I want to enhance my interests to my career. So my goal is to open my own hotel.
My name is Tania Garcia and I’m a 17-year old Mexican American teen. I live in Queens with my parents and my younger sister. I went to a high school that offered a culinary and hospitality program for 4 years, though I participated in the culinary portion for most of my time there. During my high school experience I was not the best student I could be but will work to improve. I want to be able to balance my school and work schedule and maintain a 3.0 GPA. I have been working in Cinnabon for about 2 months now and before that, I worked as a waitress in a catering business for 4 months. For the future, I want to have my own catering service or wedding event planner business. Some of my personal strengths are my social skills and my hard working skills as well. Yet some of my weaknesses are my lack of time management skills and punctuality.
Summary
The Term Hospitality goes ages back. Hospitality is a French word that fundamentally means to provide care and shelter for travelers. The Hospitality industry began in ancient and medieval times. There were rest houses provided for pilgrims in the 8th century. Taverns, also called an āordinaryā back in 16th century, were one of the most popular places where meals were served. In the 17th century, coffee houses were universally all over Europe. There is still a coffee house that operates till this day called CafĆ© Florian located on the Piazza San Marco. As eras changed, the hospitality industry developed massively such as hotels, fast food, and coffee shops. After 9/11, hotels and tourism grew rapidly.
What is hospitality management. Hospitality management is an industry that offers various advancement opportunities such as Culinary, Hotels and tourism/ traveling jobs. Itās very fascinating captivating, interesting and offers competitive Pay. There are many job levels in this industry. In most jobs, you will start in an entry level as you will make your way up to higher positions depending on the progress you make. There are higher positions such as Supervisor, department manager, Division manager, General manager, and an Senior executive. In this industry, you principally must do anything it takes to make your guest or customers happy with the service you provide them. If the Services provided to the guests are moral, Better the business will be for your company. Likewise, your company will notice your hard work and gradually put you in a higher position because they perceive that you are making progress and showing remarkable work ethic. As stated in the text, āPassion is in the service elementā, meaning your interest and curiosity in this industry plays a key role in your progress. Therefore, you must be happy and show the guests your attention and should be willing to do extra to keep them satisfied.
The hotel businesses provide a lot for their customers such as making reservations, greeting, assisting, and serving guests while the restaurant businesses keep customers pleased with their incredible food and beverage services along with making them feel fully welcomed. Restaurant businesses also provide social activities to keep their guests entertained.
The hospitality industry is open 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. This industry counts heavily on Shift work and occasionally extended work hours when needed. The philosophy of hospitality holds the standards of the organization including integrity, morals, fairness, and equality. It has been researched that āApproximately 70% of the American and Canadian economies are engaged in service industriesā which shows how extremely important the guest service is to maintain a good economy. To succeed in this industry, it is significant to understand and focus on your guests.
My name is Tiana Cook. I’m a 17 year old college freshman. I graduated from Digital Arts & Cimena Technology in the summer of June 2017. My dream career is to become a flight attendant, so this is why I’m enrolling in hospitality courses. My high school academic experience was in the safe zone. I wasnt failing but I didn’t pass with the highest grades either. My career goal is to become a flight attendant and travel the world. I don’t really get to travel much now so the thought of me doing that in the future excites me. Some of my personal strengths are my friendliness, I’m very well organized. I know how to be very professional and I’m always on time. I also came into the hospitality department to learn how to be a better people person. Even though I’m friendly I still can be very shy. So I feel as if being more of an extrovert will help me move towards my future career.
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Electronic profile
Growing up as an immigrant, my academic experience has been very tough in the past. I was brought to the US at the age of 9. It was tough sitting in a class filled with students and a teacher who spoke nothing but English. However, I started to learn English gradually and finally spoke great English. From there on, I excelled in school because I was eager to achieve goals that I set for myself. I have many academic goals that I have yet to achieve for college such as keeping a GPA higher than 3.8, following all the class instructions given by the professors, and respecting my classmates.
I am currently part of the hospitality management program. I have many career goals that I want to be able to achieve after graduating from this college. I decided to go in hospitality management because I want to work in a hotel as a general manager. Although it will take a long time, my job is to work as hard as I can to achieve that position so I can move on to accomplish more goals.
I have many strengths that makes me unique from others. Most of my strengths are the reason I chose to decide my major. I am patient, responsible, trustworthy, confident, determined, motivated, intelligent, focused, and disciplined. This mixture of strengths has helped me be who I am today and will continue to do so.
My communication skills and ability/willingness to learn can boost my odds for getting a great job in the hospitality industry.
Hospitality management has been a goal of mine for around 3 years. The idea of meeting people from all walks of life has intrigued me, since it has been a dream of mine to travel the world. I believe that goal can be attained through the hospitality industry. my academic goals would be to graduate in hospitality management with a bachelorās degree, and learn multiple languages. My academic experience has consisted of mostly general requirements because my major before this was liberal arts, this semester would be the first that Iām getting into some hospitality management courses.
My career experience for the hospitality industry has been limited as I started around 3 years ago. I have been a loss prevention officer and a bellman/doorman, but has varied as I have been a file clerk, personal assistant and dog walker. My career goals would be to eventually move up in hotels to be a front desk manager or general manager and possibly opening my own hotel one day.
Iāve been told that my personal strengths are calm, trustworthy, honest, hardworking, ambitious kind and somewhat thoughtful.
My personal interests include football, visiting museums, exploring the city, and trying new foods. I think that enhances my professional attributes in many ways because it shows Iām a team player, and that Iām interested in learning and trying out new things.
Academic goals & experience
ā¢ Always on honor roll since elementary school
ā¢ Very lazy but committed
ā¢ Most school experience is a high school diploma and 3rd semester in college
ā¢ Weakness in my education is tests
ā¢ Want to get my B.A in Hospitality Management
ā¢ Really looking forward to all hospitality classes to see what it has to offer me. Excited that all my professors have hotel experience and really know how to guide their students
Career experience & goals
ā¢ Worked as a cashier at Kmart and at a supermarket.
ā¢ Want to be able to own a hotel.
ā¢ Still indecisive of what I want to do with my major but my main focus is Lodging & Travel and Tourism. I like hospitality management because it gives you a lot of different ideas in the major itself to see what one likes.
Kaitlynn Reyes
HGMT 1101
Electronic Profile Assignment
I am fresh out of high school I graduated this last June 26 2017. Worked hard those last four years to be able to make it where I am now which is in college. In college my goal is to get my bachelor degree which require four more years of school. I want to finish strong and be able to be proud of myself.
The only career experience that I have is now which I work in a law firm doing administration duties which is answering phone calls and entering files all day. A career goal for me is to become a flight attendant. I would like to get out of my comfort zone and be more out there in the world and see more then what I have already seen. That is my short term goal, my long term goal is to become a hotel manager once I get a little older. Both of these jobs have one thing in common which is that they both help people and service them which is what I like. I want to grow as a person throughout my future careers and see where it takes me.
As a person I am very outspoken I will say what is on my mind all the time and be truthful about how I feel. I am also a very friendly person I love to communicate with other people and build people’s trust while I talk to them. Being friendly is important because people like to see that you are nice and you are not being mean or a robot. You have to be friendly so that people feel good after they talk to you and you have to do that in this business. I am also very organized I don’t like a mess. I like things to be well structured and makes sure it comes out flawlessly. Things flow nicely when a person is organized.
What made me interested that enhanced my professional attributes is to be able communicate with all types of people, to meet different types of people. Also to travel to see what else it out there and expand myself to be more out there.
How often in our lives weāve been asked who we want to be when we grow up ? I could never answer this question. All my life ,from childhood I had so many points of interest and that surely continued into my youth and beyond. I studied art and music in my teenage years, always was drawn to creative self expression and after finishing high school decided to pursue a career of a graphic designer. I worked in a film industry for couple of years after college as a freelancer and I liked the freedom and mobility that this job was giving me. I could travel to many places in the world , explore different cultures, foods, architecture, people and see my life in New York in a perspective.
It wasnāt long enough after my first degree when traveling through third world countries I realized how many people living in poverty and donāt have a proper health care. It is back then , I was drawn to the idea of natural healing . This and few other circumstances led me to pursuing a new career in Oriental Medicine which took me another 4 years of studying. I never stopped travelling , never stopped learning languages and explore the world.
I finished my studies in 2011 and practice oriental medicine ever since. Couple years ago , me and my friend who is a travel agent, started having ideas about a hotel business. Also , travelling and tourism was always my passion and I would love my job to include more travelling. All these were a logical and clear signs for me to start this program of hospitality which I hope will give me a more in depth outlook on this industry.
As far as my academic experience and goals, I āve been always choosing my career myself and never been forced to study, thus I was interested in learning more and was always a good student.
I think my experience as a traveller of more than 50 countries on a different comfort level , (from a tent to a 5 star hotel ), is giving me a huge strength in knowing the diversity of hospitality business and what is missing and what is the demand etc. Nevertheless I realize that I lack a professional detailed view on this subject . That what I hope to gain with this degree.
Janele Garrison
Personal Profile
In my academic experience so far, would describe myself as a great leader highly motivated to do my best in everything that I do. Make sure what I do is well done and that I give my all in it. My academic goals are to be better that I was before, accomplish more than I ever thought I can and even more than what people think I can. I do not have a lot of career experience but I have experience is customer service. I have very good communication skills and customer service. My career goals are to the best general manager at the best 5 starsā hotel there is in New York. My personal interested that enhance my professional attributes are determination, persistence, problem solving skills and communication skill. I feel like with these attributes thatās what drives me to want to be come a general manager at a 5 starsā hotel.
Academic experience /goals
I graduated from Academy of Finance and Enterprise in June of 2016. In August of 2016 I entered my freshman year at City Tech. My academic goals are to keep trying my best in all classes trying to get Bās and Aās like in my first semester. Iām going for my associates degree as of right now but as the semesters go I will consider going for my bachelors or remain with my associates.
Career Experience/ Goals
I have had a couple jobs. My first job was in the summer of 2013. I worked at Schnippers Quality Kitchen in Times Sq. My job was just to do basic preps, take products/ingredients to the cooks upstairs, and run errands.
My most recent job is at the Worlds Fair Marina Restaurant and Banquet in Flushing NY. I have been working there since August of 2015. My job when I first started was as a waiter. Within 8 months I started becoming in charge of buffet duties now for over a year Iāve been the captain, running most events we have. My duties are to make sure staff is doing their job right, communicating with the chef about food times, and talking to the host about how there time is and how I can help them make sure their event is one to remember.
My career goals are first once I graduate from college travel within the US to high market states and work there for 6 months to see how high end operations work. I would like to see myself opening either a catering hall because this is the reason I decided to do hospitality or either a bar/nightclub because I love when people have a good time and I have my bartenders license and itās a great environment. I woud hope to see these dreams become reality within the next 10-12 years.
Personal Strengths
I would say my communication skills and being on time are some of my personal strengths. What others would say about me are I am a hardworker, I really try to get the job done and im very dedicated to what I do. Also Iām very caring I want everyone to be good while working with me I actually care when someone tells me they have a problem.
Personal interest
Im a huge sports guy so I believe I have a lot of energy to run 8-16 hour shifts with ease and come back the next morning. Plus all my brothers are in the hospitality/culinary fields so we push each other to do good. 2 of my brothers are working with DINEX one is executive sous chef at CafƩ Boulud and the younger one is a cook at Boulud Sud. Then my other older brother is a Manager at Columbia University Catering. So they have all inspired me to work hard.
I strive to be the best I can while uplifting everyone around me to do the same. My highest form of completed education is a high school diploma but I intend on adding more degrees and certificates to my collection. I’m currently a server/bartender at Red Lobster. I’ve been working there for three years and during my time there I have experienced every position in the front of the house. With a few more hands-on experiences at my job, I hope to use my experiences here to help ease my transition into a career in the hospitality industry.
My name is Issac Tavarez, Freshmen at City Tech. I just recently Graduated from High School. I have little experience in the field of hospitality management, but I am very interested in the subject and what it has to offer. Due to my lack of knowledge of the field I am not too sure about the path I would like to pursue, but I do plan to graduate with a bachelors degree. Some of my strengths are, I am good at math, Giving person, can draw well, I take criticism very well, Determined, Focused, Willing to try new things. Some of my weakness are that I am Bad at managing time, Procrastinator, Busy, Do not like to wait, waits for the last minute, spends a lot of money. Things that i like to do are bake, draw, watch anime, and read on my free time.