TWO YEARS ON
LADDER PROGRAM The Leadership training, Acquisition of talent, Development of careers Direct career placement, Early career start and Recruitment program is a leadership development and talent acquisition initiative designed to connect our students with preferred hospitality employers early in their academic journey. The program includes several key components:
EVENING WITH THE GENERAL MANAGER: The Evening with the GM program allows seniors to meet with general managers and their executive teams at various hotels throughout the Atlanta market. The program allows small groups of students to interact with executive teams, discuss career strategies, and learn valuable tips for success. CORPORATE COURSE COLLABORATIONS: This program allows industry experts to collaborate directly with faculty members on course content. The partnership ensures that instructional content is relevant and meets industry standards and expectations. It also allows industry professionals to have planned – rather than ad hoc – visits to classrooms. At the start of each semester, faculty members share course syllabi with industry executives for content review and relevant feedback. The faculty member and the executive then decide when the classroom visit will be and what topics the executive will cover. In addition, in some instances students will visit the executive’s workplace for supervised practical application when relevant to the learning experience. MENTORSHIPS AND JOB SHADOWING: Corporate partners have provided many mentoring and job shadowing opportunities to our students, especially to those unsure about which functional areas they want to explore for their career. COURSE SPONSORSHIPS: We are in the process of collaborating with our partners to start a course sponsorship program where sponsoring organizations will “adopt” a course on a semester-by-semester basis. The business or its agent will collaborate with the instructor to determine guest lecturer needs throughout the semester. Sponsors will also underwrite the cost of textbooks for the course each semester. A course sponsorship program has the potential to create positive impacts in the lives of many students as it will help alleviate their overall textbook costs. The program is in its infancy, and the hospitality program intends to have sponsors for all hospitality management courses.
LADDER event with Omni Hotels hosted at KSU
CORPORATE DAYS: Preferred corporate partners are invited to spend an entire day on campus meeting with and recruiting our students. Corporate days typically start with partners arriving on campus by 10:00 am and setting up information tables in the College’s atrium. Executives spend the next few hours sharing information with students about their companies and open positions. Guests then have a lunch session with selected students. Corporate days culminate with an open question and answer forum in the auditorium. The program successfully launched in Spring 2022 and has been well-received by the industry and students.
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KSU HOSPITALITY LEADERSHIP ANNUAL REVIEW
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