SINGAPORE, 22 August 2018: The Open Hotels Weekend programme returned to Singapore last week with 22 hotels opening their doors to jobseekers and the general public.
Hotels used the occasion to give Singapore residents a peep at how the industry functions and also demonstrate the career opportunities for job seekers.
Tours at participating hotels were held across two weekends (11-12 August and 18-19 August).
Around 1,250 participants registered for the tours, up 50% on participants attending a similar event held in October last year.
The Open Hotels Weekend programme comes under the Hotel Careers Campaign that was launched in July 2017 by the Singapore Tourism Board in partnership with the Singapore Hotel Association, Food, Drinks and Allied Workers Union and the hotel industry.
“By bringing jobseekers and the general public on a hotel tour, we hope to show first-hand the wide and diverse variety of roles in the hotel industry and hopefully generate interest in these roles,” said STB director, hotels and sector manpower, Ong Huey Hong.
Networking sessions and on-the-spot job interviews were also available at most hotels to expedite the hiring process for hotels and jobseekers.
More than 500 job vacancies are open at present in the hotels that participated in the programme in a variety of roles including front-of-house positions such as concierge, guest relations executive and restaurant manager, to back-of-house roles such as housekeeping coordinator, sales manager and communications executive.
The Work-for-a-Stay training programme, which targets millennials, also falls under the campaign. First held between December last year and March this year, the training programme saw participants completing a 10-day stint at a hotel, and receiving an allowance and a complimentary one-night hotel stay at the end of their stint.
