A Ready Resource for Job Aspirants This book has been written considering the needs of students preparing for interviews both for industrial training and final placements. The book gives an overview of all the four major departments, namely, the front office, housekeeping, food production, and food and beverage service. The introduction dealing with general knowledge and personality development has been incorporated considering its importance for students. KEY FEATURES • A complete guide for campus interview which includes group discussion, personal interview and soft skills • Covers all the four major departments – Food Production, Food and Beverage Service, Front Office, and Housekeeping • Subject-wise brief explanation of each topic followed by questions and answers • Includes subjective as well as objective questions for campus interviews and examinations PARTHO PRATIM SEAL is presently the Principal at National Institute of Management Science and Research Foundation – Institute of Hotel Management, Kolkata. He was earlier Assistant Professor, Durgapur Society of Management Science, Durgapur and Lecturer at Institute for International Management and Technology, Bengal. Professor Seal has experience in Food Production department in various restaurants in New Delhi and in a multi speciality club at Kolkata. Chef and Chef Trainer by profession, his subjects of interest include Front Office, Food and Beverage Control and Hotel Information System. A post-graduate in Hotel Management and also Management, alumnus of IHM, Chennai, he has also authored a book – Computers in Hotels – Concepts and Application.

From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

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Everyone at some point in their life will have to attend an interview. Whether they are applying for a job, a promotion, a training programme or even a college course, the fact remains that a questioning process will occur and the need to create a good impression is essential. Now in its fifth edition, this extremely useful guide shows you how to portray professionalism and confidence and take control of the interview process. Breaking the process down into accessible steps, Rebecca Corfield identifies the ways in which you can prepare for an interview, providing example questions and advice on how to answer them. There are also tips on what employers are looking for, how to make a presentation during an interview and vital information on how you should present yourself so that you make a good and lasting impression.

Success in today’s rapidly changing hospitality industry depends on understanding the desires of guests of all ages, from seniors and boomers to the newly dominant millennial generation of travelers. Help has arrived with a compulsively-readable new standard, The Heart of Hospitality: Great Hotel and Restaurant Leaders Share Their Secrets by Micah Solomon, with a foreword by The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company’s president and COO Herve Humler. This up-to-the-minute resource delivers the closely guarded customer experience secrets and on-trend customer service insights of today’s top hoteliers, restaurateurs, and masters of hospitality management including: Four Seasons Chairman Isadore Sharp: How to build an unsinkable company culture Union Square Hospitality Group CEO Danny Meyer: His secrets of hiring, onboarding, training, and more Tom Colicchio (Craft Restaurants, Top Chef): How to create a customer-centric customer experience in a chef-centric restaurant Virgin Hotels CEO Raul Leal: How Virgin Hotels created its innovative, future-friendly hospitality approach Ritz-Carlton President and COO Herve Humler: How to engage today’s new breed of luxury travelers Double-five-star chef and hotelier Patrick O’Connell (The Inn at Little Washington) shares the secrets of creating hospitality connections Designer David Rockwell on the secrets of building millennial-friendly restaurants and hotel spaces (W, Nobu, Andaz) that resonate with today’s travelers Restaurateur Traci Des Jardins on building a “narcissism-free” hospitality culture Legendary chef Eric Ripert’s principles of creating a great guest experiences, simultaneously within a single dining room. The Heart of Hospitality is a hospitality management resource like no other, put together by leading customer service expert Micah Solomon. Filled with exclusive, first-hand stories and wisdom from the top professionals in the industry, The Heart of Hospitality is an essential hospitality industry resource. As Ritz-Carlton President and COO Herve Humler says in his foreword to the book, “If you want to create and sustain a level of service so memorable that it becomes an unbeatable competitive advantage, you’ll find the secrets here.”