Abstract: The study aimed to determine the level of internship performance and employability skills of hospitality management students in terms of food and beverage, housekeeping, food preparation, guest service and sales and marketing. The subject of this study were the one hundred ninety nine (199) hospitality management students enrolled in the different higher education institution in the city and in the province of Iloilo. This study was conducted during the Academic Year 2018-2019. The duly validated questionnaire to evaluate the level of performance and employability skills of hospitality management student’s were utilized in this study. The percentage, frequency count, mean, standard deviation rank and t-test for independent sample were used in the study. All tests were set at 0.05 alpha level of significance using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 22. Findings of the study revealed that the internship performance of the student trainees in food and beverage service, housekeeping, food preparation, guest service and sales and marketing were very satisfactory. The result also showed that there was no significant difference in the employability skills of the students in terms of food and beverage, housekeeping, food preparation, guest service and sales and marketing when they were grouped according to higher education institution. When student trainees were grouped according to internship affiliation, the result showed that there was no significant difference found in guest service and sales and marketing however, significant difference was noted in food and beverage, housekeeping and food preparation. In terms of location of internship venue, student trainees in the city of Iloilo obtained the highest mean rating compared to student trainees at the Province of Iloilo.
It was recommended that results of this study be disseminated to the concerned higher education institutions to strengthen their internship program specifically on the competencies with least dominant skills. Furthermore, skills training workshop was recommended to be conducted to enhance the performance and employability skills of the students to be more competent in the various areas as required by the hospitality industry.
Title: Internship Performance and Employability Skills of Hospitality Management Students: Basis for Enhancement Program
Author: Virgie Alfaras Rodriguez, Jeanneth F. Darroca
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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