Hospitality School 2020 Graduates Confront an Evaporated Hotel Jobs Market
Photo Credit: Graduating hospitality students in the class of 2020 have watched the hotel job market obliterate in a matter of weeks due to coronavirus. Wikimedia / Jonathan71
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With extraordinarily bleak job prospects for the graduating class of 2020, hospitality students have to persevere and find any available opportunity until the travel industry recovers.
It should have been an upbeat spring semester for University of Denver senior Sophia Burge.
After working coveted internships at the Montage Deer Valley ski resort and the Baccarat Hotel in New York City, the hospitality business management student learned in February she had landed her dream job in the management training program at the Four Seasons Resort Oahu at Ko Olina. The only anxiety left on her radar should have been a last round of finals and saying goodbye to friends after graduation.
Then came coronavirus.
“We were about to graduate into one of the best climates for hospitality ever, and it’s just changed drastically,” Burge said.
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For now, she is still in an enviable position compared to hospitality majors across the country in the class of 2020. In March, she signed her job contract only to have Four Seasons reach out requesting patience and flexibi
