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Vietnamese Employers’ and Graduates’ Perspectives on Essential Skills for Students of Hospitality

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This chapter reports a study that examined essential employability skills for hospitality graduates in Vietnam using employers’ and graduates’ perspectives. Data included 26 interviews and 128 responses to an online survey with employers and graduates. The results showed that technical knowledge and skills, soft skills, management skills, leadership skills, and professional development skills were rated as either ‘important’ or ‘highly important’ by the participants. The identified skills can be used to tailor the hospitality curriculum to better prepare students for their future work roles in the industry. The chapter also explains the findings with reference to the socio-economic and cultural contexts of Vietnam and the hospitality industry in the country.

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    Tran Le Huu Nghia

  2. An Giang University, VNU-HCM, Long Xuyen, Vietnam

    Nguyen Thi My Duyen & Chau Soryaly

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Nghia, T.L.H., Duyen, N.T.M., Soryaly, C. (2022). Vietnamese Employers’ and Graduates’ Perspectives on Essential Skills for Students of Hospitality. In: Nghia, T.L.H., Bui, B.C., Singh, J.K.N., Lu, V.N. (eds) Graduate Employability Across Contexts. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3959-4_7

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