Career Fair

The Hospitality and Event Management Career Fair is an annual event held in spring. Several businesses representing restaurants, non-commercial foodservice, contract foodservice, hotels, event management, country clubs, and casinos attend this popular event. Companies are looking to fill full- and part-time positions, seasonal positions, internships, and supervisory and management positions.

This event is open to Hospitality and Event Management majors, minors and alumni; Recreation, Park, & Tourism Management majors; Sport Administration majors; Event Planning minors; and graduate students in the Hospitality and Tourism Management program at Kent State University. Business professional attire is required for all attendees. Participants are also strongly encouraged to research the companies in advance, engage in mock interviews, research STAR format of responding to behavioral (scenario-type) interview questions, and bring professional copies of their resume printed on resume paper.

Spring 2022 Hospitality and Event Management Career Fair participants:

Hotels & Lodging

• Chautauqua Hotel Company (various positions available; check link)
• The Lodge at Geneva on the Lake (Front line)
• Riley Hotel Group (Front line, internship, management)
• Drury Hotels (Front line, internship & management)
• Kent State Hotel and Conference Center (Front line, internship, housekeeping, part-time maintenance)

Restaurants & Catering

• Choolaah (Front line, internship, management)
• The River Merchant (Entry level management, summer seasonal)
• SPICE Hospitality Group (Summer intern as event planner (could turn into a full-time position); seasonal/in-semester positions)

Country Clubs

• Kirtland Country Club (Front line, management)
• Cleveland Racquet Club (Full time, part time & internship)
• Fairlawn Country Club (Front line, internship)
• Medina Country Club (Summer part time cooks/summer lawn & outside maintenance/turf management/hospitality management/golf management)
• Beechmont Country Club (Front line)
• Rolling Rock Country Club (Summer interns and post graduate opportunities)
• Brookside Country Club (Full time, part time & internship)
• Congress Lake Club (Front line, internship, and management)

Casinos & Gaming

• Jack Entertainment (Servers, hosts, culinary cooks, food and beverage supervisors)

Food Service Provider and Distributor

• Gordon Food Service (Outside sales associate, insides sales associate, entry level retail manager, retail team leads, entry level retail positions, entry level operation positions (supply chain), entry level training coordinator, marketing support roles)

Meeting Planning Companies

• Event Source (Front line, sales, operations positions)
• Maritz Global Events (Registration coordinator, housing coordinator, sourcing specialist)
• Joe Mineo Creative (Summer internship in events office, summer internship in prep and production department, part-time and full-time in prep and production, fall semester internship/in-semester position in events office, fall semester internship/in-semester position in prep and production department)

Shopping/Retail, Theme Parks, Other

• Cafaro Corporation (Full time, part time & internship)

Please also check out other companies that may not be at the career fair but are active in recruiting:

• Westin Cleveland & Urban Farmer (Front line, internship, management, supervisors, operations)
• Portage Country Club (Front line, internship, seasonable/part-time positions available for the departments of culinary, pool, food & beverage) 
• Marriott International (Front line, internship, management, voyager leadership development program)
• Firestone Country Club (Front line, internship, management, kitchen staff)
• InterContinental Cleveland (Sales, catering, & front desk entry level managers or supervisors)
• The Country Club (Seasonal and in-semester positions, part-and full-time associates/employees, entry level managers)
• The Westin Hilton Head Island Resort & Spa (Front line, internship, management, supervisors, operations)