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 2020 Hospitality and Event Management Career Fair participants:

Hotels & Lodging

• Aimbridge Hospitality (Front line, internship & management)
• Crowne Plaza Columbus Downtown (Front Line, Internship, Management, Back of the house)
• Drury Hotels (Front line, internship & management)
• Hilton Akron/Fairlawn (Front line, internship, management, hotel & restaurant positions)
• Kalahari Resorts (Front line, internship & management)
• Kent State Hotel and Conference Center (Front line, internship & management)
• Marriott International (Front line, internship, management, Voyager Leadership development program)
• Radius Hospitality Management (Front line, internship & management)
• Westin Cleveland & Urban Farmer (Front Line, Internship, Management, Supervisors, Operations)

Insurance (hotel, conference center, event planning)

• Westfield (Front line, internship, seasonal employment & management)

Restaurants

• Boardwalk Family of Restaurants (Front line, internship, management; All positions FOH and BOH)
• Driftwood Restaurants and Catering (Front line, internship, management)
• Ichor Restaurant Group dba Old Carolina Barbecue Company (Front line, internship, management, catering team leaders)
• Pinstripes (Front line, internship, and management)

Food Service Provider and Distributor

• Aramark (Front line, internship, management)
• US Foods (Front line, internship, management)

Country Clubs

• Catawba Island Club (Front line, internship, and management)
• Congress Lake Club (Front line, internship, and management)
• Country Club of Hudson (Front line, internship, management)
• Firestone Country Club (Front line, internship, management, kitchen staff)
• Portage Country Club (Front line, internship, and management, entry level supervisors)
• Shoreby Club (Front line, internship, and management)
• Weymouth Country Club (Front line, internship & management)

Casinos & Gaming

• Jack Entertainment (Servers, hosts, culinary cooks, food and beverage supervisors
• MGM Northfield Park (Front line, internship, and management)

Meeting Planning Companies

• Event Source (Front line, internship, management, warehouse/inventory)
• Experient (Front line, internship, management; entry level - housing and registration departments)

Theme Parks

• Cedar Point (Front line, internship, and management)