Career Fair

The Hospitality 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 Management majors and minors and alumni, Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management majors, Sport Administration majors, Event Planning minors, and graduate students in the Hospitality and Tourism Management program at Kent State University. The Spring 2020 Hospitality Management Career Fair will beheld on Tuesday, March 10th in the Moulton Hall at Kent State University, Kent Campus, from 10:00a.m. – 1:00p.m. (Interview sessions are available upon request with some of companies. To schedule an interview, please contact the company’s recruiters directly. Their contact information is listed on the bottom of webpage*) 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.

The list of companies who are attending the Spring 2020 Hospitality Management Career Fair is below:

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 & 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 & management)
• Congress Lake Club (Front line, internship & management)
• Country Club of Hudson (Front Line, Internship, Management)
• Firestone Country Club (Front Line, Internship, Management, Kitchen staff)
• Portage Country Club (Front line, internship & management, entry level supervisors)
• Shoreby Club (Front line, internship & management)
• Weymouth Country Club (Front line, internship & management)

Casinos & Gaming

• Jack Entertainment (Servers, Hosts, Culinary Cooks, Food & Beverage Supervisors
• MGM Northfield Park (Front line, internship & 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 & management)

* Companies that conduct interview on March 10 (They may be available for interview one day before or after):

Any questions? Please contact Ning-Kuang Chuang nchuang@kent.edu