{"id":125021,"date":"2021-12-14T13:49:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T18:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=125021"},"modified":"2024-04-16T16:55:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T20:55:36","slug":"a-post-pandemic-hospitality-industry-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/a-post-pandemic-hospitality-industry-success-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A Post-pandemic Hospitality-industry Success Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With an exciting position lined up and aspirations of becoming a Central Florida small business owner, graduating senior Valerie Contreras is excited for her future in the hospitality industry.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI love Orlando, and I love working in hospitality and all that it entails,\u201d says Valerie Contreras, Fall 2021 UCF graduate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI love Orlando, and I love working in hospitality and all that it entails,\u201d says Contreras, who is graduating this fall with a bachelor\u2019s degree in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/degree\/hospitality-management-bs\/\">hospitality management<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/hospitality.ucf.edu\/\">Rosen College of Hospitality Management<\/a>. \u201cThe constant stream of new faces you see every day, the energy from different employees, the ability to make someone\u2019s day flip in a positive way. This is the work that I was born to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Contreras is one of the Rosen College\u2019s post-pandemic success stories. Despite an economy that is still recovering from COVID-19, the Rosen College estimates that more than 95% of this semester\u2019s graduating class will have obtained employment ahead of UCF\u2019s Fall 2021 commencement. The college\u2019s administration and faculty played integral roles in Contreras and other fall graduates finding success.<\/p>\n<p>Following commencement, Contreras plans to enter the Manager-in-Training Programme at Four Seasons. The salaried 12-month internship program provides real-world leadership experiences for recent graduates pursuing careers in the hospitality industry. Contreras secured the internship through the luxury hotel brand\u2019s recruiters, who regularly stationed a recruitment table on Rosen\u2019s campus during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Contreras was one of only six students in the nation awarded a $25,000 scholarship through restaurateur Guy Fieri\u2019s Help Rebuild Restaurants Grant. In the years ahead, she plans to combine Fieri\u2019s scholarship funding with her leadership training to open a cafe in Orlando. Contreras first heard of the grant through her Rosen College faculty mentors, who strongly urged her to apply.<\/p>\n<p>Contreras has come a long way since the pandemic recession. In February 2020, she received lay-off notices from both of her jobs within days of each other. Faced with the sudden loss of employment, she was forced to move back to her hometown in Arizona to live with her parents.<\/p>\n<p>Contreras calls that period the most difficult of her life, and she was not alone. During the recession, the hospitality and tourism industries were among the hardest impacted. By the end of 2020, the pandemic had eliminated more than 3.5 million jobs in those industries alone. Recognizing the challenging circumstances their students would be facing, Rosen leadership stepped up to assist students directly.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cRosen met the challenges of the pandemic head on by pivoting existing resources and developing new ways to get our students industry experience,\u201d says Alan Fyall, the associate dean of Academic Affairs and interim chair of the Department of Tourism, Events and Attractions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cRosen met the challenges of the pandemic head on by pivoting existing resources and developing new ways to get our students industry experience,\u201d says Alan Fyall, the associate dean of Academic Affairs and interim chair of the Department of Tourism, Events and Attractions. \u201cDespite the dire conditions that COVID-19 presented, we wanted to put our students in contact with the right people in the right places to secure personal and professional growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rosen\u2019s leadership took steps to expand existing networking and internship resources and establish new, innovative programs to better connect students with opportunities. Their efforts were integral in students navigating the challenging job market.<\/p>\n<p>Rosen added a full day of virtual meetings to its Fall 2021 Career Fair, making the event a two-day occasion. Nearly 30 additional business entities exclusively attended the fully virtual day, creating more than 600 additional networking interactions between students and industry contacts. With approximately 800 students engaging with representatives from more than 70 entities, the Fall 2021 Career Fair was Rosen\u2019s largest and most successful.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in the summer of 2020, Rosen began offering the <a href=\"https:\/\/hospitality.ucf.edu\/p-r-e-p\/\">Professional Rosen Experiential Portfolio<\/a> (PREP). The program provides students with hundreds of hours of internship experiences and career exploration opportunities. Since the program\u2019s inception, an estimated 1,600 students \u2014 more than half of Rosen\u2019s student population \u2014have taken part in P.R.E.P.<\/p>\n<p>A large percentage of Rosen\u2019s more than 12,000 alumni are actively involved with some form of mentorship. These efforts include the CFHLA Student Lounge Meet and Greet, which allows students to meet informally with leaders from various hotels and resorts. Also, alumni joined Rosen faculty to produce the webinar series, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/hospitality.ucf.edu\/research-recovery-and-reskill\/\">Research, Recovery and Reskill<\/a>.\u201d The series focuses on sharpening and retooling skills for the anticipated changes in the hospitality market as a result of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate goal of Rosen\u2019s leadership team was to create a steady stream of Rosen College success stories, like Contreras.<\/p>\n<p>Walking away from UCF, Contreras says she will miss both her professional and personal connections connections to Rosen. Throughout her time at UCF, she was actively involved with the Pineapple Theater Club, the Rosen College Leadership Council and the Tau Sigma National Honor Society, among other professional student organizations.<\/p>\n<p>A self-proclaimed people person with an entrepreneurial spirit, Contreras says she hopes to open her cafe within the next five years. She envisions a warm, welcoming environment, where Orlandoans from all walks of life can come together as a community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can be inspired, you can write, you can read, you can express yourself with open mic nights and slam poetry. We can have events where you can just have community,\u201d Contreras says. \u201cMy cafe will provide a safe space, a place of solstice for the individual to stop being so \u201con the go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the assistance of the Rosen College, graduating senior Valerie Contreras is preparing to make her entrepreneurial dreams a 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