The Value of Professional Qualifications
Doubtlessly, formal educational credentials such as, Bachelors, Masters and other degrees are essential requirements for most companies for hiring professionals since they provide evidence of foundation knowledge. Increasingly, over the last years, professional certifications are amplifying the value and competitiveness in the labor market for a variety of reasons:
- Studies have shown that professional certifications give the opportunity to work candidates to obtain more practical and specific skills. As a result, it allows them to bid for more targeted positions (e.g. ‘Hotel Revenue Manager’) that require particular knowledge and skills.
- Those seeking a career change in another field, turn to certifications rather than another title of formal education since a certification is time-efficient, less expensive and, at the same time, provides them with the necessary specialized practical training for a job opening.
- Frequently, a certification may be even advantageous for candidates with lower work experience when they compete with others having more work experience but no certification.
- Candidates boost their confidence since they have acquired fresh knowledge and skills that can be used immediately at work.
Our Approach
IHTMI’s professional qualifications goes far beyond teaching hospitality and tourism concepts. They help you deeply internalize our philosophy and principles, follow what you really love, discover your unlimited potential, build your confidence, have blind faith in your career dream so you can see it being unfolded.
Rigorous, interactive and pragmatic: Our online certificates are rigorous and require your high involvement with the course material and a great level of collaboration with your lecturer. You, persistently, communicate with your lecturers and you are being evaluated through a variety of assessment practices. All assessments are designed with a highly pragmatic care within a hospitality and tourism industry setting. You are required to apply the taught material on hospitality-and-tourism-related operations and not on any general type of business.
Self-confidence and faith in the career dream: The way our programs are managed by our lecturers, gives you the opportunity to realize that online learning is not a remote approach to learning. On the contrary, your interaction and collaboration with lecturers is conducted at a much higher personal level than traditional physical classroom environments. This continuously supportive and interactive approach enables you to receive maximum benefits from the learning experience.
Career marketability: Upon successful completion of our certificates you will be equipped with the necessary knowledge and practical job skills which are presently indispensable for a successful career in the hospitality and tourism industry. Your learning experience with IHTMI will offer you a fresh prospect of the industry globally and marketable management skills that successful hospitality and tourism businesses are looking for their associates.
Challenging: Once the learning experience begins, you are engaged in discussions with your assigned lecturers. In all our programs participants are required to engage in and complete weekly tasks. The assigned tasks and assessments include practice problems, case studies and critical thinking. This multiple-assessment approach will enable participants to get a deep understanding of hospitality and tourism operations and management.
Qualified lecturers: Our certificates are being run and managed by qualified, experienced and knowledgeable lecturers in the area of hospitality and tourism operations and management. On the average, each of our lecturers has more than 10 years of teaching and work experience in world-recognized educational institutions and business organizations.