Employability of Fresh Graduates from Hospitality Management at Bestlink College of the Philippines

Vol.3, No.1B

Abstract

Hospitality management students must conduct themselves professionally and innovatively. The student's learning style evolves and grows with each passing day. To meet the student's learning goals, a hospitality management student must have a variety of talents, hundreds of styles, and thousands of techniques in the industry. Part of the research process is to recognize employable graduates. Employers are looking for flexible people who take initiative and can perform a range of tasks in various environments.

Furthermore, generic employability skills are fundamental. Hence, this study aims to identify the employability of fresh graduates required in the job field. As aspiring graduating students, we must look at our future selves as successful careers. The benefits of the studies are not only for graduate students and teachers' convenience but also for the easy grasp of the learners. This study used the phenomenon method design. In this methodology, the study requires persons with background knowledge. The researchers used this method for comparing the data in control and experiences about the employability of hospitality graduates from Bestlink College of the Philippines amidst blended learning approaches. The study sample included 50 new graduates from Bestlink College of the Philippines. Since this study was conducted during the pandemic, the Philippines was under alert level 1. The selection of participants was based on the availability of graduate students at Bestlink College of the Philippines. The researchers prepared the instrument used for the research based on their readings and the related literature, professional subject books, and internet access to gather more information about the topic. The researchers used Purposive Sampling to indicate the knowledge about a specific phenomenon rather than making conclusions based on statistics. The researchers used a questionnaire and observation among its respondents to get more accurate data. This study is specifically designed to evaluate the improvement of fresh graduate students' employability performances amidst blended learning approaches. The instrument used was a survey to ask questions of respondents. The self-formulated questionnaire was the most important instrument used in the study. It is the major tool used by the researchers in gathering significant data from the respondents. This was utilized as the secondary source in collecting the necessary data. This validated whether the tool could enhance the subjects' academic performance. This was also an effective way of gathering information. It is used to supplement and authenticate those gathered in the major tool, the questionnaire. The respondent was not part of the sampled population.

Meanwhile, the researchers used a formula to get the frequency and percentage distribution to interpret the tables containing the data based on the gathered information through the questionnaire. Ranking is utilized to identify the responses according to the degree of their responses as 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. A Likert scale is a one-dimensional that researchers use to collect respondents' attitudes and opinions. It is a standard classification format for studies.