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A British careers website is claiming that, usually, you can become the manager of a small hotel or the department manager of a large one in as little (?) as 2 years since staff in this field tends to be young and have a high turnover rate.
On a similar note, which career fields have quick promotion rates generally?
Big box stores LOVE to promote their associates quickly.
But it is not a good thing.
Read about Home Depot doing this:
You go from making $15/hour as an associate working up to 29 hours a week to $55K salary a year working 80-100 hours a week as an "assistant manager" - and 95% of your daily tasks are doing the same thing you were doing as an associate!
Big box stores LOVE to promote their associates quickly.
But it is not a good thing.
Read about Home Depot doing this:
You go from making $15/hour as an associate working up to 29 hours a week to $55K salary a year working 80-100 hours a week as an "assistant manager" - and 95% of your daily tasks are doing the same thing you were doing as an associate!
Yea, it's a little bit of a mind game.
Promote you and give you more to do, and make it competitive between you and your peers.
Young people love getting promoted, it makes them feel special and corporate knows that.
The big store manager can be an OK job depending on the store though.
I'd rather be counting inventory and revenue of guitars than doing what I'm doing now. The hours aren't great but still. Not easy jobs to get though.
I imagine that there is a reason for the high turnover rate.
According to that career website it's because a lot of the employees are young and only join this field as a part time or summer job while they are students. Plus from what I've noticed there are seem to be plenty of people in this field who are content with just a reception job or bar job and who don't want to progress to the higher managerial roles. Do you guys and girls have any insights about these two factlets?
A British careers website is claiming that, usually, you can become the manager of a small hotel or the department manager of a large one in as little (?) as 2 years since staff in this field tends to be young and have a high turnover rate.
On a similar note, which career fields have quick promotion rates generally?
A friend's son has moved up through the ranks of hotel management with a large hotel chain at a fairly fast pace.
Over the past few years, he's gone from working as a night clerk to a position as a regional manager, being hotel manager for a year along the way.
The pay is not great by any means, and so I suspect high turnover has helped. But he's a sharp individual who works hard and found an avenue for advancement that values that.
He would likely have done the same in a retail setting. However, I suspect the opportunities for advancement may not be as plentiful once you get to the assistant manager level.
Other than hotel and retail, it is difficult to think of what fields offer fast advancement for someone without specialized skills/training/education.
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