EMPLOYERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF DIGITAL LITERACY TOWARDS HOSPITALITY STUDENTS’ EMPLOYABILITY

Abstract

Hospitality students nowadays must be able to consider on their career planning in order to comply with the demand from the hospitality competitive environment. This conceptual paper will reveals the employers’ perception of the digital literacy towards their employability within the industry. Previous studies have dealt with the essential competences that may influence the employability but only few highlighted the relationship between digital skills with the individual potential to get a job. At this monumental era, someone that entering job market will be having difficulties to detect what the employers really want from them. Therefore, in this study, researcher will try to gather the literatures that may support the fact that most of education policy and the training efforts should focus more on the digital skills