Hospitality skills transfer well to many health care positions
25 Mar 2020
Are you a leisure and hospitality industry service provider whose job has been recently impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic? Our health care industry needs you!
Many people working in restaurants, hotels, casinos, event planning, theme parks, and other tourism- and travel-related jobs have been laid off and are looking for work. If you were among those leisure and hospitality workers laid off, you have a set of skills that can easily be transferred to help meet the needs of health care employers across Minnesota. Here are seven skills common to hospitality service providers – and how they’re needed by health care employers right now.
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