Hospitality Jobs and Careers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Nationwide

Hospitality Jobs in Pittsburgh–Start with Bartending

September 23rd, 2008

We just spoke with Meghan, a former grad, who developed from bartender to manager, to employer of bartenders.  Now she has a new exciting career in the hospitality industry.  Fortunately for us and for our grads she still hires graduates of the Pittsburgh Bartender School.

Meghan has a great career story and a neat profession.  We have seen this kind of career development again and again over many years.  It is always rewarding.

A few years ago she enrolled in the school looking to develop a skill and get work.  Immediately upon graduating she picked up a job directly off our job leads list in the Pittsburgh area.  She definitely made the most of it.

She took a job bartending at an American Legion Hall.  Yah.  We know.  Not many of you might think about this as an exciting bartending job.  But wait a second.  See how Meghan made the most of it.

Within a very short period Meghan’s skills and talents became apparent.  She started managing the American Legion Hall and became responsible for the many events they threw.  Not only was she bartending and managing, she was hiring bartenders to staff big parties.

Meghan found something she enjoyed and was talented at.  After a couple of years she enrolled in college level courses at the  Pittsburgh Technical School. She majored in business and hospitality. Within 2 years she had an Associates Degree.

While there she picked up a working internship. It turned out to be with one of Pittsburgh’s conference and event centers. Boy did she do well.

Meghan is now the operations manager. What a great job. They run events on a regular basis. It could be a corporate training session. It could be a wedding or a party. Meghan has to handle a myriad of details to get everything running for a wide variety of clients and needs. She hires caterers. Yup. She still hires bartenders. She has to oversee the set up and breakdown of the facility on a regular basis. When she is doing her job…..she turns satisfied customers into repeat users of the facility.  She is definitely winning a lot of friends and admirers.

A few years ago Meghan was trying to figure out what to do and how to get there. She took our bartending program. In a short 40 hours of hands on training she learned a myriad of drinks, customer service, and how to work her way through the big hospitality industry. Now she is a pro.

Congratulations Meghan.