Lauren Said:

I have a question about a bartending career ?

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What you want to do is not impossible, but it may be a little overly optimistic.
People tend to assume that the service industry, particularly the food and beverage industry offer relatively easy employment. While it is fairly easy to get hired on as a food server, bartending can be a little more difficult to get your foot in the door.
The truth of the matter is, good bartenders and good bartending jobs can be hard to come by when you are already experienced in the field. Consequently when a good job meets up with a good bartender find each other they tend to stick together. Most bars have quite a few applications on file all the time, and you with no experience will end up at the bottom of the list. You could get lucky, but it is unlikely.
Bartending schools probably won't help much. Although they teach you how to make drinks, and add to your credibility there a bit, they can't teach you the actual balancing act that goes with, tending your customers at the bar, while making drinks for the servers, while washing your glassware and rotating your cold glasses. I guarantee you in any place that is going to make you money it is not as easy as it sounds. I've been doing it for years (mixed in with a few management jobs in the office and in the restaurant industry) and I still have nights that just kick my ...
Okay, now that I have explained a little about how it is, if you really want this, here is a way you can get there. It won't be easy, it will take time. You will learn a lot, and it will be much harder than you can imagine. You have to really want it, because you will have to learn new skills and it will take a while before you are making good money, maybe even a few years depending on how quickly you learn, where you end up working, etc.
So here is the plan.
Oh, one more side note, if you are thinking that bartending is anything like Tom Cruise in Cocktail, give it up. Last bartender I saw showing off like that ended up with margarita all over her, a broken pint glass, and a pissed off boss. They do have a bartending show in a club in Vegas that sounds pretty cool, but those guys are entertainers as well as bartenders, you have a long way to go before you can apply there.
back to the plan...
Get a job as a server in a restaurant that serves alcohol. Any restaurant will do, you may have to apply to a lot of them. Again, experience wins out. Still, there are places that will hire fledglings. In fact there are even places that pride themselves on breaking people in and seek virgin servers so that they can attempt to tell them that their way is the only way, and all other restaurants have it wrong. They like new people because new people will believe this, not having experienced anything else. The really interesting part of this is that aside from small, minute differences all corporate restaurants are generally the same, memorize the jargon they use and find someplace privately owned if possible once you have some experience. In the meantime, best to go corporate, you will learn more. Annoying though corporate restaurant training may be, it serves its purpose well enough. So once you have found a job as a server, in a corporate restaurant with alcohol, learn how to become a good server. Try to be the best server. If you can't handle waiting tables, you won't be able to handle bartending. A bartender has a lot more on their plate than a server does. They are not only serving all the customers at their bar drinks, but they are generally serving food too. (If, at this point you are thinking that you will work someplace that does not serve food, I repeat what I said before about needing experience first.) On top of that and the other aforementioned responsibilities of the bartender it is important to make the distinction that a bartender is not only doing what a server is doing and generally has more open tabs than a server does, they are also making a product, for those sitting at the bar and the servers who need drinks for their tables. Beers and wine, most mixed drinks are fairly simple, but frozen drinks, and martinis, mixed shots, all of that takes time. Plus, don't forget the dishes. Also, most restaurants require servers to carry change on them so they can make change for their tables and settle with the restaurant at the end of their shift. Usually the settling of accounts goes through the bartender, and servers are generally cash poor, so they end up bugging the bartender to make change for them as the bartender is usually the only one in the restaurant with an actual cash register and drawer. Oh yeah, don't forget To Go orders, which almost always go through the bartender as if there is not enough for them to do.
Sure you want to do this?
Still reading, huh?
All right, once you are a good server, you start bugging the management about learning how to bartend. Hope you stayed on their good side : )
They will probably say no at first. No matter. Hope you tipped the bartender out well. Start coming in when it is not busy and get the bartender to show you stuff. Come in when you aren't working as a server and learn how long to pour to make a shot. Learn what is in the most popular drinks. Learn how to pour beer from a tap, and how to pour a black and tan. Learn how to open wine (you should be doing this as a server), Get the bartender to show you the secret combination of ice and mixers to make a perfect margarita, and learn what you need to do when it is a virgin drink to keep it from freezing up on you. Learn about 3 sinks, and what to do if glass breaks in your ice. Watch the bartender tap a keg and then start doing it for them, just to stay on their good side. Help them stock the coolers and start memorizing what beers are what just by looking at the bottle caps, (bound to come up if you do this long enough).
Eventually a day will come when a bartender will quit or pull a no show and you will be able to say, hey let me try, I already know everything, I'm a good server, let me have a shot at it.

One last note. There is a restaurant I have worked for in the past that would probably be the ideal place for you to get your foot in the door. Assuming you have one near you that is. It is corporate, they sell alcohol, they will teach you the ropes, they hire people who have never served before, they only hire bartenders from within, so if you do well with them, play by their rules, and you are suited for this type of employment, you could probably get behind the bar within a year or so. A word of warning, you won't make much money at first. It is unlikely you will get full time immediately, but restaurants love it when you say you have open availability. I myself usually have 2 part time jobs when I bartend, it works out better for me. Also, this is one of those places that thinks they are the only restaurant that has the right plan for success, even though their plan is nearly identical to every other corporate philosophy. Don't be fooled, while their way is good, this is an industry that is very flexible, make sure you bend with it when you end up working for someone else. Last warning. The bartenders in the restaurant I am going to suggest, have an added task that far outweighs the fact that this restaurant does not push their alcohol sales and does not do as much "bar" business as your standard place. The bartenders at this restaurant have to do all the shakes, smoothies, and all the kids drinks that are not sodas. Still, if you do what they want you to do, and you walk the corporate line, they will teach you how to bartend, and then you can find something else if you don't like it there and are ready for a different atmosphere. Okay, here it is. If I were you I would try Red Robin, or whatever equivalent you can find. Good luck.

PS. Once you have experience, I recommend dive bars and catered events, as best bartending jobs as far as fun and $.
Remember it will never be fun if it doesn't suit you. Some people can do this kind of work and others can't. I like it, I've done the office stuff, I've had management jobs, both in offices and food & bev. Tending bar is a challenge when you work someplace that is busy, no matter how much experience you have. I like being challenged, therefore it suits me. Don't be too hard on yourself if it doesn't suit you, but try not to give up to easily. My first job in the industry was in a breakfast establishment, breakfast is as hard as it gets, I must have cried every shift, either during or after, for a month. It was a terrible experience, but it got better as I got better, and even though I have rough nights sometimes I love it now, and I pride myself on getting through the tough spots and knowing I did my best and usually pull it off quite well. I've had many people claim that they have stayed past when they meant to leave just to watch me when I get busy. I guess that means I'm pretty good, it is hard to tell when you are in the thick of it.

Benefits, hard to find, but some places will offer them to their full time employees. Red Robin does. On the other hand this is why it is so hard to find a place to employ you full time.
I think this might be my longest answer yet, hope it helps. lol

Melissa Said:

Hi,i am a BBA GRADUATE & have 2 yrs of international. BPO exposure,can i utilize it & make career in BPO's.?

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go ahead with BPO but since ur a BBA u should try KPO also

Armando Said:

development of career path.?

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anything that seems to good to be true normally is i wouldn't take the bait just yet no pun intended. you know nothing of this man except what he tells you if he's a con man your screwed out of your money. if his business is such a hit why does he have to push or try to sell you into something.

I myself would not even bother but if yoru really curious. do back ground work on him and who his company is. get other customers feed back etc.. don't get the customers from him though he could have anyone write anything about him. i'd be skeptical with guys like this.

try the far east bank job.