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| Kethoyie Yhome |
26 year old, Kethoyie-ü Yhome comes
across as a sensible young lady, who values honesty and sees herself as a
strict woman when it comes to work, but is loving and caring otherwise. Born
and brought up in Kohima, she grew up in a very big family as she puts it, and
had multiple ambitions like any other kids her age while growing up.
She received her early education from
Don Bosco Higher Secondary School Kohima and went on to study in St. John
Higher Secondary School, Shillong before pursuing a course of her choice and earned a B.Sc degree in Hotel Management and Catering Technology from IHM
Chennai. This, ultimately defining her dream to be a hotelier one day.
She believes it was part of God’s plan
for her to take up Hotel Management because she had no idea what a hotelier was,
as a kid. But her interest for the profession began to show when she was in
high school, eventually helping her decide when she sat for JEE for Hotel
Management, which, she got through, and then, to find herself in one of the top
most institutes of hotel management in India.
Following her graduation, she worked
with the reputed Oberoi Group of Hotels and Resorts for one and half years, and
also at the Regus Business Centre for a little over 2 years, before she decided
to leave the city life and come home to Nagaland. This decision came about as
her earnest desire to train and work with our people, and also share with them,
whatever she has learned while being away.
One could say, she has extensively
generated her knowledge about management while she served at Hotel Vivor, which
is part of Niathu Group of Hotels and Resorts in Nagaland, for a period of 30
months. She was the General Manager at the hotel.
Looking at this experience, she confides
that the most challenging part of her job was enabling the employees to
maintain a professional work culture, which, she adds, is very challenging
especially for Naga people. But apart from that, she has greatly enjoyed
meeting people from all walks of life, while making special mention of the
recent visit of Her Royal Highness of Thailand to Nagaland, who stayed at
Hotel Vivor, Kohima.
Having completed a milestone of 6 good
years in the industry, Kethoyie-ü Yhome feels happy and wonderful, recalling
her great experiences as a hotelier. But of course, she says, “the hardships I
went through are not to be forgotten”, because she explains that those hardships
are responsible towards making who she is today.
To be in a profession like hers, she
also shares, requires qualities such as punctuality, sincerity, hard work and
passion. These are the most important qualities to be in this profession, she
enlightens.
In the meantime, she found it rewarding
to see her employees working under her in a very professional manner. ‘Watching
them, it was fulfilling to know that coming back to Nagaland was not a waste’,
she adds with contentment.
Kethoyie-ü Yhome is also an
entrepreneur, who has invested in a garment shop at High School Junction under
the banner, “Blue Bird”. She started this venture very recently and is
exclusively meant for ladies. All the products are imported from Bangkok, and she
looks forward to expanding it in the near future.
With enriching experiences of being a
hotelier to share, the charming lady, when not working, is trying out her own
cuisines, listening to music or catching a movie. She also likes spending time
with her family and playing with her two little nephews when not occupied with
work.
The young hotelier has covered miles but
truly, it isn’t without hard work and struggles that one reaches that far; and
her few words of advice to the young people would be- “Stay humble, do not be
ashamed and be ready to do any work; be faithful to yourself and above all, put
God in the first place, in your life.”
