Hotels are not doing enough to encourage students to stay in the hospitality industry, said hotel-school graduates.
“Hotels should invest more in student trainees as they might be their future employees and have strength in their future development,” said Honeida Saleh, a recent graduate of Sagesse University, with the academic certification of Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne.
“Starting salaries are not enough and training is not being conducted as it should. Having had my two internships, I was not trained properly,” she continued.
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Second year hospitality student Ghassan Rizkallah agreed: “Hotels are not doing enough to encourage students to stay in the hospitality industry.
“Working in the hospitality industry requires so much motivation and passion for this domain. In this field, there is a lot of work, a lot of stress and pressure. In addition salaries are very low comparing to other industries. For these reasons, hotels should combine their effort to encourage more the students to stay in the hotel industry.”
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Jul 26, 2011 , Lebanon
I think everything in the hospitality field is involving so the main concept is to train all the student and keep them updated to all the systems example: opera pms ,micros pos and creating a real training plan to let the student have a mind developement standarized operations procedures operatin...
Jul 25, 2011 , United Arab Emirates
The training plan suggestion is entirely correct and i would have thought that would have been implemented. People say that they cannot predict what experience will be available at any particular time - so you have a check list of objectives / topics / roles or however it is best recorded. How e...