The SWOT - Skills for Work Opportunities in Eno-gastronomy and Tourism project

Video Testimonials

This section provides access to Video Testimonials of VET Students and Companies’ managers who have been protagonists of Work Based Learning experiences.

The testimonials highlight the benefits, the skills acquired, the impact in terms of employability and the benefits for the enterprise and the VET students resulting from the WBL Experiences they have been involved in.

The testimonials also aim to underline the importance for companies, that human resources they are going to select and employ, have both the technical and professional skills to perform the specific task and the basic and transversal skills that can be acquired only by completing VET education, so to motivate students not to abandon their studies.

SWOT Testimonial - Company - Grand Hotel Plaza - Italy

The interview is about
Company managers

Name
Rodolfo Albetti

Name of the company
Grand Hotel Plaza & Locanda Maggiore

Country
Italy

Main Contents of the Interview
The Grand Hotel Plaza welcomes about 10 interns a year coming not only from Montecatini but from all over Italy according to the opportunities offered by the hotel organization. Only one or two are hired. Many of these have made a career and went to work in different parts of the way even by setting up a restaurant on their own. The deserving ones recommend them to Hotel / Restaurants in the world many of them work there. What they require is a certain discipline and willingness to cover other tasks if necessary. If the trainees have problems, they must communicate this before the hotel can organize itself for the sudden absence of one of them. A point of weakness is the question of working hours, too tied to school hours but absolutely incompatible with the activity of a hotel or restaurant. Working day and night.