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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 - Penafiel Park Hotel - Portugal
The interview is about
Company managers
Name
José Ribeiro
Name of the company
Penafiel Park Hotel
Country
Portugal
Main Contents of the Interview
José Ribeiro the manager of Penafiel Park Hotel speaks about the host of trainees in the company in several areas as for example: reception, housekeeping, SPA bar and waitress services.
In the hotel they provide a responsible person (tutor) for each professional internship they host depending of the function or sector they will work in. The internships have the length between 120 to 450 hours, according to the course the trainee attend.
The main objective of these internships it’s to give the opportunity to the trainees experiment the reality of a real job and to contribute to their future integration in the labour market.
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This web site reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.