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 - Herdade da Rocha - Portugal

The interview is about
Company managers

Name
Mária Rocha

Name of the company
Herdade da Rocha

Country
Portugal

Main Contents of the Interview
Mária Rocha, Herdade da Rocha company owner, speaks about the host of professional internships from a local professional school named Crato.
The main aim it’s to give opportunity to the trainees to have the global experience of work context in the Herdade da Rocha, performing multitasks in the reception of costumers, assistance to the meals service or as guides of the costumers for the different spaces of the hotel/ propriety.
This company gives opportunity to the good talents to integrate the staff of the propriety/ hotel, referring a specific example of a succeed internship which signed a work contract with Herdade da Rocha.