On January 22, 2020, the Labor resources center organized testing of students studying in the specialty “Hotel business” in St. Petersburg state educational Institution “Petrovsky College”. For half an hour, students, using their personal phones, answered more than 40 questions from various fields of activity, prepared by a specialist of the reception and accommodation service: what documents are necessary for the guest to check in, how the fiscal receipt differs from the commodity one, etc.
At the end of the test, each participant immediately received their final result of answers in order to understand how their theoretical training corresponds to the tasks that make up the daily work of the hotelier. The test questions were specially prepared to check the qualifications of working specialists, and an adapted version of them was presented to students.
Among the test subjects were participants and winners of professional skill competitions: “Follow us to the profession: hospitality”, which were held under the brand of the project “Your first step in career” by the Labor resources center on June 20 and October 15, 2019. Competitions were held in order to use leading experts and employers to determine the best College students studying in industry professions.
Mikhail Rapoport-co-organizer of competitions, Executive Director of the Federation of restaurateurs and hoteliers North-West, together with the coordinator of the project
” Your first step in your career ” of the Labor resources center Melekhin Ivan discussed with students and teachers the results of competitions, talked about how you can make them better and more useful for developing key skills of participants and helping them find employment.
Petrovsky College is a long-time partner of the Labor resources center for the project “Your first step in career”. Its students, in addition to participating in the “Follow us to the profession” competitions, are regularly involved as volunteers to help organize city cultural events (Youth labor forum), participate in excursions to enterprises, master classes and trainings from employers organized by the Center, and win hackathons (EnHack, April 2018)
