NA College of Tourism and Commerce: Focusing on employment for students after training

(Baonghean) -Located in Cua Lo town, Nghe An College of Tourism and Commerce has recently made a significant contribution to training human resources in the fields of tourism - hotel, economics - trade, business - services, labor export... domestically and internationally. In particular, the issue of job creation after training for students has been given great attention by the school.

Nghe An College of Tourism and Commerce is one of 40 key schools nationwide invested to become high-quality schools by 2020 according to Decision No. 761/QD-TTg dated May 23, 2014 of the Prime Minister; also one of 25 schools nationwide receiving international-level key vocational training from the Australian transfer program. The school has 3 training facilities in Vinh city and Cua Lo town.

In addition, the school also trains at 13 affiliated facilities in the province and outside the province such as Thanh Hoa, Ha Tinh and Quang Binh. The school is training 8 college-level occupations and 6 intermediate-level occupations; the facilities are spacious and modern; nearly 100% of the teaching staff have a master's degree or higher.

Campus 2 of Nghe An College of Tourism and Commerce in Vinh City. Photo: Sy Minh

Currently, the school has expanded its training scale with 3 campuses fully equipped with teaching facilities and equipment (1 campus in Vinh city; 2 campuses in Cua Lo town). Every year, the school provides a large number of tourism and hospitality students to hotels and restaurants in the area as well as famous domestic tourist areas and resorts such as Bai Lu Resort, Cua Lo town, Mui Ne, Vinpearl Nha Trang, etc.

Present at the handover ceremony of the school's students to businesses before the 2017 tourist season, Mr. Thai Doan Lac - representative of Green Hotel (Cua Lo Town) said: Every year, when the tourist season comes, almost all hotels in the town are in great need of human resources. Like Green Hotel, we are currently lacking a lot of human resources in all departments. Although we have registered and worked with Nghe An College of Tourism and Commerce in advance, this time the school can only meet 30% of the hotel's needs.

In recent times, the cooperation between Nghe An College of Tourism and Commerce and tourism businesses has achieved many results, not only creating jobs, improving professional skills and working skills for students, but also providing students with a source of income to cover their studies as well as solving human resources for businesses in tourism activities.

Student Thai Thi Ngoc Tram said: Studying in a professional environment, with modern facilities, and regularly practicing at school and prestigious facilities, when graduating, we can almost meet the requirements of businesses in and outside the province.

Food preparation practice hour at Nghe An College of Tourism and Commerce. Photo: Thanh Thuy

To solve the problem of employment after training, Nghe An College of Tourism and Commerce has had many correct decisions and steps to solve employment for students after training by connecting with businesses inside and outside the province, and cooperating with foreign countries to solve employment for students.

The latest survey results of Nghe An College of Tourism and Commerce show that about 70 - 80% of the school's tourism and hotel students find jobs after graduation and after about 1 year this number increases to about 80 - 90%, in which the employment rate for tourism and hotel students accounts for the highest proportion, reaching 90 - 95%.

Mr. Nguyen Truong Giang - Vice Principal of the school said: To achieve the above results is thanks to the efforts of the Board of Directors, teachers and students of Nghe An College of Tourism and Commerce. Right from the moment they step into the school, students have been equipped with basic knowledge, experience and future orientation by a team of enthusiastic young teachers. Besides focusing on training quality, solving well the problem of employment after training is the top criterion of the school.

With a modern infrastructure system, a modern practice system invested with machinery and equipment imported from Europe, during the training process, the school always creates conditions for students to study combining theory and practice, in which 30% theory, 70% practice. This is a very good condition for students after graduation to find jobs more conveniently, easily catch up with the job suitable for the major they are trained.

Information technology class of students at Nghe An College of Tourism and Commerce. Photo: Sy Minh

In addition, the school also has many useful extracurricular activities for students majoring in tourism and hospitality such as sightseeing and sensory experiences at 4-star and 5-star hotels in and outside the province, practical training abroad such as: Singapore, Japan, Korea... tourist attractions, resorts, English Club...

Every year, the school organizes internships for students at businesses, restaurants, and hotels to create conditions for students to practice, gain experience, and improve their skills.

Based on the results achieved, the school has been making continuous efforts to further improve the quality of training and affirm the position of the school, worthy of the top attention of the Central Government as one of 40 national key schools for high-quality vocational training; one of 25 schools selected by the Ministry to train at the International Level according to the program of Chisholm Institute (Australia) in the profession of Tour Guide and Restaurant Management.

PV