by Elgrande » Fri Nov 02, 2012 11:07 pm
I worked in hospitality for years and did a management course with Macdonalds which was a real eye opener. If you work for the managed division there is really top quality training and the rewards are pretty good £35,000+ salaries, company car allowance, profit share, pension etc. I also temped for a long time in Oxford and got offered three jobs full time and got plenty of overtime because I was reliable and got stuck in. I think one of the problems is the youngsters want everything too quickly nowdays rather than working their way up the ladder. House share, bedsit, pokey flat, better flat etc.
Lots of the holiday companies are always looking for full time staff; quite often live in as well. The money's not great, but the experience is brilliant and it is something for the CV. The trouble is because they are not high paid jobs no one wants them so the immigrant workers take them until they become the majority. You never see English waiters, chamber maids, KP's etc anymore, when I left catering college it was the norm!