Spa hotels and restaurants in Karlovy Vary are still dealing with a shortage of staff. The disciples who gain experience in it do not stay in the plants either. After training, they often leave the area or start working in other areas.
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They go on training for three years and then leave to work outside the region or in a completely different field. This is the trend that more and more students of the High School of Catering and Services in Karlovy Vary are pursuing in recent years.
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At the same time, the school offers training courses for chefs and waiters in about 20 hotels and restaurants in the spa town.
“Of course, we have recorded that after graduation, children are not interested in working in the field. We chose to conduct a survey of student satisfaction with practical teaching. We conducted the survey last year for the first time, and this year we will renew it again and we will pay more attention to students so that they stay with us,” stressed the director Operational Thermal Hotel Betislav Penda.
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About 40 students rotate in Thermal each year, but most do not stay in the hotel after that.
According to the school administration, the coronavirus pandemic may also have had an impact on the flow of high school graduates for catering and services from the fields they studied. This particularly affected the field of gastronomy.
However, there are several reasons why students leave the local business. Some of them will not develop a relationship with the field even in three years, and some will take advantage of better offers in Germany or neighboring Prague.
Up to half of the students who study tourism and hospitality will start working in an entirely different industry.
