Hospitality graduate training programme fosters future talent

Innovative hospitality training sees Kingsley Hotel and Fota Island Resort win Fáilte Ireland and Great Place to Work awards

Effective hospitality sector graduate programmes help to ensure that hotels maintain a learning culture and to identify the next generation of hotel managers. Both the Kingsley Hotel and the Fota Island Resort say that focusing on people's career progress helps them retain long-serving staff.

The strategic thinking behind the Graduate Programme at The Kingsley Hotel and Fota Island Resort was to attract the best possible candidates.

"We started the Graduate Programme to attract the best candidates from national and international universities, especially from our neighbours in Munster Technical University, and also ATU, Shannon College, TUS and all over Ireland and Europe," Catriona Sheehan, HR Manager.