Youth Friendly Employer Red Carnation Hotels offer one-of-a-kind degree apprenticeships in hospitality. Degree apprentice Erica shares her experience.
What is a degree apprenticeship?
Imagine an apprenticeship where you earn a salary, get hands-on experience and mentoring in a place of work, and get to a study for a career-boosting FREE degree at the same time. This programme is known as a degree apprenticeship, and Erica has been participating in a degree apprenticeship relating to hospitality (the first of its kind) with Red Carnation Hotels.
Red Carnation Hotels degree apprenticeships: Meet Erica
Erica says that her apprenticeship degree has a really collaborative feel. As a degree apprentice, she’s sometimes in university, and otherwise spends her training time in a Red Carnation Hotel in different departments. And it’s been one big learning journey!
“You get that feel-good factor… and you can’t pay for that”
Everyone is motivated by different things. Erica says she has felt especially motivated by the smiles she gets from guests with high standards – for example, when she’s personally organised an experience for them and they’ve loved it.
Red Carnation Hotels have numerous ways to help you spread your wings
Erica feels fortunate that Red Carnation Hotels is a small enough luxury hotel company that everyone will remember your name, but big enough that there’s plenty of opportunity to develop in different departments, depending on where your interests lie. If you want to travel abroad with the company, that opportunity also lies open to you as an option for broadening your horizons.
What are the advantages of a hospitality-focused degree apprenticeship with Red Carnation Hotels?
With a degree apprenticeship you can leave university without debt, because you don’t have to pay a penny towards your degree. You have no student fees to pay and won’t to take out a student loan that would need to be repaid for years to come.
In addition to classroom learning you benefit from a wealth of practical hands-on experience. If your interests lie in hospitality, it’s a definite advantage to be getting real experience with guests and daily activities in a luxury hotel.
Red Carnation Hotels – Hospitality Careers
If you like having fun at work (and you like working with people who feel the same way), you might be surprised at how far and how quickly you can get ahead in the hospitality industry through internships, degree apprenticeships and management programmes with Red Carnation Hotels.
Careers with Red Carnation Hotels
