Job seekers get taste of hospitality industry

Tuesday 19th April 2011, 2:57PM BST.

Dominic Jones (right), a director of Jersey Pottery, with some of those on the training programme

A GROUP of 14 jobseekers have started a six-week training course in an effort to secure employment in the hospitality and retail sector.

The group, who are aged between 20 and 62, and have five years’ residency qualifications, launched the States-funded scheme by visiting Jersey Pottery sites yesterday.

Jersey Pottery director Dominic Jones had complained in February that the company struggled to attract local workers, despite unemployment being at its highest level for several years.

In an effort to address that imbalance, this training course has been organised by Advance Plus – a series of schemes for unemployed adults run by the States which is funded from the Fiscal Stimulus Fund, which is used to boost the economy in the recession.

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Delta

April 20, 2011 at 4:09 pm

This is a little confusing for me. I’m a local boy with quals and have worked in several hotels in Jersey as a Porter/Barman.

I don’t seem to remember going on a training course per se, nor do I remember ever seeing a hospitality job which required quallies.

What’s more we often had people visiting and looking for work speculatively (something which doesn’t seem to occur to jobless locals who seem to simply sit on their parents’ sofa and wait for a job to fall into their lap.)

So, one more way for the States to save money – run training courses for industries which have recruitment problems – I heard that the big name Finance companies won’t touch the Advance to Work scheme with a barge pole but that’s the kind of work which is going to earn us the most tax.

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