Help the industry: youth employment in tourism was discussed in Crimea

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Assistance in employment on the eve of the holiday season was discussed at the round table "Training of hospitality personnel. Employment of graduates: Problems and Prospects".

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The organizer of the dialogue between the authorities, business and educational institutions was the Ministry of Resorts and Tourism of the Republic of Crimea. Representatives of the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth and educational institutions of the Republic of Crimea, as well as representatives of hotels and health resorts took part in the event.

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"Today's round table is one of the stages of preparation for the season. If we talk about the middle, so-called line staff, according to our data, only about 50% of the graduates of the Crimean universities and vocational schools are employed. We brought together representatives of business and educational institutions at the round table in order to understand where this gap is, what is the actual demand from business, what capacities are lacking and who needs to be "raised" by our educational institutions," Minister of Resorts and Tourism Vadim Volchenko said.

So, the Ministry of Resorts proposed to amend the universities’ curricula, taking into account the needs of accommodation facilities, as well as create jobs for novice specialists on their basis.

"Crimea must be defined as a territory of hospitality, and this requires systematic work so that everyone who is employed in the support services, and this is a significant part of the Crimean people, is involved in the tourist and resort process. These are workers of gas stations, catering, transport and simply residents of the Crimea, who can smile and help a tourist who asks how to get to the sights. In addition, we have a problem of lack of respect for a person of labor – room service, waiters and others. Restoring this respect is an important common task," Vadim Volchenko said.

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The participants of the round table highly appreciated the importance and relevance of such a meeting and noted that this was for the first time, when employers and educational institutions met in this format.

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In particular, the Minister of Education, Science and Youth of the Republic of Crimea Valentina Lavrik emphasized that at the moment it is important to synchronize the training of personnel with the requests of the existing tourist facilities. According to her, for this it is necessary to establish interaction between the authorities and employers, which will improve the quality of training of graduates.

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Andrey Falaleyev, rector of Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, noted that today the tourism sector needs professional staff. For this, the university is already establishing joint work with health resorts, working on a number of solutions to this problem, including the creation of a school of hospitality and rehabilitation.

In her turn, Marina Palchuk, director of the Romanovsky College of the Hospitality Industry, called the problem of youth employment existing not only in the region, but also in the Russian Federation and the world as a whole. In her opinion, it is important to formulate a general strategy for the development of the labor market and closely interact with educational organizations and future employers − enterprises of the region.

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Tamara Chernykh, Director-General of the UPRO GROUP managing company, stressed that a round table, where such important issues of the industry are openly discussed, was organized for the first time in five years of the company's work. She expressed the opinion that it is necessary to promote both the profession and the industry. Thanks to teamwork, students will be motivated to show their professional skills during the practical training.

As a result of the round table, options were developed to fill the existing staff shortage both in the short and in the long run.