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Aleena Villers | 28th March 2024

Natasha Elston

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Jessica Hockley

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Aleena Villers | 20th October 2023

Jamie Cornwall

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Jack Hamilton

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Precious Ogechi

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Aleena Villers | 24th September 2023

Stephen Harrison

“I’ve come from a retail management background. I left my job just before COVID hit and just fancied doing something different. I walked into the JobCentre and spoke to a lady who wanted me to go for a job, selling insurance, which isn’t the job for me.

 

She asked “Well what do you fancy doing?”, I said “I wouldn’t mind being barista trained?”. She then told me about Springboard, who were running a hospitality course, “would you be interested?”, I said “Yeah, let’s give it a go!”

 

Fast forward a week later, I’m on a three-week hospitality course covering cocktail making, sampling different spirits, visiting hotels and restaurants and coffee shops, being taught how to carry trays taking orders for food, even a day’s barista training.

 

I found it very informative, interesting, engaging, fun and the opportunity to meet new and existing people and work as a team to help each other.

 

I would recommend anyone going into the hospitality sector to give this course ago. At the end of the course, we got put into work placements for a week, I got put into a coffee shop called 200 degrees coffee in Manchester City Centre, where I got offered a full time job because I expressed to the staff and the managers from head office, that I’m the sort of person that just gets on with it and goes for it. I know I’m on my way to being a head barista and maybe in the future open my own record shop with a coffee shop inside. So, as I said before I would recommend anyone wanting to get into hospitality to do this course with Springboard, you will learn a lot as I did.”

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Aleena Villers | 5th June 2023

Jonathan Greenwood

“Before I started this course there wasn’t much to my knowledge of bartending or anything to do with hospitality but with the help of the great people at Springboard – that all changed. I wasn’t doing much of anything before I began the course. I was just trying to get a job anywhere without any luck, so I decided to go on this course to help improve my knowledge of bartending. It all started with a 2 day introduction to what the course has to offer and to get to know all the people I was getting to know over the 3 weeks. This also served as a thinking opportunity to see If I wanted to stay on and continue with the 3 weeks, which I obviously did.

The course involved tours of a hotel and a great cocktail making session to know all the ins and outs of making cocktails and how to be a good bartender. Also, there was a good session on how to be a waiter and how to make peoples food and drinks order. There were also a few sessions online about how to present your CV and how to make it look good for an employer.

There was a whole morning dedicated to your interview skills and a mock interview to see what needs improving in regard to your interview skills. When the course ended everyone got a placement week in a company in which they are most interested in. I wanted something to do with bartending and Springboard got me a placement week in The Ivy Collection. Towards the end of my third day the head bar manager pulled me to the side and offered me a job their full time because of my attitude to the staff and the customers.

Overall I would highly recommend this course to anyone who with any interest in hospitality as it covers all the bases in the field.”

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Siobhan McLaughlin

“I heard about the Diageo Learning For Life course when I came across Springboard at the Jobs & Benefits Office. Not knowing what it would fully entail I was very nervous as I have been unemployed for a few years. I have found the course to be informative, and fulfilling and has helped me to understand more about hospitality and also helped improve my confidence. Throughout the 3 weeks we have discovered there is such a wide variety of roles within the hospitality industry and I hope through this experience that I will secure employment very soon. I would like to thank Springboard for their support and delivering such thorough information. I really enjoyed this programme and now don’t feel nervous to speak in front of people.

I am very proud that I have completed the programme. It has given me the confidence to apply for a number of front of house and food & beverage roles.”

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Sharon McIlwaine

“Having worked in Administration for over 30 years, I wanted to return to work but in a different area.  Hospitality has always interested me and when I saw Springboard’s offer of free training, I could not resist joining the Diageo Learning For Life programme. I’m so glad that I did as the skills I have learned are invaluable.

After a period of illness and being out of work really knocked my confidence and I feel now that I am in a much better position to apply for jobs and present myself with my updated CV.  This programme gave me structure to each day and any reservations I had about joining were diminished on day one.  I now realise I have many transferrable skills, I’m so glad I saw the Springboard Ad.

The 3 weeks we all had were fabulous and gave me the confidence to apply for jobs and present my CV in person to employers. I would not have reached this stage without Springboard.  I have started my role as Receptionist at The Premier Inn.  This is a huge personal achievement after a rough couple of years so thank you!”

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