Corinthia hotel st george’s bay

Placement organization

Name of organization: Corinthia hotel st george’s bay
Town/city: St julian’s
Country: Malta
Website: https://www.corinthia.com/en

Student

Name of student: Susan

Specialist area: TM
Placement period: 2018-2019

Information about placement organization

Type of organization: Hotel
Organization’s activities: HR Activities
Target group of the organization: Business guest and leisure guests with money
Company culture: Formal, top down
Number of employees: 256
Dress code: formal
Did the organization meet the agreements you made beforehand? Yes

Information about your placement

In which department(s) are you working?

HR Department

Brief description of your daily activities: Everything what has to do with hirement of new employees, such as organizing files, answering on application emails, setting up meetings etc.
Brief description of your company assignment: I had to find out were mosy difficulties were experienxed by foreign newly hired employees with organizing the move to malta
Comment briefly on your supervision by the organization: He was very good

Requirements for students on placement

What kind of personal skills are required for this placement? Communicational, english, representable.
Additional company requirements for this placement? Not really, knowledge of canva might be useful.
English: Advanced
Spanish: Basic
French: Basic
German: Basic
Italian: Basic
Other languages:

The trip

Mode of transport to reach your destination: Airplane

Accommodation

How did you arrange your accommodation? Via a website
How did you go to work every day? By foot

Visa / work permit / vaccinations

Do you need a visa? No
Do you need a work permit? No
How did you arrange the necessary documents: Just via school and email
How much time did it take to arrange the necessary documents? Not long
Did you need certain vaccinations? No
How long in advance?

Language course

Did you take a language course before you started your placement? Yes
Would you recommend to have a language course prior to this placement? No only if you are bad in english

The costs in euros

Travelling expenses (e.g. return ticket): € 350
Accommodation (monthly): € 500
Local transport (monthly): € 30
General costs of living (monthly): € 250
Costs of visa: € 0
Costs of work permit: € 0
What did the company pay for/to you? Nothing, only free meals when working (these were not very good tho, so i had to bring my own lunch anyway on some days)

Culture

How did you prepare for the country’s culture?
I did not really prepare actually
Did the culture of the country influence your performance during the placement in any way? No

Future students on placement

Future students are free to contact me for further information: Yes
My e-mail address: Susanvandersterren@hotmail.com

Other information

Recommendations on what to do and what not to do: Do an intership that pays you …
Leisure possibilities in the city/surroundings of where the placement took place: Very much! Malta is amazing especially in the summer period

Media

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