For centuries, employers have complained about ‘good help being hard to find’. The truth is that good help is made by training and apprenticeships, it does not leap ready armed from the doors of schools and nurseries.
Factually, employers as a group share some responsibility in making the personnel needed for smooth-running households or hotel butler departments. And the good news is that the task just became easier with the concept of internship programs. Sometimes a butler in a private household could use an under-butler to service his employer properly. Sometimes a hotel is looking for under-butlers to bring about the optimum ratio of butlers to guests. School graduates and other butler trainees make an excellent resource for solving these manpower issues with minimal outlay and with the option of adding an intern, who proved satisfactory, to the permanent rolls.
Recognizing that the number of families and hotels able to offer internships may be limited, the International Institute of Modern Butlers LLC has formed an alliance with the British Embassy in Washington DC to provide a year-long, paid internship for a graduate of schools or butlers in training.
The butlers in the Embassy will mentor the under-butlers and the Institute will help guide him or her through the necessary steps to complete the Internship. The Institute will then assist successful internship graduates with finding positions in the private or other sectors of their choice.
The interns are provided with room and board as well as a basic level of pay and benefits by the British Embassy. The Institute charges a fee for the whole service, a nominal amount during the internship, and the balance after the third month of employment after they have been found a position.
Once this pilot is complete, the concept will be exported to other British Embassies around the world, making the route into the profession much more feasible and certain while also raising the level of expertise of the profession as a whole.
If you would like to offer an internship along lines similar to the British Embassy in Washington DC, please.. a request with the job description and other requirements, remuneration, and confirmation that the existing butler will act as a mentor to the intern.
The Institute charges a small fee for making the placement and a larger one should the employer decide to offer the intern a permanent position. Both fees combined are less than the industry norm for placements in recognition of the effort by the employer to help recreate what has made the profession the quintessential service provider: apprenticeships or internships.
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