2015年6月19日星期五

#GHEAC#[校友风采] 前途无量的年轻瓦岱勒人ANTONIN BRAULT!

前途无量的年轻瓦岱勒人ANTONIN BRAULT!


 
       这是第一个毕业于瓦岱勒瑞士校区学生的成功故事!

       Antonin Brault是于2010年开放的瓦岱勒马蒂尼校区第一届学生。2013年Antonin获得本科学位毕业,先后在邻近学校的一家四星级瓦岱勒酒店和沃韦(Vevey)五星级酒店杜莱克大酒店(Grand Hotel du Lac)担任宴会和婚礼经理助理,获得了瑞士酒店业的工作经验。

       通过马可波罗交换项目(Marco Polo exchange program),他在瓦岱勒毛里求斯校区进行了第二年的学习,他将自己的理论知识应用在了豪华毛里求斯度假村的实践工作当中。

       但是他更倾向在酋长国进行他的国际实习,他在沙迦丽笙度假酒店(Radisson Blu Resort in Sharjah)销售和营销部门进行了两个月的实习,之后进入酒店RH部门进行了另外2个月的实习。

       9个月之后,他回到瑞士,被聘为日内瓦莫凡彼酒店(Geneva Movenpick)接待员。这个年轻的瓦岱勒人要分享很多信息给大家!

       Antonin,仅仅22岁你就在瑞士、毛里求斯、酋长国和英国有了工作经验。你从这些经历当中学到了什么呢?
       总结一下这三年的工作经历并不是一件很容易的事情!我学到了一些并不能用语言表达清楚的事情,如学习如何同其他人生活在一起,在吸取经验的过程中所需要调整的礼节礼仪等,是这些造就了如今的我。我学到的最重要的一点和我想要传达给其他人的一点就是不要把事情过度概括化,将酒店行业及其部门分门别类。每家酒店每个顾客都是不同的。所以你必须知道如何使自己适应每一个角色并达到他们的预期。不要像机器人一样工作,这一点是非常必要的;必须使你的工作个性化。将每个人的语言和文化考虑进去也是必不可少的。请不要忘记我们在这里工作是为了让我们的顾客开心。

       有时我会想我是在创造美好回忆,或者至少参与其中了。当顾客对我们的品质服务非常满意而成为我们的回头客时,对我而言这已经是我的个人成功了。我们工作中最重要的事情就是热爱我们所做的工作,否则的话我们会很不开心。我相信孔子的一句话:“知之者不如好之者,好之者不如乐之者。”

       你意识到每个国家不同的管理方式有什么样的差异了吗?
       当你提到酒店管理时,现实却是和书本上写的相反!课本告诉我们:“你有管理自己团队的不同方式;选择最适合你个性的方式。”但是现实却是:“了解你的团队,然后调整自己学会管理他们。”

       如在酋长国沙迦(Sharjah),初级水平的工作是由那些有很少或者根本没有学历或经验的人士来担任的。如果你不调整自己说话和行事的方式,你将完全融入不了你的团队。

       压力也是学习的一个很有趣的因素。在沙迦,人们一周工作6天,每天工作至少8小时,所以平均每天的工作量相对较少,所以比那些生活在欧洲或美国的人士的压力小,因为他们六天的工作量才是别人五天的工作量。总之,我感觉我的经理管理下的团队更有资历和经验时,经理会感到更有压力,要求也会更高。你可能觉得我有点自我矛盾,但是这就是我的感觉。

       然而,正如我之前所说的,你不可能依靠模式化或概括化来工作。我所到过的地方,酒店人员都非常国际化,管理方法也各有不同,这取决于经理。我在讲述自己的经历,但是或许其它瓦岱勒人即使都处在同一座城市由于自身经历不同也会有不同的见解。

       如今,你正在日内瓦莫凡彼酒店担任接待员。你能和我们谈谈你的酒店和工作吗?
       日内瓦莫凡彼酒店是一家主要面向商务游客的拥有350间客房的五星级酒店。它拥有三家餐厅,包括一家日式餐厅、一家咖啡厅和一个酒吧。酒店距离机场仅有5分钟,这也是为什么它如此吸引我们的顾客。顾客还能在客房当中享受免费WiFi和立体声音响。

       我所工作的部门前台是酒店的中心。我们是顾客的第一和最后印象,这使得我们的工作尤其重要,也非常有趣,因为我们有机会真正接触他们,并和他们建立联系确保他们入住愉快。我们管理并不断更新信息为顾客提供最佳服务,以此来支持其他部门的工作。

       作为接待员,我负责:

       - 我们顾客的入住和退房服务

       - 邮件

       - 账单

       - 管理我们顾客的住宿

       - 管理知名航空公司定期机组人员的住宿

       我们对个人表现、语言能力和耐压能力要求非常高。在这个部门工作所能获得的主要资产是你能够与顾客一直保持联系,并参与其中确保顾客获得难忘的入住体验。你有机会给他们提供一些额外的服务使他们享受到独特的入住体验。

       我决定从底层做起快速爬向晋升阶梯。

       我懂了。你能和我们解释一下你的选择吗?
       瓦岱勒使我了解到,我们必须在酒店当中各个部门工作过才能更好地了解自己将在未来进行的工作。为了更好地管理团队,你必须已经做过他们的工作。这样你也会了解到做这些工作的难易程度。你必须调整自己的说话方式,调整管理自己团队的方式,让他们知道他们的经理一直都会和他们站在一起,支持他们,并尽可能使他们工作愉快。

       就我个人而言,我非常了解接待员的工作。我知道这其中涉及到的工作职责以及不断进步所需要的工作品质。我想向我的公司证明,我有能力成为一名好经理,不仅仅是因为我具备所需的理论知识,而且还因为我的高品质和始终如一的工作表现。

       我真的相信典范性的作用!我想要向他们证明我能够解决各种困难情况,当我的同事需要帮助时,我很高兴能帮助他们。这会使我赢得他们的信任,这也是我将来管理他们的不可缺少的助力。

       你如何看待瑞士的酒店行业呢?
       在我看来,瑞士酒店行业是世界上最好的酒店行业之一,或者甚至是最好的,对于瓦岱勒人而言它是最全面的一个。它拥有非常高的品质,拥有非常多经验丰富的酒店,这里有很多故事可以说。在我第一次实习的杜莱克大酒店中,我了解到了“奢华”一词的含义,以及这对于员工而言意味着什么。注重每一个细节,追求完美。这是一些酒店的标准,但是最重要的是将这种品质根深蒂固进员工的脑海里,而这是我在法国没有注意到的。

       瑞士酒店管理行业竞争力非常激烈,这使得工作更加有趣也会增强个人参与度。我经常有这种感觉,我正在为酒店的发展做贡献,而不仅仅只是做这份工作而已。

       你对未来2年有什么样的计划呢?未来5年?未来10年?
       我的短期目标是在一年内升职为头等管家。我非常了解接待员的工作,但是随着时间的流逝,我仍然需要证明我的连续性和奉献性。

       在未来五年里我希望能够管理一个部门,或许是在日内瓦的另外一家酒店,我想获得更多的经验。

       我的十年目标是成为运营经理,之后是成为一家酒店的总经理。我最终的目标是开设或者接管一家法国的酒店,用我的服务理念和无数的小惊喜将其打造成为豪华酒店。我已经开始考虑这件事情了,而且已经在执行一些我的想法。我们也需要关注酒店行业是如何变化,尤其是新的技术是如何影响酒店行业的。

       你有什么建议吗?
       如果一定要我为新学生提供一些建议的话,那么就是获得经验、相信自己、相信自己已经做的事情。

       最重要的事情就是开心,开心地工作,竭尽全力把工作做到最好。这样的话,剩下的自然而然就会来到你的身边。


 

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ANTONIN BRAULT, A YOUNG VATELIEN WITH A BRIGHT FUTURE!

Here’s the first Success Story of a Vatel student who graduated from Switzerland! 

Antonin Brault graduated from the first Vatel Martigny class, a School that opened in 2010. He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in 2013, and since then, Antonin gained experience in the Swiss hospitality industry in the four-star Vatel Hotel next to the campus and at the Grand Hotel du Lac, a five-star hotel located in Vevey, as the Assistant Banquet and Wedding Manager.

With the Marco Polo exchange program, he spent his second year at Vatel Mauritius, where he mixed his theoretical courses with practical application work in a luxurious Mauritian resort.

But he preferred the Emirates for his international internship: at the Radisson Blu Resort in Sharjah, where he worked for two months in the Sales and Marketing department, before joining the Hotel’s RH department for two more months.

Nine months later, he came back to Switzerland and was hired as the Receptionist at the Geneva Movenpick. A young Vatelien with a lot of things to tell us!

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Antonin, at the age of only 22 you’ve already worked in Switzerland, in Mauritius, in the Emirates and in the United States.  What did you learn from this?

Summing up three years of different experiences is not an easy task! There are some things I learned that you can’t express orally, like learning how to live with other people, etiquette and protocol that I adapted as I gained experience, and this results in what I now can do. The main thing that I learned and that I now am trying to convey to others is to not try to generalize things too much, to categorize the hospitality industry and its departments. Each hotel and each guest is different. So you have to know how to adapt yourself to each profile to meet their expectations. It’s essential not to do your work like a robot would; you have to personalize what you do. It’s also indispensable to take each person’s language and culture into account. Let’s not forget that we’re here to make our guests happy.

Sometimes I like to think that I create memories, or at least I participate in doing that. When guests come back because they’re satisfied with the quality of our service, for me it’s already a personal victory. The most important thing in the jobs we do is to love doing them, or else we’ll be unhappy. And I believe in the old saying of Confucius: “Choose a job you like and you’ll never have to work a single day in your life.”

What differences did you notice about the different ways of management in each country?

When you talk about hotel management, reality is the opposite of what the books say! They tell us, “You have different ways of managing your team; choose the one best adapted to your personality.” But in reality: “Learn to know your team and then adapt yourself to manage them.”

In Mauritius like in Sharjah in the Emirates, first level jobs are held by people with few or no degrees at all and little experience. If you don’t adapt the way you talk and act, you’ll be completely out of phase with your team.

Stress is also an interesting factor to study. In Sharjah, people work six days a week, at least eight hours per day, and that makes less work to do per day, so people are less stressed than those living in Europe or in the United States, where you have five days to do what others do in six. In general I had the feeling that my managers were more stressed and more demanding when their team members had qualifications. You could say I’m contradicting myself, but that’s what I felt.

Nevertheless, as I said before, you can’t resort to stereotyping or generalization. Personnel were international everywhere I went, and managerial methods were different, depending on the manager. I’m speaking with my experience, but perhaps other Vateliens have a different vision because their experiences were different, even though they were in the same city.

Today you’re working in the Geneva Movenpick as the Receptionist.  Could you tell us about your hotel and your job?  

The Geneva Movenpick is a five-star, 350 room hotel that mainly caters to business people. It has three restaurants, including a Japanese one, a coffee shop and a bar. It’s only five minutes from the airport, which is why it is so attractive to our guests. They also appreciate free Wi-Fi, and the minibar in their rooms.

The Front Desk, my department, is the center of the hotel. We are the first and last impression for our guests, which makes our work very important, but also very interesting, because we have the occasion to really meet them and create a relationship ensuring that they have a good stay. We support the other departments because we manage and escalate all information to give the best service possible.

As the Receptionist, I’m in charge of:
- our guests’ check-in and check-out,
- e-mails,
- billing,
- monitoring our guests’ stay,
- managing regular crew members of well-known airlines.

We are very demanding concerning personal presentation, but also in languages and stress-resistance. The main asset in working in this department is that you’re constantly in contact with guests and you participate in making their stay an unforgettable one. You’ve got the opportunity to give them the little something extra so that their stay will be different from the other ones.

Also, I decided to start at the bottom of the ladder to climb it faster.

I see.  Could you explain this choice to us?

Vatel gave me the idea because we had to work in all departments of a hotel to understand jobs that we would be managing in the future. To manage a team well, you already have to have done their jobs. Then you understand how difficult it is to do them. That allows you to adapt your way of speaking, your way of managing your team by showing them that their manager is there for them, that he’s supporting them and that he’ll do everything possible to make their job as pleasant as possible.

Personally, I know the receptionist job very well. I know what is involved in it as well as the qualities required to progress. I prefer proving to my company that I’m capable of being a very good manager, not only because I have the theoretical knowledge required, but also because I do high-quality and consistent work.

I really believe in being exemplary! I want to show them that I’m capable of managing difficult situations and that when my co-workers need a helping hand, that I’ll be happy to give it to them. That will also allow me to deserve their trust, something that’s indispensable if I’ll be managing them in the future.

What do you think of the Swiss hospitality industry?

The Swiss hospitality industry is, in my opinion, one of the best in the world, or even the best, and it is the most complementary one for Vateliens. It has a very high quality and we have a lot of hotels with loads of experience and stories to be told. During my first internship in the Grand Hotel du Lac” I learned the definition of the word “luxury” and everything that this meant for employees. Each and every detail, striving for perfection. It’s a standard for some hotels, but the most important thing is to include this in the mentality of employees, and this is something that I didn’t notice as much in France.

The Swiss hospitality industry is very competitive, and that makes the job even more interesting and strengthens your personal involvement. I always had the impression that I was contributing to the hotel’s development and wasn’t just there to do a job.

What projects do you have for the next two years? The next five years? And ten years?

My short-term project is to be promoted to the Head Maitre d’Hotel within a year. I know the receptionist job well but I still have to prove my consistency and commitment as time goes by.
My ambition is to manage a department within five years, perhaps in another hotel in Geneva, to have more experience.

My ten year goal is to be the Operations Manager, and then become a General Manager in a hotel. My final project would be to open or take over a hotel in France to make it into a luxury hotel, based on my vision of service with myriad little surprises. I’m already thinking of that and am working on several concepts. We also have to see how the hospitality sector will be changing, especially how new technologies will impact this.

Any other advice?

If I had some advice to give to new students, it would be to gain experience, to believe in themselves and in what they have already done.

The most important thing is to be happy, so be happy at work and do the best job that you can. All the rest will come naturally.
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