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A New Job and Happy Chinese New Year!

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Hi my friends. How was your holiday and how was your first week that you have already finished on both campuses? I want to join you so much. But my time is gone. Glion is yours now. I hope everything is fine, especially my new friends. It’s always difficult at the beginning. But everything is going to be better soon. I’m sure you will enjoy the time in Glion.

I also have good news to tell today, I got a phone call yesterday about my job from Raffles Dubai. And it was a YES. They will offer me a job in Front Office. I am still feeling happy about that. It’s been almost three months since I started sending my CVs to hotels and other organizations, I’ll say it’s not easy to get one for me. I say that it’s difficult for me for two reasons: nationality and personal preference. I say that because personally, I want find a job outside of China, but on the other hand, for Chinese citizens we have limited countries where it is easy to get a work visa. So, in these months, I learned all kinds of words which have the same meaning,“NO”. To be honest, after I got the postgraduate diploma from Glion, it’s really hard to accept these rejection letters again and again. But I did not give up. I didn’t believe these political issues, I trust myself, and after one year of study and five months internship with Glion, I knew I would find a good place in the end….and I was right!

Now, I’m just waiting for the contract they are going send to me, and then I’ll be on my way. This is just the beginning of my career, I have no idea what is going on in the future, but I will believe in myself.

At the end, I want to say Happy New Year to the Chinese students. The Spring Festival is coming. In our culture, Spring Festival is our “Christmas day”, it’s the most important day throughout the whole year. This year, I’m lucky that I can stay at home to celebrate with all my families. But it’s not like that for the students who are on campus, so I wish all the best for you, Happy Chinese New Year!

Daniel

Goodbye Glion, Goodbye Switzerland

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Hello everyone. How are you guys? I hope everything is fine. I have some good news and some sad news to share with you this time.

I prefer to start from the good news: I got my certificate of employment for my internship. This means that I’ve officially finished my internship. It was such a good experience for me.

As a cost controller in the F&B department on campus, my main responsibilities were:

  1. Control the deliveries, storage and stock of non-perishable food items and beverages
  2. Participate in the laying out of the main cellar-inventory-purchasing-cost control
  3. Control of order forms, transfer forms from the different outlets
  4. Elaborate and analyze the monthly closings of our f&b outlets
  5. Assist in the organization of special student events, and participate actively in functions within the community.

During my work in this position, I learned a lot from my chef Mr. Charles and all my other colleagues. They taught me how to work in a team as a team player and how to work effectively, which are very important qualities in the hotel industry.

Actually. If you have already read my previous blog, then maybe you will find out some clues about the sad news that I want share with you. Yes, as soon as I finish my internship, I have to leave Glion, leave Switzerland. After these days of studying in Glion, I have already fallen in love with this place. The fascinating nature views, lovely people from all over the world, the professional teachers, the tasty food…. It is really hard to say goodbye. But this is life, I have to move on. So, Goodbye Glion…. I will miss all my presentations, reports, exams… even though I was suffering a little bit when I was doing that, but now everything seems so precious. And Goodbye my friends… I will miss all the good times that we had together. Obviously we know how to work hard and play even harder.

Now, I am back in China, waiting for my job offer. I hope I will get it before my next blog, so I can tell you guys, but no matter where I will go or what I will do one thing is for sure: I will spread the Glion sprit to other people and inspire them.

For the last time, I say goodbye to Switzerland and everyone that I loved! I will come back soon.

Happy New Year!!!

Zhen

Bonjour Monsieur, Madame et Madamoiselle

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Once you come to Glion, you have to know how to say hello in the French way!

My name is Wang Zhen. I come from China. People call me Daniel on campus. If you want to be remembered, you better have an English name (for Chinese people only), but it is not obligatory. I was in Glion for the Postgraduate Diploma in Hospitality Management. I have already finished my study part, I am doing my internship on Glion campus as Cost Controller in the F & B Department. Nowadays, I only have one month left before I finish my internship and I am looking for the job now. So the main part of my blog in the following year will be my career life, as well as my working experience in some countries, maybe in Maldives, in China or maybe elsewhere.

If you do not mind, I would like to share a few more details about myself. As I told you, I am Chinese. In my family, I have two brothers, one sister and really cool parents, which is a huge family in China. I was born in a small city called Fushun. It is located in the north part of China, four hours from Beijing by train. We have a very typical continental climate in my hometown. In summer it can be 35 degrees and in winter we can also have 35 degrees below zero. So, you can imagine how warm I felt the winter here in Switzerland.

Before I came to Switzerland, I was doing my university in Shenyang Institute of Engineering. My major was tourism management which is also related to hospitality. I think this is one of my reasons why I choose to my further study in hospitality industry.

The first time I worked in a hotel was three years ago. It was a Sheraton hotel, one of the Starwood hotels chain. I worked in the front office department as a concierge. Even doing that, I had the feeling that I liked this job. It is very important to realize what you really want to do in the future. After six months of internship in that hotel, I decided to continue my further studies in hospitality. Luckily, my previous hotel manager gave me the suggestion to come to Glion. Now, I really appreciate his suggestion. Taking everything into consideration, Glion is truly the top school in the hotel industry. With the “Glion Spirit”, you will never regret to be part of this family.

So guys, I am looking forward to seeing you soon on campus. If you want more information, you can visit other blogs from all my colleagues. We will try our best to present the life of Glion in different aspects with different cultures. And if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Zhen.wang@glion.ch, danielw1987@163.com