Trainee Management Placement (Jan - Oct)

Placement with major hotel groups in UK, Ireland, Europe and USA
Aims of this placement are two-fold:
To expose students to an international management environment.
To give students the opportunity to take up their first management position.

BComm SUBJECTS
YEAR 1 Shannon Sept - May

YEAR 2 Europe June - May

Industry Operative Experience
This year comprises an operative placement in a European country, including Ireland, England and Switzerland. It has a number of objectives:

• To develop product and system knowledge, reinforcing year 1 learning, giving students an indepth knowledge of the hotel industry.

• To improve language skills

• To develop a strong work ethos.

• Character building and the learning of life skills.

• Development of interpersonal and social skills.
  While on placement, students' learning is guided and culminates in the submission of a comprehensive diary based on their experience. Also students participate in distance leaning type courses in Languages.

  YEAR 2 Ireland / Home - Summer
  Industry Developmental Experience
  During this placement students bring the skills they have learned to a hotel in Ireland or their home country. Experience can be supervisory or an operative experience in a new area.
   

  YEAR 3 Shannon Sept. - June

  Semester 3	Semester 4	Semester 5
  Food & Beverage Studies	Food & Beverage Studies	Pre-requisite modules for
  Accommodation	Accommodation	year 3 BComm at NUI,
  Marketing	Marketing	Galway.
  Management Human Relations	Management Human Relations
  Business Information Systems	Business Information Systems	Subjects vary with Major
  Language	Language	option taken.
  Management Accounting	Operational Analysis & Control
  Financial Management	Economics
  Research Methods

  YEAR 4 NUI, Galway
  National University of Ireland Galway

  Students taking the Bcomm commence their trainee management placement in June of Year 3 and start Year 3 of the Bcomm at NUI, Galway in September of Year 4.
  In June of year 4 they resume their placement.

  Trainee Management Placement

  Placement with major hotel groups in UK, Ireland, Europe and USA
  Aims of this placement are two-fold:
  To expose students to an international management environment.
  To give students the opportunity to take up their first management position.