On Friday, the human resources officials of Hyatt met NMTI education director Victorino S. Cepeda and 15 students at the hotel.
Josephine Mesta, the hotel’s human resources director, and Denise Montenegro, human resources manager, will teach students hospitality, customer service skills, and basic restaurant services, including food and beverage, sanitation, safety and food services.
Mesta said they want to help prepare the local workforce in filling positions that will be vacated by nonresident workers once the federalization law is fully implemented.
“We need workers and one way of doing that is to train students,” she said.
She said one of their main objectives is to teach the NMTI students how to get hired.
After studying theory in the classroom, the students will undergo on-the-job training, she added.
Some of the students have already finished the basic restaurant services course, she said.
Montenegro said students will go through the normal process of applying for on-the-job training at the Hyatt.
The students may avail of the Workers Investment Act program so they can generate income while training at the hotel, she added.
She said not all of their students will undergo training at Hyatt as some may prefer to work at other hotels and business establishments.
“We will try to develop a program that will work for them,” she added.
Montenegro said there’s a high possibility that NMTI students will be eventually hired based on their performance in their class and on-the-job training.