VATEL SCHOOL CONDUCTS A SERIES OF ORIENTATION SESSIONS FOR THEIR
NEW STUDENTS.
The transition from school towards college, in which a totally new style of learning and teaching is practiced, stands up to be a big event in life of an adolescent child, and deserves to be planned meticulously and rather carefully. In this process are involved very young students, who, from their adolescent age are on the verge of entering into adulthood, cherish high hopes and aspirations in life and have to be prepared to face contests and challenges of life which they have to themselves face and are given to deal with different situations in life.
The Vatel Hotel and Tourism Business School, Sushant University, Gurgaon known for planning a thorough, meaningful and a precise session of orientation of new students, planned their orientation thus:
The opening address on the first day was delivered by the associate dean of the Vatel Hotel & Tourism Business School, Dr. Chhabra who welcomed the students and lauded their decision to join the Vatel Hotel School and assured them that they had taken the right decision, followed by which they were given an insight into the various possibilities of placement and the scope of several 
avenues opening in the sectors like travel trade, airlines, airports, railways, shipping, cruise lines, banqueting, event management and the limitless opportunities existing in entrepreneurship.
This was followed by a formal introduction of the faculty members and resources of the college which whom they were given to freely interact and ask questions. Mr. Saif Anjum, associate professor took a session on national and international internships and the 6-8-week summer internship in Nimes, south of France. A session giving all information concerned with the academics and examinations was taken by Ms. Chandana Paul.
Every student must have a mentor, a confidante available right within the premises of the college who is there for the student to consult in case he/she is facing any issues with the progress of classes or with the handling of any kind of queries, whether they happen to be official or personal. These were allocated to the new students who were very glad to meet them.
The next day the students were taken to a temple for feeding the poor as an act of Corporate-Social responsibility. This arouses within them the sense of responsibility as the food was prepared within the college kitchens and carried and served by these new students. “I am elated and am feeling very happy that I could do this, something that I had never done in life before” Says a starry-eyed new student. Upon their return they met the tailor who was appointed by the college to stitch the student’s uniforms to size as, being disciplined, the students must learn to present themselves in sparkling, neat uniforms as do the hotel managers.
In order to give to the students a first-hand feel of what the hotel managers say about working in hotels, the Vatel hotel & Tourism Business School conducted a panel discussion wherein the participants were Mr. Manuj Ralhan, Director or operations, Novotel Aerocity, Ms Shilpi Sharma, Director HR, Double Tree by Hilton and Chef Sambhavi Joshi, a hotelier turned into an entrepreneur running a pasta production unit under the brand name of Casarecce Artisanal. The inquisitive students asked them a lot of interesting questions and got a first-hand insight into what all was in store for them in the wonderful world of hospitality.
This was followed by an ice-breaking session, enabling the students to express themselves better, followed by which their documents were verified. The students were also given a conducted tour of the Westin Hotel Gurgaon, wherein they were exposed to the visible and the back-of-the-house areas of a large luxury hotel. This opened up their eyes and made them aware of the dynamics and the personnel involved in actually running the hotel.
Apart from the above, the students were duly given inputs in grooming, improving upon their lifestyles, bringing about within themselves a sense of sophistication and a style, exactly like the people engaged in the hospitality are so well recognized for.
