Hospitality future leaders recognised with $3k scholarships

Hospitality’s future leaders recognised with $3000 scholarships

The winners of Hospitality NZ/SKY Future Leader Scholarships have been announced. This is the second year the scholarships have been available. The eight scholarships have a value of up to $3000 each, and include $2000 towards fees for studying the National Diploma in Hospitality Level 5 (Operational Management), and up to $1000 reimbursement of costs to attend the Future Leaders Day in 2015.

Spokesman, Bruce Robertson, Chief Executive of Hospitality NZ (HNZ) commented that the scholarships were an excellent example of working together with their long term partner SKY TV to help address the skill shortage within the hospitality industry.

“It’s great to see that there is this level of interest from the next generation wanting to make a career in hospitality and we are proud to be able to support their aspirations. Given thepassion that all the applicants have displayed and their genuine desire to up-skill themselves, I think that we can be confident that the industry is going to be well supplied with some incredible talent and leaders to take us forward.”

The scholarship applicants represented the breadth of the hospitality industry, by currently working in Bars, Restaurants, Accommodation, Events Centres, Retail Outlets and Catering.The scholarships were open to anyone working in the hospitality industry and not restricted to HNZ members’ businesses.

“The number of entries received was again very positive, but it was the outstanding quality of the candidates that really stood out for me” says Grant McKenzie GM for SKY Business.

This observation was confirmed by the judges who said that selecting the winners was a difficult process because of the consistently high quality across all of the candidates. But in the end, it came down to how they scored in the four following areas:
• Firstly, they had to have demonstrated strong leadership potential in their workplace by inspiring the people around them
• Have demonstrated a strong progression and commitment within their hospitality career to date
• Have an ability to ‘make things happen’ within a hospitality environment
• Has a clear idea about what they hope to achieve and how they would contribute to the hospitality industry.

While all of the applicants met some of the above criteria, the final eight winners were selected based on having the highest overall scores.

Congratulations to the 2014 Hospitality NZ/SKY Future Leader Scholarships winners:
Jessica Allen: The Dinsdale Office, Hamilton
Maria Beattie: Village Accommodation, Wellington
Paul Braithwaite: Tuakau Hotel, Waikato
Jennifer Jackson: Trinity Group, Wellington
Jackson Lindquist: No 8 Bar & Brasserie, Whitianga
Shannon Rowe: Jolly Roger Bar, Picton
Angelique Toshci: Larnach Castle, Dunedin
Michael Wood: Pullman Hotel, Auckland

Information on the 2015Hospitality NZ/SKY Future Leader Scholarships will posted on www.hospitalitynz.org.nz. If you want to be emailed the information with an application form once it is available then send your details toscholarships@hospitalitynz.org.nz

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