EHL Group

The atmosphere is good among colleagues, but distrustful of certain managers, HR and the school management. The climate is not very good, and several examples among employees have shown that it's better to keep quiet. The 7-week vacation is a good point, except that you can't take it whenever you want - at least 5 weeks are compulsory. Meals are marketed as free, but they're not. It's always a good idea to say you work there, and it makes for a lot of networking. A lot of people now know that the atmosphere is bad over there and I get a lot of questions about it, so I often have to embellish.

I'd found the recruitment process unreliable; I'd been asked to speak English to check my skills, which surprised me when I discovered that my N+1 spoke very poor English. The recruitment process took a long time, I thought I'd been forgotten, and HR were never contactable. Once I needed an intermediate certificate, which took 4 months! Students complain a lot and you often hear "for the price we pay". It's very hard to deal with the fact that they're disillusioned, especially in the first year when they literally have to run the school and produce meals for the staff (who are supposed to be free) and the other students, only to have to pay full price for everything they consume even though they produced it. Students have to take on this role for 6 months and then leave for a 6-month internship in the hotel business, while the vast majority of them have no interest in the hotel business and won't work in it afterwards (a very small percentage of students will end up in the hotel business), the school itself has changed its name and seems to have renounced the hotel business but its system only works with students as free labor who pay to do this! I find it very hard to keep up the marketing rhetoric I'm asked to have when I'm in empathy and compassion with them every day. I think you have to have an executive-type job to enjoy working there.