<p>One of the "requirements" for the Hotel school is to have some work experience. I have done an internship and volunteered in the hospitality industry, but have never had a job. Is this acceptable as work experience?</p>
<p>It's definitely a start</p>
<p>a start meaning that it's okay to not have a paid job? thanks for your reply, Figgy</p>
<p>I'm not a hotelie, but I'd say so (especially if they were major commitments)</p>
<p>what you have done may in fact be better than a paid job at a hotel that is only sitting at a desk and answering phone calls.</p>
<p>i volunteered in a dining hall every day of last summer and volunteered at a pancake breakfast for the past four years, please tell me that that is considered major enough!!</p>
<p>Rockers: can you write an essay about how the pancake breakfast sparked your interest in food service ... or how you provided extraordinary service to someone in the dining hall above and beyond the call of duty? You need to be able to show that you have a true interest in the hospitality industry.</p>
<p>I think volunteer and internship experience is probably more than sufficient. They dont expect every applicant to have been a waiter or belhop in high school.</p>