AA Graduate Appointments

The future of the travel and tourism industry depends on the quality of graduates and their university courses. AA Graduate Appointments is a brand new service run by ITT corporate partner AA Appointments Group. They will place travel and tourism graduates in to their first jobs free of charge!

To coincide with the launch of AA Graduate Appointments, the AA Appointments Group would be grateful if you would take the time to complete a short questionnaire which will help them assess and develop USPs for students and lecturers.

Debbee Dale is Managing Director of AA People Development and is the driving force behind the launch of AA Graduate Appointments. “We decided to take action to address something that’s been talked about for a long time – how to make travel and tourism courses attractive to students, and then how we can keep graduates in the industry.

“We’re therefore launching AA Graduate Appointments in February 2008. AA Graduates will help place new travel and tourism graduates into suitable positions, completely free of charge! We will get to know students better by meeting them, keeping them informed and encouraging them to do extra ‘off the curriculum’ work in order for them to look even more attractive to prospective employers. We’ll also liaise with lecturers and tutors to ensure we all share a common goal in order to work together to encourage and develop the skills the industry needs.”

Ultimately, by providing better job prospects for graduates, more students will be attracted to travel and tourism courses. As Debbee Dale points out, “other industries such as accounting and banking do this; hospitality does this really well – and so should we!”

Debbee Dale said the new AA Graduate service “will be a major benefit and in some ways a turning point for the industry. We are completely open to your suggestions and welcome your input and involvement.”

To ensure success in the future, your help is needed now. Please complete the Graduate Questionnaire and return it to Debbee Dale – email: debbeed@aaappointments.com or fax: 020 7480 5467 – by 18 February. Everyone who takes part will receive the survey results.

Click here for the Graduate Questionnaire.