Tuesday, March 22, 2011

CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort

CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & SPA offers a career opportunity to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds

Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco (March 15, 2011) - CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & SPA finished successfully the training of the fourth generation of young participants of the educational program Youth Career Initiative (YCI).

The participants Victor Balderas, Alicia Navarro, Fabiola Fernandez, Juan Vejar, Fernando Morales, Selene Martinez and Dulce Martinez, had the chance to develop new interpersonal and professional skills with the objective to open a wide range of opportunities and choices for their career, thanks to the valuable support of the managers and associates of the CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & SPA

YCI is an initiative supported by the International Business Leaders Forum, a non profit organization founded by HRH The Prince of Wales, with the mission to promote economic and social development, sustained trough the leadership in the private sector.

With YCI, the hospitality industry provides valuable education and vocational skills for high school graduates from disadvantaged backgrounds. CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta provided them with an intensive educational program that combines theory and practical instruction in all the operative and functional workplace situations. The manage team of the hotel carry out the program, which includes instruction in personal finance, interpersonal skills, English language, computing skills, and personal health and wellbeing. YCI allows the young students to be in touch of the successful hospitality industry in every day situations. With YCI’s program all the young participants can increase their potential, self-esteem and will be informed to make their carrier choices more wisely.

For the Marriott hotels involved in this project: CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & SPA, the JW Marriott Hotel Mexico City, and CasaMagma Marriott Cancun, YCI is already part of their social responsibility programs, becoming an effective and active tool to help the local community and a platform for their associates to contribute actively in the professional career for upcoming generations.

In 2007 Mexico became the second country to implement this initiative in Latin America, 2 years after Brazil. YCI is a global initiative present in Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Europe, Asia and Australia. In its 15 years of operation, YCI have offered this valuable opportunity to over two thousand and five hundred (2500) young people around the world.

To celebrate the end of the YCI program in CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & SPA, the managing team organized a very special graduation ceremony, in which the graduates received their certificate from Alberto Cánovas YCI’s Operations Manager and Teresa Paredes, Director of Operations of CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & SPA. The graduates shared this important occasion with their family, hotel’s volunteers and various personalities like; Ana Noelia Zepeda García, Chief of Municipal Social Programs, whom congratulate the graduates of the YCI.

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