Slave labour that gave us our big break Is work experience just unpaid drudgery - or can you actually get a job out of it? Amy Williams meets three people for whom it worked wonders

From: Evening Standard - London | Date: June 20, 2005| Author: AMY WILLIAMS | Copyright information

HOTELIER

Michael Gray, 57, lives with his wife in East Sheen. He is general manager of the Hyatt Churchill Hotel, London. He says: ON A week's work- experience placement in a hotel you can taste a different job or department every day.

When people think about working in hotels, they tend to think of washing dishes or making beds, but there is such a wide variety of roles - customer relations, finance, management and catering. We cover it all.

As a teenager, I wanted to ...

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