Chef. Nathaniel Giodeon Arthur is a young energetic team member of the Culinary Department coming with an experience of almost 10 years in industry and academics. Apart from the practical aspect of culinary, Mr. Nathanial is looking after the theory section of this subject and giving training to the students inculcating their theoretical knowledge of the food production department.
What are your roles and responsibilities towards the students?
Guide the students to a bright and healthy future, through knowledge, Education, Moral Values, and Social Awareness.
How do you try to bring in practical approach towards subjects and make it industry oriented?
Initiated Students Canteen which is fully taken care of by the college students, our college also helps by giving them a small amount of capital investment for motivating the student's ideas and efforts.
What are the best practices offered by the department to the students which help them gain necessary skills?
'Let’s Communicate club', which develops the student's communication skills and social awareness programs in the college's various events.
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What are your views upon the placements and higher education about the students from your department or how does your department prepare students for Higher education?
In terms of Placements, we offer 100% Job opportunities to the students in top brands of hotels and resorts in India and even around the globe, and we also offer MBA in Hospitality Management in our college, to the students who are willing to do there career switch towards hospitality Administration like HR, Learning and Development Manager, Sales, Marketing and to their dream path
How do you help your student to cope up with the competition being so high in the outside world?
"Will train them, Will Coach them", all this to make them practice and continue practicing towards their interests individually.
Do you have any extracurricular activities/ programs to enhance the skills of the students or expose them to the real-world challenges?
Yes, we encourage the students to entrepreneurship and have organised the Students Canteen, which is completely taken care of by the students. This was introduced to develop their Management skills in controlling all aspects which involve starting their own business in the outside world.
What are the challenges you faced/ are facing to uplift the quality of education of your department?
Lack of understanding in the students towards the importance of education, which is very important for their future. This might be because of the age factor.
How does the curriculum of your department/college ensure the best practice of the industry?
We train the students, not for the competitions which are happening at the college level, but we make them practice for the competitions and challenges they going to face in the real world, the challenges which we faced as a student when we entered the Industry, which was not taught by our colleges.
What are the interventions and approaches you bring in apart from the curriculum to train/teach the students?
Apart from the curriculum we share our own experiences, challenges & failures in the hotel industry life and train the students how to overcome these challenges.
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What do you see the department’s/ college’s greatest strengths and how it can be enhanced?
Our Greatest Strength is to provide equal opportunity to all the students and to the faculties, ways to enhance is simply just continue what the college is doing now.
What valuable advice would you like to the students for them to have a prosperous career ahead?
Use this college time to develop your knowledge, Skills and when you enter the Industry try to keep your expectation level at 0 and keep your mind out of too many thinking towards the job, be like an open book, and let others come and write anything, but in that analysis which is good and which is not, try to develop knowledge and more good contacts by experience, intake good things from your colleagues and seniors and try to implement that in your life and also take the bad things of your colleagues and seniors, not to implement but to know yourself not to do that in your future, and you can keep that as an experience to share to the students like you in future. All the very best!!!
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