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Subject: Re: authentic bartending school vs New York Bartending school
From: Josh
Posted: Sun Feb 26. 2006, 17:06 UTC
Followup to: "Re: authentic bartending school vs New York Bartending school"  by Double Dragon  (Sun Feb 26. 2006, 06:14 UTC)
I would disagree with not putting down the bartending school on your resume. 
While some, if not many, managers may put your resume in the circular filing 
cabinet for only having bartending school as your experience, I've seen more 
than a handful of managers who actually PREFER to hire straight from the 
bartending school, especially in new restaurant/bar type opening situations. 
There are various reasons for this, but the most common reason I've seen is 
that the manager doesn't have to break the bad habits of a veteran bartender, 
and the "rookie bartender" will be easier to mold into exactly what they want.

Although many bartending schools can end up being worthless, I don't think 
that bartending schools are inherintly so. The reasons KC listed are all valid 
- technically, if the school really put the effort into it, a student could 
"graduate" from a bartending school and be miles ahead of someone who hadn't. 
All of the tools are at your disposal, and if the instructors really care 
about what they're doing, you could walk away with more than your tuition's 
worth in knowledge and experience. I think most of the negative opinions on 
this board, in regards to bartending schools, stem from stereotypes that are 
based on schools that have owners that are only in it for the money. It's easy 
to see how this has happened, really, as bartending schools can be VERY 
profitable. So you end up getting owners who may have ZERO inudstry 
experience, opening shop trying to make a quick buck. But this still doesn't 
mean that ALL bartending schools are this way, though I do agree, it's 
becoming more of the exception than the rule nowadays.

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