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 bartendingschools can end up being worthless, I don't think
that bartendingschools 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 bartendingschools, 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 bartendingschools 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 bartendingschools are this way, though I do agree, it's
becoming more of the exception than the rule nowadays.
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