4.2 • 5 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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0:00.0 | The Thank you. Hello, I'm Keith Barr, Chief Executive IHG Hotels and Resorts, one of the largest hotel operators in the world with over 6,000 hotels. |
1:10.0 | And this is my duvet flip. Over to you. |
1:12.6 | How are we doing today? |
1:14.6 | Doing great. |
1:15.6 | I love your suit. |
1:16.6 | Thank you. |
1:17.6 | So, so pucker. |
1:19.6 | So, we always start here because there'll be young people tuning in. |
1:24.6 | Some will be studying, some will be in their, just stepping into their first jobs, |
1:30.3 | some of them will be looking for work. And we have 136,000 young people at one given time |
1:36.3 | open to work. So looking, what do we do? How do I get experience? My first question is, what was |
1:42.3 | your first job? What did that job teach you? |
1:46.0 | And what do you wish you knew that you want to pass on to young people? |
1:50.0 | My first job was actually in the hospitality industry. |
1:54.0 | I was a dishwasher in a restaurant at the age of 13. |
1:58.0 | And that actually set me on the course of being passionate about hospitality. |
2:02.4 | And we talk more about later on what I did from there. But it was a great experience of getting |
2:07.2 | into a restaurant and realizing I was passionate. I became a real foodie. Actually became a trained |
2:11.5 | chef later on before I went off to university as well too. So it really got me into understanding |
2:17.4 | work, got me working as a team. |
2:20.1 | And I think with young people, it's finding you're passionate about. I'm 53 years old this year. |
2:27.9 | So that would be 40 years ago I started working in this industry. Never aspired to become |
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