college recruiting: management training

Starwood offers a Management Training program for graduates that exposes them to the places, people and practices that will help set the tone for their success throughout their careers. Trainees concentrate in rooms, food and beverage, culinary, revenue management, finance or sales and rotate through other areas in the hotel to learn from leaders in some of the most successful Starwood hotels. The length of training varies from 6 to 18 months depending on discipline. At the completion of the training, each participant is placed into an assistant manager or manager position at the same hotel where they trained.

These opportunities are limited to current undergraduates attending school with work authorization in the United States only. Experienced, non-student candidates and those outside of the U.S. are invited to search for current career opportunities.

At Starwood we have high expectations for each associate we hire. The environment we create for our managers includes programs that provide:

Training and development in functional areas, leadership skills and rotational exposure
Performance-based salary increases and bonuses
Succession planning to help get you into the next progressive set up
Annual assessments of talent, skills to guide career planning
Productive feedback from managers, direct reports and peers
Opportunities for projects, task force assignments in other hotels

We recruit for Management Trainees during the fall and spring. Students who attend the schools listed on our campus schedule are advised to contact their career services office for instructions, and to complete an online application during the application period in order to be considered. We will next accept applications for winter externs during fall 2008. Come back to this page for instructions at that time.