Tourism and Hospitality BA Programme
Information about the Internship for full-time BA students first enrolled before 2017 and specialising in Catering and Hotel
Tourism and Hospitality BA Programme
Information about the Internship for full-time BA students first enrolled before 2017 and specialising in Catering and Hotel
Full time students must complete a 720-hour-long (18 weeks) internship during their last semester. The internship cannot be interrupted and has to be done at a partner institution outside of the university.
The dates are based on the faculty calendar as:
Between 1 July 2021 and 30 November 2021
(in the Spring semester: between 4 January 2021 and 31 May 2021).
Course prerequisites for the internship have been deleted.
The Internship is worth 30 credits, necessary for the pre-degree certificate.
Introducing the Online Career Platform
Budapest Business School has launched its Online Career Platform. By exploiting state-of-the-art technical possibilities and building on communication forms now used naturally by students, the aim of the Career Platform is to enable us to operate a system that significantly reduces the time spent on contacts management via automated processes. The current system has been developed based on the experience of past years and feedbacks from companies and students.
The system consists of two major platforms:
· Online internship form filler
· Career Platform
The purpose of the online internship form filler is to enable the end-to-end documentation of the internship online.
The online internship form filler – replacing all paper forms – puts all administrative tasks of the internship online, makes the process paper-free, creates an organised and unified platform for filling out forms, and eliminates errors.
The Career Platform is a virtual space that enables the job offers and demands of companies and students to meet, as well as companies to advertise job opportunities, project work and internship opportunities for BBS students.
Starting with the academic year 2020/21, all administrative tasks related to the internship is done on BBS online Career Platform. All necessary data will be recorded on this platform, and all necessary documents will be generated by the platform.
Students must ask the partner institutions to register on the online platform. This should be done once a preliminary agreement between the student and the partner institution has been reached.
The Career Platform and online internship form filler can be found at: https://karrierplatform.uni-bge.hu/
Students can enter using their Neptun ID codes and passwords.
Students have two ways to choose an internship place:
- Choosing from the list of BBS partners,
- Finding an institution, and requesting its acceptance as an internship partner.
The online system contains all partners that already have Cooperation Agreements with the University.
This statement is filled out by the partner institution, stating the acceptance of the student for the internship program. The student must provide the following information for the partner company:
· Name
· Neptun ID code
· Faculty
· Degree course
The student receives the statement of acceptance prepared by the partner institution through the online system (Student Statement). The student then must confirm his/her wish to do the internship at the given partner institution, in the position stated, and during the time period given. The student must also accept that the University will share his/her personal information with the partner institution in order to prepare a Cooperation Agreement; moreover, the student must state that he/she will finish his/her course requirements by the beginning of the internship.
Then, the instructor responsible for the Department’s internship programs will decide whether the position is acceptable from a professional point of view. Both the partner institution and the student will receive the decision (Statement by the Department).
Any questions regarding professional aspects of the internship should be addressed to the following instructors responsible for the Department’s internship programs:
· Students in the Hungarian language-programme should contact Gábor Tóth during his office hours or by email at: Toth.Gabor@uni-bge.hu
· Students in the English-language programme should contact Dr. Klára Morvay Karakasné during her office hours or by email at: KarakasneMorvay.Klara@uni-bge.hu
The deadline for submitting the Statement of Acceptance is two weeks before starting the internship.
The Cooperation Agreement is made between the University and the partner institution through the online system. The Agreement states the legal issues, including the rights and obligations of both partners during the internship.
The Agreement created through the online system must be printed by the partner institution, signed and stamped, and then sent to the Career Office. The Agreement is valid during upcoming semesters without having to sign it again.
The online system contains all partners that already have Cooperation Agreements with the University.
Deadline: two weeks before starting the internship.
The student, under the supervision of the partner institution’s instructor or professional guide, performs the internship during the time period stated in the online system. Any significant change from the conditions described in the Cooperation Agreement and any problems must be reported to the university by the student or the partner institution.
Three evaluations are made at the end of the internship:
- The partner institution fills out the form titled Internship Certification and Evaluation Form. The performance of the student is evaluated in several aspects, giving percentages.
- The student prepares a 10-page report, uploading it to the Career Platform.
- The student gives feedback to the University by filling out a form titled Internship Partner Evaluation. The average values of student evaluations will be available through the system, giving information to prospective students planning their internships.
Deadline for uploading: One week after the last day of the internship.
Content focus of the internship report:
The internship report is a reflection on the work done by the student.
Formal requirements of the internship report:
Minimum 10 pages. (In case of two internship places, 10+10 pages)
Page orientation: portrait
Margins: normal
Font: Times New Roman
Font size: 12
Line spacing: 1.5
Text alignment: justified
Page numbers: yes
Table of Contents: yes
Header: no
Cover page: yes
– Title: Report on the 720-hour-long Internship
– Student’s name/programme/email address/phone number
– Neptun ID code
– Name of the partner institution
– Date of the report
Images: optional, do not count towards the 10 pages
Figures: optional, do not count towards the 10 pages
References: yes
– in-text
– footnotes
– in case of web-sites: url link + dates of last access
Printing: not necessary, the report must be uploaded to the Career Platform
Content requirements:
· General introduction of the partner institution (maximum one page). – Texts downloaded from the Internet are not acceptable, and are considered plagiarism.
· Description of the professional activities of the partner institution (maximum ½ page) – Marketing materials taken from the institution’s webpage cannot be accepted. Information from the webpage may be used, but this part should be based primarily on personal experiences and discussions with the company’s managers).
· Explanation of why this partner institution was chosen for the place of internship.
· Description of the company’s clientele from several aspects (nationality, age, interests, length of stay, average spending, etc.).
· If the company is part of an international chain, evaluation of its organisation and structure. What are the advantages and disadvantages of international operations?
· Description of your own work. – This should include your own thoughts about your independent work, rather than pre-written work descriptions.
· Description of one day at work.
· Conclusions drawn (both professional and personal).
· Recommendations (only from a professional point of view).
The student report should primarily contain the student’s own opinions, experiences, and recommendations; therefore, texts downloaded from the internet should not be included. As a result of changes in the evaluation procedure, the evaluating instructor can write more detailed evaluations, based on the formal and content requirements.
The instructor responsible for the internship evaluates the internship based on the Internship Certification and Evaluation and the student’s report. A grade (1-5) will be entered into Neptun.
Deadline for the student’s report: one week after the last day of the internship.
The online system is available both in Hungarian and in English. Therefore, the procedures for internships done abroad are the same as those done in Hungary.
Students doing their internships abroad must also state that they will take care of their own health, safety, and other required liability insurances at their own expenses and responsibilities.
The Declaration on Liability, Health and Accident Insurance form can be found in Documents.
There may arise a good reason why a student wants to change the partner institution where he/she has started doing the internship. In this case, please contact both the instructor responsible for the internship and the Career Office.
In case of choosing a new partner institution, the original internship has to be closed in Career Platform by both the original partner (filling out the Internship Certification and Evaluation Form) and the student (Internship Partner Evaluation form).
The new partner institution has to start the process by indicating the remaining time-period in the Career Platform.
If the University accepts time done at both internship partners, then the total time done at the two partners must add up to the required number of hours of the internship.
At the end of the internship, a separate report must be uploaded about time spent at each partner.
In case a student has past work experience that corresponds to the internship requirements (see 8.2 of the curriculum) a Completion of internship with work experience credit form must be filled out and submitted through Neptun. The request will be evaluated by the Department.
The request must be accompanied by a description of the work experience for acceptance. The formal and content requirements are identical to the Internship report described in 3.5 Evaluating the Internship, above.