Employer-owned technical colleges: the hotels train the chefs, the port trains the planners

A first step

Ask the general managers of five hotels in one town how many trained cooks they hire a year, how many leave within the year, and what each costs to find and train. Then propose a shared kitchen school, owned by the hotels, with each paying per trainee place. A letter from two hotels committing to fund places is the proof.

Who pays first

A hotel that loses trained staff and pays to recruit again, which would rather fund places in a school it controls.

What leaves today

Of the 177,000 who qualify each year most get no place, while employers still cannot find the trained staff they need.

The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.

The test

Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?

The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.

In the book

• Ch. OneThe Letter That Says Yes and Means No
  177,588 qualified, 45,000 placed

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