3月27日，海上青焙坊很容幸参与了中国美国商会的分享会，分享如何与合作伙伴建立创新型合作关系。
本次分享会由中美商会“食品、农业和餐饮委员会”主办，主题是“解决人才所需：与NGO建立创新型伙伴关系”，而青焙坊与酒店的合作恰是这样的创新型伙伴关系。分享会上，青焙坊与另一家NGO日新中心各自讲述了如何与餐饮业合作的经历：由NGO为需要帮助的人提供技能训练，而宾馆或餐厅通过雇佣这些人解决自身的人才需求。
青焙坊的项目经理林兰女士详细介绍了弱势青年在青焙坊的成长经历，这些青年人学会了法式烘焙技艺，保证他们毕业后能继续在烘焙业工作。青焙坊的学员们分为两组，一组在烘焙中心上课的同时，另一组在酒店里实习。
马里奥特酒店的人力资源总监Jane对于我们的合作不吝赞美：“青焙坊的实习生们和其他实习生一样优秀。而且青焙坊的学生们已经学会了基本烘焙知识，可以更快上手。他们在酒店中学到的更多的是职业准则，如早晨要准时上班。一年的实习期后，他们完全能够成长为我们所需的烘焙师。”
正如林兰介绍时所说，青焙坊关注每个学员的全面发展。学生们能把握住机会，留在五星级酒店工作，我们也为他们骄傲。来自万豪酒店的Helen评价学生的表现时赞道：“与青焙坊的合作非常棒，我们今年希望招收更多的青焙坊实习生。”
日新中心也在此次分享会中介绍了他们的经验。日新中心为帮助流浪汉们学会自食其力的方法，经过一段时间的学习，日新中心会推荐他们到Element Fresh或Maya工作。这两家餐厅的经理也讲道，为这些流浪汉提供工作机会，对他们重新融入社会意义重大。
分享结束后，听众们热情提问。他们不断来到林兰身边，咨询更多信息。很多人表达了期待之后合作的意愿。
感谢中美商会组织此次活动！一并感谢万豪集团愿意分享青焙坊和他们合作的经历！
On March 27th, SYB had the great pleasure to be invited by AmCham (The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai) to share its experience on its innovative cooperation with partner hotels.
Organized by the Amcham Food, Agriculture and Beverage Committee, the event was named as “Solving Your Talent Needs: Innovative Partnerships with NGOs”, which exactly features one of SYB’s innovative points. The goal of the event was to share how NGOs and F&B professionals can work together: the NGOs by providing training to those who are in need, and the F&B professionals by hiring them to solve their talent needs.
Floriane, SYB program manager, detailed how SYB trains underprivileged youth to French bakery so that they can secure employment in that industry upon graduation. SYB students are divided into two groups. While one group receive classes in the baking center, the other group intern at our partner hotels, such as Marriott hotels.
Jane Wang, the human resources director from Marriot Changfeng, spoke highly of our program: “SYB interns are just as talented as other interns and they have learned basic baking skills. What they learn in our hotel are professional requirements such as being on time in the morning. After one year of internship, they have fully developed into a chef we just need.”
As SYB program manager Floriane presented in the first session, SYB is a program giving much attention to the comprehensive development of the students. We are proud that our students can seize the chance to work in five-star hotels. As Helen Cheng from JW Marriott commented, “Our cooperation with SYB is great! We hope to recruit more SYB students this year.”
The other charity featured in the event was the Renewal Center (RC), which provides sustainable paths out of homelessness in Shanghai. After a period of work therapy, the Renewal Center offers employment placements with partners such as Element Fresh or Maya. Managers of both restaurants shared how important it is for them to give the chance to those in need to reintegrate society through employment.
After the sharing section, people are passionate to put forward questions. They constantly came to Floriane for more information. Many of them expressed their willingness to cooperate with us in the future.
Thank you to the AmCham for organizing such a great event and thank you to Marriott for having shared their partnership with us.
Here is the report written by Amcham:
AmCham Shanghai Food Services Subcommittee Hosts Event on Solving Talent Needs