Registration for Skills Competition

The Tourism Council of Bhutan in collaboration with the Department of Occupational Standards, Ministry of Labour and Human Resources will be conducting a National level Skills Competition for employees of tourism industry from 10th - 12th June, 2014 at the Royal Institute for Tourism and Hospitality, Motithang, Thimphu. The Competition will be held in the following trades:

1. Baking and Confectionary
2. Food Production (Cooking)
3. Food and Beverage Service
4. House Keeping
5. Cultural Tourist Guiding

This is to inform aspiring and interested practitioners fulfilling following criteria in the above trades to kindly register for the competition:

Sl. No.	Criteria	Requirement	Required Document	Remarks
1	Age	18 – 30 years old	Citizenship Identity Card
2	Educational Qualification	Minimum Class X	Certificate of highest educational qualification attained	Candidate can even submit relevant training certificate to increase the chances of getting selected for the final competition
3	Working experience in the field	2 years	Evidence of work experience in the field	Cultural  Tourist Guide:  Also submit your Cultural Guiding Liecence

In case, registered participants in each trade exceed the limited number, the Department will be conducting portfolio and theory based assessment to select the best candidates to participate in the actual competition.

The prize money for the competition is:

1. Winner: Nu.50,000/-
2. First Runner Up: Nu. 30,000/-
3. Second Runner Up: Nu. 15,000/-

To download registration form, you may log on to the ministry’s website www.molhr.gov.bt or collect it either from the Department of Occupational Standards or Tourism Council of Bhutan office.

Please kindly submit the duly filled registration form along with required documents to either of above mentioned offices latest by 16th May, 2014. However, for those who have registered before please submit required documents only.

Should interested candidates have any clarification for the same, kindly contact Sonam Gyeltshen (TCB) at 17608454 or Tsheten (DOS, MoLHR) at 77230355 during office hour.

Registration Form