Validation of Acquired Experience

Doing a VAE in hotels, tourism and catering: conditions and advantages

The Validation of Acquired Experience is a system that allows professionals to convert field experience into a diploma, without going back to school. There are many advantages in our sector, where the diploma is reassuring, and where the name of a prestigious school such as Savignac can open many doors. For young people who started in the hotel business right out of school, this is an opportunity to validate several years of practical learning through a diploma. For professionals who have chosen a retraining in the hotel industry, it is a way to finalize and formalize the skills acquired professionally.

To benefit from a VAE, it is necessary to have at least 3 years of experience in the hotel, tourism and catering sector, at a position equivalent to the diploma in question (Bachelor or MBA).

VAE in hotels, tourism and catering, a real career springboard

Carrying out a VAE at Ecole de Savignac allows you to obtain the Bachelor (Bac +3 level equivalent to a License), with the title “Service Manager in hotels, tourism and catering”, or the MBA (Bac level +5 equivalent to a Master’s degree) with the title “Service manager in hotels, tourism and restaurants”.

Real springboards, these VAE allow you to validate your skills in front of a jury. The admitted candidates proudly obtain a diploma, the prestige of Ecole de Savignac and a strong confidence in the quality of their professional experience.

The Bachelor (bac + 3 level License) allows you to quickly access responsible positions such as: assistant manager, Food and Beverage manager, seminar and banquet coordinator, accommodation assistant, junior cost controller, assistant housekeeper, then quickly head receptionist, head of brigade, etc.

The MBA (Bac + 5 Master level) allows you to access management functions with high responsibilities such as revenue manager, executive assistant, operations manager, event manager, F&B manager, guest relations manager, banqueting director or even roles in transversal functions within large hotel groups.

The BA and MBA degrees at École de Savignac

École de Savignac offers you the possibility of validating, through your professional experience, two different professional qualifications, corresponding to our two training courses:

• The RNCP title “Hotel, Tourism and Catering Service Manager”, level 6, equivalent to Bac +3 or 4 (International Bachelor’s degree in Hospitality Management).
  On validation you can be awarded 180 ECTS credits.
• The RNCP title “Manager of Hospitality and Tourism Businesses”, level 7, equivalent to Bac +5 (International MBA in Hospitality Management).
  On validation you can be awarded 120 ECTS credits.

A simple 4-step process

Conditions of application

To apply, you must have 1 year of professional experience in the hotel, restaurant or tourism sector in managerial positions aimed by the certification.

You can only submit one file for the same certification per year, and no more than 3 files per year, all certifications included.

VAE: Costs and financing

The costs are linked to the following:

• Application (eligibility for the VAE): 100€
• Optional assistance (preparing the application): 24h package, 2400 €
• Administrative processing of the file, from the examination of the file to the convening of the jury: 1 000 €

The VAE is part of continuing vocational training. It can therefore be the subject of financial aid within the framework of legal training programmes. Please refer to the brochure for more information.

Ecole de Savignac is disabled-friendly. This means that its buildings, like its training courses, are accessible to people with disabilities. From the application phase, we encourage applicants to declare their disability to our referent:
Gladys Croisy – g.croisy@ecole-de-savignac.com

For general information on the VAE framework and funding, see: