> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.peridot.works/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Les Roches’ hospitality MBA: turn work experience into a course-fit decision - URL: https://www.peridot.works/les-roches-mba-work-experience-fit/ - Published: 2026-10-09T02:39:15.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-09T02:39:15.000Z - Description: Connect your work experience to Les Roches’ hospitality MBA requirements and specialisation questions using an original experience record. - Author: Santosh Srinivas Two people can have the same number of years at work and need very different things from an MBA. One wants to make better pricing and performance decisions. Another wants to develop a hospitality business. Before choosing Les Roches’ MBA in Global Hospitality Management, connect your actual responsibilities to the decisions you want to learn. This is particularly useful if your degree or employment is outside hotels. A job title alone cannot establish whether your experience is relevant to admission or whether the programme fits your next step. An experience record can help you ask better questions without pretending to settle the admissions decision yourself. ## Separate current admission criteria from course interest The school’s [MBA admissions summary](https://brochure.lesroches.edu/les-roches-admission-criteria/mba-and-executive-mba?ref=peridot.works), checked on 9 October 2026 and scoped to Fall 2026 and Spring 2027, specifies a recognised bachelor’s degree or higher, at least two years of relevant professional experience and a minimum age of 23 for the on-campus MBA. It places that route in Crans-Montana. The Executive MBA has separate requirements; do not substitute one route’s criteria for the other. The summary also requires English evidence or an approved exemption and explains that individual review and the published admissions policy govern decisions. Ask admissions how your particular experience and qualification will be assessed. Neither “I have worked for two years” nor “my work was outside hospitality” answers that question by itself. ## Understand the two learning directions The [current MBA programme page](https://lesroches.edu/mba-and-executive-education/mba-in-global-hospitality-management/?ref=peridot.works) describes one academic year plus a 20-week internship or Applied Research Project. Its curriculum includes leadership, finance, marketing and later strategy, performance, analytics and sustainability. It names two specialisations: Advanced Revenue and Performance Management, and Hospitality Entrepreneurship and Business Development. Those titles provide a starting point for questions, not a personal career prescription. Request the current module and assessment detail for your intake before choosing between them. If you enjoy understanding why revenue changes, comparing operating results and testing commercial assumptions, the performance direction may warrant investigation. If you want to develop an offer, understand customers and work through a business model, the entrepreneurship direction may warrant investigation. Both involve evidence and decisions; neither title promises a successful business or a particular job. ## Build a three-example experience record Choose three situations from your work. Keep employer and customer information confidential: use general descriptions, remove identifiers and avoid sharing internal documents. For each situation, write five short lines: - Situation: what problem or decision existed? - Responsibility: what part did you personally handle? - Evidence: what information did you use? - Action: what did you decide, test or recommend? - Learning gap: what would you need to understand better next time? For example, someone involved in customer support might describe noticing repeat complaints, comparing categories and proposing a process change. Someone handling business reporting might describe investigating why a monthly figure differed from expectations. These are invented illustrations, not claims about any applicant’s eligibility or a school’s acceptance of those roles. Do not embellish a support task into strategic leadership. A modest example with a clear personal contribution gives a more useful discussion than a grand claim you cannot explain. If you cannot yet identify a decision you handled, write down that limitation instead of filling the gap with invented achievements. ## Test the specialisation question with one decision Now invent a small hospitality business scenario. Suppose a property must decide whether to improve an existing offer or introduce a new one. List the information you would seek before making the choice: customer need, demand patterns, operating capacity, costs and evidence of willingness to pay. Create two short plans. The first examines performance of the existing offer and the assumptions behind a proposed change. The second examines a new offer, its intended customer and how you would test interest before a large commitment. Use hypothetical inputs and mark missing evidence rather than manufacturing a confident forecast. Notice which questions you want to pursue. The purpose is to identify a learning direction, not to reproduce the MBA’s assessments or certify that one specialisation is suitable. Take the two plans to the school and ask which modules develop the skills you are missing. ## Resolve the final-route and application questions Ask how the internship and research alternatives are arranged and assessed for your intake. Find out what support is available, what the student must secure and how timing affects the overall study plan. Our [project-versus-placement guide](https://www.peridot.works/industrial-project-versus-placement/) can help organise these questions. A published practical route is not a guaranteed employer offer. Use your experience record when preparing an application, alongside the school’s required documents. Read our [statement-of-purpose evidence guide](https://www.peridot.works/statement-purpose-evidence-map/) to distinguish specific evidence from general ambition. Confirm the current application instructions directly rather than copying another applicant’s statement. ## Your next useful step Bring your degree details, intended intake, three work examples and the two hypothetical plans to a counselling conversation. Keep three conclusions separate: whether admissions considers your experience relevant, whether the learning direction interests you, and whether the costs and study interruption fit your circumstances. Each needs its own evidence. Completing a fit exercise is progress towards a better decision; it is not an admission or employment guarantee.