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Swire Hotels will select around four recruits to join its two-year international management trainee programme in September.

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The company is the owner-operator of two properties in Hong Kong - The Upper House above Pacific Place in Admiralty and EAST Hotel in Island East, Taikoo Place.

It also owns and operates The Opposite House in Sanlitun Village in Beijing, with a second hotel, which will be called EAST, to open next year. In Britain, it runs Chapter Hotels.

Maurine Yeung, head of people development, says candidates for the programme - now in its fifth year - should be adaptable, open-minded and have a positive attitude.

Aside from having a hospitality, tourism or related degree, candidates will also need to demonstrate their commitment to working in hotel operations and have the ambition to become a general manager or food and beverage director.

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Those who succeed tend to be spontaneous people who like to try new things and are creative, flexible and enjoy change, she adds.

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