As a trainee at Van der Valk, you are part of the most beautiful hospitality family of the Netherlands. Van der Valk is leading in the field of hospitality and has about 100 hotels in and outside of the Netherlands.

Via this website, we recruit trainees and students who want to follow a professional practical skills course (BBL) for the 70 Van der Valk Verrast hotels. The affiliated hotels are located in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Spain and on the Netherlands Antilles, and you can find them here. Are you looking for an internship at Van der Valk Hotel Amsterdam-Amstel? Or do you prefer Hotel Melle-Osnabrück? Go to the websites of the various hotels and see which hotel suits you best, or send us an email or a message. We are looking forward to meeting you!

Van der Valk and Landstede MBO (located in Zwolle) offer students the opportunity to follow two years of the Travel & Hospitality education at level 4 of the Dutch MBO education. This program is tailor made for Van der Valk.

The classes are designed with Van der Valk business cases and focus on practical experience. The curriculum is designed in cooperation with Van der Valk Opleidingen, https://vandervalkopleidingen.nl/.

In the third year, students will be doing a 10 month internship in one of the Van der Valk hotels abroad. Front Office, Sales and Food & Beverage are the highlights of these unique internships! 

Are you interested or do you know someone who might be?

Check out our flyer below or the website of Landstede for more information about the education and the application procedure!

(Since this education is in Dutch, the flyer is only available in Dutch.)

An education with a focus on hospitality, management and working in the kitchen or service at a Van der Valk hotel. That is at the core of a special program students can follow at the Culinary Academy of Rijn IJssel Vakschool Wageningen.

In order to prepare students for a workplace at the hotel chain, they start their two, three or four-year education in a special Van der Valk class. In this tailor-made program, students will immediately put theory into practice. Students will be doing an internship as hostess, and later as cook or service employee.

For more information, visit the website of Rijn IJssel.

Are you looking for an education in the food industry, but are you unsure which direction you want to take? Are you hospitable and helpful and do you like working with your hands? Then the Food & Hospitality Employee education is exactly what you are looking for.

Students of the Food & Hospitality Employee education at SVO Vakopleiding Food are offered the opportunity of doing an internship at a Van der Valk location, starting next school year. We joined forces to offer students opportunities for a great internship and job, so together, we can enjoy getting back to work after the Corona crisis!

For more information about this training and the registration process, read this message or visit the website of SVO Vakopleiding Food.

Together with Cosmo, we offer Travel & Hospitality students the opportunity to do a Front Office or Meeting & Events internship at one of our 70 hotels in and outside of the Netherlands. From our own experience, we know that hospitality skills are best developed through practical experience. Cosmo has therefore been working with various leisure experts from the business industry for years, so that theory and practice fit together perfectly!

For more information, visit the website of Cosmo!

Students of these courses at Summa College in Eindhoven will have practical training in the restaurants of Hotel Eindhoven, Hotel Stein-Urmond or Hotel Gilze - Tilburg. Here they learn everything about the hospitality industry and gain valuable work experience. With special training by Van der Valk in the field of hospitality, craftsmanship, coffee or wine knowledge, but also interior design or entrepreneurship, the courses offer many extras. Master classes also take place in the kitchens and learning environment of Summa College. The use of the digital SVH learning resources and teaching methods make learning attractive and flexible, so learning is always possible.

The courses will start in September 2021. More information about the courses can be found at the website of Summa College.

Van der Valk likes to invest in ambitious students. Because of that, one of our hotels, Van der Valk Hotel Sassenheim-Leiden, was named 'Beste Leerbedrijf Horeca 2018/2019' by the industry organisation SVH. Of course, this is also due to the motivated students who are doing an internship at Van der Valk!

Every year, this award is presented to a hospitality business which is seen as a top employer. This is based on several aspects, such as balance between working and learning, the working conditions and the amount of time and attention trainees receive. Training companies can be nominated by students, supervisors and teachers and are judged by the committee of Beste Leerbedrijf Horeca.

By winning this award, Hotel Sassenheim-Leiden shows that we offer amazing internships for top talents who want to do an internship at Van der Valk, like River and Danique. In addition to all hotels being accredited work placement companies, the support and guidance we offer are also being seen as very valuable. Due to the familiar atmosphere of the family business, doing an internship at Van der Valk is not only very educational, but also a lot of fun!

In april 2019, Van der Valk came in third at the Customer First Awards. This makes Van der Valk the third most customer-friendly company of The Netherlands, after De Efteling and CoolBlue. Together with you, we want become 1st in 2020.

Are you in? We are happy to take on the challenge with you!

Do want to know more about what is going on inside a Van der Valk hotel? Watch the six-piece TV series Jonge Valken. 

In this series, six persons form the fourth generation of Van der Valk tell what is involved in running a Van der Valk hotel.

(This series is only available in Dutch.)

TV-SERIE JONGE VALKEN KIJKEN >>

Are you an intern at Van der Valk? Odds are, you will run into a celebrity or an international soccer player, because Van der Valk is regularly visited by famous persons.

Recently, Hotel Amsterdam-Amstel had the honour of welcoming the players of Juventus. During the quarter final of the Champions League, Juventus played against Ajax in the Johan Cruijff Arena. Manager Thymen Simons took his chance to take a picture with star player Ronaldo.

Do you want to apply for one of our internships? Via the vacancies on this website, you can easily find the application form. By filling in this form, you can also ask questions concerning a certain vacancy.

If you have a question that is not related to a specific vacancy, you can send an email to Jolanda de Graaff, Regional Recruitment Manager, recruitment@valkservices.nl or call us at 088-0246330.

We look forward to getting to know you!

SEE YOU @VAN DER VALK!