Professional Bartending School

Professional Bartending School grads landed over 430 bartending jobs from June through September this year, a new record. No other source in Washington DC, Maryland, or Virginia helps as many people land bartender jobs as our school. We are going to get into just how we help so many graduates land jobs through our long running school, but first lets look at some details about where graduates landed work.  In fact, if you wish to see a list of every graduate who landed work these past few months arrange to visit us. You can review the entire list of 430 from June to September plus over 80 so far during October. Real Names, Real Places, Real Dates. Call us at (703) 841 9700 to arrange a visit.

Washington DC Bartending Jobs

During this 4 month period our grads were hired 135 times by bars, restaurants, clubs, and hotels in Washington DC.  Thirty of those hires could be found in the popular U Street and Adams Morgan areas, two of the hubs for nightlife in the entire DMV.   Tabaq, Sutra, and Timehri are bars that not only hired our grads this past summer season, but have been hiring our grads for years.

But 135 grads being hired means that our grads found bartending work all over the city and in all kinds of establishments.  The popular Langston’s in Northeast, Murphy’s, the long running Irish bar in Woodley Park, Kellari, the elegant seafood restaurant in downtown, and the new Kitty O’Shea’s on Upper Wisconsin all hired graduates this summer.   Lets never forget DC’s popular clubs such as K Street Lounge, Love, and Park at 14th, all hired grads this summer, just as they have hired our grads for years.

Bartending Jobs in Maryland and Virginia

Just under 120 grads landed full and part time positions as bartenders in Virginia and Maryland these past 4 months.  Along with DC that means that every day over the past four months a bar, hotel, club, restaurant, bowling alley, pool hall, or lounge hired two of our grads.  Some of the hiring bars and hotels are repeat users of our placement service, and have been in contact with us for years. Others were totally new.

In Maryland, the popular 50 year old Rinaldi’s Bowling Alley in Riverdale hired Kisha, who is not only bartending on Wednesday’s Saturday’s and Sundays, but has been training other bartenders and upgrading the active bar.  Meanwhile, the upscale Peachez Cafe and Lounge in Upper Marlboro hired one of our grads as they have done in the past, as did Uncle Julio’s in Gaithersburg,  Patrick’s Irish Pub in Frederick, and WOW Wingery in Waldorf.

In Virginia, we saw Graduates hired this summer at Chics and Wings in Tysons, at Summers Sports Bar in Arlington, and the Hyatt Regency in Reston, the long running Thursday’s Sports Bar in Gainesville, and elsewhere.

Parties, Events Catering

Our graduates landed about 200 bartending jobs over these last few months working parties, events, concerts, catered affairs, sporting events, and every kind of opportunity you can think of.  Major event staffing this summer included about 25 graduates bartending at the US Open golf tournament.  Most of them worked up to one entire week during this national tournament, with our placement office connecting them with two different caterers staffing different aspects of this enormous event.

Our grads have staffed countless concerts held at both FedEx field in Maryland and RFK stadium in DC.  Additionally a lot of grads landed bartending gigs over the summer working Nats baseball games at RFK and Redskin football games at FedEx.  Historically, bartenders throughout the region have competed for some of the premier bartending spots at FexEx when the Redskins play.   Finally, covering major events, we have had several caterers use our grads continuously at a slew of events held at the Convention Center, again with a number of them lasting several days.

On top of the major catered events our Placement office regularly directly staffs bartenders for parties and events throughout the region.   We directly placed well over 80 grads to bartend at parties throughout the region staffing events from Baltimore in the North, Davidsonville in the East, in Waldorf in Southern Maryland, all over DC and in the close in Suburbs, and as far South as Richmond, in Virginia.  These included weddings, engagements, retirement parties and every kind of event imaginable.

We have been so successful in helping grads land event and bartending gigs, that some have reported earning an extra $1,000 per month or more, simply picking up extra events on a consistent basis

How do So Many People Get Bartending Jobs

There are no mysteries to the unmatched volume of bartender jobs our grads land.  We are the only bartending school in the region that invests in a full time placement director.  Every month for the last 4 months our Placement Director Fatima has sent and received over 1,000 emails and IM’s between employers and grads.  That is on top of speaking with employers and graduates, meeting individually and in groups with grads, reviewing bartending resumes, giving advice and encouragement to graduates, filtering grads for employers with special requests, and filling in on other positions with the school.  Fatima is busy.

But that isn’t all.  Our entire staff assists with placement.  Each of us are connected with certain employers and opportunities and provides them to Fatima or occasionally handles them directly.  Some of our contacts are essentially two decades old.  We have been providing staff to the largest Club operator in DC, Mark Barnes since at least the early 1990′s and continue to do so on a regular basis.

But that isn’t all!!  We have a huge contact base of old grads who consistently provide us with new leads.  These range from graduates that own bars, restaurants, and clubs, to managers at bars, to the staff themselves.  As the longest running and largest bartending school in the DC region, we have more graduates working in the industry within the DC area than all other sources combined.  Its a big reason why we have been able to consistently generate leads for years.

But that isn’t all!!   We are convenient to employers.  They come to our school to meet and screen graduates.  We are located one mile outside DC(Georgetown), with ample free parking and most importantly are right on Metro.  Employers find that we are both convenient and practical for finding graduates to cover the greater DC region.  Over the years, throughout this past summer, and into the fall employers have arranged to visit the school and meet and see graduates.  Its an opportunity no other source of bartenders can provide.

That still isn’t everything!!!     We keep contacting employers all the time.  Throughout the summer and for months we have been contacting employers.  Bars that have hired our grads in the past, and new employers.  A good number of the specific job leads that graduates saw this summer came from all new employers using our placement service for the first time.

And yes there is still more….but if you really want to find out how we help more graduates land bartending positions than any other source you should visit.  The classes are dynamic, the atmosphere is active and fun and you can see a precise list of every grad who lands work, where the job is, and when it occurred.  Real people, real places, real dates.