Overview & Salary

Overview

Assist patrons at hotel, apartment, or office building with personal services. May take messages; arrange or give advice on transportation, business services, or entertainment; or monitor guest requests for housekeeping and maintenance.

On the job, you would:

  • Provide directions to guests.
  • Make reservations for patrons, such as for dinner, spa treatments, or golf tee times, and obtain tickets to special events.
  • Provide information about local features, such as shopping, dining, nightlife, or recreational destinations.

Education

  • high school diploma/GED
  • some college

Salary

Annual 10th percentile $29,510
Annual median $37,150
Annual 90th percentile $57,270

Knowledge & Skills

Knowledge

Business

  • customer service
  • administrative services

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Engineering and Technology

  • computers and electronics

Transportation

  • movement of people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road

Skills

Basic Skills

  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • talking to others

Social

  • looking for ways to help people
  • understanding people's reactions

Personality & Abilities

Personality

Social

People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.

  • Attention to Detail
  • Integrity
  • Cooperation
  • Dependability
  • Adaptability/Flexibility
  • Initiative

Abilities

Verbal

  • communicate by speaking
  • listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

  • notice when problems happen
  • use rules to solve problems
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