Tuesday, 24 June 2014

How To Hire Qualified Housekeepers For Five-Star Hotels

Posted by Unknown at 13:17
By Elsa English


When it comes to hotel management, having quality housekeepers is essential. They are the human resource that will help you provide quality services to your guests. You have to staff your Downtown Colorado Springs hotels with the right staff members, especially housekeepers, so that you can offer a nice ambiance plus a luxurious room to your guests.

You have to be meticulous when it comes to hiring the best housekeepers in town. It is essential for you to hire the ones with the best qualifications for the job so that you can ensure quality work and services from them. If you are hiring already, here are those qualifications that you have to check before you actually hire a housekeeper.

The first thing you should consider is looking for a staffing agency. The good thing about hiring a staffing agency to do the hiring process for you is that you do not have to go through all the trouble of the hiring process. You can just leave it in the hands of the staffing agency. Once the hiring process is done, you will get applicants who meet your needs.

Another qualification to check is the license. Some professionals have a license while others have a certification. As an employer, it is a given for you to check on whether the applicants have either a license or a certification to back up their application to the position you are about to hire them for. The license or certification is the proof of their qualification for the job.

Ask applicants to give them a copy of a few government clearances. It is only natural for potential employees to get these government clearances so an employer should not hesitate to ask for them. The government clearances also serve as a proof of real identity for the applicants.

Know more about the housekeeper's experiences. It is better to hire someone with years of experience already. Even if that is just a year or two, they should already be helpful in keeping everything at the hotel clean and neat. Their experiences will come in handy when they are working for you.

Some employers might be better off hiring new graduates though. This is because you can personally train them according to your own standards of quality. You can also specifically hone them to your target market, business, and other standards that are meant for your own hotel. It should be a piece of cake for you to do that with the new graduates.

Do some background check for the applicants who pique your interest. You have to make sure that these housekeepers are of noble character. This is so that you can prevent having to hire those housekeepers that might contribute negative feedback to your hotel management. You have to hire the ones with the best characters, after all.

Be sure to interview your applicants before you actually make your final decision on who to hire. If you want to determine first what the applicant's personality is, you can just observe how they talk or how they answer during the interview. Usually, this is the time when you get a glimpse of the applicant's personality.




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