You will be accountable for the smooth operation of your establishment as an accommodation manager.
This include watching over budgets, maintaining standards of upkeep and cleanliness, and fixing any issues as soon as they arise.
Additionally, you must guarantee that your personnel is properly led and managed.
A significant portion of the job is managing people, and increasingly, housing managers must oversee workers that work for outside contractors rather than internal teams.
Depending on the industry, job titles change.
For instance, accommodation managers are sometimes referred to as housekeepers or housekeeping managers in hotels, domestic bursars or hall managers in dorms, and domestic services or facilities managers in hospitals.
Develop and foster positive connections with residents, renters, and guests to ensure the seamless operation of lodging facilities, including the safety and wellness of visitors, residents, and tenants; manage finances and stock levels; and place orders for supplies.
In order to organize and prepare the allocation of accommodations, speak with the reception services.
Communicate with other organizational departments, such as the convention food department, and pertinent outside organizations.
Plan for facility upkeep and repairs.
Examine the lodging to make sure that cleanliness and health and safety standards are fulfilled, doing risk assessments as appropriate, supervising the work of the cleaning personnel to ensure standards are maintained, and making sure the facility has adequate security.
Participate in the construction and renovation of residential facilities.
Required Personality Traits
Being a great motivator
Ability to share and educate
Communicating at every level
Being a great listener
Being a great collaborator
Being decisive.
Always striving to improve.
What Skills Do I Require?
Powerful communication abilities
Superior client service abilities
IT abilities and experience with databases and spreadsheets for data analysis, as well as the capacity to lead others, assign tasks, and collaborate in teams
Talents in budgeting and financial planning
Supervisory or leadership skills the capacity to maintain goodwill and diplomacy, to think quickly under pressure, and to maintain composure under pressure flexibility and adaptation with sound organizational abilities
The capacity to function under pressure and resolve issues
A focus on precision and details
Knowledge of pertinent policies and procedures (such as contract, housing or employment law, health and safety, cleanliness practises, and waste management) is advantageous. You should also have plenty of energy and stamina.
Work Opportunities
Hotels
Lodges
Guesthouse, etc.
Internship
Yes, many organizations offer internships in this program.
Other Job Details
Is transferable job
No
Fixed/flexible work hours
Fixed
Office/field Job
Hotels
Requires outstation travel
Yes
Works in shifts
Yes
Requires computer knowledge
Basic
Requires spoken english
Basic
Requires written english
Basic
Growth Prospects
To earn the necessary expertise to advance to manager level, you’ll likely begin your career as an assistant manager. Once in a management position, professional advancement typically occurs to larger businesses, which offer more chances and frequently more responsibility. Being geographically mobile is advantageous since it gives you access to additional possibilities.
The next stage in a career is frequently to become a general manager, in charge of managing an entire hotel, residential service, or estates section. A general manager’s responsibilities include planning, strategy, and profitability, and they are significantly more business-oriented.
Alternately, you can leverage your business management knowledge and expertise to transition sideways into a management position within a different department of your company or within the larger hospitality or business sector
National Council of Hotel Management and Catering Technology Joint Entrance Examination (NCHMCT JEE) is a national level hotel management entrance exam that offers admission to qualifying candidates on basis of their rank and preference of institute to 51 hotel management institutes located in different states.
NCHMCT JEE scores are valid for 21 Central Institutes, 14 State Government Institutes and 15 private institutes of Hotel Management.
NCHMCT JEE will be conducted jointly with National Council of Hotel Management and Catering Technology and Indira Gandhi National Open University.
International Institute of Hotel Management Electronic Common Hospitality Admission Test (e-CHAT)
AIMA UGAT BHM: All India Management Association (AIMA) conducts Under Graduate Aptitude Test (UGAT) at national/ international level to offer admission to qualifying candidates at one of the participating institutes.