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Hotel porters welcome guests, take their luggage and show them to their rooms. They also answer guests' questions about hotel services.
You could work: evenings / weekends / bank holidays; on split shifts
As a hotel porter, you could:
In some hotels, you may have extra duties, for example, acting as a point of contact as a night concierge.
You may need to wear a uniform.
You could work in a hotel.
Your working environment may be physically demanding.
You can get into this job through:
You can take a college course before you look for work, like:
You can apply to do a Hospitality Accommodation Team Member Level 2 Intermediate Apprenticeship, with a hotel.
This usually takes 1 year to complete and combines on-the-job training and study with a learning provider.
You'll usually need:
You could start work as a kitchen assistant, cleaner or part of the bar staff in a hotel and switch to become a porter once you have some experience in the hospitality industry.
You can apply directly to hotel companies for jobs. Experience in customer service will be very useful though not always essential, as you will get training once you start.
Employers will be interested in your personal qualities and will expect you to be hardworking, honest and a reliable timekeeper.
With experience, you could become a head porter, leading a small team, or a concierge, working front of house.
With training, you could move into other areas of hotel work, such as bar and restaurant service or events.