Hotel Room Attendant CV Examples & Writing Guide

This sample is for a room attendant with seven years in London hotels, from an aparthotel to a 1,000-room city-centre hotel. Every job gives the hotel size, the rooms-per-shift number, and an inspection or safety result, which is exactly what a head housekeeper reads for. The name and hotels are made up.

Room attendant hiring is done by the head housekeeper (executive housekeeper in larger hotels) or housekeeping manager, often the same week, and often for several vacancies at once. They know the job is physical and repetitive, and they have been let down by no-shows. They read for four things.

• Can you keep the pace? Rooms per shift, stated plainly. Many UK hotels expect around 13 to 16 rooms in an 8-hour shift depending on room size and brand; luxury hotels and resorts expect fewer rooms cleaned to a higher standard. Say your number and the type of hotel.
• Do your rooms pass? Inspection pass rate, brand audit results, guest cleanliness scores or the absence of complaints. This is the quality half of the job.
• Will you turn up? Housekeeping runs seven days a week and departure days do not move. Weekend and bank holiday availability and an attendance record are the third thing they look for, and often the reason they call.
• Are you safe? COSHH and chemical handling, body fluid and sharps procedures, manual handling and trolley safety, key control and guest privacy. Housekeeping is one of the most physically demanding jobs in a hotel, so a clean safety record matters.

“Give me rooms per shift and your inspection scores, and tell me you can work Sundays. I can teach the cleaning sequence in a week. I cannot teach someone to show up.”

A personal statement (two or three lines about what you have done) suits anyone with hotel housekeeping experience. A career objective (what you bring and what you want) suits a first hotel job or a move from domestic cleaning or another field. Use one, put a number in it, and state your availability.

Job adverts list the same duties everywhere: clean allocated rooms, change linen, restock amenities, report maintenance, follow safety rules. Your CV should show how many, how well and how safely. Here is each core duty as a bullet you can adapt. Change the numbers to yours.

List 10 to 14 skills. Cleaning tasks first, then safety and chemicals, then systems, then physical requirements and languages. Adverts list physical requirements as essentials, so state them plainly.

• Guest room cleaning to brand standard: departure and stayover service, bed making and triple-sheeting, bathroom sanitising, dusting, vacuuming, glass and mirror cleaning
• Amenity and linen restocking, trolley set-up and par levels, minibar checks if your hotel has them
• Deep cleaning: carpet extraction, mattress turning, upholstery, high dusting, vents
• Chemical safety: COSHH, reading labels and safety data sheets, dosing systems (Ecolab, Diversey), contact times, personal protective equipment
• Body fluid spill procedures, sharps handling, infection control and biohazard room protocol
• Housekeeping software and handhelds: HotSOS, Optii, or the brand's room-status app; radios
• Lost property procedures, guest privacy, key card and master key security, do-not-disturb rules
• Physical: manual handling up to 25 kg, pushing a loaded trolley, standing and bending for an 8-hour shift
• Turndown and VIP service (luxury and resort hotels)
• Laundry: industrial washers and dryers, folding, linen par counts (if you rotated through laundry)
• Languages: English plus Spanish, Polish, Portuguese or another language, with your level

Soft skills that matter in housekeeping are reliability, working alone without supervision, honesty with guests' belongings, and staying polite when a guest wants the room now. Show them in your bullets (attendance, lost property, guest comments) rather than in a list.

No licence or qualification is required to work as a room attendant in the UK. Hotels train you on their cleaning sequence and chemicals in the first week. Still, a few lines in a Training section show you are safe to put on a floor on day one.

• Employer training you completed: brand cleanliness programme, room sequence sign-off, COSHH, body fluid spills and sharps, manual handling, fire safety. List the hotel type and the year; refreshers are usually annual.
• IOSH Working Safely or a short COSHH awareness course. Not required, but some hotel groups and recruitment agencies like it. Each usually takes a day or less.
• Emergency First Aid at Work, if you have it. Give the year, as certificates last three years.
• A hospitality qualification or apprenticeship, such as a Level 2 hospitality apprenticeship with a housekeeping focus, if you have done one. List the exact name from your certificate.
• Education: GCSEs, especially English and maths, are the usual line. Most adverts do not ask for any; if you have none, leave the line off rather than drawing attention to it.
• Trade union membership does not go on a CV.

Room attendant is one of the most common first jobs in hotels, and most adverts ask only for the ability to handle loads safely, stand for a full shift, work weekends and pass a right-to-work check. Your CV has to prove you can clean to a standard, keep a pace and turn up.

1. 1Put "Room Attendant" (or the advert's title) under your name, not "Student" or "Cashier".
2. 2Write a two-line career objective that names your cleaning experience (paid or not), the physical requirements you meet, and the shifts you can work.
3. 3Turn any cleaning into experience: domestic cleaning for clients, office or school cleaning, restaurant closing duties, student halls or community hall cleaning, looking after a relative's home. Give a number: homes per day, square metres, rooms, hours.
4. 4Pull pace and reliability proof from other jobs: fast food, shelf stacking, warehouse, farm work. "Worked every weekend for two years" is a housekeeping qualification.
5. 5Add a short skills list: bathroom sanitising, laundry, vacuuming and floor care, reading COSHH labels, manual handling, Spanish or another language.
6. 6State your availability: "Available weekends, bank holidays and late shifts." One page, no photo, PDF. Many hotels also accept CVs handed in at reception for the housekeeping manager; bring two printed copies.

• One page. Housekeeping managers read these standing in a linen room.
• Order: header with target title, personal statement or career objective, skills, experience, training, education. Put an availability line right under the header.
• For each hotel give the room count and type (resort, full-service, limited-service, aparthotel, boutique). Say your rooms-per-shift in the first bullet.
• Plain single-column layout like the cvplex ats-classic template, black text, no icons, no photo. Many housekeeping applications are printed or filled in on a tablet, so keep it simple.
• Dates by month and year. Seasonal work, agency assignments and moves between hotels are normal in this job; list agency work as "via [agency]" with the hotel type so short stints read as one history.
• If English is your second language, it is fine to write short bullets. Clear and short beats long and wrong. Have someone check the spelling of chemical and system names.
• Save as PDF, named Firstname-Lastname-Room-Attendant-CV.pdf, unless the application asks for Word.

Words to mirror from the advert when they are true for you: room attendant, housekeeper, guest rooms, departures, stayovers, brand standards, cleanliness, inspection, linen, amenities, trolley, chemicals, COSHH, safety data sheets, lost property, maintenance requests, room status, deep cleaning, turndown, manual handling, weekends, bank holidays, team player, attention to detail (and then prove it with an inspection score).