Hotel housekeeper CV example
Housekeeping is measured on rooms per shift, hotel grade, and how you score in cleanliness audits.
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- Sector
- Hospitality and tourism
- Template used
- Lisbon
- ATS level
- ATS verified
- ATS keywords
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Sarah Bennett
Hotel housekeeper, four and five-star properties
sarah.bennett@mail.com · 07700 900147 · Brighton · linkedin.com/in/sarah
Professional summary
Housekeeper with seven years across four and five-star coastal and city hotels. I service 16 to 18 rooms per shift to brand standard, scored 97% in the last quality audit, and train seasonal starters.
Experience
Hotel housekeeper
Employer name · City · 2019 – Present
- Serviced 16 to 18 rooms per shift to brand standard
- Scored 97% in the internal housekeeping quality audit
- Trained 6 seasonal starters on room and linen procedure
Education
Qualification or certificate for the role
Training centre · Year
Skills
Room and bathroom cleaning | Linen change and bed setting | Minibar and amenity control | Chemical handling and dosing | Maintenance reporting | Guest discretion
Languages
- EnglishNative
- SpanishB1
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Professional headline
This is the line that decides whether they keep reading: a specific role and years of experience, never an adjective.
Hotel housekeeper, four and five-star properties
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Example professional summary
Three or four sentences with your specialism, one figure and your goal. It sits right under the headline.
Housekeeper with seven years across four and five-star coastal and city hotels. I service 16 to 18 rooms per shift to brand standard, scored 97% in the last quality audit, and train seasonal starters.
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Achievements that work in this role
Past-tense verb, what you did, measurable result. Three to five per role, strongest first.
- 01Serviced 16 to 18 rooms per shift to brand standard
- 02Scored 97% in the internal housekeeping quality audit
- 03Trained 6 seasonal starters on room and linen procedure
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Skills to include
Written as plain text: rating bars are invisible to automated filters.
- Room and bathroom cleaning
- Linen change and bed setting
- Minibar and amenity control
- Chemical handling and dosing
- Maintenance reporting
- Guest discretion
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ATS keywords
The terms filters search for in this role. Place them inside your experience, not in a list at the end.
- housekeeping
- rooms per shift
- linen
- brand standard
- hotel
Work them naturally into your experience — these are the terms screening software scans for.
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Tips for this CV
What separates a CV for this trade from a generic one.
- 01
State rooms per shift and the hotel grade — that's the productivity benchmark.
- 02
Mention audit scores if you know them; very few candidates provide any.
- 03
List full seasons with dates to show continuity rather than scattered days.
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What a hotel housekeeper CV is
Short definition, ready to quote.
A hotel housekeeper CV is the one or two page document used to apply for a hotel housekeeper role in hospitality and tourism: it brings together the professional headline, the profile summary, experience with measurable results and the competencies the trade expects you to evidence, such as Room and bathroom cleaning and Linen change and bed setting. Unlike a generic CV, it is ordered around what the applicant tracking system and the hiring manager look for in a hotel housekeeper: the words used in the advert and the numbers of the actual job.
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Keywords and where to place them
Each term works best in a specific place in the document. Repeating them all at the end scores nothing.
| Keyword | Where to place it |
|---|---|
| housekeeping | In the professional headline |
| rooms per shift | In the profile summary |
| linen | Inside an achievement with a figure |
| brand standard | In the skills list |
| hotel | In training or certifications |
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How this hotel housekeeper CV gets through the filters
What the example above does right, point by point.
- The headline reads «Hotel housekeeper, four and five-star properties»: the job title (hotel housekeeper) appears literally in the first line, not as a creative synonym.
- The trade's keywords —housekeeping, rooms per shift, linen— sit inside the experience and summary, where the filter reads them in context.
- Every achievement carries its figure. «Serviced 16 to 18 rooms per shift to brand standard» is the pattern to copy: volume, timeframe and result.
- Skills such as Room and bathroom cleaning, Linen change and bed setting, Minibar and amenity control are written as plain text, never as rating bars or stars, which no parser can read.
- The Lisbon template is single-column and rated ATS verified, so the sections come out in order.
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What hiring managers look for in a hotel housekeeper
The three points that separate two candidates in this trade.
Rooms per shift and type of clean
This is the number that defines the job. Separate departures from refreshes and give the figure: “16 departures or 24 refreshes across a 7-hour shift”. Without it, a head housekeeper cannot slot you into the rota.
Products, dilution and chemicals
Handling professional product is a technical skill: dilution, COSHH data sheets, the difference between cleaning and disinfection, and PPE. Say so, especially if you worked to enhanced protocols.
Linen, laundry and par stock
The role includes the service area, trolleys, amenity stock and maintenance reporting. If you held linen inventory or restocked to a set par level, that is responsibility and should read as such.
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Common mistakes on a hotel housekeeper CV
The ones that repeat in this role, each with its fix.
- 01
Writing “cleaning” and leaving it there
Cleaning a hotel room to a timed standard is nothing like cleaning an office. Spell out departures, refreshes, public areas and minutes per room: that is the productivity being hired.
- 02
Leaving out guest contact
Housekeepers meet guests, take requests and find lost property. Discretion, lost-property procedure and incident reporting are part of the job and almost never appear on the CV.
- 03
Skipping health and safety
It is physical work with a high injury rate. If you have manual handling, COSHH or ergonomics training, list it: employers care, and it protects you.
- 04
Unexplained gaps between seasons
The work is seasonal by nature. Group seasons by property and years (“2022-2025 seasons, 180-room hotel”) rather than leaving stray months that read as walking out.
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What a hotel housekeeper earns
So you can tell whether an advert is at market rate before applying.
- Usual range
- Typically £11.44-£12.60 an hour, sometimes with a per-room rate on top
- What moves the figure
- London and large branded hotels sit at the top of the band; seasonal contracts often add accommodation rather than a higher rate.
- Where the figure comes from
- Ranges observed in UK housekeeping adverts through 2026, benchmarked against the National Living Wage.
Frequently asked
Questions about a hotel housekeeper CV
- What if I have never worked in a hotel?
- Domestic, care home or office cleaning counts as experience if you describe it in the same language: area covered, number of rooms, professional product and time per space. Then one line on seasonal availability.
- How many rooms are expected per shift?
- It varies by property, but 14 to 18 departures a shift is the common range, higher when they are refreshes. Give your real figure: a high one proves pace, and a low one usually means a higher-grade hotel with a longer standard.
- Do I need a certificate?
- No mandatory qualification, but COSHH, manual handling and ergonomics training set the CV apart, and branded hotels often add their own standards training.
- Is it worth saying I drive?
- Yes. Many hotels sit outside town with shifts starting before the first bus, so your own transport and shift flexibility work as selection criteria in practice.
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