One Way to Get A Job At A Hostel and Why You Should

i'm going to talk about how you can get a job at a hostel if you're traveling with very limited budget or you find a place that you like the look of you want to stay a bit longer and reduce your expenditure hey just before the video starts i've written a little guide on remote working uh it's free you can check it out in the description just talks about why you'd want to do this what to look for in a job a couple of recommendations for platforms so you can find one i think it's the best way to live so if i can help more people do it amazing enjoy the video it's a pretty wonderful view of the mountains over there i've always had this dream that i wanted to open a hostel but i realized i've only stayed at them i haven't actually worked in one and so i said to myself right i'm gonna go get a job at a hostel and just find out how it actually works the very next day i'm staying here and a girl doing the reception job eight in the morning until two she leaves and i've been talking to the guys here and they said you want to take the job literally a day after i said i need to get a job at a hostel to find out how to run one and so i took it on the job comes with all the meals or you get your room like a nice private room shared with another person who's also working here it's a close-knit team and a family it's been a very nice experience but i want to talk about how you can actually do this yourself or one way you can do it because there's other places like work away there's a website specifically for like getting jobs like this is volunteering but one way that you can do it especially to get to know the place before you try and get a job is to just turn up at the hostel be nice talkative respectful polite interesting find out if there's a position by talking to the people that are actually working here already and then ask say i want to stay around here for a while do you have something that i could do in the hostel and stay a lot of places have high turnover and they're always taking people on some countries you're not really allowed to work so you have to be a bit careful about that but if you just want to get some experience and you maybe want to stay a bit longer somewhere great way to go and a great way to do that is just to talk to people find out who is running it get to know them these hostels they're usually pretty family orientated i don't mean family orientated like people coming with their families i mean family orientated as in the team bonds together like a family and that's a very nice environment so like the the reception job is one that you might get and your responsibilities are going to be checking people in checking them out showing them the room that they're staying in dealing with their problems if they have some if you are at a hostel and they're running tours like there's activities in the area like boat trips or um i don't know like you can go see the canyon there's a place here called palmukali which is some salt springs you can show people those tours you can say yeah we organize these tours maybe you get a commission payment maybe they send you on the tour as well because how can you really sell it if you haven't been on it yourself you also get your room and so if you're staying somewhere and you're volunteering they're going to give you accommodation they're likely to give you food as well and maybe a discount in the bar if you like a beer it's a really good way of staying somewhere the actual financial reimbursement if you if you calculate how much you work for the kind of price of the room it's not going to be the same as if you're getting a job somewhere like england like it's just not the same but the other things that you take out of it like the experience of learning how this all works if you want to do it yourself one day meeting people being the first to greet people getting customer service experience there's so much that you get out of it that the money side of it's not really a not a big factor and if you are the type of person where let's say you want to go traveling right now and you haven't saved up money this could be an option for you you could get out of your country go and volunteer all of your accommodation is paid for and maybe you're trying to get a remote job so you come out here you work you get your room paid for your expenses are basically zero especially if you don't have any debt that you're paying off your expenses are basically zero and that gives you the time that you need to get yourself a remote job while you're traveling so don't feel like oh i have to be stuck in my country if i before i got a job i can't leave before i have a job you can do something like this if you need to i mean come on look at this that's pretty nice that's pretty nice so yeah that's one way of doing it meet people here find out if you like the like the place talk to people be social be polite show that you're pretty smart you can think on your feet you can even you can even practice on a booking system and say yeah i know how to check people in and i have to check people out and then just ask say can i stay here for a while do you have a job for me sometimes it'll be building maintenance could be cleaning there is a there is a shift which is not very nice but if you're really desperate and you really want to do it you could pick up the night shift probably not the best one to do working nights in my opinion it's not so good but i understand that people have to do it i prefer to be out and awake during the day rather than sleeping yeah reception job at a hostel especially if you want to learn how a hostel actually runs because you want to make your own great thing to do