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Locker Room, Coatroom, and Dressing Room Attendants

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What do locker room, coatroom, and dressing room attendants do?

Provide personal items to patrons or customers in locker rooms, dressing rooms, or coatrooms.

This describes a U.S. occupation, not a live vacancy. Individual employers may use different titles and requirements.

Job titles to recognize in your search

O*NET reports these titles for this occupation. Compare the responsibilities in each posting before treating titles as equivalent.

  • Attendant
  • Coat Check Attendant
  • Coat Checker
  • Coat Room Attendant
  • Fitting Room Attendant
  • Ladies Locker Room Attendant
  • Locker Attendant
  • Locker Room Attendant

Core tasks to compare with a job posting

  • Clean facilities such as floors or locker rooms.
  • Provide towels and sheets to clients in public baths, steam rooms, and restrooms.
  • Collect soiled linen or clothing for laundering.
  • Refer guest problems or complaints to supervisors.
  • Maintain a lost-and-found collection.
  • Clean and polish footwear, using brushes, sponges, cleaning fluid, polishes, waxes, liquid or sole dressing, and daubers.
  • Check supplies to ensure adequate availability, and order new supplies when necessary.
  • Report and document safety hazards, potentially hazardous conditions, and unsafe practices and procedures.
  • Maintain inventories of clothing or uniforms, accessories, equipment, or linens.
  • Monitor patrons' facility use to ensure that rules and regulations are followed, and safety and order are maintained.

Prepare an application for this occupation

  1. Check the employer’s requirements, location, schedule and any licenses against your situation.
  2. Choose two or three tasks above that match the posting and your actual experience.
  3. Build a resume evidence worksheet using the skills and software relevant to that employer.
  4. Practice explaining your contribution, decisions and results before an interview.

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