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House Cleaner Duties, Skills & Responsibilities: a Guide for Employers

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When hiring House Cleaners, it’s important to properly describe the job opening with the duties, skills and responsibilities of the role. We’ve compiled a guide to House Cleaner Duties, Skills & Responsibilities using data from actual job postings on Indeed.

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Popular House Cleaner Duties and Skills

Here are some commonly found skills and other specifications in job postings for House Cleaners.

Cleaning

  • Definition : Experience cleaning, sanitizing, and organizing objects and spaces.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 36% of House Cleaner job postings on Indeed.

Customer service

  • Definition : Skill or experience assisting customers before, during, and after purchases to satisfy customer needs.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 16.2% of House Cleaner job postings on Indeed.

Sanitation

  • Definition : Skill or experience in sanitation.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 1.4% of House Cleaner job postings on Indeed.

Floor care

  • Definition : Experience cleaning, maintaining, and restoring floor surfaces.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 0
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.9% of House Cleaner job postings on Indeed.

Custodial experience

  • Definition : Experience maintaining commercial spaces through routine cleaning and light maintenance.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.5% of House Cleaner job postings on Indeed.

Residential cleaning

  • Definition : Skill or experience cleaning residential spaces.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.4% of House Cleaner job postings on Indeed.

Hotel experience

  • Definition : Skill or experience in working at hotels.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.4% of House Cleaner job postings on Indeed.

Laundry

  • Definition : Skill or experience in laundering clothes.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.3% of House Cleaner job postings on Indeed.

Cooking

  • Definition : Experience preparing food typically by combining, mixing, and heating ingredients.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.2% of House Cleaner job postings on Indeed.

Commercial cleaning

  • Definition : Skill or experience cleaning in commercial buildings, such as an office building, medical center, assisted living facility, hotel, entertainment venue, or store, often using industrial or commercial grade cleaning products or equipment.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.2% of House Cleaner job postings on Indeed.
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