As head concierge, you're probably going to be working in a four or five star hotel and you're definitely going to be the first stop for guests wanting information on the hotel and its services, says the team at Chess Partnership. More pressingly, they're going to be pumping you for the inside track on local travel, entertainment, restaurants, clubs – and much more.
It's unlikely you'll get bored. Guests will inevitably call on you to sort out some pretty interesting conundrums - anything from sourcing a pair of shoes for a panicking bridegroom, to organising helicopter flights for a VIP, to (in one famous case at least) procuring condoms for a guest at 3am.