As a housekeeping specialist with a Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training (VET Diploma), you will be employed in hospitals, care homes, hotels, restaurants or (large) family households.

With a Federal Certificate of Vocational Education and Training as a housekeeping trainee Federal VET Diploma, your apprenticeship as a housekeeping specialist Federal VET Diploma is shortened to two years.

The vocational education and training (VET) (Federal VET Diploma) in housekeeping takes three years.

Federal VET Diploma housekeeping specialists are responsible for welcoming, advising and serving customers, residents and patients, organizing and running events, setting and decorating tables and buffets and carrying out service work. Federal VET Diploma housekeeping specialists clean rooms and facilities, prepare them and look after the plants, prepare simple meals, create menus, distribute the food and are responsible for organizing the washing up. A Federal VET Diploma housekeeping specialist also takes care of laundry cleaning and laundry supplies as well as various administrative tasks.

After completing an apprenticeship as a housekeeping specialist Federal VET Diploma, it is advisable to work for a few years before continuing your specific training, for example with courses, training programs or federal examinations. Federal Professional Examinations (FPE) are possible, for example, to become a hotel housekeeping manager with a Federal Diploma of Higher Education, a building cleaning specialist with a Federal Diploma of Higher Education, a maintenance manager with a Federal Diploma of Higher Education, a farmer's household manager with a Federal Diploma of Higher Education or a household manager with a Federal Diploma of Higher Education. It is also possible to attend a College of Higher Education, for example to become a certified hotelier-restaurateur CHE or a certified operations manager in facility management, as well as Bachelor's degree courses, for example in facility management (only with a Matura).