A Certain Je Ne Sai Quoi

The timeshare industry is experiencing unprecedented growth and increasingly higher standards. Consumers are also increasingly educated about what's out there and have high expectations for the services they receive.

How Do Timeshares Work?

On the surface, it's a pretty easy concept. When you buy timeshares you are really buying the right to use a resort during a particular time period. Types of ownership may vary, however. Today's offerings include items such as points based (you exchange the points you purchased for a suite), fixed (you purchase the use of one week during the same period each year), floating (you purchase one week available during a certain time of year), and fractional.

Fractionals are the new kid on the block. Fractional timeshare sales usually involve multiple weeks or months in a location. Developers are also designing fractionals with the high-end client in mind.

You Are the Navigator of Your Career

Timeshare jobs offer all the traditional hospitality industry standards you would expect. These include positions in housekeeping, administration, food services, and the like. Additionally though, there's also room for people interested in sales. If you don't mind being assertive with your clients, maybe a career giving sales presentations is for you.

Perhaps you're already a real estate broker looking for a change? You can work in a transfer my timeshare office or as a resale broker.

If you'd rather, you can also work in a rental office on telephone lines. There are a host of opportunities to explore.

As mentioned before, fractionals present an opportunity for the highest levels of service. Some fractionals offer stand alone mini mansions for owners or pent house suites in high rises. Each comes with a high bar when it comes to service.

It takes a person with specialized skill sets to perform the kind of dedicated, 24-hour service that clients expect and that the timeshare resort promises. If you are a personal concierge you may find yourself stocking the fridge with favorite snacks for your client's children. Or your client may call you at 11 p.m. to throw together some drinks and hors d'oeuvres for an after-hours get together with your clients' new friends.

You really have to be ready for anything. That's part of what makes it such an unusual and fulfilling career.

Even if you work for a small company, you still need the wherewithal to remember details of your client's lives to make what may be their only vacation that year a pleasant one.

Have Job - Will Travel

Where do you want to live? Someplace vibrant with the synergy of a 24-hour go-go pace? Maybe your idea of paradise is a resort that takes a 2 hour trek through the jungle to get to? How about working in a mega-exclusive timeshare in Dubai? Maybe you'd like the quiet comfort of waking up every day in a seaside Maine town? Whatever type of environment you like to live in, chances are there's a resort not too far away.