How to hire a Travel Service Consultant

How to hire a travel service consultant, step by step

Here's a step-by-step travel service consultant hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a travel service consultant job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new travel service consultant
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   Before you post your travel service consultant job, you should take the time to determine what type of worker your business needs. While certain jobs definitely require a full-time employee, it's sometimes better to find a travel service consultant for hire on a part-time basis or as a contractor.

   Determine Employee vs Contractor Status

   Is the person you're thinking of hiring a US citizen or green card holder?

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   A travel service consultant's background is also an important factor in determining whether they'll be a good fit for the position. For example, travel service consultants from different industries or fields will have radically different experiences and will bring different viewpoints to the role. You also need to consider the candidate's previous level of experience to make sure they'll be comfortable with the job's level of seniority.

   This list shows salaries for various types of travel service consultants.

   Type Of Travel Service Consultant	Description	Hourly Rate
   Travel Service Consultant	Travel agents sell transportation, lodging, and entertainment activities to individuals and groups planning trips. They offer advice on destinations, plan trip itineraries, and make travel arrangements for clients... Show More	$18-39
   Corporate Travel Agent	A corporate travel agent assists people in planning, choosing, and arranging holidays. Corporate travel agents will work to the budget set out by those planning the holiday... Show More	$12-21
   Travel Manager	The duties of a travel manager depend on their industry or place of employment. In general, they are in charge of making travel plans and arrangements for an organization's work-related trips... Show More	$21-47

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common Skills:

   • Customer Service
   • Booking
   • Reservations
   • Travel Arrangements
   • Travel Industry
   • Airline Reservations
   • Car Rentals
   • International Travel

   Responsibilities:

   • Demonstrate expert knowledge of Apollo GDS booking system and manage GetThere/Concur queues and ticketing.
   • Manage special projects including off-site meeting support for VIP meeting attendees requiring last minute travel changes.
   • Manage corporate travel arrangements for business accounts, including passport and visa documents.
   • Serve as a travel agent, booking domestic travel services, airline reservations, car rentals, domestic and international vacations.
   • Assist world perk members with booking reservations and update tickets.
   • Assist members in making reservations for current and future travel using sales techniques.

3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in your travel service consultant job description is a great way to entice the best and brightest candidates. A travel service consultant salary can vary based on several factors:

   • Location. For example, travel service consultants' average salary in nebraska is 52% less than in california.
   • Seniority. Entry-level travel service consultants earn 54% less than senior-level travel service consultants.
   • Certifications. A travel service consultant with a few certifications under their belt will likely demand a higher salary.
   • Company. Working for a prestigious company or an exciting start-up can make a huge difference in a travel service consultant's salary.

   Average travel service consultant salary

   $55,934yearly

   $26.89 hourly rate

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   Entry-level travel service consultant salary

   $38,000 yearly salary

   Updated January 26, 2025

4. Writing a Travel Service Consultant Job Description

   A travel service consultant job description should include a summary of the role, required skills, and a list of responsibilities. It's also good to include a salary range and the first name of the hiring manager. To help get you started, here's an example of a travel service consultant job description:

   Travel Service Consultant job description example

   Low Travel Oracle Cloud Managed Services Senior Consultant Role
   
   As an Oracle Diamond partner, our team is an ecosystem of imaginative, collaborative and innovative professionals who thrive in long term relationships with clients. Our Managed Services act as an extension to client's organizations by bringing deep capabilities in advising, maintaining and enhancing technologies to serve alongside client teams to deliver insights across flexible economic models that align cost to consumption, delivery to realized outcomes and engagement accountability to a truly collaborative partnership. Come join us!
   
   The Work You'll Do
   
   As a Senior Consultant you will be leading teams focusing on a specific workstream with a group of talented professionals throughout our global network. You will work closely with the client and a senior lead at Deloitte to identify areas of enhancement, maintain systems and develop long-term relationships.
   
   The Team
   
   We are fun! Our team is global and brings together a multitude of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. We collaborate to solve complex business challenges while still managing to enjoy virtual ice cream socials, pizza parties and coffee chats.
   
   Our projects utilize our talents across manufacturing, financial, HR, CRM, procurement, order management, supply chain, and other business needs leveraging the full suite of Oracle products (i.e. Oracle EBS, ERP Cloud, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Edge Products).
   
   Required Qualifications:
   
   + 4 + years of Oracle experience
   
   + 2 + years project implementation experience
   
   + 1+ years Oracle SaaS Cloud experience
   
   + Experience with Oracle financial and/or supply chain products
   
   + Experience with ERP Operations and associated Boundary Applications
   
   + Experience in multi-technology and multi-application environment
   
   + Experience in support roles in a multi- technology environment (ex. ERP, Reporting and Business Intelligence, CRM, Database Administration, SOA and B2B)
   
   + Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience
   
   + Ability to travel up to 25%, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
   
   + Limited immigration sponsorship may be available
   
   Preferred Qualifications:
   
   + Master's degree
   
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   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

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5. Post your job

   There are a few common ways to find travel service consultants for your business:

   • Promoting internally or recruiting from your existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals from friends, family members, and current employees.
   • Attend job fairs at local colleges to meet candidates with the right educational background.
   • Use social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to recruit passive job-seekers.

   To find travel service consultant candidates, you can consider the following options:

   • Post your job opening on Zippia or other job search websites.
   • Use niche websites that focus on engineering and technology jobs, such as salesjobs, salesheads, allretailjobs.com, sales trax.
   • Post your job on free job posting websites.

6. Interview candidates

   Recruiting travel service consultants requires you to bring your A-game to the interview process. The first interview should introduce the company and the role to the candidate as much as they present their background experience and reasons for applying for the job. During later interviews, you can go into more detail about the technical details of the job and ask behavioral questions to gauge how they'd fit into your current company culture.

   It's also good to ask about candidates' unique skills and talents to see if they match your ideal candidate profile. If you think a candidate is good enough for the next step, you can move on to the technical interview.

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new travel service consultant

   Once you've decided on a perfect travel service consultant candidate, it's time to write an offer letter. In addition to salary, it should include benefits and perks available to the employee. Qualified candidates may be considered for other positions, so make sure your offer is competitive. Candidates may wish to negotiate. Once you've settled on the details, formalize your agreement with a contract.

   You should also follow up with applicants who don't get the job with an email letting them know that you've filled the position.

   After that, you can create an onboarding schedule for a new travel service consultant. Human Resources and the hiring manager should complete Employee Action Forms. Human Resources should also ensure that onboarding paperwork is completed, including I-9s, benefits enrollment, federal and state tax forms, etc., and that new employee files are created.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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