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Reception Manager

OFO Code: 141103

Last checked 7 October 2026

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1. Occupation identity

OFO code
141103
Occupation
Reception Manager
Classification
OFO 2021
Major group
MANAGERS
Unit group
1411 · Hotel Managers

Official description
Hotel managers plan, organize and direct the operations of hotels, motels and similar establishments to provide guest accommodation and other services.

More official OFO detail
  • Directing and overseeing reservation, reception, room service and housekeeping activities
  • Controlling selection, training and supervision of staff
  • Undertaking budgeting for the establishment
  • Observing liquor, gaming, and other laws and regulations
  • Providing guests with local tourism information, and arranging tours and transportation
  • Ensuring compliance with occupational health and safety regulations
  • Supervising security arrangements, and garden and property maintenance
  • Assessing and reviewing customer satisfaction
  • Planning and supervising bar, restaurant, function and conference activities
  • Overseeing accounting and purchasing activities

2. Demand status

Demand evidence unavailable

No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.

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3. Salary evidence

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5. Qualification

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7. Industry, sector and provincial context

National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.

No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.

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9. Decision tools

10. Sources for this page

  • DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
    Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact.
  • DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
    The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment.
  • Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
    Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone.
  • QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
    Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review.
  • Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
    Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim.
  • SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
    PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.
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