Part of your responsibility as a hotel manager is cost control. Share a time when you made a positive impact on the bottom line.

Cost control management is an important part of being a hotel manager. The interviewer needs you to understand that containing costs will be a necessary part of the job. Think about a time when you were involved in the process of controlling expenditure control. Be confident in your skillset and attention to detail.

"In my previous job, we worked at finding a purveyor for toiletries that allowed us to reduce our expenses by about 14%. I was happy to have worked with the head of their company to negotiate the best deal we could."