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What they do

goSTOPS runs backpacker hostels in India. Its postings say Pallavi Agarwal and Pankaj Parwanda founded it in 2014 and that it has hosted more than 500,000 travellers across 32 locations. It leases budget hotels, converts them, and runs them as hostels. Postings name tourist towns such as Agra, Goa, Manali, Jaipur, Rishikesh, Leh, Varanasi, and Fort Kochi.

What they value

• Welcoming a guest well, which is the first duty in most postings.
• Running a whole property, which branch manager postings call end-to-end ownership.
• Serving travellers aged roughly 18 to 30, which postings describe as the audience.
• Being a full-stack operator that leases and transforms buildings itself.
• Hiring people with one or two years of experience, which most postings ask for.

Where they hire

All 29 postings are in India, at the hostels themselves. Kasol holds six, Bangalore four, and Alibag four. Mussoorie, Delhi, Goa Baga, and Goa Vagator hold three each. Bangalore is the office, and the rest are properties in tourist towns in the hills and on the coast. No posting is remote.

Teams and roles

This is a small board, and almost all of it is the front desk of a hostel.

• Front desk: 20 postings, the largest group by far. These are guest relations executives who check guests in and out.
• Front office: six postings, which overlap with the front desk and cover bookings and records.
• Branch management: senior manager postings that run one property, its housekeeping and security teams, and its vendors.
• Engineering, community, and food and beverage: one posting each.
• Experience: postings ask for one to four years, with most at one to two, so the board suits people early in a hospitality career.

What they look for

Front desk postings list the tasks plainly and ask for no degree. The senior guest relations posting asks you to greet and welcome guests, perform check-ins and check-outs, answer the phone and redirect calls, keep files and records updated, maintain documents and spreadsheets, handle bookkeeping and invoices, and carry out inventory work. Branch manager postings ask for more: owning end-to-end operations for the property, managing housekeeping and security teams, coordinating vendors for food and housekeeping services, and dealing with guest requirements directly. Every posting opens with the same company profile, so the brand and its expansion plan are the context for all of them. The experience range is printed on each posting rather than buried in the text.