Globally, hospitality industry has one motto for hiring, “Hire for attitude, train for skill ’. Since employees’ attitude plays such an important part in the service industry, personality of the candidate becomes an important criterion for hiring. The scores of personality assessments show high ‘validity’ in predicting the success of the candidate in the Hospitality industry. The objective criteria consist of assessments in cognitive skills and personality testing. For the Front Office, F&B and Sales profile, our research shows that out of Cognitive skills, English and out of Personality traits, Interpersonal Relations and Customer Orientation show strongest correlation to efficiency of Hotel Management trainee. While for Housekeeping profile, Attention to Detail and Comfort with Repetitive work shows a strong correlation. Organizational efficiency can be improved by as much as 25% by using objective and criterion-validated benchmarks on standardized assessments.