Was this a bad thing to put on my Resume I submitted on an application?

Question

I'm 16 years old and I have no job experience. I have never had a job before either. I was filling out this application for Tim Hortons and on the bottom part, where I could make a resume. I dont even know how to make a resume. I dropped out of 9th grade last fall. This year sometime (this fall or early next year) im gonna go to nightschool to study and get my GED.

But I put on the resume part, that "i dropped out of high school" and I explained my situation about going to nightschool to study and get my GED. I then said "I figured out by appling for this position, it would be fun to cook or whatever you do, and learn some life experience doing this". I also said, "I have no experiences but with a little bit of training, I think I will do good"

I filled out the application for "production employee" at Tim Hortons part time.

I just wanted to let them know that i'm not some bum dropout. I wanted to let them know I really have a brain and dropping out wasnt my fault!

Answer 1

You need to come up with a description other than social anxiety. Business anxiety is even worse because you are serving a fickle public who expects perfection just to leave a minimum 15% tip.

Even with a diploma as the implied minimum for almost any position, that is not an employers primary concern. Not only did you not graduate, you didn't even go through the motions for the last three years. Regardless of the reason, a manager does not want to be short on a peak or holiday shift because of something as general and ambiguous as anxiety.

Without at least a diploma, and a GED is not a substute, you will need an established and exemplary tenure before they consider your brain, but it can be done. My youngest brother was in the same situation and eventually became, mainly due to opportunities provided by his eventual father-in-law, a supervisor in a middle market power company. Still, it's performance that keeps a job, not the referral.

It might be better to acknowlege the questionable decision without any details and solicit a mentoring atmosphere as you comeplete your equivalency studies. Good Luck.