Would you Hire Me??

Question

EXPERIENCE:

July, 2006- Riverview Cineplex

September, 2006

Demonstrating Customer Service skills with operating the Till.

Handling Costumer Complaints

Duties include Handling Food, Cleaning and Restock of all items

October, 2007 Kingland Ford

Inventory

Duties include counting, cleaning and numbers

Late Hours

2005- Babysitter

Present

Duties include taking care of children, changing diapers, feeding, Bathing, putting children to bed and keeping them entertained.

Responsible for childrens safety

Late Hours

Volenteer Work: Harry Camsell - Working with children to learn course subjects, Gym Class, Extra Help with Teachers

Childrens Carnavil - Tatooing, Cleaning, Smiling

plus+ i have my DOB and my school education and also my references!

Answer 1

To work in a preschool??? No, I would not hire you. Keeping a child entertained is different from teaching a child.

Answer 2

yes

Answer 3

two conditions:

1) must live in singapore

2) must be able to breast feed

Answer 4

Depends on your professionalism when I saw you and for what job you are wanting to apply for.  Resumes only account for so much.

Answer 5

What kind of job are you looking for?  If it is with children, you have not done anything other then baby-sit.  I am a preschool teacher, and I have only had the job for 6 months.  I interviewed for the same job twice. The first time I was turned down, because I did not have enough experience.  I had my bachelors in psychology with a minor in early childhood.  I interviewed again after I started working more in that age group, and then I was hired.  So if you are going into a preschool job, you might need more current experience.

Answer 6

Hire you for what?  And a large part of working with Children has to do with 'gut' feeling.  A deep sense of trust in someone who will be taking care of one's children.  

Not sure if that helped you any.  But it's much more then just your resume if you are looking to work with children.

Answer 7

Nobody's ever going to hire you based simply off a resume.  A resume can get you in the door for an interview and it is a great starting point.  The more experience you have also plays a role in getting you an interview.

I'm assuming since your work history really started in 2006, you're fairly young.  Since you don't have a degree listed, you're probably either looking for an assistant teacher's job or a job in more of a day care setting as opposed to a preschool.  So let me help you clean up the resume a little bit so it looks more appealing to the person who would be doing the hiring.  

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July, 2006 - September, 2006  Riverview Cineplex

Demonstrating Customer Service skills with operating the Till.

Handling Costumer Complaints

Duties include Handling Food, Cleaning and Restock of all items

______________________________________...

While it's not a bad job to have, you have to put a different twist on this.  The first thing I noticed is it is unclear exactly what your job is there.  It seems like you were working at the concession stand?  

After you put the dates worked and the location, put your job title.

July, 2006 - September 2006   Riverview Cineplex

Concession Worker

Now, with the job descriptions, it's OK, but it needs to be more focused and more targeted words need to be used.  And don't give specific instances of when you did things.  Let me break it down line by line.

"Demonstrating Customer Service skills with operating the Till."  The focus here, and it's a great one to have if you're an administrator looking to hire someone, is customer service experience.  The fact that you think of your job as a customer service one is VERY important and the fact that you have some experience is your best asset in this job.  However, it just sounds like you only did customer service sometimes ("with operating the till") and thought of it as a side part of your job.  Make it your focus.  Change that to:

"Responsible for Customer Service."

Since that's the only thing listed there, the customer service becomes the focus of the reader.

"Handling customer complaints."   I like that.  Be sure you can back it up in an interview with some situations.  The more complex it is, the better.  A story about some lady receiving the wrong size popcorn and you quickly changed it won't quite cut it.  But the one time that your coworker spilled coke all over a lady's new dress and you somehow managed to smooth things over - there's a story to tell.  (Just pick one that is honest).

The next thing I noticed is you didn't start with your most recent work experience.  I also noticed a HUGE gap between your job that ended in September 2006 and the one that started in October 2007.  If I were setting up an interview, I would be hesitant if I simply saw that and nothing else.  I would also wonder why you're leaving a job only after being there a month.  This is where your cover letter will be important.  Like I said, since I don't know your age, I'm guessing you're younger just because of how far back your work history goes.  I would then assume you're either in high school or just out of high school (my apologies if that's not the case...I mean no offense)  But assuming it is, be sure to explain that in your cover letter.  You're in high school, you were focusing on your studies, and you are considering going into early childhood education so you want a job in that field to gain the experience.  

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October, 2007 Kingland Ford

Inventory

Duties include counting, cleaning and numbers

Late Hours

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Eh.  Kind of blah.  This is honestly the part where my mind glazed over and I didn't pay much attention to the rest of the resume.  Everyone can count - everyone can clean.  And everyone knows their numbers.  So that added nothing to your job potential.  The "Late Hours" sounded more like a complaint and it's bad to complain about your last job.

So let's almost scrap this and rewrite the entire thing.

Inventory -  of...what?  Parts?  Cars?  And did you have an official title?  If not, can you make one up that fits?

"Parts Inventory Clerk."

All of a sudden, you have a title that will be able to go on a business card :)

Change your duties up a little bit.  Remember your key words:  "Responsible For", "In Charge Of," "Designed."  Also focus on what you have to be like to be an inventory clerk - organized.

"Responsible for organizing and documentation of over 12,000 Ford Parts."  

We all know that, as an inventory person, you counted a lot.  But we probably never thought of you organizing the parts or "documenting" them.  You might be able to find some better terms.  I am not a big fan of what I wrote there, but I wouldn't lose interest at the point either.

With that said, there's something about the power of 3.  In stand up comedy, you learn that if you tie jokes together, go funny, funnier, funniest.  A lot of jokes have 3 parts to the setup or punchline.  In high school, you learn to write essays to bring up 3 supporting points to your argument.  Find 2 other aspects of your job and write them in a way that shows what you learned from it or what your responsibility was.  It works best if you bring out certain qualities (organized, responsible, customer service oriented) that set you above someone who just counted alternators.

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2005- Babysitter

Present

Duties include taking care of children, changing diapers, feeding, Bathing, putting children to bed and keeping them entertained.

Responsible for childrens safety

Late Hoursl

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Everyone can put babysitting down on their resume.  We've all babysat before...at least most of us.  I definitely would not take it off the resume, but here's the key:  Know what type of center you are applying for.  Change this wording to fit that center.

What you wrote here shows you feel responsible for the child.    That's a great thing.  Now, if you're applying for a place that has an educational goal to it, try to think of adding something about that in there if possible. Change the "keeping them entertained" to "helping them develop" or whatever catch phrase the school uses.  If they have a web site, take a look at it and even steal an idea from that.  (Side note:  Also good if you randomly throw an idea directly from their web site out during an interview).

If you are applying for a place that has a more play feel to it, "keep them entertained" is fine.  

"Responsible for childrens safety"

Watch your grammar.  You left out an apostrophe before the "s" in children's.  

Grammar and spelling are crucial.  Even if the reader is not paying attention to it consciously, the mind notices it to a large degree.  

A side note - destroy grammar on one word.  People can disagree with me here and feel free to.  But I think capitalizing "Children" has always been helpful to me in the past.  It is something more psychological to the reader.  Gets the idea across that I find the child important enough to subconsciously (but really on purpose) capitalize it.  Not going to make or break a deal, but it might help it along.

"Volenteer Work:Harry Camsell - Working with children to learn course subjects, Gym Class, Extra Help with Teachers"

Spelling here.  "Volunteer"

This is a good experience to have.  This is your best experience I see, so you might want to list similar to the jobs AND mention it is volunteer work.  But it also seems vague.  If I were reading this, I would think this is your strongest experience listed.  

"Working with children to learn course subjects"

Good.  Just reword it.  Not sure exactly what you did, but some examples:

--Tutored students who were struggling and helped 5 students bring their GPA up a full letter grade.

--Designed and taught lesson plans for a wide variety of subjects.

--Took students who had lost interest in learning and got them to be excited about learning again.

The key here is taking "working with children to learn course subjects," make it more specific to what you did.  Providing positive results is also a good thing.

"Extra Help with Teachers" can be changed to "Assisting the teachers in any way I could."  Changed the sound of it from "this was my job" to "this is how I wanted to help the teachers."  And trust us, we need as many people that WANT to help us as we can use :)

"Childrens Carnavil - Tatooing, Cleaning, Smiling "

Since it might be a name of a particular carnival, is the spelling of "Carnavil" correct?  And remember what I said about "Children's."

When I first saw "Tattooing," (which is spelled wrong...didn't know there is a double "t" in it until I typed it in) my gut thought, "Why is he tattooing children?"  I know what you meant...my mind didn't think of it.  My gut thought of it.  See if you can think of a way to reword it.

The "smiling" part...eh.  Nothing wrong with it.  I just tended to roll my eyes at that part.  And people can disagree with me on this point too.  Some people might love that added touch.  Maybe change it to "making sure all the children enjoyed themselves."  What a great way to finish off a resume.

Don't put your date of birth on your resume (or anything else in the job consideration for that matter).  It's even illegal for people to ask this.  But I would put your education on your resume.  The references you'll have to have at some point.  I found it best to not bog the person down with paperwork before you meet them.  Bring your references list to the interview for certain.  

Once you have your resume cleaned up, the next step is writing a cover letter.  There are tons of online tutorials that offer tips on that.  Just google "writing a cover letter."

Wow...I typed a LOT.  Hope it is helpful.

Oh...I did forget to answer your question.  Would I hire you?  I don't know.  I have never met you and talked about what you think about children and teaching.  Nor have I met anyone else in the interview process who wants the same job.  And I don't know what kind of job you're really applying for.  But I think your resume brings out a lot of qualities that I would look for in a person I am hiring.  I think it needs to be rephrased before I would call you for an interview, though.

Matt

Answer 8

sure sounds good

Answer 9

No I wouldn't. If you are applying for a preschool position you need more experience working with children. Your work history is off and on. you worked as a sitter in 2005. OK did you work the whole year? Same Family? Set schedule?

Then you went to a cineplex a year later for 3 months. Why did you leave? Did you work after that and not put it on there? Because a year later you worked at Ford dealership? For a Month? Still there?

And you are putting late hours on there. Are you applying for a late hours position? Is there a reason you Had to work late hours?

Sorry but work history isn't good at all.

Answer 10

i would,

it sounds pretty organized