Im sure some of you have been in the same situation before. I just graduated and its time to revise my resume a bit. I want to elaborate a bit on my “experience” section. Heres the problem. The only places ive worked are in restaurants and landscaping places. How the hell do I glorify that and make it relevant to business? Im running low on ideas. At all the restaurants I cooked. I obviously don’t want to write “cook”, because Im not applying for another restaurant. Any ideas?
Don’t focus on the fact you were cooking eggs or pulling weeds. Focus on the fact you were working with a team to satisfy customer needs or entrusted with someone’s well being while you operated the bulldozer.
Juice it and sell it not based on what you physically did, but what you can bring to the next job from it.
Gettin money’s the only thing on my resume…
just tell them your probably the worst team worker, anything before 2 p.m. won’t work. Cubicles, ehhh they are boring. Oh and shirt and tie, not in my closet.
you should pretty much be set for any job thats hiring. lol
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salary desired: 1 million dollas
if you are still on good terms with the landscaping people change it to you did the books for the company. Give them the heads up too in case they call.
For the landscaping part I wrote that I was a job foreman and made on job decisions that positively contributed to company profitability. I think thats an A- idea. The guy won’t let me say that I did the books lol.
I took Bastinado’s idea for the restaurant work. Mentioned the teamwork and customer satisfaction aspects. So far I think its turning out to be pretty good.
Yeah if you get called into the interview say you did like estimates and project management
Cook = Regional director of culinary operations
Here is an idea, get some real experience before you graduate from college so you don’t graduate with a resume that I would expect from a freshman intern applicant.
Too late?
I already graduated. So yes…too late. But its not too late to get an internship. You can still do that at Buff State, even after graduation.
Then seriously, I’d do that. Most places will let you go temp-perm through something like that too. Going to be FAR easier than trying to stretch your landscaping and cooking gigs to compete against people that have experience. The only competetion you can beat out is people searching for internships that are still in school…
Start networking.
I was lucky to be hired full-time after my internship during my junior year and I now almost have 3 years experience at 23.