I’ve had a bunch of little crazy jobs, and a few of them overlap.
Am I supposed to list my most recent job first?
Then what?
Besides that, how does my resume look? I’ve never really had a real job. I’ve only done promotions.
Here’s what my job history looks like:
Objective
Obtain a position as a sales representative where I can utilize my customer service and sales skills with an opportunity for advancement.
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Experience
Promotional Model
October 2006 – Present
Duties include:
•Customer service.
•Assisting with interactive games and contests.
•Finding different suitable locations for future promotions.
•Demonstrating products.
Image Quest
Brand Ambassador
December 2005 – February 2007
Duties included:
•Persuading customers to apply for credit cards.
•Handling personal information.
•Handling thousands of dollars worth of merchandise.
Northwestern Mutual
Office Assistant
2006 – 2007
Duties include:
•Filing.
•Special Projects.
•Assembling presentations.
•General office work.
Bluegreen Resorts
Brand Ambassador
April 2006 – September 2006
Duties included:
•Persuading people to attend a tour for a timeshare which included an upfront deposit.
•Generating clients.
Urban Box Office
Sales and Promotions
June 2005 – October 2006
Duties included:
•Selling items in English and Spanish.
•Reaching the required daily quota.
•Recruiting future employees and event locations.
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Education
I’m not putting that on Yahoo…
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References available upon request.
A timeshare is a form of ownership or right to the use of a property, or the term used to describe such properties. These properties are typically resort condominium units, in which multiple parties hold rights to use the property, and each sharer is allotted a period of time in which they may use the property. Units may be on a part-ownership or lease/”right to use” basis, in which the sharer holds no claim to ownership of the property.The notion of the term “time-share” was originally created in Europe in the 1960s. A ski resort developer (Hapimag) in the French Alps marketed his resort by encouraging visitors in order to “stop leasing the room” as well as rather “buy the actual hotel”. Succeeding success followed, and also the idea was rapidly embraced by developers globally, improving sales of surplus condo models at a time when the vacation resort business was stressed out. Because of the promise associated with trade, these models, known as “vacation ownership” by the industry, often market regardless of their deeded resort (the majority are deeded into a particular resort website, though additional types of use do exist). What isn’t often disclosed is that are all different within trading energy. If your are within Hawaii or Southern Ca it will exchange extremely well; nevertheless, those places tend to be probably the most expensive in the world, subject to demand usual for a very trafficked holiday area.
Most timeshare tours consist of a minimal 90-minute income presentation of your timeshare resort or income center, guided by a salesman, an offer you of some kind of snack or meal, and ending with one particular or additional salesmen (and generally the product sales manager) encouraging and even pressuring for a buy. The business sending the guest towards timeshare holiday resort normally receives some kind of referral fee, which has resulted in the huge number of corporations that deliver timeshare tours as an incentive.
In order to go on a timeshare tour, each timeshare resort has a different set of qualifications, usually consisting of age and income and occasionally must be citizens of the country where the resort is located.
Timeshare businesses determine which countries they are going to accept friends from. If married or cohabiting to be a couple, each spouses or partners have to attend. Singles are qualified differently. Men must usually be married, while women can often get away with being single (and often they even reduce the minimum salary requirement).
That is simply because in the perception that it’s less complicated to promote the timeshare to a woman than it really is to some man.
Every single vacation resort commonly makes it possible for a single tour per year.Generally a timeshare tour is thrown in as either a bonus or possibly a necessity for purchasing some merchandise from a business, often 1 that is journey related. Telephone surveys, vacuum cleaner salesmen, and far more, provide incentives to customers who are prepared to listen to them this sort of to be a “3 day/ 2 night stay” in Las Vegas, San Francisco, or other common holiday getaway destinations. These incentives are, in reality, a commitment to consider a timeshare tour.
Journey firms leverage their current contracts with timeshare resorts to present additional competitive getaway deals, this kind of as totally free hotel keep, demonstrate tickets, etc… These will typically be provided inside type of your “$99 dollar vacation package”, which will include a various night keep, tickets, and so forth with the necessity that the traveler qualify for and carry the timeshare tour.
Some timeshare tours can extend good beyond the amount of time at first quoted to the tour and can include the application of higher quantities of pressure by many profits agents. Occasionally, a free of charge benefit will probably be denied or delayed till the guest agrees to buy through the vacation resort, but it is only the situation when the corporation just isn’t a credible 1.
This is just my own opinion, but…
Choose the 3 jobs in that group that best make you a fit for a sales representative position. Then, for each job, list as many positives as you can that relate to how well you performed in each position. Ex: Received awards for having high success rate in persuading people to attend a tour for a timeshare; or, received Employee of the Month award at Northwestern Mutual; or, exceeded the daily quota by 20%…you catch my drift.
yes you put your most recent first
You have it right, and your resume sounds very professional. It is ok that your jobs overlap, that shows you are hard working because you worked more than one job at a time! I was a manager of a big box store and I would have thought you were a hard worker. good luck with your job hunt.
Put your most recent job first – if they over lap, the one you are doing now.
References – NEVER put ‘available on request’, as it looks really unprofessional and lazy. Actually list the names and postal addresses of your 2 references down – do NOT give there phone numbers or e-mail.
Make sure they are in chronological order by the date you started, so you should move your Image Quest job to the end, as your last job. You also need to put in Months on the Northwestern Mutual job. You also need a job title for Urban Box Office, Sales & Promotions sounds like a dept. And your first job needs Your employer on their (not sure if you did that intentionally). Don’t worry about the overlapping, as long as they are in chronological order we can see you held more than one job at a time.
You should also explain your duties better and make them sound more professional. I listed your duties w/questions by them to help you explain your duties better. As a recruiter I would read your resume and wonder why you don’t stay anywhere for very long – so if they were temp assignments or contract jobs include that on your resume.
Customer service – what kind of Customer service did you provide
Assisting with interactive games and contests – what does this mean, how did you assist, explain more.
Performed product demonstration – what kinds of products?
Persuading customers to apply for credit cards. – not a fan of this as a job dutie, maybe consider rewording it
Handling personal information. – what personal information, how did you handle it, what was the process?
Handling thousands of dollars worth of merchandise – not a duty what did you do with the merchandise
Special Projects – what special projects, what did you do, what projects did you work on?
Assembling presentations – what did this consist of, what did you present, or did you just set it up>
General office work – what was the general office work?
Persuading people to attend a tour for a timeshare which included an upfront deposit – try rewording
Generating clients – how did you do this
Selling items in English and Spanish – what did you sell
Reaching the required daily quota – what was the daily quota
Recruiting future employees and event locations
These two duties I changed the wording as a suggestion:
Scouted different suitable locations for future promotions
General Filing
I’m not trying to pick your resume apart, but it should be written as professionally as possible highlighting your skills so your resume gets looked at by companies. Right now, I would look at your resume and have a million questions, then put you to the side and not call you. For more help w/your resume google things like "customer service resume samples" You can look at other resumes to help you reword your current resume.
You don’t need to list references available upon request, complete a reference page, and list the people and contact information, your relationship (they should only be professional, not personal references) of the people who already said you can use them, if you interview offer the reference page.
Hope you don’t feel like I crushed your resume, just trying to offer some advice so you can improve.
HR Manager
I would change your claim about working at Northwestern Mutual. At best you worked at a district office, and was employed by a field rep. You work for the rep, who works with NM, but is not an employee. Northwestern will not show you as having ever been an employee, and it could cost you a job.