In this economy, waitressing jobs are a little bit harder to find than in better economic times. You need every advantage possible to help you get that waitressing job. A well planned, informational resume is another tool at your disposal to give you a leg up on your competition. Think of your resume as a tool that helps showcase your skills and abilities to possible employers.
The resume tips in this article are to teach you how to prepare yourself better than your competition and utilize key verbs and descriptive phrases that restaurant managers and owners look for in a prospective server's resume.
To get a waitering or waitressing job, an organized and informational resume is very important. How you represent yourself and how you highlight your skills and abilities, are what will help separate you, from 5 to 50 other applicants.
How to find the correct format for a resume on-line is the easy part, here's the rest.
Before going to a restaurant to fill out an application, always do your research ahead of time. This means, checking out their website and familiarizing yourself with their entire menu. If they have a wine list, spend 20 or 30 minutes online studying a few wines they sell by the glass. If it's an ethnic or theme restaurant, say, an upscale sushi bar, you better be an expert on sushi, and also, spend sometime studying premium sakes.
If you can find some information about the owners of the restaurant, and a little bit about their values, and their vision for the restaurant, that's also a big plus. Some restaurants will interview you on the spot, so you have to be more prepared than the next guy.
Doing this kind of research ahead of time is a very small amount of work if it helps you get a waitressing job making over $20 dollars an hour. It can do nothing but help your chances. If they don't have a website, go to the restaurant and pick up a to go menu and study it. It's a small amount of work that can give you a huge advantage over your competition before you even fill out an application.
Obviously, it's ideal to meet the manager or owner of the restaurant in person, when you fill out an application and turn in your resume. Presenting yourself as an enthusiastic, clean cut, well dressed individual, will help add value to the killer resume you're about to give them. They'll also remember that great smile and great attitude.
Unfortunately, you're not always going to meet the person who will be reviewing your resume, face to face. Therefore, we need to really focus on what restaurant managers are going to be looking for on your resume. We want clean, simple and to the point.
First, we have to recognize that all restaurants are different and are looking to hire people based upon different levels of experience and personality traits.
Smaller, family owned restaurants are a great place for people with little or no experience to get hired and learn a little bit about the business, while adding valuable experience to their resume. Typically, management at these restaurants know that you'll have a lot of young people, with little experience applying for serving jobs. If you're in this boat, with little or no work experience, here are some skill sets to focus on in your resume to beat out your competition.
If you're a student, actor, artist or entrepreneur, highlight any academic achievements, clubs, service organizations or athletic teams you are involved with. Time management, organization, customer service, commitment and social/personal responsibility are all important virtues learned in the academic environment, that are highly regarded by employers.
If you have restaurant experience, and are applying at a medium size corporate to fine dinning restaurant, the same principles from this article still apply, with a slight tweak. We're going to be focusing more on our experience as a server, and highlight our knowledge of food, alcohol, etiquette and sales principles.
Letters of recommendation from your supervisors in these activities are also important. They confirm your claimed skill sets, while proving that you build relationships with people, who are willing to go out of their way, and vouche for your character.
When we're talking about your actual resume, there's a few key factors you want to focus on.
The content of your resume needs to be specific and to the point, selling your skills and abilities.
For example, let's say you don't have any "work" experience, but you helped coach your little brother's Little League team or your little sister's soccer team. For this, you could say:
- Volunteer Work - Summer 2009 - Coached Little League baseball team for 3 months
- Duties: I was an assistant coach for a baseball team of 8 and 9 year old kids. In addition to acting as a positive role model and teaching kids the fundamentals of baseball, and I also taught them the principles of teamwork and good sportsmanship. ( this isn't the correct format for a resume, it's coming soon)
If you have little or no work experience, this little bit above tells an employer at least 5 positive things about you.
- You're teaching kids, so you must be a good communicator.
- You're teaching kids, so you're probably trustworthy.
- You had a commitment where you had to be reliable and consistently on time.
- Shows you value teamwork and are capable or working well with others.
- Teaching good sportsmanship implies that you have solid values and will do the "right" thing.
Add in a few more coaching, volunteering, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, academic and athletic achievements that showcase the key verbs and descriptive phrases below, and you're halfway there.
Here are few key verbs to use when describing your skills, duties and abilities: maintained, trained, prepared, organized, advised, coached, communicated, demonstrated, educated, encouraged, prioritized, supervised, motivated, accomplished, taught.
Managers also look for descriptive phrases when looking through a resume to see if that's the type of employee they would like to hire. Dedicated to the highest quality of work, good multi-tasking skills, ability to learn quickly, excellent communication skills, work well under pressure, enthusiastic team member, cheerful outlook, positive attitude, strong dedication to my job and take pride in a job well done are all great for the restaurant business.
All of this wonderful information about you needs to be organized, prioritized and put in a resume design that grabs their attention. We want key verbs and descriptive phrases jumping off the pages.
Keep in mind that there are several different resume formats that are acceptable. It's up to you, however, to organize and present your skills and abilities, in a clear, concise manner.
Now that we know what kind of wonderful content we want to include in our resume, we're ready to start picking restaurants to apply at. Have we done our research? Yes! If not, please re-read paragraphs #3-4 and follow accordingly.
This is important because the interview actually starts the moment you walk in that door. A lot of restaurants won't allow you to take a resume home, so you'll fill it out, and get interviewed by a manager on the spot.
Part 3 of our series on, Waitressing Jobs: How to Get a Job Serving Tables - Part 3 - Interview Preparation and Tips, will be coming soon.
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