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Well I was going to apply to this new store at the mall that sells pretty high end stuff even though I don't have any experience in retail because I was talking to the chick at the counter yesterday. We were talking about McDonalds and how it makes you fat and she seemed pretty friendly.
I walk in and I see this girl who graduated last year and she was really really popular (infamous). She recognized me but didn't say anything even though last year at school she would sometimes comment on conversations my friends and I would be having in the washrooms. She looked like she works there.
So I walk up to the chick from yesterday and ask her if her manager was there. She said she was the manager and then I asked if I she could take my resume. She said ok but she was with a customer (this customer was standing pretty far from the counter but then I realized that she was getting ready to make a purchase). I was like SHIT and was "I'm so sorry" and backed to the side. The woman took about five minutes to purchase and I stood there trying to look confident and watching this cute little girl wandering around.
Then the manager moved to the side and talked to me. I gave her my resume (in a sheet protector) and she gave it back to me saying she wouldn't need it. She asked me what position I was looking for and I said part-time. Then I blurted out that my timings were at the back. She looked behind and read them out. I confirmed them.
She told me she had never seen a double-sided resume before (Most of my friends attach their resumes with two pages stapled together). I said thanks so much and left.
On the way out, the graduate chick was walking by me and I tried smiling at her but she didn't look at me so I was like... Did she just shun me?
So I don't think I'm getting a call back now and my friends want me to go shop there next week but for some reason I felt like that incident humiliated me. I don't know why I feel this way but it might be because of the chick that graduated (I avoid shops where the popular girls work because they either glare at me or stalk me).
When I told my friends about the event, they think it went ok. So am I just being stupid or did I actually screw up?
If you actually said SHIT out loud, you screwed up. Nobody wants a two page resume. Period. Talk to your English teacher or borrow a current book on writing resumes from the library. And resumes should be made to not get back, so ditch the sheet protector.
It is easier to apply for a job selling things you really like, but sometimes it takes an extra push to get it because other people want it really bad. If you talk to the worker bee in the store, maybe she could let you use her as reference.
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No, I didn't say SHIT out loud. I'm not totally retarted. And if you read it, you would know that it was double-sided and I -had- a work exp. teacher at school help me write it.
That's the first time someone has given me a sheet protector back, usually employers are impressed with it.
But thanks for trying.
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