Finlay Parfitt
Canterbury,Kent
Summary
I have a lot of experience working with the public, speaking and serving a wide range of clientele. I also have experience working in a diverse professional team built of different age groups and experience. I am a personally motivated student with a growing interest in the engineering and design job sector. I am excited and eager to progress on my professional career through industry experience.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
Work history
Hospitality team member
Wingham Wildlife Park
Wingham, Kent
07.2024 - Current
Responsibilities:
- Handing Money
- Thinking intuitively when technology fails
- Communicating effectively and attentively with customers
- Always providing a caring manner with all customers and guests providing help to the best of my ability
- Working adaptably having to swap roles with other team members during a single shift
- Communicating clearly and professionally with co-workers
- Ensuring that Food quality is up to par
- Ensuring that Stock is well looked after
- Ensuring that work space and tables for customers are always clean and hygienic
- Checking stock
- Writing stock lists for the following day
- Re-stocking multiple areas of the park
- Closing day jobs (restocking, cleaning, shutting down machines)
- Following health and safety procedures
Education
GCSEs - English Lang&Lit, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, History, Spanish, Design and Technology
Sandwich Technology School
Canterbury, Kent 09.2018 -
Skills
- Customer communication
- Team Working
- Attention to Detail
- Quality Control
- Time Management
- Independent Working ability
- A basic understanding around materials and their different properties
- An amateur level of understanding in Computer Aided Design/ Manufacture Software's and Machines
Affiliations
- I play Rugby, have done since I was 7 and I absolutely love everything about the sport form playing to watching
- I could probably generally be classed a bit of a nerd with an interest in most fantasy series and I enjoy collecting aswell
- I really enjoy a good movie and the art of cinema
Accomplishments
I was elected as the Head student during my second year in Sixth Form.
I have taken part in charity events in the past including 3 charity rugby events.
I was elected captain in my rugby team and held this role all the way until I transitioned to adult Rugby.
I've been awarded the clubman of the year award twice in the last 5 years for my continual efforts on and off the field dedicated to makin our cub environment better.
I was awarded the Malcolm Waite Prize for Design Technology after achieving the highest grade in my school during my GCSE's
Timeline
Hospitality team member
Wingham Wildlife Park
07.2024 - Current
GCSEs - English Lang&Lit, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, History, Spanish, Design and Technology
Sandwich Technology School
09.2018 -
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