Freddie Cowey
Great Ayton,North Yorkshire
Summary
I have just finished my final year at the University of Nottingham studying History and American Studies and now currently looking for job opportunities after university. I am a dedicated and reliable individual with leadership experience, having captained school and local football teams from the age of eight. This experience demonstrates strong teamwork, communication, and leadership skills. Other personal qualities include persistence, resilience, punctuality, and trustworthiness, as well as a determined team player.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work history
Sales Assistant
Marks and Spencer
Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire
01.2022 - 12.2024
- Assisting customers on shop floor and resolving queries
- Keeping the shop clean and tidy and ensuring shelves are well presented
- Ensuring customer needs are consistently satisfied
- Processed transactions accurately using tills
- Collaborated with co-workers to ensure smooth shopfloor operations
- During my most recent spell at the company during Christmas period in 2024, I undertook more responsibility in comparison to previous years as I was trained to become an operations member of staff as well as a sales assistant. This included helping to unload deliveries from the wagon using trained machinery and rotating vast amounts of stock by date to ensure that correctly dated stock was reaching the shopfloor during peak trading hours.
- Maintained knowledge of products and features to provide recommendations to customers
Kitchen Porter
Bexters Tea Room
Stokesley, North Yorkshire
01.2021 - 12.2021
- Working to both a good pace and quality to ensure the café ran efficiently
- Ensured staff had clean equipment and crockery to avoid customer delays
- Thoroughly cleaned kitchen utensils, cookware, glassware and serving dishes, maintaining faultless hygiene and presentation standards
Stock Worker
Hill's Garden Centre
Stokesley, North Yorkshire
01.2019 - 12.2019
- Planted and transported plants throughout garden centre to their correct locations
- Responded to customer enquiries
- Ensured garden centre cleanliness by sweeping soil and removing weeds
Education
BA - History and American Studies
UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
Nottingham 09/2021 - 06/2024
A LEVELS - History, English Literature, Geography, Core Maths
STOKESLEY SIXTH FORM
Stokesley, North Yorkshire 09/2019 - 06/2021
GCSEs - English Literature and Language, Maths, Triple Science, History, PE, Spanish
Stokesley Secondary School
Stokesley, North Yorkshire 09/2014 - 06/2019
Skills
- Leadership - Throughout my primary and secondary school education, I frequently captained both my school and local Sunday football teams This began at the age of 8 and continued up until the end of sixth form As a result of this experience, valuable skills such as teamwork, communication with people from different backgrounds and leadership qualities have been developed
- Persistence
- Resilience
- Reliable
- Determined
- Trustworthy
- Punctual
- Team player
Skills and Achievements
- Completing Bronze and Silver Duke of Edinburgh awards, ongoing with Gold award
- Volunteering at a local library as part of DofE
- Playing for Hambleton and Richmondshire in area football and reaching a National Final in 2018 at Stoke City's stadium
- Taking up American Football for the first time at university and representing one of the university's teams
- Captaining my local football team on many occasions since the under 8 age level.
- Playing local league cricket for Stokesley and Ingleby Greenhow.
- Assisting out with coaching at Hutton Rudby Tennis Club for many years
- Helping out at my Grandad's sheep farm for several years.
Timeline
Sales Assistant
Marks and Spencer
01.2022 - 12.2024
Kitchen Porter
Bexters Tea Room
01.2021 - 12.2021
Stock Worker
Hill's Garden Centre
01.2019 - 12.2019
BA - History and American Studies
UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
09/2021 - 06/2024
A LEVELS - History, English Literature, Geography, Core Maths
STOKESLEY SIXTH FORM
09/2019 - 06/2021
GCSEs - English Literature and Language, Maths, Triple Science, History, PE, Spanish
Stokesley Secondary School
09/2014 - 06/2019
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