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Archaeological experience
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Rebecca Wood

Rebecca Wood

Stapleford,Nottingham

Summary

I am a graduate archaeologist who is just about to finish my master. I have experience in fieldwork by volunteering at two different organisations. I have experience in customer service and all IT skills. I work equally well in a team and individually. I am passionate about death and memory and exploring the human past.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work history

Front of house general assistant

Genuine Dinning
Nottingham
07.2023 - Current
  • This role involves making hot drinks, serving hot food, taking customers' orders and payments, and cleaning the counter and canteen.
  • I also helped count stock on Thursdays and accept and put away deliveries
  • I have also recently taken on the role of marketing manager, which involves changing the menu format and making posters for special occasions or products
  • Also, when the manager is away, I do the paperwork for those days, including opening and closing down.

Camera person

Magic Memories
Chester
11.2023 - 12.2023
  • This was a seasonal job where I either took photos of groups or individuals or showed and sold them their photos with the backgrounds
  • This role included camera training, being surrounded by and involved with the public, till training, and providing customer service to adults and children
  • I also had to make sure that the uniform I was wearing was neat and clean, as I was representing the zoo.

Worker

Snugburys
Chester
09.2022 - 06.2023
  • I oversaw making hot drinks, taking orders, scooping ice cream, and serving hot and cold food
  • I would also be in the pot wash, where I was in charge of washing, loading the dishwasher, and drying and putting them away
  • When needed, I also helped put delivery away while customers were in the cafe
  • The cafe was card-only, but I had to ensure people did not walk away before the payment was approved
  • When the cafe was slow and busy, I was in charge of cleaning many things.

Sales assistant

Iceland
Chester and Stapleford
07.2021 - 10.2022
  • I have many different roles in Iceland
  • I sometimes work on the tills, overseeing the selling of products to customers and handling money
  • I also work online shifts, where I pick and pack orders for people who shop online
  • One of my last roles was stock handling, where I put stock onto shelves, placed stock in the stock room, and kept both the shop floor and the stock room neat
  • Later on, I was trained to be a duty manager, having control of shifts and keys for the building.

Shift worker

McDonalds
Chester
01.2020 - 11.2020
  • I oversaw making drinks and food for different people's orders
  • Sometimes, my responsibility was dealing with delivery drivers when they were collecting food for people who had ordered
  • I was also responsible for taking people's orders, handling money, and making sure that the customers got what they wanted.

Sandwich artist

Subway
Stapleford
06.2018 - 08.2020
  • My role was as a sandwich artist, including all aspects of closing the shop at the night's end, stocking up and prepping, till, serving customers, and general cleaning and deep cleaning.

Sales assistant

Primark
Chester
12.2019 - 12.2019
  • I oversaw the morning delivery
  • This meant taking what had been on delivery and placing it on the shop floor, putting it on the correct stands/places on the floor and then taking the spare items and placing them neatly in the stock room
  • I was also responsible for looking after customers and helping them find certain items they were after.

Volunteer

Nottingham University Hospital
Nottingham
10.2017 - 03.2019
  • My role was to assist at evening mealtimes in a ward for older people, helping serve the meals, making tea and coffee, and chatting with the patients.

Education

Master of Arts - Archaeology of Death and Memory

University of Chester
Chester, Cheshire
10/2022 - 10/2024

Bachelor of Arts - History and Archaeology

University of Chester
Chester, Cheshire
09/2019 - 06/2022

A levels - History and ICT

George Spencer Academy and Technology College
Nottingham
09/2017 - 06/2019

GCSE -

George Spencer Academy and Technology College
Nottingham
09/2012 - 07/2017

Skills

  • Organisation
  • Customer service
  • Planning
  • Hardworking
  • Time management
  • Ability to work on my own or in a team
  • Calm under pressure
  • Problem-solving

Affiliations

  • Reading
  • Listening to Music or Podcasts
  • Staying active
  • Travelling
  • Cooking/baking

References

References available upon request.

Archaeological experience

Positive action placement, Teffont, Wiltshire (3rd-16th August 2024)

- Roman site 

- Cleaned metal work such as iron nails and brooches

- Cleaned and identified pieces of bone, pottery, shells, worked stone, and worked and unworked flint.

- Environmental- waterlogged and soil samples can identify seeds, bones, pottery and charcoal.


University training excavation, Grosvenor Park, Chester (May-June 2021)

- Four Week long excavation 

- Multi-period urban site, Roman to Post-Medieval

- Was part of a group to bring down a layer of our trench

-Did extensive finds washing 

- Excavated in all sorts of weather 

- Engage with the public, showing and educating school children on what had been discovered. 


Volunteer, Wollaton Park, Nottingham (2019)

- Week-long excavation 

- Multi-period urban site, Roman to Post-Medieval

- It was my first excavation, so I learned the correct way to excavate a trench, what to do with artefacts and stones, how to wash the dishes, and how to engage with the public.



Timeline

Camera person

Magic Memories
11.2023 - 12.2023

Front of house general assistant

Genuine Dinning
07.2023 - Current

Worker

Snugburys
09.2022 - 06.2023

Sales assistant

Iceland
07.2021 - 10.2022

Shift worker

McDonalds
01.2020 - 11.2020

Sales assistant

Primark
12.2019 - 12.2019

Sandwich artist

Subway
06.2018 - 08.2020

Volunteer

Nottingham University Hospital
10.2017 - 03.2019

Master of Arts - Archaeology of Death and Memory

University of Chester
10/2022 - 10/2024

Bachelor of Arts - History and Archaeology

University of Chester
09/2019 - 06/2022

A levels - History and ICT

George Spencer Academy and Technology College
09/2017 - 06/2019

GCSE -

George Spencer Academy and Technology College
09/2012 - 07/2017

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