I am going to describe myself as an outgoing and friendly person who is hardworking and trustworthy, always willing and excited to learn new skills, I am highly self-motivated good at working on projects and tasks alone as-well as within a team. I work well under pressure and I am good at handling difficult situations within a professional manner if they were to arise within the work place. I take pride in my appearance and consider myself to have a good attitude towards work, I am able to follow and complete instructions given and take pride in a job well done, I am adaptable with extensive experience providing first-class results. Meet job demands and deadlines through diligent work-ethic and dedication to quality.
While volunteering at one of the biggest shisha lounges in Guildford, I had the personal opportunity to learn from the owner himself, I learned about shisha, the different kinds, flavours etc. how to properly prepare, and serve a shisha as well as clean the hookah and pipes and store it. I worked with the tills and cash handling as i greeted and served customers while delivering excellent customer experience. It was a great chance to get myself back into the work routine.
Since my daughter was born i was her sole carer and i was a single dad, i decided to solely focus on giving my daughter my full dedication time and care to raising her in her early years. I didn't have childcare options, so my duties essentially was making sure that she had all the attention and care she needed as a new born child, during the time of me being at home providing care love and attention to my daughter i have learnt a tremendous amount of skills from engaging children with interactive games, multitasking such as making food or tidying the house while also interacting with my daughter at the same time, to activities that require persistence and dedication such as teaching colour words also showing the same colours that corresponds with the word or teaching how to speak and how to pronounce words correct.
during the time i started to get back into work i used to volunteer for a company called Evolve Housing with this company we give our support to young adults by helping them as much as we can. i loved the work i was doing so i decided to apply for the job. we provided housing for the homeless and helped them get back into normality, we provided workshops for numerous amounts of subjects such as building and updating your CV, paying bills and budgeting your money, lifeskills, music workshops with all equipment to be able to record your own song, even art workshops for people who love painting and taking photos. we had a communal room where we would do the workshops so anybody could feel comfortable to come and join, mainly we tried to bring the best out of everyone made everyone feel comfortable for who they are and support as much as we could.
as a kidspace employee we used to serve parents and their kids upon their arrival,where we would make sure they felt the comfortable and the friendly enviroment, at the door we handled party bookings and normal booking slots dealing with this we worked on the tills and handled cash and card payments, also engaging with parents and their kids building a rapport so that i could guide customers into being reoccurring customers, after they got their wristbands to go in either myself or another member of staff would guide them up to the main entrance where all the fun starts, upon arrival of the main entrance just to the right there is a very large seating area with tables and chairs for familys to sit down and relax there is also a cafee and restaurant which is to table service once your order has been made and paid for serving a number of variety options from a cold or hot drink, snacks, cakes to hot food such as chicken burger and chips, fish and chips and much more, i also had the previlige of delivering the food from the kitchen to the tables allocated delivering not only food but a wonderful customer experience along with food and refreshments which has been order, now beyond all of this i was also a party host assistant so when kids had private partys i would have and take joy in hosting these partys for children i would greet all of the parents and their children individually and also as a group either myself or another member of my team would escort these familys to the private party rooms as allocated where which the parents and children could get comfortable and ready for the fun times ahead, at kidspace we ran and had many activities for children all ages, if you wanted to take your few months old baby and have some fun there was also a baby space, theres a massive indoor playing/climbing facility with tunnel slides and bumpy slides for the kids we also have rock climbing for those who want to push it to the limit and just climb of course with the correct safety gear and procedures, for the those who want to go fast theres a go kart track for the kids, computer/homework room for those who want to come and learn or those who need the time to do extra work, we also run lazer tag partys after close if prebooked, during my time at kidspace it was amazing i learnt so many skills and atributes and interacted with many different types of familys parents and children, i also assisited in running and supervising these all of these fun activitys and took the effort in making sure everyone was happy and got the best customer experience for coming to spend the day at our kidpsace.
while working at sainsburys on the night shift i learnt how unload/load palets with the correct training, i would usually load the palets on the carts transport them from the warehouse to the shop floor to the allocated isles where we would then unpack them from the palets onto the shelves, we would make sure nothing is broken, spilled or damaged and that everything is in the correct place looking nice and presentable for public.
during my time working at t.k max i greeted customers upon arrival made sure hey had a warm and friendly welcoming, worked on the tills serving clients taking cash and card payments, building a rapport with the customers insuring them to come back again and greeting them a nice day ahead, i restocked the shelves and the clothing racks made sure everything was in line looking professionally presentable for those whom are shopping, i worked on the fitting rooms made sure they was also tidy and presentable for whoever needed access to them. i helped with opening and closing the store and always made sure after close the store was left in a high standard presentable manor for the next working day ahead.
during my time doing work experience at CeX i would serve customers on the tills taking cash and card payments, interact with customers about the new and latest gadgets we had in store or coming into store at the same time building a professional rapport with customers, assist customers in finding what they were looking for games, phones, consoles and much more, i would restock the shelves with games, movies, phones consoles and more and always make sure the store was up to high professional standards, i would also assist in closing the store making sure everything was neat and tidy for the next working day ahead.