Drum Roll, Please... My Resume.

Here it is.. my resume. I was recently told, by a well respected professional, Mrs. Debbie Griffith Brown, that "It is the most brilliantly written resume that I have ever seen and I see 10 to 20 every day." No need to feel as blown-away as Debbie did, but feel free to comment.


Jessianne Toth
100 Tate Chapman Rd. Simpsonville, SC 29681
Tel: 864 423-3226 E-mail: Jessianne.Toth@gmail.com

Profile
Recent college graduate! I'm looking to use my degree! I would like to do this in a place where I can not only grow and meet the goals I've set for myself, but where I can assist my employers in growing and meeting their goals as well.

Experience

Hostess and Server, The Olympian Restaurant, Greenville, SC 2009-Present
I have recently moved back to Greenville and the owners have graciously given me a job while I continue to look for something else! So, some days I serve customers and other days I just show them where to sit. Other days, I do both. Coming back to the same place after so many years away has reminded me that a lot of the happiness that comes with a job is the environment. I’ve learned, since returning, that I am a much better multi-tasker than I thought. Oh, and the whole staff has become experts on maneuvering around people just as busy as they are in small spaces. We find it to be an art, and we're all excellent at saying 'Sorry!'

Catering Assistant, Homemades by Suzanne, Ashland, VA 2005-2008
My main responsibility is to ensure that guests, whether at a catering event or in the small restaurant, are happy with full tummies. Working here taught me the satisfaction of seeing a project through from start to finish. I learned what it was like to have a client come to us with a specific need, and us work with them to get the best possible end result (happy people with full tummies). This process is not without setbacks and it was here that I truly learned the meaning of making a client happy, whether it means working as a team to simply get the order out the door, coming up with a totally new way to do things (African Carrot Salad, anyone?) or redoing work that our team thought was excellent.

Hostess and Server, The Olympian Restaurant, Greenville, SC 2003-2005
Working here taught me what it was to be trusted by employers, how to use my judgment in a potentially sticky situation and when to ask for help. Working in a restaurant teaches us to be diplomatic. Sometimes being diplomatic means you will put a smile on for the customer, explain in a sweet voice the same thing three times and then go into the kitchen - far away from said customer - and vent. I had to use my judgment because you don’t want to come between people and their food. Hungry people are almost as serious about their food as parents are about their children.

Afternoon Pre School Teacher, Gateway Academy, Greenville, SC 2003-2003
I worked in a different classroom every day, and I didn’t come in until after nap-time. I was the person in the room when parents came to pick up their children, which left me with the task of trying to answer questions or complaints that I often couldn’t answer. I learned to be diplomatic and to never say “I don’t know.”

Sales Associate, Stein Mart, Greenville, SC 2003-2003
This job was short lived due to my school load, but it was my first chance to work with adults as opposed to children. I was often left alone on the floor of my department to set up displays and answer questions from customers. I was accustomed to not having adult conversations, so working with inanimate objects was okay with me, but customers were a whole new ball game.

Afternoon Pre School Teacher, Kids and Company, Greenville, SC 2000-2003
Kids and Company was my first official job and it was here that I learned working in a team could be like working with family. It was my first experience with customers or parents. When it comes to someone’s child, parents are the hardest sell (only to be followed by hungry customers). Working with children was gratifying and a learning experience I will never regret. Because of the children I worked with, I know that I can handle different types of personalities and hissy fits.

Internship

Marketing Intern, Richmond Magazine, Richmond, VA
As a marketing intern, I was often the face of the magazine when trying to get the name out there. I was responsible for representing the magazine at events/functions where potential subscribers might be. I worked closely with the marketing director on many different projects designed to enhance the amount of readers, such as Excel databases of local offices of doctors and realtors and writing copy for events posted on the website calendar.

Education
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Bachelor of Science in Mass Communications, Concentration in Strategic Advertising

Greenville Technical College, Greenville, SC
Studied General Education

Relevant coursework from VCU
Copywriting
Media Graphics
Writing for Mass Media
Advertising Campaigns
Account Planning
Account Management

In these courses, I worked on projects from creating entire advertising campaigns to learning the basics of the Adobe Creative Suite. The campaigns I worked on were UNOS, the United Network for Organ Sharing and CarMax. For both of these campaigns, I worked in a group of seven people. I was the only strategic ad major while the other six were creative. It was an interesting dynamic, and one where heads were often butting.
In Copywriting, I learned about doing visually driven ads with a simplistic headline and headline driven ads with a simplistic visual.
In addition, I’ve learned about different Myers-Briggs personality types, management styles, how to write a journalistic article, how to write a creative brief and more.

Skills
In addition to the jobs I’ve held, I worked with a few people trying to get business off the ground. I worked closely with a woman to open a coffee shop in Greer, SC. There I helped decorate, design and anything else that needed to be done - I would work as a courier, babysit her children or simply paint. In more recent years, I have worked with an accountant to launch his mortgage business. I targeted local realtors through direct mail for which I wrote and postcards, or fliers, which I designed. For the mortgage business, I also did database marketing to get together the list of most relevant realtors to target.