Blog 5: Beginning the Job Search

Job: 

·         YMCA Child Care

            www.ymcahattiesburg.org

Master list of the types of qualifications, skills, and experiences of the jobs:

·         Work well with children

·         Tend to children’s needs

·         Have patience

·         Be organized

·         Not be short tempered

·         Need to know how to speak to children

·         Feed children

·         Be creative

·         Make things interesting

·         Be responsible

·         Dedicated

·         Hard working

            My major is elementary education, and I plan to teach children once I receive my bachelor’s degree from USM.  I am actually applying for this job right now to work this spring and during the summer.  This past summer, I worked at a daycare in Magee, MS called ABC Playschool.  I think I would be fit for this job not only because I do want to be a teacher, but because I work well with children.  I love being in the environment around them.  During the summer, I had to tend to children’s needs, feed them breakfast and lunch, be responsible, dedicated, work well around them, have patience, be creative, make things interesting, and be organized.  Some days I would be working by myself with twenty children ranging from five to eleven.  It was very hard to deal with some days, but I loved every minute of it.  Working at the YMCA would be very good experience for me because of my major.  In the past, I have had to demonstrate everything listed in the master list.  I know that I have everyone of those characteristics, and would be fit very well for working at the YMCA.