Monelle volunteered 12 hours helping to choreograph a dance for the grand opening of a dream home benefiting those involved in the home's construction. She worked over 200 hours at McDonald's over a year, where she learned skills like money management, customer service, and food safety. She was promoted multiple times and became a crew trainer and then a junior manager after excelling in a shadowing program. Monelle volunteered over 50 hours for McDonald's fundraising events to purchase medical equipment for a local hospital, benefiting young children and their families.

1. Volunteer and part-time
job experience
By: Monelle

2. Ymca Volunteering - 12 hours
I helped choreograph a dance for the grand
opening of the dream home. I worked with the
afterschool daycare administrators and a
school friend to choreograph a dance to thank
everyone who was involved in donating money
to the home. It benefited the home because it
gave entertainment to ticket buyers and it gave
something for the little daycare students to be
proud of and show their parents.

3. Part-time job - 200+ hours
I had a part-time job at McDonald’s for a year
and a month. Throughout my employment I
learned many useful skills. I learned money
management, customer service, food safety,
how to properly prepare food, and outstanding
leadership. Within my year of working, I was
promoted several times. In my first two months
I stood out to the management team and was
put to the test to become a crew trainer. Soon
after completing a booklet on crew training, I
was promoted to crew training.

4. Part-time job - continued
I worked as a crew trainer for a few months while having a
heavy school load. When I had a break from school during
the winter break, I was offered to start in the shadowing
program. The shadowing program is a development
program to bring crew trainers up to a junior manager
program. I agreed and went through the process of learning
and excelling at the following stations: Drive-Thru,
Production and Front Counter. In the same month, I got
Employee of the month and had the managers of all
Kamloops and Merritt, Al and Mike, come have a talk with
me about how well I was doing with McDonald’s and gave
me a watch and a pin to show my progress with the
restaurant.

5. Part-time Job - Continued
I was running all areas with no problem and the head
manager and assistant managers were starting to notice. I
had verifications done on me to see what I needed to
improve upon and soon I had next to no flaws. I was getting
100% on all verifications. The next week I had an email
sent to me asking the promotional manager to come in and
have a verification done on me to see if I was ready to be a
Team Leader(Junior Manager). She came the next day to
promote me and give me my new suit as a manager. I
started going to meetings and started to show my
intelligence and soon they asked me to be a swing
manager, I was not ready to commit to such an important
position at that time so I declined. I started thinking and I
realized McDonald’s was not the right job for me and I gave
my three weeks notice of resignation.

6. Part-time job - continued
What I gained from this job: I gained a lot of respect
because of my position. I also became very good with
money. At first, I struggled with cash back and change but I
picked everything up after about a week on till. My
memorization skills became very developed because I had
to know how to make every product that we sold and if
someone asked I price of something I would need to
provide a quick answer. I also became very outgoing; I am
very friendly and can talk to any customer and keep up a
nice conversation. My ability to commit to my
responsibilities has greatly improved since I have started
working.

7. McDonald’s volunteering - 50+ hours
With my part-time job at McDonald’s, there was a lot of
volunteering as well. I came in after school on numerous
occasions to help with bottle drives or car washes to raise
money for the Ronald McDonald charity to buy a new
incubator for The Royal Inland Hospital. We also did Cotton
Candy stands on weekends and I participated in every
single one. Eventually we raised enough money for the
incubator and also ten new beds! It benefited many young
children and worried family’s.