Mary Beesley
Summary
Dependable job candidate, ready to tackle new challenges with dedication and enthusiasm. Eager to learn new skills, and continue my education in helping children to thrive and progress in meaningful ways. Looking forward to getting to know the educators around me, following their lead, and learning from them.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
Work History
Cashier
Dollar Tree
09.2024 - Current
- Operating cash register for cash, credit card, and check transactions
- Assisting customers with returns, refunds
- Building friendships with customers to encourage repeat business.
- Stocking merchandise as required.
- Heavily involved in a complete, 10-day store remodel, working along side cooperate leadership, and local team, to accomplish this. (September, 2024)
- Weigh money in cash drawers at beginning and end of shifts to maintain financial accuracy for the company.
- Successfully promoting current "Operation Home-Front" toy-drive to customers, for the benefit of military families for Christmas.
- Responding promptly to requests for customer assistance, and cashiering, often with long lines of people, during rush business hours, with a positive attitude during this busy holliday season
- Great communication skills as I collaborate and communicate with fellow coworkers, store manager, assistant managers, vendors, and the public/our shopping guests.
Stay-at-Home Mom
Household of Seven
05.2003 - 09.2024
- Used critical thinking skills to effectively evaluate situations, assist, respond, and guide children to think things through, brainstorm ideas, come up with solutions, and help them make decisions.
- Developed and taught a simple and engaging pre-school curriculum for each child, based upon their individual needs, ages, energy, and personalities, so they could read before kindergarten, and begin to grasp basic writing and math skills.
- Taught children many social and emotional skills needed for attaining greater personal development, so that they can collaborate well with others, increase their capacities to pause and think before acting, and to help them accomplish personal goals, and be successful.
- Gained experience as I learned that children help to increase our own knowledge and skills in emotional growth as well, as challenges arise. It's a meaningful collaboration of learning together, based on individual needs and circumstances. Kids teach US.
- Helped mediate disputes between children, fostering an environment of cooperation and mutual respect
- Encouraged and urged creativity and growth in children through engaging activities, making fun messes, art, music, science, baking, nature exploration, and most importantly, play.
- Encouraged children and teens develop good work ethic, and contribute to the organization of the team/home.
- Success working within tight deadlines, fast-paced days, and with often stressful factors and schedules
- Substantial experience embracing needful flexibility, and rolling with the punches, when children's emotional, mental, or physical needs arise, or when unforeseen circumstances come.
- Ability to work well with other adults, neighbors, friends, and other caretakers of children, as well as their children, when in my care and home.
- Main caretaker of my own five children, as well as involvement working in my mother's family home-daycare as a youth, and helping care for five younger siblings.
- Significant time teaching children in my church assigned lesson materials, and also experience as a singing time teacher for children, as well as their pianist. Experience teaching violin lessons to 13 children, as a teen. And a few months working in a school preschool with regular Ed. and special Ed. kids.
Retail Worker
Fred Meyer Nutrition Center
06.2000 - 01.2001
- Greeted customers, helped locate merchandise.
- stocked shelves, cleaned out and filled bulk bins, and kept the department clean and tidy.
- Changed price tags
Retail, Gift Wrap
ZCMI
10.1999 - 12.1999
- Performed services to customers within specific timeframes and specifications
- Professionally gift wrapped customer's purchases
- Kept room clean and organized
Cashier and Sales Floor Stocker
Six Star Factory Outlet
06.1996 - 12.1997
- Answered store phone calls
- Received and fulfilled helium balloon orders
- Cashier and stocked and organized store shelves
- Closing duties and kept store clean
Education
General Education Development Diploma
Skills
- Adaptability & Flexibility
- Communication
- Creativity
- Nurturing & compassionate
- Organization
- Problem-solving
- Team Collaboration
Timeline
Cashier
Dollar Tree
09.2024 - Current
Stay-at-Home Mom
Household of Seven
05.2003 - 09.2024
Retail Worker
Fred Meyer Nutrition Center
06.2000 - 01.2001
Retail, Gift Wrap
ZCMI
10.1999 - 12.1999
Cashier and Sales Floor Stocker
Six Star Factory Outlet
06.1996 - 12.1997
General Education Development Diploma