There is a part time job available at the intermediate school for Lunchroom/playground/Crossing Guard Paraprofessional. For a whopping 3.5 hours a day.
This would be perfect for me and save on gas and help put a tiny fraction of mula back into the tank. ( and keep me off of eBay or here during the day…)
How in the heck to I write my letter of intent?
*I feel I would be good in this position as I excel in chaos, love being around children and have never knowingly thrown a child in front of an oncoming car. *
I’m at a bit of a loss…me…the wordy one.
background: I have plenty of experience with kids from being a camp counselor twenty years ago, as well as the paper pushing chaos that is/was being a travel agent and volunteering at the elementary school and working at a Co-op. I also routinely & voluntarily have a houseful of little weasels over at my house on any given weekend, encouraging kids in literacy, geography, art and really bad jokes. No one has ever died or been seriously injured ( except my son, twice as it was self inflicted with a dresser once and a bedpost the second time. Gravity was to blame and he has since recovered and it has not a/effected his reading/math/spelling scores.)
Help.
There should be a job description. Simply restate the job description as your desires for your job. If they say they want someone who loves working with kids, guess what - you love working with kids.
Make sure the cover letter is specifically written for the job in question – there’s nothing worse than a cover letter that’s straight boilerplate. Say something like “I enjoy working with kids – both my own and the hordes that regularly infest my house” (um, you might want to rephrase that). “I have experience both from working at the co-op and volunteering at my kids’ school, and would love the opportunity to corral the little monsters on a regular basis.” Okay, maybe I’m not helping here.
The point is to say a couple of things very specifically about the job on offer and what you can bring to it – and, yeah, “excel in chaos” is very much to the point.
Accentuate your responsibility and realibilitly. Put down that you like kids (and people in general) and tell them you will be on time and willing. Smile lots if you get an interview. Good Luck!
For every requirement of the job they give, you should give an example that shows you have that experience. (OK, not EVERY requirement if they list a dozen, but pick out some salient ones). Generally speaking, examples should be from professional experience rather than personal, so I would concentrate on the Camp, kindergarten volunteer and Coop positions. For something like this, I would accentuate your commitment to safety, and include any certifications you have (CPR, etc).
My friends I have asked to write a letter of reference for me have said that if I write one for myself they’d sign it.
YAY!
I am such a wunderbar person. who knew?
