Junior Waitstaff
- Employer
- Mount Holyoke College
- Location
- Mount Holyoke College - Main Campus
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- Employment Type
- Part Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
The Willits-Hallowell Center and Events Services Department is seeking Junior Waitstaff to provide quality service to all guests of Mount Holyoke College. Those in this role are responsible for quality, timely, courteous, and efficient service to guests, adhering to the standards established by management.
Essential Responsibilities:
Set up, serve, and clean both on-premise and off-premise functions.
Lift and carry trays weighing up to 30 pounds to and from dining areas.
Set up, refresh, and service meeting rooms with refreshments and linens as needed.
Clean up at the conclusion of meetings and events.
Occasional assistance in setting up function rooms, which involves moving tables and chairs, either within a room or to another location.
Pack, load, and unload Catering vehicles.
Work independently, exercise sound judgment, and exhibit initiative in performing daily duties.
Complete opening and closing shift side work.
Keep work areas and equipment clean and organized.
Communicate effectively with guests and co-workers.
Read and interpret event orders to determine set-up, service needs, and other duties the manager assigns.
Required Qualifications:
Strong written and oral communication skills, with a sound understanding of the English language.
Ability to maintain an extraordinarily positive attitude towards others, especially when dealing with students and the public.
Must be cooperative and willing to work with others.
Maintain a high level of professionalism.
Preferred Qualifications:
Basic computer skills are desirable.
Physical Demands:
Ability to lift 30 lbs. without aid.
Ability to routinely lift, bend, twist and stand for the majority of up to an 8-hour shift.
- A cover letter summarizing interests and qualifications
- A complete resume or curriculum vitae
- For faculty positions, statements on mentoring, teaching, and research will also be required.
Organization
Mount Holyoke College is a highly selective liberal arts institution with a long tradition of educating women for active engagement in the world. A diverse community of approximately 2000 students (13% international, 17% U.S. women of color), the College is committed to the creation of a powerful learning environment which seamlessly links the curricular and co-curricular dimensions of campus life in a way that affirms identity, builds community and prepares women for leadership in a pluralistic world.
Mount Holyoke is located in the beautiful Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts. The College, which has just completed the third year of an ambitious six-year strategic plan, is committed to educating a diverse community of women at the highest level of academic excellence and to fostering the alliance of liberal arts education with purposeful engagement in the world. Mount Holyoke is in a particularly strong position having received the highest numbers of applications in its history. Mount Holyoke is a member of the Five College Consortium (along with Amherst, Hampshire, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst).
As the first of the Seven Sisters—the female equivalent of the once predominantly male Ivy League—Mount Holyoke established higher education for women as a serious endeavor. Our long, distinguished history of educating leaders arises from a powerful combination of:
- academic excellence in a global learning environment
- a tight-knit, diverse, and international community
- a worldwide network of alumnae
- the conviction that women can and should make a difference in the world.
Reputation
Mount Holyoke College is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review Guide's 2010 edition of its annual guidebook, The Best 371 Colleges. Mount Holyoke rates highly in a number of categories, among them "best classroom experience" (#6), "best college library" (#12), and "dorms like palaces" (#13).
Students
Our 2,200 students hail from 48 states and nearly 70 countries. One in three students is an international citizen or African American, Asian American, Latina, Native American, or multiracial. Sixty-two percent of incoming first-year students were in the top 10 percent of their high school classes.
Majors
- 49 departmental and interdepartmental majors
- Option to design your own major
- 33 percent of all majors are interdisciplinary
- Majors of current MHC students: humanities, 32 percent; social sciences, 42 percent; natural and applied sciences, 26 percent
Class Size
- 15 percent of classes have 10 or fewer students
- 64 percent have 20 or fewer
- 82 percent have 25 or fewer
Student-to-Faculty Ratio
9 to 1
After College
Six months after graduation, 86 percent of the class of 2008 were working or in school. Of those students, 16 percent were attending graduate/professional schools of their choice. Typically, 75 percent of MHC graduates enroll in graduate/professional school within ten years.
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