Letter 1

Job title: Front of House Senior

Dear Employer,

Following your advertisement for the job of Front of house senior seen online, I am writing to you in hope for an interview for this position, my credentials are as follows.

I am a highly experienced performer in all three disciplines - singing, dancing, acting - the skills that I posses from this training and experience are high levels of people and socials skills and the ability to interact with new and different people. I am a team player and able to communicate ideas to a group and able to listen to others views opinions and ideas. I have been dancing at a dance school from the age of 2 and a half and have been trained in a disciplined way meaning that I have strong listening skills and able to take criticism and direction from people and able to apply this to my work and performance. I have experience doing front of house work at local theatre companies that I am involved with near to where I live in West Sussex where I took on roles of selling programmes, selling tickets on the door at the box office and ushering audience members to their seats. 

I have had a part time job working at a hairdressers as a shampooist, receptionist and assistant to the top stylist of the salon. The involvements of the job role was working with the public and clients and interacting and having a high level of social skills with clients. I also dealt with money and reception work along side sorting out staff's wages and weekly and monthly takings of the salon. I feel I would be able to bring my experience and confidence to this job position and be able to meet your requirements as I have experience in work in box office and front of house operations. I believe that through all the experience I have had in both performance and employed work I would be suitable for the job through my training in performance and the skills I have gained  as I would be confident with speaking publicly and working with the general public and be comfortable in social situations. I have done reception work and selling tickets in a box office meaning I have had experience in admin and handling money and finance matters. I feel I am qualified enough for this job and feel I would bring a good energy to your team and be able to meet your high standard of work.

I hope to hear from you soon regarding this job placement 

Thank you for your time

Regards,

Sophie Shepherd