Your fast food or retail job is worth more on paper than you think
People who have worked in fast food or retail routinely undersell it. Written honestly, that work demonstrates: turning up reliably for shifts over months, keeping order accuracy during a rush, following fixed food safety and till procedures exactly, handling cash and being accountable for it, coordinating with a shift team in real time, and dealing with an angry customer without a manager standing there. Dutch employers respect that phrasing because it is concrete and checkable. What NOT to do is inflate it: do not call yourself a leader unless you actually trained or supervised people, and never invent a number you were not given.
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More on your cv and applying
- Name a gap yourself in one line, rather than letting them wonder
- A motivation letter is usually expected, especially early in your career
- Write your CV in the language the vacancy is written in
- Two A4 pages maximum, and one page is fine
- Only mention nationality when it actually matters
- Leave out marital status, and you can leave out your date of birth