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Name: Glenn Yeck________
Recruiter: ___________
Position applied for: Bartender__________ Date:
June 27, 2002
Please
complete the following Behavioral Questions
“Life
is a book, and he who does not travel reads only one page.” St. Augustine
1.
What
do you think are the expectations of this job?
To
ensure that Club Med vacationers have the best vacation of their lives,
only to be surpassed by their next Club Med experience, and to serve
drinks like they’ve never tasted before, as they have the time of their
lives at my bar, meeting new people and discussing their most favorite
places.
2.
What
are your future goals?
To
return to graduate school, study environmental science, increase public
awareness of and appreciation for ecosystem health/preservation and
their human stewardship responsibilities, and practice environmental
law. Bartending will help me pay for graduate school.
3.
Why
do you think you would be the right fit to be a G.O.?
Somebody
who thinks that making drinks is an art, that serving drinks is a pleasure
- not a job, and someone who cannot be overtasked behind the bar; someone
who loves seeing the world, meeting people from all over, and someone
who’s enchanted by the cobalt blue waters of the earth’s tropics.
4.
What
talents and/or capacities do you have or want to have?
Have:
have bartended for 3 years; have had drink cocktailrighted
by Bartending magazine; have written bar management books for 3 establishments;
speak Spanish and French; have visited 48 countries, and cant get enough
travel; also make really good Mai Tai’s, Margaritas, and Mojitos,
oh – and sand angels, too.
Want to have: want to learn Italian, become a Naval Attache,
learn to do a one-armed handstand, play the steel drums; learn stone
sculpture, figure out how the universe can be both infinite and
expanding, and how to describe color to someone who can't see it. Also
want to have the capacity to convince people that doing the right thing
for the right reason is what life and ethics should be all about, regardless
of race, religion, geography, or politic.
5.
Please explain in detail
what your last supervisor would say about you? Are you eligible for
rehire?
“Glenn
always shows up for work on time, with a smile on his face, loves his
job, can't get enough out of life, and his only regret is that he has
to sleep six hours a day, which cuts into his time for doing and learning
even more things. Yes, I would rehire him.”
6.
What
was your worst experience with a co-worker or supervisor? (Be specific,
do not generalize)
Those
experiences where hotel/restaurant management co-workers get stressed
out under pressure, and take it out on their peers, are unprofessional
in front of guests, and make their problems your problems. These people
usually don’t take suggestions well, are difficult to work with, and
make life less than pleasurable.
7.
What motivates you to
work hard?
The
satisfaction of a job well done, the thanks of people I’ve served, and
people whose days are brighter (or nights are better :)
because they visited my bar; the honor of serving my country;
the opportunity to make the world a better place.
8.
What
are your greatest strengths? (Performance, behavioral)
Performance:
work ethic; adept at handling competing priorities; the ability to plan,
prioritize, and produce.
Behavioral:
vision and attitude; work is not only an opportunity to earn, but a
chance to learn, to better myself, to improve the world we live in,
to learn from others, to create meaning, to enhance life’s gifts, and
appreciate effort.
9.
What
are your weaknesses? (Do not write none)
Tend
to be a perfectionist.
10. What would you do on your day off, if you were hired
by Club Med?
Find
a good windsurfer and try to improve my skills; read a good book; paint;
practice my foreign language skills with the guests, write letters;
take correspondence classes; learn to play steel drums; go reggae dancing;
build sand castles; enjoy rest without guilt; sit in my beach chair
with an icy cold Mountain Dew, a sweet vanilla cigar, my sunglasses,
and be captivated and enthralled by the Caspian blue waters.
11.
What behaviors do you exhibit
that demonstrate you would participate in Club Med shows as required
for all G.O.’s?
I
love theater and have been in many plays; I’m the emcee of a fine arts
group in Miami; I emceed my university’s comedy team; I’ve got mountains
of public speaking experience; laughing is one of my favorite hobbies;
bartending itself is being on stage sometimes; becoming a street theater
performer in Europe was a goal of mine as a kid. Always wanted to do
Up With People. As Van Gogh said, “The best way to know life is
to love many things.” Shows and theater are an opportunity to
simultaneously coalesce being and becoming. Learning is interacting.
Shows? Give me more!
“Own
only what you can carry with you. Know people, know places, know languages.
Let memory be your travel bag.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn
yes!
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