This summer, we are featuring stories by 2018 JTG graduates and offering them a chance to share the impact JTG has had on their lives. This week’s guest writer is Sarah Hafner from Creek Wood High School. 

Being in JTG has showed me that I honestly did not have a clue on how to do an interview, cover letter, or resume to help me get a job. Mrs. Orman has been a great help throughout my senior year and always has been patient with us on learning how to help us get a job after high school. JTG has taught me how to write a cover letter, resume, and a two weeks’ notice to help me be able to better prepare myself for a job. I really enjoyed doing the mock interviews. It helped me overcome being nervous when talking to someone else about a job. The mock interviews helped me understand what I need help on and what I am doing right.

My favorite part of JTG was getting to write my resume and cover letter. It has helped me with being able to sell myself to a company I would like to work for. Talking to John Dwyer was extremely beneficial because he showed us Dream Jobbing. He helped us make our twenty-to-thirty second video on reaching out to companies to see if they would contact us for a chance to work with them. This class by far has been the most informative and beneficial over all four years of my high school experience. I really wish this class was available to every senior to help everyone better prepare themselves for after school. This class has helped give me gain more insight to what companies look for in a worker and how to do my best when applying.

JTG influenced me by me being able to walk into a company with confidence knowing that I know I have what it takes to work at any job I want.

I can know say I know how to write my resume and cover letter to help sell myself and the accomplishments and education I have received throughout my life. Leaving a job, I know how to be respectful and responsible when writing my two-weeks’ resignation letter. Mrs. Orman and John Dwyer have both showed us that no one is ever too good work a job from cleaning toilets or being a CEO. We have to have pride in ourselves to have pride in working our job. If we have pride in ourselves, we can be the best at whatever job we work at. “There will never be shame in working a certain job,” is what John Dwyer said, and that is what stuck with me the most. He also said as long as you can do your best and be the best even at cleaning toilets you can succeed.

My plans after school are to attend Columbia State Community College over the summer to get my general education and work for my nursing degree. I hope work at Vanderbilt in the pediatrics or geriatrics department with my sister, because it has been my dream job ever since elementary school. Throughout the years, I want to pursue a higher degree to become a nurse practitioner. JTG has been the most helpful class I have ever taken, and I will most certainly use everything Mrs. Orman and John Dwyer has taught me. I am blessed to have been a part of this amazing program at Creek Wood High School and for the experience and knowledge it has given me.