Sam Kulliver

Sam Kulliver

Portfolio 2016-2017

Cover Letter

Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing in response to your ad seeking a Brand Associate at Old Navy. Your job posting states that you are looking for an organized, detail oriented, problem solver, which describes me perfectly.

I am very organized and have a personable attitude, which makes me a great candidate for this position. I take ownership of projects I am given, and am a creative problem solver.

Additionally I am exceptional in: Assisting in all areas of which I am needed Keeping a fun, yet organized environment Providing exceptional input on all aspects of the store Researching for new ideas that can bring help the store I have worked for the Boys and Girls club in the past, and have taken leadership positions in the publication that I am in at school. This has provided valuable knowledge that I will be able to bring to this position.

Working at Old Navy would allow me to implement my skills into the store and allow me to further my skills.

I appreciate you taking the time to read my cover letter. I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely, Sam Kulliver

Sam Kulliver 29235 N. 43rd Street Cave Creek, Arizona, 85331 480-309-3024 samkull101@yahoo.com WORK EXPERIENCE Old Navy September 2016- March 2017 · · · · ·

Stay in assigned area Assist all customer Follow the schedule Fold clothes Clean

EDUCATION Cactus Shadows High School Cave Creek, AZ Expected graduation, May 2018

ADDITIONAL SKILLS · Fluent in Spanish · Volunteered for Birthday Dreams, Special Olympics, National kidney Foundation, and more · Received Honor Roll in Middle School · Studied Hebrew for four years · Great Computer Skills (Power Points and Presentations)

Resume

This semester was my second semester with a real leadership position. I was given a fantastic team of three girls who are always down to work. In the course of this semester I have learned to be more on top of my responsibilities and micromanage to make sure things are getting done properly. This semester was very rocky because I had a lot of spreads to do at the same time, four of them to be exact. However this year I was able to get them done relatively well and they came out really well and clean.

This semester taught me a lot. I learned how a spread should really look and how to put things in a way that makes them nice to look at. In the future, meaning next year, I will be able to put spreads together that are designed well, with a structure and they will look neater and cleaner. My main concern with spread building is so that the reader will actually want to read what is on the page. I think with my new knowledge that I will be able to pull this off.

Furthermore, when it comes to deadlines, I learned more from those than any other. I learned that panic mode will set in if you don’t have everything there in that moment. It showed me how important deadlines were and that if we do not meet them then we are screwed. In the future I think I need to plan a little better for those respective nights. I need to make sure that my team actually has their stuff done and that is to the quality that it needs to be.

When it comes to teamwork, I believe that my team and I worked very well together. I think that I was as helpful to them as I could of been. If I could change something, I wish it would be that I knew more. I feel as though I lack some knowledge when it comes to running a team, however I do believe that I did the best that I could possibly do. I put a lot of work on my team so that they could learn, because in my sophomore year I truly had no idea what indesign even was.

I have always been honest when it comes to yearbook. If I make a mistake then it is my responsibility to fix it and not lie. I always made sure my team was actually writing something original and creative and to the best of their ability. Especially in journalism, I believe it is one of the most important parts. There is no point of being a journalist if you are not going to be honest.

In my opinion I was as helpful as possible this deadline. I stayed longer on deadline nights then I truly needed to. I have stayed during my classes to help the editors who are constantly swamped with work towards the end of a deadline. I am extremely committed to this publication, it is my second year and I plan to come back next year and help lead the team. I even helped on the

Self-analytical Evaluation

weekends with spreads when that job was not in my title at all considering I was just supposed to put everything on the spread and let the design team take it from there.

One of my main problems this year, was honestly getting everything onto spreads with all the pictures and information. I think I got lazy considering the book was going to be over in March.. I tend to get lazy easily when it comes to the yearbook because I just want it to be over sometimes because it is a big ball of stress in my life.

If problems like this arose in the future, I believe that I just need to learn to be more organized and correct. My greatest weakness would probably be photography. I just need to take more opportunities to take photos. Next year I will take photos at more events and truly get to know the camera and how everything works when it comes to lighting and all that. Since I will be an editor I will have more responsibility and help out much more.

This year I have put together a lot of spreads. All in all my favorite would have to be the spread on swim. Visually it is beautiful, full of blues and greens that make you feel as though you want to go for a swim. The spread is also set up quite nicely with a plethora of photos and by far there is a lot of information on it. For example I did a mad lib that a girl told me about something that went wrong at one of their meets that was actually super interesting. Along with that my team was also extremely helpful with this spread. Emma put in a lot of work and even went to the pool at like eight at night.

Olivia had an amazing story about a boy who was dared to be on the swim team and actually loved it and was super good at it. We also did a story about what they do in order to prepare for their meets and such. So all together I really enjoy the spread because it stands out but also fits into the book very nicely and is just incredibly pretty to look at. So if you ever go into the yearbook, you should definitely check that one out. ;)

Reflection #1

This is the story that I wrote about the class sizes and how the school doesn’t have enough money to have smaller classes

I took this photo at the homecoming dance

Mod about seniors and their future endeveres

To add a little more life to the swim and dive spread, I did a madlib about an event that happned during the season

Homecoming that I put together along with olivia

Haunted house spread, with mods like hot to make skin, a layout of the building,, and a story about a injured

Ib spread where I did a story about validictorian and also did the layout of the spread

fashion club and litmag spread, I did a story about for litmag critues and put the spread together

young life spread, I did a mod about the summer camp and helped put the spread together

baseball spread that was rough to get together but i did a story about pitching and helped with the layour