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One of the best jobs you can have as a young person or a recent college graduate is bartending.
My name's Micah, and I'm going to talk to you about how to get a job bartending. First,
and most important, you have to know how to bartend. Know your cocktails. People come
to you for drinks, for good-tasting drinks, drinks like they want. You have to know how
to make them right. A couple ways to do this. You can either train as a bar back for several
years or several months, whichever works out for you, and learn from other people. You
can buy a book with cocktail recipes inside, read up, memorize, and practice your pouring
at home before you go and try to get a job. Nobody wants to hire anybody without experience,
so it helps to have worked in a bar before, or in a restaurant serving, some sort of interactive
serving, customer service experience really helps. Another thing: presentation. When you
walk into a bar to try to get a job, be dressed to impress. You're selling yourself. When
you're behind a bar you're on stage, you're acting; people can get a drink anywhere. They
come to your bar because they like you. So you have to show your potential employer that
people are going to want to come to see you. Letting your personality show in your interview
is also very important. This is a, bartending is very interactive; there's a lot of back
and forth over the bar, a lot of joking, a lot of talking to people. You have to be somebody
that people want to talk to. And pick a bar that's going to fit you. If you don't have
a lot of experience, you don't want to go to the megaclub where it's high volume, fast
pace, and you might get lost or feel behind, or feel like you don't know what you're doing.
If you're more mellow, choose a bar that has regular customers that come in and get the
same things, has a slower pace. Most of all, pick a bar that fits for you. My name's Micah,
and that's how to get a job bartending.