Events Staff - Paintballing and Forest Laser Tag Whyteleafe, England
Job description
Are you looking for a mixed outdoors weekend role, that offers varied work, in a location that offers you fantastic opportunities to develop your full range of personal skills?
If you are passionate about working face to face with people, can show a real enthusiasm for customers, have a strong work ethic, a real duty of care to improve your skill sets and a willingness to take up more responsibility as you develop, then you have found the right place.
GO Action Forest is the home of www.gopaintball.co.uk & www.golasertaglondon.co.uk, and we are creating South London/Surrey’s ultimate outdoor action venue.
We pride ourselves on running the best Paintball and Forest Laser Tag events available in the UK.
We are looking for enthusiastic candidates to join our team of 50+ part-time events staff. The role is for Saturday/Sunday work as a requirement on a casual basis, with mid-week events (particularly holiday dates) also available for the best-performing staff members. Early starts (7.30am) are required for the set up of events.
This role would ideally suit a hands on, team orientated, personable, customer-focused candidate with confident communication skills, a strong work ethic and possessing a real enthusiasm to improve their skills and deliver completed assignments and events with pride.
This isn't a full-time role, nor is it a role offering midweek work as standard, although we run many weekday events for Schools and Corporate clients, along with many Half Term/Summer Holiday events.
Responsibilities are varied and full training will be provided, with added interesting responsibilities and Pay increases as skill sets and competence increases - up to £80 per Event day Including all Food and drink.
Shared Large Pizza Hut Pizza's are provided to staff as a lunch each Event, along with bottled water throughout your working day with us, all free of charge.
Responsibilities include (as a general) but are not exclusive to:
- Running Paintball and Laser Tag events as 'Marshalls' - Looking after teams of recreational rental customers of all ages (Kids ages 6+ to Adults) for their events, as well as maintaining equipment and our company ethos to ensure our customers have the best Paintballing and Lasertag experiences possible.
We are looking for personable candidates to join our incredibly successful team of hard-working part-time outdoors events staff, working face-to-face with customers, delivering memorable and exciting events for our customers.
We are proud to have a long retention record for our Events Staff, and we invest so much time in each of our team members, teaching all of our staff really employable, confident skills for the future such as:
- Learning how to deal personably and professionally with customers of all ages and backgrounds.
- How to manage and organise large groups of people
- How to work with kids groups ages 6 and up
- Skills on how to work well within a team
- Leadership skills
- Public speaking skills
- A strong work ethic
- Taking responsibility for your role and for company equipment
- And so much more...
If you think you are a suitable, positive person, who is willing to work hard, apply yourself well and enjoy your work for yourself and for our customers' benefits, then please get in touch with a personalised cover letter or message, as to why you think you could become a good member of our team and why you think you should be considered for an interview.
Failing to provide a genuinely personalised cover letter will reflect negatively on your application.
Unfortunately, due to our time constraints, we are unable to get back to anyone who isn't selected for an interview, please do not take it personally.
Please read through this job post again fully before applying to properly gauge your suitability.
If selected, you will be contacted via Text & WhatsApp to arrange a simple telephone interview, so please ensure your phone number (mobile number) is present and correct on your CV.
Many thanks,
The GO Action Forest Team
0208 935 5638
Job Type: Part-time
Salary: £60.00-£80.00 per day
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- On-site parking
Schedule:
- Day shift
COVID-19 considerations:
We are a 'Covid Secure' business, rated 'Good to go' by Visit England
Application question(s):
- What is your current educational status? Are you a School, 6th form or College student? And if so, which year?
- With your current schedule, do you have any midweek availability? If so, which days?
- With your current schedule, what weekly commitments do you have which may impact your availability to work day time events?
- Have you visited our venue before as a customer, or know anyone who works for us? If so, which activity did you take part in, or which staff member do you know?
- Which Activities do we currently offer? And which one (if any) appeals to you the most to work? And for what reasons?
- Please answer all questions fully and to the best your ability.
To aid your application, please avoid just answering Yes/No wherever possible, and be as explanatory as you can to give us the best understanding about you.
From reading through our Job Ad fully, what was it that made you want to apply to become a member of our Events Team?
What makes you think you would be a great fit for the role?
- Which days on a weekend are you available to work?
- We typically organise telephone interviews through WhatsApp messages from our Team. These Telephone Interviews typically take place on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays between 3pm 5pm. With that in mind, do you have any day or time preferences for a telephone interview?
If so, please state when you could be available?
- Do you live close to our Venue in Whyteleafe, CR3 0HB? How would you plan on traveling to us? How long do you estimate your travel time taking?
- So we can help you best through each stage of our interview process, what in the role do you think you would find more of a challenge?
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: Spring/Summer 2023 Events Staff Recruitment
