Part-time job resume for students — proof over padding

Part-time work is the highest-volume student resume search for a reason: employers hiring casual and student roles want evidence you can handle shifts, customers, and deadlines — not a miniature corporate CV. The mistake is either hiding the cafe job as "irrelevant" or inflating it into fake management language. Recruiters for student-friendly roles read part-time history as reliability signal.

Contact that works (mobile + professional email), a summary that names the role type, and the most recent employer with dates that look real. Gaps of a few months between terms are normal for students — unexplained multi-year blank space is not.

For hospitality and retail, they look for customer contact, cash or POS, roster discipline, and any ownership (open/close, training new starters, stock counts). For tutoring or campus roles, they look for preparation, stakeholder trust, and measurable outcomes (hours delivered, students supported, events run).

Replace "Responsible for customer service" with owned verbs plus a concrete outcome: "Served 40–60 customers per shift on POS; maintained accuracy during peak Friday trade." Replace "Helped with stock" with "Restocked floor displays twice daily; flagged low-SKU items so managers could reorder before weekend rush."

Keep it. Transferable proof (punctuality, cash handling, conflict de-escalation, working under pressure) is exactly what first employers buy. In your summary, bridge once: "Commerce student seeking weekend retail — two years of high-volume cafe service and till accuracy." Do not rewrite the cafe into "stakeholder engagement strategy."