I know that I am a few days late, but I would like to say that what Tracy said is so so true. It was the same way for me. I started out at T.G.I.Fridays. They love to hire inexperienced people. Them being on my resume, for some reason got me alot of my other bartending gigs and I was always hired on the first interview. They really have a good reputation. I was a server there and after 3 months I was promoted. Another place that likes to hire inexperienced bartenders is Joes Crabshack. I personally would start off serving and work my way up. Like Tracy stated, my bar managers use to laugh at the apps and throw them away too. LOL

For example: When I was working at 201 Courtland (a now defunct club) they decided to hire a chick who was straight out of bar school. Someone asked her for a Cosmopolitan and she was literally searching for specifically "Absolute" From my understanding (because I have had to train quite a few) Bartending schools don't teach the basics.

This chick thought that a Cosmo HAD to have Absolut Vodka, cranberry, and Cointeau with a lime. She didn't know that it was just name brand liquer they were using and that she could have used any other vodka, triple sec etc. and like I said, she wasn't the only one that I came across. There were others, but differnt drinks like margaritas, sour apple martinis (oh the many ways to make them)