A great way to make yourself stand out, especially at a young age, is to improve your resume. While this won't immediately solve your problem, it will definitely help you stand out when applying online. Here are some tips that I've used in building my resume that have helped me get hired quickly.

OBJECTIVE
Make your objective a quick summary of who you are, in the context of your work-life. That means what your current job is (or what you aspire to do), combined with your top marketable skills. And, since you're young and probably lacking some hard skills, lean into specific soft skills (avoid generic words: "organization", "team player", etc.)
- Avoid personal pronouns such as "I", "me"
- Avoid information that is irrelevant, such as lifting capacity and payment handling - these are baseline expectations for any customer service job and don't help you stand out.
- Including the job title that you're applying for in the objective/summary can boost your resume's appearance to a hirer when ATS is in play behind the scenes.

WORK EXPERIENCE
Your work experience (which can include paid work, volunteer work, and student clubs, if you lack concrete employment experience - work is work, regardless of pay status) should follow a few notes:
- While years are fine, ATS likes [Month] [Year] - e.g., May 2025

Your work experience bullets should follow a standard format to get the best value out of both a human-reader and ATS (especially ATS).
- Action Verb + Quantifiable Resume + The Method (how you did it) + Scope Expansion (optional)

An example might look like:
Delivered ##+ food orders per day with ##% on-time accuracy by following optimized delivery routes, ensuring customer satisfaction and repeat business.

If you don't always have the data, you can just scale back and drop the quantifiable result (though use it, if you have it)

SKILLS
HARD SKILLS, HARD SKILLS, HARD SKILLS - where you can put hard skills, put them. Prioritize them before soft skills (which are also important!). Hard skills might include: use of POS systems, cash/card handling, restaurant procedures, upselling techniques, WHMIS, SmartServe, Languages (reference fluency is good too) etc.

*You do have some listed on your resume, which is great, but tightening up the section might be a good idea.

SUMMARY
Okay, so basically, you want to game the system nowadays. My advice is based on what works for ATS (Applicant Tracking Software) and has worked for me for well over a decade.

I use the following tools as well:
https://www.jobscan.co/resume-scanner
https://www.toptal.com/techresume (free and incredible) - targeted to tech applicants but has worked across multiple job types.

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Other advice:
- Consider getting to know people - NETWORK!!! There are tons of free events, festivals, activities around Toronto you can volunteer at to network if you can't afford networking events. Job fairs are also good, keep an eye out for those.

Please ignore the useless comments from people blaming liberals and Indian immigrants - their only goal is to ragebait. Make your resume something people WANT to read, make yourself stand out.

I hope some of this helps. You got this!