4th year Uni student, wanting a job more relevant than current one.

Hi,

So I'm a 4th year Psychology student at the moment, and although it's a bit late, I'd really love to start looking for some sort of a job that would have relevant experience to what I want to do later. Preferably, I would love to go into HR or some sort of analyst career. I think that getting an admin or HR assistant position or pretty much any entry-level office job would be a good starting point.

My problem is that I've worked in a casino as a dealer for the last 3 years. I really can't think of any transferable skills from that to what I want to do, besides maths. There really isn't much paperwork aside a few forms to sign once every few shifts, nor any computer software usage. It feels like the last 3 years have been relatively useless and this experience doesn't really contribute to any position that is not customer service. On the other hand, I have done some supervisory duties for a couple of months, before I transferred to a different department. I am also a team forum rep for my department, and I've been a school forum rep for a number of my Uni classes. Furthermore, I am quite computer savvy, and can/have done a good amount of IT support for family/friends.

So to me, it seems like I've worked for 3 years and none of that experience is really relevant, besides showing that I am somewhat driven to advance and committed. Most of the ads require some sort of office-environment experience. I am sure I could do pretty much any of those jobs well, and without the need for much training, as I pick up things quite fast and am pretty good with computers, but I have no idea how to convey that via my resume/cover letter.

Overall, it feels like the degree I'm working towards and the work experience I've got is pretty much useless in regards to what I want to pursue as a career. I've got a decent amount of skills for the career in mind, but they are not supported by anything "official". I am good with computers because I've used them since I was 6, always did the troubleshooting and non-hardware repairs on them myself or watched closely as others did, but I've never had a job that was based on using computers. I've always loved math, and loved our statistics classes in uni, so I find understanding and presenting stats fun and easy, but I've never done that in an official environment, just for my uni reports.

My question is how do I show these skills on a resume/cover letter, and make them seem credible, as opposed to it just sounding like empty bragging. Is that wrong? Would doing some online courses that are related to these topics help (I can put something along the lines of "did intro to statistics course on website X"?)

Thanks a lot, V