Valerie McCready
**** ******** *** ********** ** 95662
Cell: 916-***-****
*.*.********@*****.***
Administrative Assistant
Objective
To obtain a position as an administrative assistant in an ever growing and
changing company. The ideal environment would be fast paced where I could
use the full extent of my skills to improve office efficiency and be a part of
increasing company wide bottom line results.
Education
American River College – Sacramento, CA 2009 Present
Outlook: Basics/Tools Intro to Database Management
Computer Keyboarding: 10 Key Intro to Web Page Creation
English for the Professional Fundamentals of College Accounting
Beginning Keyboarding/Applications Intro to Business
Beginning Word Processing: Word 2007 Business Communications
Intro to Word/Information Processing Presentations for Business Professionals
Intro to/Intermediate Electronic Introduction to Leadership
Spreadsheets
Key Skills
Office 17,000 kph 10 key Spreadsheets/Reports Travel Coordination
Skills: 100 wpm keyboarding Calendaring/Scheduling Marketing Fliers
Database Administration Budgeting Fax/Print/Copy
Written/Oral Internet Research Customer Service
Communication
Comput MS Word (Advanced) MS Access (Intermediate) Adobe Dreamweaver
er Skills: MS Excel (Intermediate) MS Publisher (Intermediate) Mail Merge
MS Outlook (Advanced) MS Powerpoint MS Expressions Web
(Intermediate)
Experience
Mary Kay Independent Beauty Consultant January 2011 Current
Home business based on building relationships with clients and selling product specific to
their needs. Required active listening, analysis and interpretation of data gathered from
clients, consistent follow up and policies in the best interest of the client.
Maintained an updated database of inventory.
Created and distributed marketing fliers.
Networked to build client base.
Made sales presentations.
Created budget for recurring business expenses.
Cingular WirelessCustomer Service Representative January 2006 – May 2007
Received incoming calls from customers across the country with a variety of needs.
Worked to assist customers while maintaining company standards of customer service
and conflict resolution.
Diffused tense customer situations regarding service or equipment failures and billing.
Educated customers on equipment usage.
Explained billing procedures and clarified misunderstandings.
Informed customers on service outages or issues.
Routed customers to additional departments as determined by their specific need.