Carol Smith
Email: *********@********.***
Address: *** **** *** *
City: Fargo
State: ND
Zip: 58102
Country: USA
Phone: 701-***-****
Skill Level: Management
Salary Range: $50,000
Willing to Relocate
Primary Skills/Experience:
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Educational Background:
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Job History / Details:
CAROL J. SMITH
410 23rd Ave North
Fargo, ND 58102
*********@********.***
Summary of Qualifications
Diversified Sales & Operation Manager with a proven record of successful sales and profit increases:
* Stimulated an underperforming store to an annual increase in sales of 61%.
* Established and implemented new procedures for store plan and design layout, resulting in a 10% profit gain.
* Recovered over $165,000 while performing cash audits, deposit investigations, cash discrepancies and loss prevention exception reports.
* Rewarded for best annual inventory control 5 times, with a total shrink of less than 0.25%.
Professional Experience as
Manager
* Developed or implemented product marketing strategies, including advertisings campaigns or sales promotions.
* Manage staff, preparing work schedules and assigning specific duties.
* Perform sales floor work, such as greeting or assisting customers.
* Review financial statements, sales and activity reports, and other performance data to measure productivity and goal achievement and to determine areas needing cost reduction and program improvement.
* Use inventory control procedures.
Human Resources
* Interview job applicants to obtain and verify information used to screen and evaluate them.
* Record data for each employee, including such information as addresses, weekly earnings, absences, amount of sales or production, supervisory reports on performance, and dates of and reasons for terminations.
* Request information from law enforcement officials, previous employers, and other references to determine applicants' employment acceptability.
* Enter time sheet information and payroll.
* Conduct orientation sessions and arrange on-the-job training for new hires.
Clerical
* Collect, count, and disburse money, do basic bookkeeping, and complete banking transactions.
* Operate office machines, such as photocopiers and scanners, facsimile machines, voice mail systems, and personal computers.
* Train other staff members to perform work activities, such as using computer applications.
* Compile, copy, sort, and file records of office activities, business transactions, and other activities.
Carol J. Smith
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Honors and Achievements
* Outstanding sales increase for the year. Once with K Mart and twice with ALCO
* Reduce employee turnover by 25%
* Gold challenge coin from Illinois National Guard, for Troop support.
* Korean War National Museum Metal
* Star Quilt in honor of the startup of inmates work release program thru the Three Affiliated Tribe
* Started work placement programs in Mitchell, SD and Hazen, ND for autistic teens.
* Able to buy all "Made in the USA" merchandise to be sold in the KWNM Gift Shop.
* Started the Mary Todd Lincoln National Society.
* Volunteer of the year with March Of Dimes in SD and nationally.
Work History
* General Store Manager ALCO New Town, ND
* Curator& Gift Shop Director Korean War National Museum Springfield, Ill
* Marketing Director Abraham Lincoln Presidential Gift Shop Springfield, Ill
* Store Manager Dollar Tree Mt. Zion, Ill
* Hard lines, Soft lines & District Manager K Mart Troy, Michigan
Education
* BA - Marketing Redding, CA
* BS - Business Troy, Michigan
* Licensed Cosmetologist Fargo, ND