Karen J. Bandel
*** ****** ***** ** *** * Dayton, TN 37321 (
423-***-**** cell
Email ac5idz@r.postjobfree.com
Work Experience
Mapco Covenience
Customer Service Associate
Assist customer with gas and convenience purchases as well as tobacco and beer items. Responsible for cash handling and balancing as well as lottery counts. Also maintaining cleanliness and stock cooler and shelving
Buffalo Wild Wings -Hostess
May 2017 to Present
Promptly greet and comfortably seat guests. Answer all incoming telephone calls, take reservations, and to go orders if necessary. Prepare tables for large groups of reservations ahead of time. Keep front entry area stocked and cleaned. Clean restrooms. Assist servers as needed. Additional duties as assigned. Big River Grille -Hostess
January 2017 to May 2017
Promptly greet and comfortably seat guests using iPad system. Answer all incoming telephone calls, take reservations, and to go orders if necessary. Prepare tables for large groups of reservations ahead of time. Keep front entry area stocked and cleaned. Assist servers as needed. Additional duties as assigned. ADT Security Systems -Outside Sales Representative June 2016-January 2017
Called on potential new clients and provided them a professional presentation about ADT Security and created a quote for alarm and camera systems in Salesforce.com. Also responsible for appointment setting primarily done by telephone and cold calling. Maintained happy customers in current territory to ensure customers retention by making sure they had the latest and greatest in security technology. Wilkins Research -Transcription department
March 2015-June 2016
Transcribing voice of the patient recordings from surveys taken by telephone interviewers and transcribed to written word. High attention to detail required as this typed material goes directly to our client for review, little to no room for error. Required to meet daily quota.
Telephone Interviewer/Customer Service Representative February 2015-March 2015
Called our client's customers to review their satisfaction with their service with that client particularly hospitals and doctors’ offices.
Homeserve -Customer Service Representative
September 2014-December 2014
Hired as a seasonal employee for the busiest season to answer queue line of sales/billing questions. Very extensive training as there were multiple products sold in different areas. Very detailed metrics and adherence measured as well as sales tracked.
Rightway Health and Wellness -Office Administrator June 2014-August 2014 (Office closed end of Aug)
Responsible for scheduling patient appointments, Cleaning and organizing office and maintaining office supplies, Creating sales and purchase orders, billing clients for services and supplements, ordering and shipping supplements to clients, Assisting owners with needs to help them serve their clients. Responsible for bank deposits and daily trips to the post office to ship packages. Opening mail and assisting with bill paying. Supermoms -Owner/Operator
November 2011-June 2014
Supermoms was created to be a FULL service home cleaning business. We also paint, organize, and do yard work. All the help a busy mom would need. This is a very profitable part-time business designed to take over the working mother’s home duties.
Mary Kay -Beauty Consultant
February 2008-September 2012
Sales Director
January 2009-November 2011
Held individual and party setting consulting appointments with clients for skin care and beauty routines. Recruited new team members to be promoted to a sales director. As a sales director I trained, motivated, and mentored a unit of at least 30+ woman to meet their individual goals by phone and weekly unit meetings. Worked in the field to do hands on training and holding my own personal appointments as well. Responsible for a monthly newsletter and weekly email updates to the unit.
Maintained Star consultant status every quarter. ($3600 retail sales)
October 2010 earned first Mary Kay Career Car
March 2011 earned second Mary Kay Career Car
January 2011 awarded MISS GO GIVE award
Lonnie Fore -Office Manager/Bookkeeper
July 2005-September 2007
Maintained office filing. Opened all company mail. Posted all incoming invoices to QuickBooks. Processed weekly payroll. Paid all company invoices bi-monthly. Accountemps (Foster Construction) -Office Manager
June 2004-June 2005
Maintained office filing. Opened all company mail. Posted all incoming invoices to QuickBooks. Processed weekly payroll. Paid all company invoices bi-monthly. Invoiced costumers for work performed. Prepared state and federal payroll taxes, monthly reports and bank reconciliations. Also prepared quarterly and yearly taxes and W-2’s for employees.
Professional Recruiting Services -Recruiter
Feb 2003-June 2004
Answered incoming office phone calls, screened resumes from internet sources, email, and fax. Pre-screened applicant over the phone. If the candidate was appropriate for the position called them in for a face-to-face interview. Following the interview decided whether candidate would be a good fit for companies that we recruited, checked candidates references and then proceeded to submit their information to hiring employer. Communicated with companies to schedule interview, then followed-up to secure a hire from the employing company based on their decision. Updated our website with current job information as well as posting on hotjobs.com. Other duties included making sales calls to potential clients and following up with information to them in the mail or fax.
US Xpress -Recruiter
April 2002-December 2003
Answered a que-line of incoming phone calls up to 500 calls per week of interested candidates as well as made outgoing calls to applicants applying online through US Xpress or other websites. Interviewed applicants over the phone, and then proceeded to do a thorough background investigation of the applicant including running a motor vehicle report, background check, and employment history check through a company called DAC services. Responsible for making a hiring decision and offering the applicant a position or denying the application. Scheduled applicant for a three day orientation and made sure they had transportation arrangements as well as ensuring that they completed the orientation process successfully by coordinating with background and safety departments. Accomplishments included:
Maintained and exceeded monthly hiring quota every month while employed at US Xpress.
Trained all new recruiters including traveling to offsite recruiting office to train from 6/02-12/03
Assisted recruiting manager and recruiting director with additional duties as assigned
Maintained a top 3% average of recruiters earning bonuses weekly and monthly. Also received “higher hiring” award
IU Medical Group -Finance Assistant
November 2001-February 2002
Prepared and calculated all daily deposits for various company accounts. Posted general ledger journal entries to accounting system. Prepared all invoices for accounts payable processing. Logged all bank deposits for on-site and off-site locations. Created various spreadsheets in excel for accounting associates. Reconciled bank accounts at month and year end. Generally assisted all accounting staff. Human Resource Assistant
June 2001-November 2001
Answered all company telephone calls, greeted visitors, assisted applicants with applications and testing, created and maintained all current and terminated employee files, assisted with new-employee orientation, organized HR events including summer picnic, employee meeting in the fall and employee Christmas events for over 500 employees, organized United Way payroll deduction campaign. Created a follow-up assessment as well as an exit interview process to reduce turnover of two positions. Entered benefits paperwork, I-9 verification, medical information, and personal information to HR Perspective database, generally assisted other HR associates including Director of HR, recruiter, and benefits administrator. Education
Southern Adventist University- Collegedale, TN
BS Business Administration May 2001
Skills
Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point, Access database, Corel WordPerfect Solomon Accounting Software, QuickBooks
Salesforce
Excellent knowledge of E-mail/Internet
HR Perspective Database, Xpress Recruiter database, AS400 database, Gemdrop Database, Black baud Database Type 70 words a minute
Excellent organization and communication skills