Sales Assistant

Natasha Lodhia

** ****** ****, *****, ************, LU2 8BJ

Tel : 079**-******

Email: *************@*******.**.**

Personal Profile

• Highly motivated, motivated and enthusiastic individual with experience of working as part of a team in

a busy office environment.

• Experience working in both Office and Sales environment

• Well organised and able to prioritise my time to ensure that deadlines are met in order to support to the

department

• Excellent communication skills and able to establish a rapport

• Looking to join a reputable company that offers long term career prospects

Skills

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• • Able to work to target

Good IT skills

• • Strong time management skills

Strong negotiating skills

• • Able to priorities

Team player

• Polite and honest

Education and Courses

March 2012 – Blue Sky Communication Course – Pass

September 2006 – July 2011 Putteridge High School

10 A to C grades achieved at GCSE’s including English (C) and Mathematics (C)

Employment History

October 2013

Red Line Group, Luton Bedfordshire – Apprentice Recruitment Consultant

My role as an apprentice recruitment consultant is to:

• Finding candidates for engineering, software and manufacturing roles

• Looking for clients – Via LinkedIn and Cv’s

• Building relationships with candidates and clients

• Developing a good knowledge and understanding about the companies

• Keeping above my targets

• Using companies database to keep a good communication level with colleagues for information

about other companies and candidates

August 2013 – October 2013

Blue Arrow, Luton Bedfordshire Assistant Recruitment Consultant

My role as a recruitment consultant is to:

• Payroll and timesheets keep up with the daily and weekly office duties

• Filling separating and organizing

• Emailing keeping a professional manor of communication with colleagues and clients

• Photocopying basic printing, scanning and faxing

• Dealing with client enquiries telephone and face to face

• Arranging appointments putting clients on the system

• Working towards targets that may relate to the number of candidates placed

• Building relationships with clients

• Developing a good understanding of client companies, their industry, what they do

• Using candidate databases to find the right person for the client’s vacancy

• Requesting references and checking the suitability of applicants

• Briefing the candidate about the responsibilities, salary and benefits of the job in question

• Organising interviews for candidates as requested by the client

June 2013 July 2013

Gray's photos, Luton Bedfordshire Assistant Photographer

Whilst working for Grays my responsibilities including the following:

• Customer handling and care including customer complaints

• Setting up photo studio setting up screen and lights

• Camera use adjusting camera for perfect shoot

• Answering calls booking photo shoots

• After care service Calling clients for feedback about service and photos

July 2012 – November 2012

PJ Car Audio, Harrow Wealdstone – Sales and Administration Assistant Temp

Whilst working for PJ Car Audio my responsibilities included the following:

• Customer handling and care – including customer complaints

• Sales assistance serving customers and selling high end car audio products

• Filing – putting customer records away in appropriate places

• Scheduling customer appointments – for fixtures of car audio products

• Back office banking – end of day banking which involved cashing up

• Database administration – as new stock came in entering this on to the system

• Aftercare service – calling up customers to see if they were satisfied with service and products

• Monitoring stock and keeping a record – by using the Microsoft access database

• Organising incoming deliveries

• Pricing and labelling stock

• Ad hoc administrative tasks

March 2012 – June 2012

Howdens, Luton – Assistant Business Developer – Work experience

My role as an Assistant Business Developer involved:

• Liaising with clients on a regular basis either by telephone or email in order to inform them of our

latest offers – this allowed me to gain positive and effective communication skills when discussing

issues with clients

• Contacting potential clients when necessary to generate leads for our sales team

• Maintain the in house company database system this involved data cleansing of the clients and

updating details if needed

• General administrative tasks such as photocopy, faxing and filing

July 2011 – January 2012 Employment Gap (after leaving Putteridge High School)

During this period whilst looking for work I was helping out at home as a carer.

January 2011 – February 2011

Sugarcane – Sales Assistant

Whilst working at Sugarcane my role entailed:

• Serving customers at the checkout point in the store

• Handling customer complaints effectively

• Back office banking at the end of each day

• Sorting and pricing stock

• General administrative work

February 2010 – February 2010

Peverel (Law Department)

During my two weeks work experience I was responsible for the following duties:

• Writing the team and case minutes

• General administrative tasks such as filing, photocopying and scanning legal documents

• Organising the company mail

• Welcoming clients on the reception desk

Interests

In my spare time, I enjoy taking my two young brothers out for day trips and creating fun activities for them.

Furthermore, I socialize with my friends, listen to various types of music and enjoy reading. I regularly keep

myself up to date with current affairs and world news, and I enjoy travelling to various places. And also

enjoy regularly baking either cookies or cakes.

References available on request

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