PROFESSIONAL CURRICULUM VITAE OF

BELINDA WHITTAKER

Highest Qualification

N1-N3 Commerce and National Certificate (Grd12)

Salary Range

Negotiable

Notice Period

Immediate

COMPARATIVE GRID:

Skills, Experience & Competencies

TRANSCRIPTION AND PROOF-READING OF ALL COURT CASES, CCMA, HEARINGS AND INTERVIEWS. ADVERTISING, HUMAN RESOURCES, RECRUITMENT PERMANENT AND TEMPORARY.

Sales Internal and External

Marketing/Expo’s

Secretarial/Administrative/PA

Industry Knowledge – Advertising, Print and Social Media, HR,

Recruitment, Labour Outsourcing, Car Rental

Fully Computer Literate, Word, CRM programmes – Eclipse, Intelligence, E-Mail, Internet.

Admin Experience – Petty Cash, Debtors, Invoicing, Data Processing, Report Handling, Filing etc

HR/Recruitment Experience – CCMA, Hearings, Discipline Plan and Counselling

Performance Management, Record keeping of Sick Leave, Annual, Family Responsibility Leave, Interviewing and Selection Process, Advertising and Response Handling, Ref Checks, MIE Checks, Head Hunting, Business Development.

Advertising Experience – Business Development, Features Advertising, Business Spotlights, keeping abreast of activities within the City for Advertising Opportunities. Media Sponsorships. Social Media Advertising in conjunction with print media. Existing clientele budgets and advice with new financial year and advertising spend allocated.

Management Experience – Regional Manager, Branch Manager, Operations Manager

Transcribing Court Cases, Hearing, CCMA, Interviews.

Proof- Reading

PERSONAL DATA

Surname

Whittaker

Known Name

Belinda Fay

Date of Birth

16 June 1971

Address

28 Turnburry

Montmedy Road, Lorraine

Port Elizabeth

Email address

adhidn@r.postjobfree.com

Contact Numbers

064*******

Drivers Licence

Code 8

Dependants

One – Daughter 22 yrs Old

Language

Spoken

Written

Read

English – Fluent, Afrik - Med

English – Fluent, Afrik - Med

English – Fluent, Afrik - Med

Education

Hudson Park High School

EL College

Higher Education/Courses

Rhodes University – Basic Computer Literacy, Windows and

Seta – NQF3 Applying Staffing Solutions in the Labour Industry.

Global Business Solutions - Labour and Employment Relations Training

Seta – Labour Recruitment Consultancy NQF 4

In House Courses – Customer Service, Telephone Skills, Listening Skills, Basic Sales Training, Social Media Training

MIE – Certification

Eclipse CRM

PNET

Intelligence

Career Junction

Placement Partner

Executive Placements

I T C Check

On Request

Criminal Check

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Company Name

Dispatch Media

Period of Employment

November 1989 – February 1999

Position Held

Sales Rep/PA

Reason for leaving

Head Hunted for Yellow Pages

Duties

During my 10 year career at the Daily Dispatch I was exposed to many different job functions, which ranged from, Secretarial, Switchboard, Computer Admin, Front Counter Sales, Tele-Sales and External Sales. Within the Sales position we were required to service existing clients and monitor expenditure as well as source new business.

During my time at the Daily Dispatch I received a Mega Mile Award for outstanding work performance and attendance.

The environment was pressurised as deadlines had to be met as well as

Sales Targets.

Company Name

Yellow Pages

Period of Employment

February 1999 – January 2002

Position Held

Sales Rep (Tele and Premise)

Reason for leaving

Salary structure changed and was offered a position at Tempest Car Hire

Duties

This position involved taking care of an allocated advertising Budget and increasing Revenue Stats on the previous years’, this was achieved by increasing each advert sales by a certain percentage as well as

selling into other media’s i.e: electronic.

The position was extremely target driven on a daily basis and these figures had to be met. Every quarter we had to have achieved the

expected targets, where our Sales performances were reviewed.

Company Name

Tempest Car Hire

Period of Employment

March 2002 – June 2003

Position Held

Sales Rep

Reason for leaving

Retrenched

Duties

The position involved servicing of Corporate clients as well as Travel Agents.

Sourcing of new business.

Giving presentations and addressing groups of people, which enabled me to build on my confidence and public speaking abilities.

I also trained and assisted when necessary with the Operational side.

Company Name

Colven Associates Border cc

Period of Employment

November 2003 – June 2011

Position Held

Regional Manager and National Operations Manager

Reason for leaving

Resigned due to travel demands

Duties

Specialising in Labour Outsourcing, Permanent and Temp Placements as well as Administration of Payrolls.

The area I covered was the whole of the Eastern Cape, but have also covered Bloemfontein and Bergville in Natal for about a year.

Regional Duties:

Petty Cash, Monitoring of Sales, Quotations and Client Liaison. Debtors Collections, Liaising with Directors on a daily basis, Disciplining of Staff (hearings, counselling’s, warnings, staff files, leave etc HR function).

CCMA, Staff Performance Appraisals, Weekly Meetings with Staff, Liaising with Clients in my Region as well as New Business Sales. Bargaining Council and Union negotiations, General Admin, Keeping Abreast of Labour Laws and Cases, Wages and Banking.

My staff coming from different industries were all trained and coached by myself, this included Managers.

National Operations Manager:

In this role I oversaw all Operations of staff as well as drawing up and ensuring the policies and procedures for the company were adhered to. When new branches (satellite) started Ii assisted in securing premises, interviewing and appointing of staff and equipping the office with admin docs etc.

I also compiled and put together a training programme on Housekeeping, Personal Hygiene and Quality Awareness, which I have trained employees on site with. As well as Internal Policies and Procedures and in-house training of staff.

Company Name

Career Advancement Group (FREELANCING NOT PERMANENT)

Period of Employment

July 2011 – June 2012

Position Held

Recruitment Specialist – Eastern Cape Motors Internal Recruitment Specialist

Reason for leaving

FREELANCING

Duties

Receiving Applications for Posts Screening the above Applications

Telephonic Interview and Screen of Applicant Verification of Qualifications

Reference Checking Interviewing

Short Listing according to KPA’s

Putting forward for Final Interviews with Management Declining Applications via an sms system

Contacting Successful Applicants

I have also set up the Admin section of the business, ie: Interview Format, Ref Check Forms, Application Forms etc

Networking

Company Name

Your Home Magazine

Period of Employment

November 2012 – 10 February 2014

Position Held

Sales Representative

Reason for leaving

Resigned/ Commission only

Duties

Selling of Advertising Space Admin

Expo's

Company Name

Swopinfo.com

Period of Employment

August 2014 – No End (Freelancing)/Worked from home to look after my ailing Mother.

Position Held

Sales and Marketing Representative in Digital Media

Reason for leaving

Freelance/Worked from home due to Mom’s illness

Duties

New Business Sales

Networking

Marketing

Sharing of Adverts and Marketing of Business’s Training Companies on the Swopinfo.com system

Company Name

Affirmative Portfolio’s

Period of Employment

May 2016 – Jan 2017

Position Held

Managing Consultant/Worked from home/Contract

Reason for leaving

Offered a position at the GO!

Duties

New Business Sales as well as Existing Business Management Admin

Networking Marketing

Computer Programme: Intelligence and TQM

Company Name

GO & Express Community Newspaper

Period of Employment

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018

Position Held

Sales Representative

Reason for leaving

Opportunity with better salary

Duties

New Business Sales

Existing Business – Advising on Budgets, Advertising Planning for the year.

Media Sponsor Activities and Events

Social Media Sales

Updating of Social Media Platforms/Pages

Feature Advertising and Advertorials

Company Name

Logic Engagements

Period of Employment

Jan 2018 – June 2018

Position Held

Recruitment Specialist

Reason for leaving

Resigned

Duties

Business Development

Head hunting and marketing of Candidate CV

Specialist position recruiting

Social Media Platforms/Advertising/Networking

CURRENTLY WORKING ON CONTRACT FOR MYSELF AS AN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR FOR INLEXSO.

TRANSCRIBING OF COURT CASES, CCMA, HEARINGS AND INTERVIEWS.

References: Logic Engagements

Mark Deenik, Managing Director

Cell: 079-*******

Colven Associates

Tracey Boucher, CEO

Cell: 084-*******

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