NICOLE Talbo

*** ******** ******* ****, *************, GA 30043 C: 678-***-**** adi7f6@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Compassionate animal care professional specializing in caring for less commonly owned pets such as rodents, reptiles, and arachnids. Experience in pet-sitting, pet-sales, rat and chinchilla breeding, and wild animal rehabilitation. Excited about taking the next step in furthering my knowledge and expertise in animal related work or exercising my organizational and customer service skills.

Highlights

• Animal lover

• Companion animal behavior specialist

• Experience in breeding rodents

• Experience with large variety of animal species

• Certified in pet first-aid

• Dedicated to learning all I can about working with animals

• Efficient multi-tasker

• Ability to exercise discretion and keep clients personal information confidential.

• Strong work ethic

• Experience with extremely diverse clientele

• Responsible and reliable

• Computer-literate

• Sales expertise

• Clear-headed under pressure

• Adaptable

• Dependable

• Respectful

• Well organized

• Excellent time management skills

• Experience with multiline telephone exchange systems

• Able to deescalate tense situations of conflict

• Strong Customer Service skills with over 10 years experience dealing with the public

Experience

02/2012 to 06/2016

11/2017 to 08/2020

Associate Petsmart – Atlanta, GA

Primary duties include providing caring for, feeding, and monitoring animals in the store, habitat cleaning and maintenance, administering medications and care for sick or injured animals, sales, customer service, cashiering, and stocking.

11/2016 to 9/2017

Veterinary Assistant

VIP Petcare

Work as a veterinary clinic technician for a mobile pet vaccine clinic. Duties include proper and safe restraint of animals, administering vaccines, sales, and customer service.

05/2011 to 09/2013

Volunteer and Ambassador Animal Handler

Atlanta Wild Animal Rescue Effort (AWARE) - Lithonia, GA

Rehabilitating sick, injured, and orphaned wild animals native to Georgia. Other duties included feeding, socializing, and training animals, assisting in medical procedures, cleaning, ground maintenance, and working with the animals to educate the public.

Education

Veterinary Technology

Gwinnett Technical College - Lawrenceville, GA, United States

Attended Fall 2013

History

Kennesaw State University - Kennesaw, GA, United States

Attended in Spring 2013.

Linguistics

Gainesville State College - Oakwood, GA, United States

Attended from Fall 2009 to Spring 2012.

References

• Jackie David

Petsmart Petcare Department Manager

Former Supervisor

678-***-****

• Lauren Erickson

Surgical Nurse

Pet-sitting Client

678-***-****

• Marjan Ghadrdan

Wild Animal Rehabilitator

Former Boss at AWARE

770-***-****

• Juleanne Weed

Petsmart Associate/Groomer/Dog Trainer

Former Petsmart Coworker

703-***-****

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