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Personal Assistant Legal Secretary

Location:
East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Salary:
8000
Posted:
August 22, 2021

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Resume:

CURRICULUM VITAE

OF

CHARLENE WILD

SWORN TRANSCRIBER

AGE: 53

DATE OF BIRTH: 08 JUNE 1968

LANGUAGES: English / Afrikaans

NO OF CHILDREN: ONE - AGE 26 YEARS

LAST SCHOOL ATTENDED: Stirling High School - East London

Prefect in 1985

HIGHEST STANDARD PAST: Matric with university exemption – studied HDE teaching in 1986 – 1987. Not completed

SUBJECTS: English and Afrikaans (Higher Grade)

Accounting (Higher Grade)

Maths, Typing and Shorthand

COMPUTER LITERACY: Microsoft Office (MS Word / Excel / PPoint)

Microsoft Outlook (Internet / Email)

Windows 2000/XP, Dalet, Express Scribe, JAVS. Lawpac, MDA, Accpac and various other accounting packages

CONTACT NO: 082-***-****

EMAIL: adoa1k@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER HISTORY:

COMPANY: Pagdens – Stulting, Port Elizabeth - Philip Shaw and David Richardson

DATES: January 1987 to December 1990

POSITION: Legal Secretary

DUTIES: Full Secretarial function. Typed Commercial Agreements and Litigation, registration of private and public companies. Dictaphone typing, correspondence etc. A little shorthand used for urgent faxes, diarising of files and filing. Did all administration duties. Running all efficiently, co-ordinating and implementing office procedures. Being responsible for specific projects and in charge of my team around my litigation section.

Reason for leaving: Went with my fiancé at the time to Johannesburg

COMPANY: Deneys Reitz Attorneys - Johannesburg

Gerrit Bouwer

DATES: February 1991 - October 1994

POSITION: Legal Secretary

DUTIES: Diary control, typing of all legal documentation, Dictaphone typing, little shorthand, Typing Magistrates / Supreme Court Litigation,

Motor Vehicle Insurance Claims, Affidavits,

Summonses, Statements of Accounts, Divorce Settlement Agreements, due diligence. Maintained an efficient filing system.

Reason for leaving: Had a baby and stayed at home for a while.

COMPANY: Kingsbourne (Pty) Ltd - Marc Hammick –

DATES: January 1996 - December 2000

POSITION: Personal Assistant / Secretary / Receptionist to three Directors, 4 Quantity Surveyors and 2 Consultants who give Contractual

and Commercial legal advice to Construction Companies (Arbitrations) locally and internationally.

DUTIES: Answering all calls and directing all calls on a daily basis as receptionist.

Full range of personal assistant / secretarial

Functions. Arranging flights, seeing clients, organizing cocktail functions, invitations etc. Typing agreements, correspondence, handling petty cash and invoicing at month end. Handling the mail and ensuring all office stationary storage is well stocked. Organizing and storing paperwork and computer-based information.

Reason for leaving: Was asked to come back to Deneys Reitz Attorneys.

COMPANY Deneys Reitz Attorneys

DATES: January 2001 – December 2006

POSITION: Secretary / Assistant to Senior Litigation Partner

in the Construction / Insurance Litigation Unit.

DUTIES: Typing pleadings and notices, mostly High

Court and a little Magistrate's Court, typing of

Construction opinions, drawing up construction

related agreements, correspondence, diarizing

of files, screening telephone calls, month end

narratives, tax invoices, statements etc. to all

clients.

Reason for leaving: Moved back to my home town, East London

COMPANY: Drake Flemmer Attorneys

DATES: January 2007 – October 2007

POSITION: Legal Secretary

DUTIES: I consulted with clients daily. Met constant deadlines and demands. Litigation and foreclosures as well as family law and criminal law

REASON FOR LEAVING: Better job offer/salary

COMPANY:

LUKHOZI CONSULTING ENGINEERS

DATES: 25 June 2011 – 20 January 2012

POSITION: Temping - PA/Secretary/Admin/Receptionist

DUTIES: Prepared Tenders

I relieved for an hour on the switchboard daily. I typed reports and various covering letters for Payment Certificates to go out to various parties.

Reason for leaving: Temping assignment finished.

COMPANY: BALI CONSULTING ENGINEERS

DATES: 23 January 2012 – end June 2013

POSITION: Receptionist/ PA/Admin/Secretary/Project assistant

DUTIES: Organizing staff travel and accommodation requirements. Answered the phones daily, took messages, helped clients etc. Typing reports and letters, photocopying and printing.

Open project jackets for new projects on a daily basis (K2’s), prepare list of materials to be used by contractors to do electrical installations (BOMS), print design packages (FDP’s), infill’s, update daily information/comments on spreadsheet for each project at Eskom, admin, filing different contractor’s work in date/invoice order with supporting photographs and meter movements etc., answering the telephone, invoicing, input of VAT information on VAT spreadsheet before it goes to accountants on a regular basis, assisting with outages, typing, answering the telephone etc.

Reason for leaving: Decided to work from home.

PRESENT: July 2013 to July 2021.

COMPANY: Lepelle Polokwane, Limpopo & DART (Digital Audio), Pretoria, Johannesburg, Sneller Durban

DATES: 2013 to end 2018. January 2019 to March 2021 Inlexso transcribing court cases.

POSITION: Court Case typist, proofreading, transcribing,

Via Dropbox, internet, We Transfer etc.

DUTIES: Type from home. Cases get sent to me via Dropbox or We Transfer on a daily basis all with due dates, urgents or overnights and I transcribe the recordings and type the court cases, proofread them and email back once completed.

I also type interviews, hearings, arbitrations, council meetings and medical for various SA companies.

Since January 2019 I train people all over South Africa to transcribe arbitrations, hearings, interviews, meetings and interviews online.

I have done administration in every position I have held.

REFERENCES:

Brian – Kaylee – 073-***-****

Dunni – Simply Translate – 072-***-****

Anke – Pro Edge – 072-***-****

Elsje Aproskie Transcribing – 079-***-****

Rob Scott (Director) – ex Deneys Reitz. Now at ENSafrica.

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