LAURA DE VOS
NATIONALITY
South African (KwaZulu-Natal)
DATE OF BIRTH
April 3, 1963
CONTACT
Cellphone: +27-083-***-****
ADDRESS
No. 9 Ridgewood Village,
Mount Edgecombe,
KwaZulu-Natal
4300
EMAIL:
**********@*****.***
HOME INTERNET
Service Provider: Home-Connect
Speed:
Ping: 23 ms
Download: 46.19 Mbps
Upload: 45.93 Mbps
CERTIFICATION
Psychology 1 (UNISA) in 1990 (Distinction)
Sales Guru course (Mark Keating) - Debbi Wagner 082******* (for verification)
EDUCATION
Modern Methods Business College
Dates: 1979 to 1980
Commercial Matric (I have misplaced the certificate and the College has since closed)
Subjects: English, Afrikaans, Accounting, Business Economics,
Typing, Shorthand, Etiquette.
Roosevelt High School
Dates: 1975 to 1978
English, Afrikaans, Biology, History, Geography, Mathematics,
German, Zulu, French, Home Economics.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Crawford Schools North Coast
October 1998 to December 2020
Reception and switchboard/Admin Assistant/Personal Assistant to Principal/Enrolment Secretary
(Samantha Smit - 083-***-****/032-***-****).
Duties:
Keeping the reception area tidy.
Answering and forwarding phone calls.
Screening phone calls.
Sorting and distributing post.
Meeting and greeting clients.
Handling parent/student queries.
Booking parent and staff meetings.
Arranging couriers.
Logging calls for office equipment maintenance/repairs.
Ordering of office supplies.
Sourcing suppliers and quotes.
Co-ordinating airconditioning servicing and repairs.
Paper work for IODs, Workmens Compensation and company Insurance claims for head office and OHS files.
Responsible for the Occupational Health and Safety paperwork (files) and internal and external audits thereof.
Presenting these files for internal and external audits.
Loading workmen leave applications onto group database.
Printing of workmen payslips when required.
Taking and typing up of minutes at management meetings.
Preparing paperwork for staff leavers and acquisitions.
Arranging flight, venue bookings, catering etc.
Maintaining the Principal’s electronic diary.
General secretarial duties, such as typing of correspondence and meeting templates.
Following up on student leads from Open Days and Expos and driving these leads through to acquisition/rejection.
Liaising with parents through to enrolment.
Setting up new student placement tests.
Setting up ‘meet and greet’ of parents with our principal.
Setting up new student profiles on STASY database, and creating new student files.
Monitoring leavers on STASY database, and transferring files over to new school.
Capturing joiners and leaver statistics for head office.
Wilton Trucking (Johannesburg)
January 1993 September 1998
Receptionist/Switchboard.
SKILLS
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Fast and accurate typing.
- Highly self-motivated and disciplined.
- Self-starter.
- Attention to detail.
- Team Player.
I have a friendly and bubbly disposition, I love to communicate with people. I am punctual, dependable, and take everything I do seriously, always going the extra mile.