Personal Assistant & Administration Specialist

CURRICULUM VITAE OF

CARIKE LAMBRECHTS

CONTACT PROFILE

Address:

** ***** ******, *****, ****

Phone:

064-***-**** or 077-***-**** or

Alternatively: Wilna on 064-***-****

ID Number: 860***-****-***

Email:

*********@*****.***

Salary Expectation: R12 000 minimum

ADDITIONAL SKILLS:

Learner’s Licence:

Code 8 (working hard to get licence)

Microsoft Office package: Microsoft

Word, Excel, Microsoft Outlook

Database Operations:

SAGE Accounting & Legalsuite,

Switchboard Operator, Fleet

Administrator, Quotes, Sales,

Receptionist, HR Admin, Data Capturer

FURTHER EDUCATION:

2013.10 - 2025.10 - Skills Academy /

PST Training & L.E.A.D. / (HR,

Theology & Secretarial Profession)

Legal Secretary - L.E.A.D. -

completed October 2013

HR Management - Skills Academy -

Completed October 2021

Completed studies Nov. 2022 to May

2023 below:

MS Excel Introduction

Mindset & Motivation Booster

Customer Interaction Level 1

Telephone Skills & Etiquette

Emotional Intelligence

Reception / Frontline

Teach every nation - 2024 to 2025

Bible School on Wheels - Year 1 and 2

Excel Theological Training Academy - 2025

and currently studying NQF5 (Will finalise

studies in 2027)

Theology - Qualification for professional

Religious Practitioners NQF5

LANGUAGES:

Afrikaans - Very Good

English - Very Good

Working on Microsoft 365, Working on Sage Accounting, Legalsuite for 25 Years

Fleet Administrator, Data Capturer, Administrator, Switchboard Operater, Sales, Customer services, Secretary to Director and Manager

Learning new procedures quickly and taking tasks ownership of all tasks. Can work effectively in a team and with minimal supervision. I am an optimistic, dynamic & driven individual with the skill to listen to the needs of customers and management. I am confident that my skills and experience will be a great asset to your company. Call me at 1pm if you would like to get a hold of me or email if you would like to enquire anything.

WORK EXPERIENCE

15/01/2025 – Currently - Truebore Engineering (Admin/Reception/Sales, Quotes, Purchase Orders, Ordering Parts etc.)

Assisting Walking in customers with sales, Answering telephone and email enquiries, Attending to telephonic enquiries, feedback to clients at the end of each day, ordering parts, filing, filling in job cards for walk in clients, doing purchase orders for major client, doing returns, bringing in supplier invoices & returns on sage accounting, creating new stock codes, creating quotes and invoices for clients and making sure that reception area is neat & tidy, filling in warranty claims for parts & submitting warranty claims to insurances, working with fleet customers.

Reason for leaving: Looking for growth opportunity. (Company is small) 10/07/2023 – 02 /07/2024 Auto Station (Admin/Reception/Sales)

Assisting Walking in customers with sales, Handling telephone and email enquiries, Attending to telephonic enquiries, feedback to clients at the end of each day, ordering parts, filing, filling in job cards for walk in clients, making sure that reception area is neat & tidy.

Reason for leaving: Owners & Manager passed away in a accident (No Contactable references)

30/05/2023 – 01/07/2023 Loan Fix (Call Centre sales)

Centre Agent for marketing for Credit Repair - Inbound Sales, Call Centre Agent for debt restructuring)

Marketing Experience Advisors, Finalizing of Credit Repair Quotes to Clients, Signing up of Clients, Relieving Reception, Selling Credit Life Insurance, Funeral Insurances & Life Insurance – Credit Gateway

Reason for leaving: Looking for better growth opportunities 10/05/2021 - 27/05/2023 Namibian H/wood(HR/Admin/Reception/Sales & Data Capture)

Assisting Walking in customers with sales, Handling telephone and email enquiries, Attending to telephonic enquiries, Calculating hours on daily / monthly / weekly wages and preparing wages for HR of 100 – 160 people, Updating online orders app for delivering wood to customers, Updating online orders app for payments, Requesting bank statements, Data Capturing for monthly sales report figures, Data Capturing for monthly sandblasting and Diesel reports, Data Capturing for export documents, Responding to emails on two email inboxes, Cash up duties, Requesting quotes on transportation for customers in JHB, Bloemfontein etc., Working with pastel (Sage Accounting), Admin and Filing, Printing Invoices at certain times for customers to sign for when deliveries have Been delivered to customers, Handling special orders and making sure they are completed, Handling forklift services and enquiries as well as making sure that invoices are Sent, Requesting weighbridge slips and getting weighbridge slips amended, Making sure that the company’s permits for wood is in order. Reporting faults on orders app or inside the office, Making sure that all things are reported. Taking minutes for meetings, Receptionist duties, Stock check, Ordering of Biltong, Biltong Sticks and bites for customers

Reason for leaving: Looking for better growth opportunities 02/05/2018–02/05/2021 VDM Attorneys / DebtWinner (Call Centre Clerk)

Centre Agent for marketing for Credit Repair - Inbound Sales, Call Centre Agent for debt collections, Marketing Experience Advisors, Finalizing of Credit Repair Quotes to Clients, Signing up of Clients, Relieving Reception, Selling Credit Life Insurance, Funeral Insurances & Life Insurance – Credit Gateway

Reason for leaving: Looking for better growth opportunities 05/12/2005–19/03/2018 JM Du Plessis & Partners Attorneys (Debt Collections Clerk)

Admin Assist, PA to Attorneys, Filing Clerk, Reception

05/12/2005–19/03/2018: PA to Director /

Administrator – Duties: Faxing and Filing documents PA to Director / Administrator – Duties: Faxing and Filing documents, Preparing registered letters, Collecting post and sending it, Emptying post in post box at post office, Managing 4 lines of incoming calls, Making calls on request of attorneys and Director, Signing of correspondences from attorneys and sheriffs.

Receptionist – 5/04/2011 to 5/10/2011: Welcome clients, Providing refreshments to incoming clients, Preparing pleadings on attorneys and director requests, Preparing of Affidavits or letters to attorneys and sheriffs, Typing of memos, Preparing minutes of meetings, Preparing registered posts.

PA to 4 attorneys, Directors – 6/10/2011 to 15/11/2013, Preparing memos on requests, Minutes of meetings, Completing of instructions – memos, Typing of pleadings, Filing Notices, affidavits and memos, Faxing and filing documents, Preparing notices and pleadings etc. for registered posts, Making appointments with clients for the attorneys, Arranging court dates for divorces, Rescissions, pleadings etc., Arranging urgent eviction dates, Arranging urgent meetings with the Court Judges.

Debt Collections – 18/11/2013 – 19/3/2018: Sms reminder to debtors, Collect outstanding debts from clients and achieve collection target, To ensure positive cash flow, Maintain debtor’s book to ensure that the debt status is accurate and latest., Monitor slow moving accounts to identify delinquent debts and take necessary action to recover the debts., Review collection queue to perform collection activities accordingly., Close a specific number of collection accounts each month to meet assigned target, Assist the company to take legal action against debtors by providing, necessary information., Maintain security and confidentiality of company and customer information., Working on Legal suite.

Reason for leaving: Owner passed away and kids closed company 3 months later.

Work results: Excellent, Dedicated and Determined, Hardworker, Loyalty and Honesty

EDUCATION:

Westcliff High School 2000 – 2002

Afrikaans, English, Social Science, History, Maths, Life Orientation, Shop and Office Typing (Management Workshop

TERTIARY EDUCATION 2013.10 - 2023.05 - Skills Academy / PST Training & L.E.A.D. (HR & Secretarial Profession)

10/02/2025 – Currently – Excel Theological Training – Pastoral Studies MS Excel Introduction – PST Training

Mindset & Motivation Booster – PST Training

Customer Interaction Level 1 – PST Training

Telephone Skills & Etiquette – PST Trainning

Emotional Intelligence – PST Training

Reception / Frontline – PST Training

HR Management - Skills Academy - Completed October 2021 Legal Secretary - L.E.A.D. - completed October 2013 REFERENCES:

Name & Surname: Mrs. Trish Palan

Designation: Attorney - Character reference

(For JM Du Plessis Attorneys)

Organization: VPR Attorneys: Ms Palan-Ramchand

Contact Details: 082-***-**** / 021-***-****

Name & Surname: Gerald Van Der Merwe

Character Reference

Designation: Previously the Manager at company

Organization: J M Du Plessis Attorneys

Contact Details: 084-***-****

Name & Surname: Mr Le Seuer

Designation: Principal

Organization: Westcliff High School

Contact Details: 021-***-**** / 8 / 9

Name & Surname: Audrey Wannenberg

Designation: Manager

Organization: VDM Attorneys

Contact Details: 081-***-****

Name & Surname: Mr. John

Designation: Manager

Organization: Namibian Hardwood

Contact Details: 068-***-**** -

Auto Station No contactable references due to being deceased & No character references

Name & Surname: Pieter Bosman

Designation: Workshop Manager

Organization: Truebore Engineering

Contact Details: 061-***-****

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