clerical, office assistant, receptionist

Liz Strube

*** * ******* *** • Leesburg, IN ***** • 574-***-**** • *******.******@*****.***

Skills and Proficiencies

• Software Experience: Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint

• Experienced in data entry

• Experienced transcriptionist

• Experienced in using office machines including copiers, fax machines, and scanners

• Strong organizational, correspondence and proofreading skills.

• Hardworking and reliable; able to assume additional responsibilities.

• Takes direction well, learns systems in place, and knows how and where to find what is needed.

• Strong interpersonal skills, including teambuilding, office etiquette and telephone manners.

Professional Experience

August 1993 – January 2009

Chore-Time Brock, Milford, Indiana

Assistant Account Executive, Advertising Department (1997-2009)

• Contacted publications to acquire advertising rates and deadlines

• Used client budgets to set up a media schedule

• Coordinated advertising media, graphics and timelines with a team

• Wrote press releases for products and employment

• Coded advertising invoices sent to accounts payable department

• Responsible for organization, filing and retrieving advertising production folders

• Proofread product brochures and all advertising

• Prepared and e-mailed insertion orders for advertising in publications

Office Assistant to Media Coordinator, Advertising Department

• Co-created and organized competitor advertising binders

• Proofread and collated presentations in binders

• Faxed and filed insertion orders for advertising in publications

• Processed and tracked advertising co-ops using Excel spreadsheet

• General Clerical included data entry, copying, backup in mail room and switchboard

• Promoted to Assistant Account Executive; same department with additional responsibilities

Packager, Packaging Department (1996 – 1997)

• Feed bin packaging department

• Counted nuts and bolts for feed bins, packaged using a scale, sealed packages

Fax Clerk, International Office (1995 – 1996)

• Proofread and checked math on quotes, faxed to customer (5 fax machines)

• Sorted incoming fax and e-mail orders by regions

• Sorted mail, covered switchboard and reception area

Assembler, Watering Department (1993 -1995)

• Assembled and attached parts for chicken watering systems

• Assisted part-time in Advertising department

• Basic clerical, mailed press releases, filing, some data entry, backup for mail room and switchboard

• Promoted to Fax Clerk, International Office

September 1982 – December 1986

Miller’s Merry Manor, Warsaw, Indiana

Corporate Receptionist, Corporate offices

• Supervised other clerical staff including summer intern

• Balanced petty cash, printed checks, data entry, coordinated projects

• Transcribed for two corporate dieticians, corporate nurse, corporate controller and corporate administrator Jim Miller

• Used multi-line telephone system

May 1980 – May 1982

Warsaw Coil Company – Manufacturer of Electrical Coils

Customer Service Representative, Sales Department

• General clerical, Order entry, Obtained customer delivery dates

Receptionist / Typist

• Data entry, correspondence, mail sorting

• Used multi-line telephone system

April 1978 to May 1980

Prairie View Rest Home, Inc. 300 East Prairie Street, Warsaw, IN 46580

• Kitchen work and dining room prep

Education

July 2009 through the present

Career Step LLC

Coursework: Medical transcription courses including Medical Terminology, Grammar and Punctuation, Anatomy, Pathophysiology, and Pharmacology. I am currently in the practicum portion of the training, typing and submitting reports for a grade.

April 1980 Graduate

International Business College, Fort Wayne, Indiana

Coursework: Typing, Accounting, Business Communications Writing, Secretarial Procedures, Professional Dictation, Career Development and Business Machines.

June 1979 Graduate

Warsaw Community High School, Warsaw, Indiana

Honors: Typing, Kiwanis, Band

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