I have worked in a number of different environments including offices, large department stores, schools, pre-schools, photographic studios and from home.
I moved to Canada, from England, in 2005 and,apart from the years that I had very young children at home, have work continuously in one form or another.
I enjoy meeting customers/clients and helping them in any way that I can.
I have experience in retail, child care, education and certain areas of office work.
I am a fast learner and enjoy challenges.
. Looked after dogs overnight in my own home, as well as walking dogs daily from owners' homes.
. Earned trust of dogs and owners over many years.
. Never had to advertise, as my regular customers recommended me to others.
. I did this job simultaneously with Top Marks for seven years.
. Helped struggling readers and ESL students to understand the books designed for their age group.
. Supervised students eating lunch and at play outside, helping to provide a safe and friendly environment for everyone.
. Cleaned and tidied area where students had eaten lunch.
. Helped to design curriculum and projects for the pre-school.
. Helped to set up interesting and new layouts within the room for the children to investigate.
. Comforted very timid children and made them feel safe in their new environment.
. Designed activities to make learning through play possible.
. Monitored children's growth and noted it for elementary school teachers.
. Helped supervise outside play to be a fun and safe experience..
. Cleaned, sanitized and tidied area, including bathroom and kitchen areas, for the next day.
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. Labeled negatives from wedding photoshoots and placed pictures with correct number into leather bound photograph albums for people to choose the pictures they wanted to buy. These weddings quite often included members of the Royal Family.
. Collected props and models, from around the county, to take to photoshoots.
. Helped out with photoshoots in studio by moving furniture and props around and cleaning area afterwards.
. Served customers who came into the studio to buy frames and other photograph related things.
. Audio typed up property details to make brochures for each property for sale.
. Typed up private letters from the manager.
. Met clients and showed them around properties for sale.
. Sent out monthly bills for rental property owners.
. Started early every day to do open of day, which involved printing off all of shelf edge price changes for that day, distributing them around the different departments and getting all of the point of sale terminals on line for the day.
. Opening up and checking contents of boxes, sent from head office, each day and putting them away in the correct area of the warehouse.
. Helping out on shop floor, if they were short staffed.
. Helping to get tills back online during the work day, if there were any issues.
. Doing an end of day close down of terminals and computer.
. Starting out as a junior on a work placement from college.
. Inputting invoices into computer.
. Running an end of month cheque run to pay vendors.
. Typing up purchase orders and filing carbon copies into correct job number files.