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Manage admissions department to reach and excel in all metrics and increase school population through effective recruitment.

•Develop admissions organizational strategies by contributing information, analysis, and recommendations to strategic thinking and direction; establishing functional objectives in line with organizational objectives.•Establishes admissions operational strategies by evaluating trends; establishing critical measurements; determining production, productivity, quality, and customer-service strategies; designing systems; accumulating resources; resolving problems; implementing change.•Develop admissions financial strategies by estimating, forecasting, and anticipating requirements, trends, and variances; aligning monetary resources; developing action plans; measuring and analyzing results; initiating corrective actions; minimizing the impact of variances.•Maintaing continuing flow of quality applicants and transfers to the college by analyzing trends in enrollment and marketing activities, leading activities to continue programs that are effective; presenting new sales strategies for the college's recruitment and admission activities.•Promote the college by making presentations and speeches at alumni meetings, high school conferences, and community job fairs throughout Volusia county.•Welcome prospective student to the campus by staging monthly open houses.•Maximize recruiting and admissions processing by using state-of-the-art recruiting and admissions computer technology.•Gain the respect of diverse individual groups by demonstrating the ability of the college to respond to the concerns and interests of its minority communities through event support in the community.•Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.•Enhance admissions department and college reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

My responsibilities were to: Design, development, management, and implementation of admissions programs, policies, practices, and services that meet the immediate and long range enrollment goals of the College.

•Develop admissions organizational strategies by contributing information, analysis, and recommendations to strategic thinking and direction; establishing functional objectives in line with organizational objectives.•Establishes admissions operational strategies by evaluating trends; establishing critical measurements; determining production, productivity, quality, and customer-service strategies; designing systems; accumulating resources; resolving problems; implementing change.•Develop admissions financial strategies by estimating, forecasting, and anticipating requirements, trends, and variances; aligning monetary resources; developing action plans; measuring and analyzing results; initiating corrective actions; minimizing the impact of variances.•Maintaing continuing flow of quality applicants and transfers to the college by analyzing trends in enrollment and marketing activities, leading activities to continue programs that are effective; presenting new sales strategies for the college's recruitment and admission activities.•Promote the college by making presentations and speeches at alumni meetings, high school conferences, and community job fairs throughout Volusia county.•Welcome prospective student to the campus by staging monthly open houses.•Maximize recruiting and admissions processing by using state-of-the-art recruiting and admissions computer technology.•Gain the respect of diverse individual groups by demonstrating the ability of the college to respond to the concerns and interests of its minority communities through event support in the community.•Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.•Enhance admissions department and college reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

•Conducted group interviews and 2nd interviews to increased team size from 6 to 12.•Broke Chicago record from 31 to 35 weekly enrolls and all other Chicago records in admissions. Such as; most starts in a module with 32 starts, most enrolls in a day with 12, highest conversions in Chicago in the following categories: highest lead to appointment with 55%, highest appointment to show with 53%, highest interview to enroll with 66% and lowest cancel rate with 27%.•Conducted Friday trainings to improve rep performance which allowed for representative increases from 15% to 20% in all categories.•Instituted motivational contests on a weekly basis for representatives.•Produced stitch-in events and orientations for future students.•Implemented a personally developed lead program which increased referral base from 2 per representative to 8 per representative per week.

My responsibilities were to: Design, development, management, and implementation of admissions programs, policies, practices, and services that meet the immediate and long range enrollment goals of the College.I also maintaing highest enrollment and start rate for the entire admissions team and placed in the top 3 in the company consistently in metrics.