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Training territory sales managers and repsMeet with facilities to deploy marketing on sitemanage schedules for reps and managersResponsible for staff compliance with policy and license expectationsResponsible for hitting sales targets

• Conduct all sales and marketing for the company across print and social media platforms• Produce all the creative pieces for the print and web promotions• Coordinate all events and staff for booked events• Hire and train all staff in all positions• Manage all inventory and operations for the company• Meet with clients to plan events and create memoriesAttend networking events to promote the company brand

•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.

• Responsible for entertaining patrons during special and weekly events• Created and managed all social media ads• Posted all ads on all social media platforms• Hired and managed all entertainers for the hotel• Coordinated all special events and weekly events• Scheduled all entertainment and negotiated pay for all entertainers • Met and Sold all events and rooms to clients interested in the hotel as a venue or Group stays.• Managed and directed security for all weekly and special events.

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.

student recruitment and problem solving