Duties included working under strict guidelines to properly assure quality. Planting seeds in various types of media, keeping seed samples separate to avoid contamination, keeping track of each samples location, and working as a team to finish samples in a timely manner. This position included standing for 8-10 hour shifts, moving about the work area, bending forward, stooping, and reaching overhead to put samples in the proper location in the germination rooms. This position required me to work as a team as well as individually to reach goals. The ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written form, ability to adapt to change, and ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other staff members was crucial.

Production work including labeling bags and boxes, filling and packaging bags, and loading bags into boxes to be shipped. Helped train people added to the line after me. Worked with equipment. Kept a safe, clean work environment. Quality control. Working as a team to reach quotas and finish orders. Working in a fast paced, diverse environment. Managing and operating heavy machinery (such as a blow mold) as well as a crew of up to 5 people. Critical thinking and problem solving.

Duties included customer service, cashiering (including cash and debit transactions), stocking books, zoning shelves, receiving books, backroom organization, item location. This position required pricing books and other merchandise based on company policy, use of computer and software for pricing and ordering, taking information for books wanted, and keeping track of in-store credit.

Duties of a member of IMS includes the upkeep of the backroom through management of inventory, maintaining the department through use of a hand held computer and other tools provided, keeping an accurate account of merchandise, keeping the merchandise organized, and making sure the departments had appropriate merchandise by checking counts, picking items low on the shelves to be stocked, and binning overstock, and maintaining a clean, safe work environment.

Duties included assisting customers with any questions and the location of items, keeping the sales floor clean, stocking all merchandise in my assigned departments, binning overstock, checking dates and rotating stock, and zoning. This included occasional supervision of up to five people as well as cashiering when needed.

Responsible for calling people to conduct various surveys, including but not limited to, customer satisfaction, political, media, and statistics. Reading scripts efficiently. Inputting and verifying data and typing responses verbatim into a database. Knowledge of standard office practices and procedures. Word-processing skills with accuracy at a rate of 35 words per minute.