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Schaumburg, Illinois, United States

Schaumburg, Illinois, United States

Schaumburg, Illinois, United States

- Manage operations within the department by ensuring team efficiently completes daily tasks to meet guest needs, as well as, manage each team member’s workload and goals.- Work side-by-side with team members and empowering them to own their specific departments from end-to-end.- Consistently assisted with setting key planograms, in addition to training.

Bensenville, Illinois

- Work on an as-needed basis.- Organize and file invoices alphabetically. - Greet walk-in customers and ask what brings them in.- Answer telephone: take orders, answer questions, record messages, etc.

Bloomingdale, Illinois

- Primary focus was to efficiently sort, unpack, and hang new shipment.- Met and often exceeded company standard of unpacking five boxes per hour.- Assisted with other tasks as needed, including backroom reorganization and store sets.

Lombard, Illinois

- Upon my second-anniversary with Torrid, I was offered a promotion to a higher-volume store in the area in my current position of Full-Time Assistant Store Manager.- Carried over skills developed prior to transfer, adjusting management approach as needed to best fit new team.- Continued to successfully create quality customer connections even with greater.

Bloomingdale, Illinois

- Started as Sales Associate (July 2014) to then move up through two other management positions before achieving promotion to Full-Time Assistant Store Manager (July 2015).- Successfully completed daily operations in a timely manner for store to run smoothly.- Refined ability to balance multiple tasks at once by analyzing each situation in order to.

West Des Moines, Iowa

- Helped customers discover clothing that helps them feel comfortable and confident in their own skin.- Learned to use suggestive selling to build sales during customer interactions.- Focused on store recovery and cleaning while manager-on-duty completed nightly closing procedures.

Des Moines, Iowa

- Semesterly-printed satirical publication focused on providing campus-related commentary. - Previously served as a staff writer and editor before taking on role of Editor-in-Chief.- Organized weekly meetings for staff to pitch ideas, assign topics, and check-in for deadlines.- Worked one-on-one with writers and graphic designers to develop vision for each.

Remote

- Provided monthly article ideas brainstormed both on my own and in discussion with my editor.- Consistently met weekly/monthly deadlines.

New York, New York

- Worked from editorial office twice a week.- Given freedom to focus on a variety of subjects that celebrated culture, style, and art in the tattoo world.- Developed blog ideas through research on recent tattoo-related news.- Wrote and edited my own posts for the website.- Each week I provided the team 6-10 potential posts for future publishing.

Glen Ellyn, Illinois

- Assisted with summer school programs for elementary school children.- Collected daily class attendance in order to follow-up with parents over any discrepancies.- Ran through classroom exercises with students whenever teachers needed assistance.- Watched children during outdoor recess to ensure their safety.

Bajmc Magazine Journalism / Ba English

Activities and Societies: Alpha Phi Omega, DrakeMag, DUiN, Habitat for Humanity, Sigma Tau Delta, To Write Love on Her Arms

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Model UN, National Honor Society, Newspaper, Spanish Honor Society, TheatreI was the Entertainment Editor of my.