Christine Turner - North Las Vegas, Nevada

North Las Vegas, Nevada

Construction, Legal Services

Christine A. Turner
LETTER OF INTRODUCTION

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

Todays economy is hitting everyone hard and finding the right candidate for the position available must be exhausting. dozens, if not, hundreds of resumes will pour in about this position, everyone trying to make a good impression on you with a few words, list of skills, experiences, and education. I am a participant of the TICKET TO WORK PROGRAM through the Social Security Department and Vocational Rehabilitation. You may read through or scan my resume and toss into a rejection pile. I know that it is not considered professional to be an open book, but there are times when your outside life comes crashing in and there is no where to run. So, I must go forth and be brave, facing off with the thousands of others seeking stability in this upside down world of employment.

I want to submit my resume for consideration for positions within your agency that I feel I can accomplish with great pride and honesty. I spent a year at community college, training and assisting fellow students in the operation and maintaining of the Career Placement and Planning Center at Sacramento Community College. I operated as the assistant to the Career Centers Director, Susie Leone. I also guided students in their personal research of higher education choices and the directions that the career they are interested in, may take. Middle school student would come to the center for tours, two or three times a week, in which I would tell them how the center worked and demonstrated how the career research sources we had at the time, could tell them everything about what it would take in education, training and job opportunities at that time and in the next ten years.

I have also trained others that have worked under me in several jobs over the years. for nearly a decade, as a baker, I trained others in weights, measures, bake times, proof times, mixing procedures and all aspects of baking that was relevant to that job. I loved the work yet realized there would be little advancement in this career so I decided to change careers and returned to college. I have pursued the clerical aspects of various career fields, so that I could learn as much as I could about the most current office procedures and computer programs. A person wants to feel good about going to work and being a valuable part of a team. I hope to find that peace with your company.

I have studied on my own time, over the last two decades, trying to keep my skills and knowledge of the current computer programs and office procedures, up to date, to meet with requirements of the current work force. Honing my skills as an Administrative Assistant, receptionist, secretary, file clerk or any other position that I could qualify to do,so other than customized company programs, I am familiar with the most commonly used programs in the corporate world.

Over the years, I had a variety of jobs, both temporary and permanent, so staying up to date with the most recent programs used in the progression of office operations, required, many hours in class, going to Kinkos or the library to work on the programs that most offices may use. Familiarizing myself in the current operations of office protocol. I am a fast learner as long as I have the training and support. My hobbies are abstract crafts, sewing, and quilting. I am the mother of 6 wonderful furry dogs, Angel with buns in the oven, Peanut, Lela, Chaser, Bandit-daddy of buns in the oven, and Nova.

I will be looking forward to meeting with you at the interview.


Sincerely,

Christine Turner

Resume of
Christine Turner

Objective: To focus 20+ years of skills, experiences, and education in a position which suites both my employer and myself.

Summary of Experience

Independent Driver: Carry a Class C license, with a clean driving record. Work directly with employers and with other sub-contracted companies to provide safe and reliable services using my own car, maintain my own insurance, maintenance, fuel, and other requirements as required by law.
Administrative support:
Set up and maintenance of complex filing systems, answering mufti-line phones, appointment setting, ordered and stocked office supplies, data entry, created and generated spreadsheets, correspondence, and promotional fliers, operation of basic office equipment, legal research and preparation of legal documents, instructed customers and clients in completed forms and applications, explained complex procedures in variety of situations, problem solving, understood and interpreted complex set of instructions.
Computer Programs:
Word Perfect, Quick Books and QB Pro, Peach Tree, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Excel, Outlook, Outlook Express, Goldmine, Access, Internet Explorer, ACT, Win Fax, Microsoft Home Publishing, Spreadsheets, Calendar and Appointment setting Programs, Kodak Photo and other digital camera programs, basic graphic design like Paint and Office Publishing, some Power Point and others.
Special Skills and Education:
On the job training in law office, Produced pleadings, trial folders and other related documentation, Interviewing clients for case evaluation, Training and application of Family, Criminal, Civil, and Personal Injury Law, Baking field, Weights and Measures, Customer Service-phone orders, Cake Decorating, Ice Carving, Breads and Pastries, Peer Counseling in Adult Mental Health Clinic, Case Management and development.
Education
Sacramento City College Sacramento, CA. College, Sacramento, CA, Las Vegas Business College, Las Vegas, NV
Volunteer Work
Regional Occupational Program Course, MTI Western Business
Occupational Program; California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office. Sacramento, CA Clerical Assistant to Executive Secretary, Fostering for Pointer Rescue Organization, German Short hair Pointer Rescue, Heaven Can Wait Sanctuary and provided other volunteer support as needed by any of the organizations listed above.

Employment History

Independent Driver-; Christine's Delivery and Errand Running Service. Jan. 2006 to present
Contracting out as an Independent driver, to private individuals running small errands, picking up items, shopping, delivering as needed during the day. In addition, I have transported pets to vet appointments, groomers, and anything else the person I have contracted with needs. I provide my own insurance, maintain my own vehicle, but still work the hours agreed upon in the contract and required duties. I do not clean house or enter homes, so I dont need your keys. I provide safe and reliable transportation or delivery services on an appointment basis only. I only take cash at this time but I do provide service receipts if requested. I have kennels, if needed and my service is not restricted to just dogs and cats.


Oct 2002 to Dec. 2005: Christines Creations
I did operate a small business, specializing in silk floral designing, out of my home but due to the economy, I have to look outside of my home for work. I kept my own accounting using the latest version of Quick Books I have created purchase orders, invoices, customized statements, reconciled bank accounts, designed my own fliers, floral designs, home and office decor, made customer contact a priority within the structure of my business. I also sew making clothes, quilts, and other crafts. I still sew on a regular basis but only on a volunteer basis now. I also make special cloths and bedding for injured and disabled dogs.

1998 to March 2002 Western Pump and Equipment. Administrative Assistant
Performed clerical duties that included basic bookkeeping using Quick Books, filing, typing, correspondence, handling customer service issues, vendors, organized and maintained filing system, maintained and recorded employee issues and files, project research, inventory control, ordered office supplies, and other Office duties as required by the office manager.

1998 Legal Assistant. Carter R. King, Esq.
Extensive four month on the job-training program. Learned and applied knowledge of legal filing system, dictation machines, prepared legal documentation client file, set court dates, created set of questions for various hearing and trials. Accompanied attorney to court for observation and educational studies. Interviewed clients' for case evaluation and acceptance. Other duties as required by staff and attorney. Education and training basics in Family Law, Criminal, Civil, and Personal Injury.

1991-1998 STAY AT HOME MOM, RAISING TWO CHILDREN
I was a single mother with two children and chose to be a mother that stayed at home instead of working full time. I use this time to update my skills and familiarized myself the leading computer programs, current hardware available and the most recent procedures for the professional office, on a basic level.

1988-1991 Sacramento City College Career Placement and Planning Center
Worked in the career placement center as a student employee. Developed and wrote a manual for future student employees for each of the areas of the center. Each section had an index of the chapter with every aspect broke down into micro explanations of the process I was describing. There was the job search computer and information resource that had to be maintained on a daily basis, college and career computers that students could use to research their college and course choices and availability for the future, a small library of career informational books that had a process of check out and maintainence, actions that needed to be taken for certain requests of students coming in to use the center, forms that had to be filled out and a process in which all this had to be recorded. I wrote this manual so that each person that worked in the center could use it for every aspect of the center and understand why and how these processes and equipment was to used.