Oct. 30, 2007

Objective: To apply my hardworking and all-around skills to an organization on the rise. My goal is to gain a position that capitalizes on my ability to successfully manage multiple projects and exceed business goals.

Experience:

A Professional Edge & Superior Job Fairs
Florham Park, NJ 07932
Inside Sales, Recruiter, Advertising & Office Manager
September 2005-Present

A Professional Edge is a permanent career placement agency that recruits various Sales, Management, I.T., Banking, Attorney and Accounting positions for 50+ FORTUNE 500 companies and small firms. Superior Job Fairs is operated in the same office, hosting 8 NJ professional job fairs a year and is known as NJ's most efficient professional Job Fair company.

A Professional Edge and Superior Job Fairs are two separate companies joined together in one office that work in conjunction as a permanent placement firm & job fair company. Superior Job Fairs was started in 1995 and eventually created a sister company, A Professional Edge, because of the amount of exposure to job seekers at job fairs and recruiting events.

-I advanced the company in many ways; as a Sales Representative, Recruiter, Event Coordinator of Job Fairs and Manager of all Internet and print advertising; along with being the office manager of 6 employees after 1 year. I also advised President of all marketing & advertising campaigns, yearly Job Fair schedules/facilities, and various company decisions.

Superior Job Fairs Duties:

-Cold calling up to 150 companies a day selling job fairs and eventually up-selling companies to become annual clients -Creating all newspaper and Internet ads for job fairs and maintaining relationships with all marketing sectors. (Star-Ledger, Asbury Park Press, Home News & Tribune, Bergen Record, Monster.com, Careerbuilder.com, NJ.com, NJ Universities, Yahoo Hotjobs.com and others) -Create and maintain company website. Started Virtual Job Fair, now used by most job fairs companies.
-Also created all promotional flyers, registration forms, and other creative ideas to gain more exposure for our job fairs.
-Managing and delegating duties to 3-6 employees and motivating them to achieve sales goals
-Achieved bonus and trips based on exceeding sales goals: achieved highest job fair sales of all employees for 14 of 16 fairs -Assisted entire staff with computer and other technical problems when needed -Attend most NJ College and Professional Job Fairs to gain relationships with recruiters and sell them on our services

A Professional Edge Duties:

-Search for job seekers to fill positions using various Internet recruiting websites and creating flyers & job postings -Call candidates and schedule 5-15 interviews a week, sell applicants on jobs, and negotiate between companies and applicants when offer is received -Cold calling and meeting with companies for job orders: attempting to sell APE's services to other companies. I established and maintained 4 clients that APE is still currently working with. As of November 2007, my openings have generated over $100,000 for the company.
-Created new company logo and motto to better market our services to NJ companies
-Attend all NJ College and Professional Job Fairs and aggressively market our positions to job seekers

Other: -Attended National Career Training classes on How to Stay Organized and Time Management. -Networking at Morris County Chamber of Commerce meetings, and other recruiting events -Attended Monster Webinars, Monster Recruiters Search Classes and over 20 networking events per year to gain new business.

Education:
Loyola College, Baltimore, MD 2005
Bachelor of Arts, Major: Advertising/Public Relations

Bridgewater-Raritan High School 2001

Soccer:
-Earned Scholarship to Men's Soccer Division 1 program
-Awards: 1st Team All Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (M.A.A.C)
-2005, Captain Senior Year
-Named Offensive Player of the Week 8 Times & Ranked on School's All-Time Scoring & Assists Leaders Advanced to NCAA Div. 1 Sweet 16
-Named 2001 Super Y-League National Player of the Year -1st Team All-State, County, Conference 2000-2001 Team Won State Championship 1999 -MVP of Region 1 Tournament & advanced to Nationals
-Traveled to England, Italy, Spain, Florida, and California to play in high level tournaments
-Currently head coach of U-15 Jersey United Patriots-Highly competitive travel soccer team

Other Interests: NSCAA Licensed Soccer Coach, All Sports, Outdoors, Music (Former DJ), Travel