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One of the most important choice you will ever make is whether to seek a job or a career. When you have a job, you work for a paycheck. When you have a career, you work for the enjoyment and satisfaction you earn from your daily efforts... and you also get paid, possibly very well.  If I had both, and I assure you, a career makes life a whole lot sweeter. If I want to feel motivated to get up and go to work for 60 weeks a year, I'll definitely want to choose a career work. College is a great place to prepare for a career. But, to stay self-motivated, you'll want to match a career choice and college major with your unique interests, talents, and personality. Some of the most motivated opportunity are in higher education are those who are students who are pursuing a life-long dream of working in the professional fields of medical coding who are tired of working at an uninspiring job and have to return to college to prepare for a career. I want to stay open to the possibility of finding something even more suited for me particular for my career so I have not found anything such as work at home during my dream job of Medical Coder, Data Entry Level, or Addiction Counseling I will keep explored until I find my dream jobs.

   Westaff had contracts with multiple production and or packaging factories. I was offered work that day I applied for work. The next day I was working 3rd shift. 
   I learned typical production assignments on the production line. I later learned problem solving, paper work, working on pallets, and the math work for the warehouse.
   The management from the contract company was great. They offered much overtime. Westaff itself mislead a few of my coworkers and myself about work opportunities. Because of that my fellow coworkers and myself know longer do business with Westaff. Westaff also would replace great workers with workers who did sub-par work.
   The hardest part of the job was going switching between the contract companies and their training. One month I could be in a production factory and the next month in a package factory. 
   I did enjoy the work and the environment. It was a great learning experience. I learned a lot of great real world work ethnics.

I always loved the jobs that Westaff sent me to.  My co-workers were okay.  I learned different things pertaining to whatever job I was assigned to do.  The last job I did with them I loved but the company had a freeze on hiring.  Six months after my job ended with them the company went out of business and the biggest reason was once they ended my temp position no one that was a full-time worker for the company couldn't produce the work that I was providing for them the clients they worked with took their accounts from them and in other states, also.  The most enjoyable part of my job was receiving half days off with pay everytime I broke my own record.  There was another co-worker (temp) and I doing the same job but I received the rewards but she didn't.

I was placed at a company that asked for all medical conditions, all medications prescribed or over the counter that I took and had to submit a form and sign it with all my information. I do have a disability and felt very uncomfortable doing this. I was prescribed a medication while working there (I was a 90 day temp) it was prescribed at approximately 70 days into my employment to see if this medication was now effective. I did not disclose as I was never told I needed to if I changed medications. I was asked about the medication as if someone has gone through my purse (not a controlled medication). I did not respond to the question but was told i was no longer needed the next day. Westaff is amazing and does their best to place employees in meaningful career opportunities. Unfortunately, they cannot control how individual companies treat people. 

Administrative Assistant, Westaff, Modesto, CA, 08/05 - 11/07
 Duties included managed, communicated, and provided assistance to sales representatives.
 Created price lists, ran reports on a weekly basis, heavy phones, A/P, A/R, and GL codes.
 Direct contact with customers, handled customer inquiries, data entry, and order entry.
 Maintained all documents for all spiffs, and rebates through manufactures.
 Communicated on a daily basis with transportation manager, and shipping department.
 Database management, scheduling, office support, shipping, distribution, and freight quotes.
 Billing, invoices, inventory control, purchasing, project management, and meeting planning.
 Financial reporting, entered invoices, and sent out statements to customers.
 Commercial account collections, print A/R Statements, and recorded money due for receivables.
 Follow-up phone calls on past due invoices, general journal entries, and reviewed documents.

Training will consist of 2 weeks worth of training videos followed by shadowing the other recruiters. You will then be expected to know everything about the job. A majority of the training videos fully express what is illegal for a recruiter to do, such as hiring based on gender or making copies of IDs, Birth Certificates, or even SSNs (which they do several times daily). The branch manager will tell you that hard work is important to Westaff, but all she is really looking for is another bestie minion like 3 that are already there. You get an hour lunch but you have to spend it with your coworkers if you want to keep your job. They will all tell you over and over that it takes 6 months to get it, but will only give you 3 months before deciding what you are worth to them. 

-Provided administrative support and coverage to various specialty departments
-Receive and distribute incoming mail or materials to appropriate offices and staff
-Maintain and track supervisor and other staff member’s calendars for appointments and meetings. Schedule appointments and meetings for supervisor based on previous commitments, priorities and current issues of importance.
-Consolidate data and, or reports submitted by other staff and summarize combined results
-Meeting minutes
-Process Invoices, Vouchers and Purchase Orders
-Create Special Orders and PO requests on behalf of Managers
-Consistently provide support and training as the departmental records coordinator and administer the Records Management Program
-Department training on Records Management and various other office programs
-Maintain files as needed

Patience is a virtue,  interacting with customers
Whether that's speaking to an agent in person or online, or over an email (for issues that aren't as urgent) -- most customers, at some point, prefer human interaction  so they can get straight to the point or complete their transaction.Not everyone is going to agree on what it is exactly that makes up good customer service, but bad customer service isn’t quite as hard to define, because while specific service standards vary based on your company, industry and expectations, you can bet that customers will recognize bad customer service when it happens to them.If your company can achieve a positive and efficient service experience wherever your customers happen to be, and can scale it, then you're on your way to defining what good customer service means to your company.Willingness to Learn! was great .

A typical day at Westaff was: Staff meetings at 8am-where we discussed open orders and the priority of the orders. Recruiting for open orders. Interviewing candidates for potential positions. Creating profiles to send to prospective customers, cold calling and presenting Westaff solutions to prospects. Management was great at Westaff especially when it came to large accounts and having members of corporate fly down to assist in those meetings. The hardest part of working at Westaff was pricing each position as to make sure they fell within a 21% gross profit margin in a competative market. The most enjoyable part of working at Westaff was working with people who where passionate about what they did.

Daily work necessary for job incuded many skills,and the production had to be completed before day ended.Supervisors were always on job site to ensure safety ,and job was preformed properly;also that no conflicts arose in work areas or with workers. The hard part of this job was assembly speed could be tough and weighty.All my co-workers were nice and cooperative always willing to give help when needed.The most enjoyable part of the work was when everything ran smoothly we were days ahead of schedule ,and receiving great compliments from our boss.Like you deserve a "gold star".

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