So I was working for Cingular for about 8 months and I just had to leave. The working conditions deteriorated beyond repair. Does anyone know anyone hiring? I need a new career. Here is my resume in case you know anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Adrian M. Alexandrino Jr.
4500 176th ST SW #3 Lynnwood, WA 98037 (206) 898-3498 a_alexandrino@yahoo.com



Objective Statement:
I am seeking an opportunity to utilize my knowledge, skills and experience, in order to provide valuable support to a stable progressive company that offers career growth.


Professional Highlights:
Excellent employee relations and team-building abilities; supervise, motivate and counsel employees; develop a team committed to optimal productivity. Adept at building strong business relationships with a diverse range of customers, co-workers, and management. Demonstrates expertise in data entry, telephone support, scheduling, bookkeeping, and reporting. High learning curve, while adapting easily to new protocol and challenging environments.


Experience:
Business Care Specialist, Cingular Wireless November 2004 - July 2005
Provide customer service to a business customer base.
Troubleshooting, system and wireless service analysis.
Account maintenance.
Billing review and maintenance.
Sales and contract renewal for a broad consumer market.

Intelligence Analyst, U.S. Army, October 2003 to August 2004
Information collection, interpretation and analyst.
Assess each employee's attendance, tardiness and adherence to work schedules.
Project management.
Supervise team of 121 soldiers.
Staff management.

Shift Leader, Blockbuster Inc, Seattle, Washington, September 2001 to January 2003
Began as a Customer Services Representative; assumed additional responsibilities and promoted to Shift Leader.
Oversee daily projects and set the daily sales goals.
Maintain customer accounts including; billing, confidential bookkeeping, system troubleshooting and maintenance.
Responsible for the stores daily and weekly cash management.
Provide customer service to a broad customer base.

Education:
U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst & BCT
U.S. Army
Ft. Leonardwood, MO and Ft. Huachuca, AZ
Diploma
Edmonds Woodway High School
Edmonds, Washington


References: Available upon request

 

I dunno about a "career" type of job, but Office Max in Totem Lake and Woodinville is hiring. You can see if they need like shift leader/manager type people, the sign wasn't specific as to what positions they were looking for.

 

you don't happen to speak spanish do you? i'll have to ask for sure, but i think my company is losing our production manager at the end of the month. not sure the qualifications required. i'll look into it.

 

I need truck drivers for my Seattle office.

 

Dude, I was at Fort Leonard Wood also as an MP!

Just a word of advice though, Ive been reading about creating resumes, and people said that a "summary of qualifications" is a really good thing to have most resumes dont. I added one to mine and got a job the next place I turned it in at. Could be coincidence, but do a search for that, and Im sure youll find what it is. Good luck bro.

~T.J.

 

Fort Lost-in-the-Woods in Misery. Ugh!

 

hooah!

 

Really did get lost in the woods in 100°+ with 10,000% humidity weather when my HMMWV broke down on an FTX

~T.J.

EDIT: Was your "Professional Highlights" always there? I mustve missed it, because its basically the same thing as the summary of qualifications I was talking about earlier... Sorry dude.

 

Adrian, I offered you this advice before and I'll repeat it again: drop all references to your short military career if you hope to find a decent job. Way too many people in petty little jobs (i.e. human resources) are biased against military service...without even meeting you, they imagine some gung-ho punk with PTSD that might kill them for looking at them wrong, or at best run up their health plan bills with some mysterious sickness from serving wherever. Not saying it's right, but it's the truth. Even with two college degrees with a 3.93 major GPA (3.75 overall) from a state university and years of relavent experience in management positions, I only got one job interview out of 100 resumes sent out. As soon as I took off the part about serving my country, the phone rang off the hook. People don't want to hire heros; they want to hire people like themselves...people who depend on heros to keep them safe but only from a safe distance. Admitting you were in the military makes you vaguely dangerous. And for those few who would actually consider your service a point of strength, they will note that you were only in for one year and discharged for whatever reason (health, right?). That's just probably means you couldn't hack it, in their eyes, and you don't have the ability to counter that knee-jerk judgement in the rigid confines of the resume. People in a position to hire are not usually themselves important; they are just gatekeepers. Give them a reason to see a negative and they will use it against you. What you want is to get in to an interview, where your true nature and personality can convince someone of greater importance and judgement that you would "fit" in their little world. Again, just my $0.02.
--
Blake Qualley
12B, Combat Engineer.

 

If what you say is true, that is incredibly unfortunate. Then again, I did work in an HR department for a few years (data mining) and I know how twisted some of the HR people can be.

 

All of this would be irrelevant if you were a wing-wiper, as we're not even vaguely dangerous. =p

-dave

 

What area are you looking to work in? I work for a great company in the Portland area and they pay pretty well! We have A LOT of jobs in different areas, the most important thing is getting in the door and then they will give you the resources to find a job in the area you are most interested in.

http://www.portlandgeneral.com/about_pge/jobs/

We are currently hiring in a number of areas. If your interested let me know, I can make some calls. Our company does a lot of recruiting from Monster.com as well. A lot of the new hires say they were getting calls in hours after submitting their resumes.

Good luck!

 

Oh, regarding the message above about military career, I don't agree. I was in GFW1 and it is on my resume, my last interview for a management position they said one of the strongest parts was from my military history. If you get an interview, it is all about the examples you use and how you use them.

 

When irrational managers get in the way, who knows what counts for you and what against. The two best hires I ever made were veterans. They were far more reliable than than any of my other hires. Best of all they understood when I had to tell them to do it without explaining. They usually wanted to know more at lunch, but the job always got done regardless. When business turns up and I need to add staff, a military background will go a long way.

 

If your a hard worker I could probably get you a job working towards an Electrician Journey mans license, if your willing to move to lovely Spokane.

 

Well thanx for the advise and info. I think the PDX might be a little to far to commute in the rexy. Currently living in Seattle though my legal address is lynnwood...

 

Also i do not not speak anything past menu spanish. Pretty sad being that I'm 100% Puerto Rican lol. And un fortunetly I'm unable to currently relocate due to my lease recently being renewed...

 

my boss comes back tomorrow... i'll ask if he's lookin for a new floor manager if you're interested. we're a manufacturing outfit -- window blinds. located in monroe.

although, i do happen to know for a fact that the commute from seattle to monroe is a particularly long one.

 

code blue 2 has got the right idea, i am a low voltage apprentice electrician. not only does it have the opportunity to pay more, it pretty dang easy and once you get your journeymens its and instant 2-3 dollar an hour raise.

 

And spelling/grammar aren't a must! =D kidding hehehehehe

 

I wish PGE had an opening for a network tech... Oh well.

 

We'll I foud a jobbie job. It worked out quite well actually. Turns out the reigonal manager who interviewed me was ex army. having it in my resume sure helped out. The first half of my intervew was army talk. lol. Thnaks to all who assisted me...