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Rebecca Campbell
Summary
Reliable worker providing friendly, individualized service in store-front parlors and shops. Coordinated checkout operator with excellent multitasking and customer service skills. Flexible team member with experience cleaning departments, restocking inventory and operating cash registers.
Overview
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Platypus ShoesAuckland, Auckland
Sales Assistant
03.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Assisted customers with prompt and polite support in-person and via telephone.
- Achieved or exceeded company-defined sales quotas.
- Increased sales by offering advice on purchases and promoting additional products.
- Opened and closed store independently and prepared nightly bank drop for manager.
HOYTS Cinemas Sylvia Park
Cinema Attendant, Bar & Kitchen, B&J Scooper
08.2019 - Current
Job overview
- Acquired a fair knowledge of customer service skills.
- Possession of excellent verbal communication skills.
- Ability to maintain patient and vigilant during challenging times.
- Learned through other teammates' work tasks to train as backup.
- Obtained bartender, barista, kitchen cook & ice cream parlour experience.
- Kept workstation and equipment clean, organized, sanitized and sufficiently stocked.
NZ Post
Temp Worker
12.2020 - 01.2021
Job overview
- Balanced boxes on pallets to prevent shifting and damage.
- Prepared boxes for shipments based on standard sizes.
PAK'nSAVE Sylvia Park
Supermarket Assistant
03.2020 - 04.2020
Job overview
- Maintained physical safety precautions during COVID-19 lockdown.
- Adjusted sleeping schedule to be flexible with early 1/2AM morning shifts.
- Rotated grocery products ensuring that expired or spoiled items were immediately removed and adhered to "first in, first out" rule.
- Removed trash, swept and mopped floors for professional appearance.
- Retrieved items for customers and verified prices.
- Readied items for sales floor stocking by affixing tags and preparing shelf labels.
NZ Post
Temp Worker
12.2018 - 01.2019
Job overview
- Prepared boxes for shipments based on standard sizes.
- Sorted and lifted heavy packages.
- Adapted to a hard and fast workload.
Cherwood Lodge
Cleaner
08.2013 - 02.2014
Job overview
- House keeping.
- Street, driveway and pool cleaning.
- Gardening.
- Caretaking.
Education
Media Design SchoolAuckland Central, Auckland
Bachelor of Art And Design from 3D Animation & Visual Effects
05.2024
University Overview
- Learning new skills in photography, digital painting, animation, lighting, rigging and rendering.
Media Design SchoolAuckland Central, Auckland
Diploma from Digital Creativities
11.2018
University Overview
- Learned new skills with concept art, web design, game design, animation and multimedia.
Coombabah State High SchoolGold Coast, QLD, Australia
High School Diploma
12.2017
University Overview
- Relevant Coursework Completed: English & Math.
- Professional development completed in Advanced Art.
- Continuing education in Art.
- Heavily focused in Tourism, Music & Dance.
- Acquired a Cert. II in Automotive.
Skills
- Attention to Detail
- Patron Directions
- Inventory Management
- Dependable and Cooperative
- Customer Service
- Customer Relations
- Cleaning and Sanitizing
- Emergency Response
- Verbal and Written Communication
- Safety Procedures
- Visitor Check-in
- Suspicious Activity Monitoring
Additional Information
YOUTH POLICY ADVISOR 04/2021 to 04/2022
The Hive (Curative NZ), Mount Eden, Auckland
- Deconstructed governmental outlines and incoming issues to give a better understanding for the general public, making our lives easier by communicating efficiently between the general public and law officials.
- Quickly learned new skills and applied them to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
- Performed duties in accordance with all applicable standards, policies and regulatory guidelines to promote safe working environment.
YOUTH-LED MOVEMENT LEADER 10/2018 to Current
Do Good Feel Good (The Cause Collective), Manukau, Auckland
- Lead young creatives to connect with more youth through different forms of art such as dance, music, visual arts, etc.
- Organized multiple community events to engage the community, exposing local hidden talent and small businesses.
- Undertook opportunities and the time to improve the role of leading and creating safe, comfortable and focused environments.
- Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
- Maintained excellent attendance record, consistently arriving to meetings on time.
- Activated spaces to bring together young voices to talk about politics, mental health and helping to improve the well-being of youth.
- Impacting positive influence and change in the community.
- Operated technical aspects for a big production (lighting/sound/media for big stage)
PROFESSIONAL DANCER | AUĒ - 01/2018 to 01/2019 | FM - 05/2022 to Current
AUĒ Dance Company, Glen Innes, Auckland
- Developed professional relationships with different dance professionals, choreographers and performers by actively listening and effectively communicating.
- Performed in multiple roles for Pacific Dance Festival NZ and AUĒ shows by attending daily rehearsals to perfect execution of dance movements.
- Committed choreography to memory and performed numbers with correct timing and aesthetic appeal.
Freedom Movers, Auckland Central, Auckland
- Performed pieces and spoken word to spread awareness and acceptance with vulnerabilities and mental health visibility.
- Coordinated with choreographers to enhance and refine movements to properly enact intended vision.
Awards and Acknowledgements
- 2018: Youth Scholarship Winner – Māngere-Otāhuhu Local Board.
- 2019: Represented New Zealand overseas with AUĒ Dance Company in Indonesia for the Solo International Performing Arts Festival.
- 2019: Represented Auckland with LALO Dance Collective in Wellington.
- 2021: Modelling for AUĒ Fashion Line at the Auckland Museum.
- 2022: Outstanding Newcomer (Collective) - How Inconvenient (Freedom Movers) - Fringe Festival.
- 2023: Lead actor for ‘One Call… Is All It Takes’ - A theatre show put on by Auckland Council, Hāpai Te Hauora & Smokefree 2025.
References
Cass Makoni: Community Manager, Curative NZ.
Email: cass@curative.co.nz
Contact Number: 0210412154
Chillion Sanerivi: Youth Innovation Manager, The Cause Collective.
Email: chillion.s@thecausecollective.org.nz
Contact Number: 0211656446
Clarke Patrick Neil McFall: Duty Manager, HOYTS Sylvia Park.
Email: clarkpatrickneilmcfall@gmail.com
Contact Number: 02102280397
Availability
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Certification
- 2017: Automotive Certificate (Level 2) - Coombabah State High School.
- 2019: Diploma - NZ Certificate (Level 4) in Arts and Design - Media Design School.
- 2019: Diploma - NZ Certificate (Level 4) in Digital Media and Design - Media Design School.
- 2022: Practising Leadership with Self-Awareness Micro-Credential Achievement Certificate (Level 5) - New Zealand Academic and Learning Institute.
- 2023: First Aid Certificate (Level 2) - St John.
Timeline
Sales Assistant
Platypus Shoes
03.2023 - Current
Temp Worker
NZ Post
12.2020 - 01.2021
Supermarket Assistant
PAK'nSAVE Sylvia Park
03.2020 - 04.2020
Cinema Attendant, Bar & Kitchen, B&J Scooper
HOYTS Cinemas Sylvia Park
08.2019 - Current
Temp Worker
NZ Post
12.2018 - 01.2019
Cleaner
Cherwood Lodge
08.2013 - 02.2014
Media Design School
Bachelor of Art And Design from 3D Animation & Visual Effects
Media Design School
Diploma from Digital Creativities
Coombabah State High School
High School Diploma
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