A newly opened Real Estate company requires a female Executive Assistant to manage all the back office work.
•To provide administrative support to the Senior Manager by conducting and organizing administrative duties and activities including receiving and handling information.
•Effective management of the diary, prioritizing appointments and events.
•Meeting and greeting visitors at all levels of seniority, when and where applicable
Respond to communication from senior officials/VIPs and other important personnel
•Monitor and screen all incoming communication, prioritize according to importance and bring relevant communication for action.
•Prepare and manage correspondence, reports and documents as required.
•Maintain and update files and retrieve relevant information as and when required.
•Organizing and booking travel/ accommodation and preparing complex travel itineraries
•General administrative and clerical tasks such as answering phone, mailing, filing and photocopying
Requirements
• Prior experience in Real Estate and telemarketing is a definite advantage. • Ideal candidate will be presentable with good communication and admin skills. • Minimum of three years’ experience in a Secretarial role. • Exhibits exemplary written/spoken English language skills; including exceptional phone skills. • Ability to maintain confidentiality and exemplifies personal and professional integrity. • Effective interpersonal skills to aide in daily contact with a diverse multi-cultural population; mature judgement, courteousness and professional demeanour.
• Skills in organization and office management; multitasking and delegating assignments for efficient and timely work requirements. • Demonstrates competence in computer technical skills using Word, Excel, and Publisher PowerPoint. • Demonstrates skills in forward thinking and being able to anticipate and prioritize work.
Resume Keyword Practices to Avoid
We’ve established that using resume keywords throughout your application boosts your chances of a human hiring manager seeing it.
However, be careful not to overdo it.
Packing your resume full of keywords is almost as bad as not including any at all.
Don’t forget that a real person will (hopefully) see your resume at some point. So use natural language that engages that person.
Tip
Make sure you balance hard skills vs soft skills on your resume to show you’re a rounded candidate.
Otherwise, they’ll think you’re either a bad writer — which indicates your communication skills aren’t good — or assume you’re trying to beat the ATS, making you seem dishonest.
Keyword Stuffing
Keyword stuffing refers to using the same keyword again and again in an unnatural way to get your resume past the ATS.
People engage in keyword stuffing because some ATS software gives applications a higher ranking when it detects a keyword is used more. For instance, an ATS might assign a higher score to a candidate who mentions “search engine optimization” six times over one who mentions it three times.
Here’s an example of how one applicant tried to stuff the keyword “customer satisfaction” in their resume:
Boosted customer satisfaction by 47% by implementing customer satisfaction methods as part of company-wide effort to increase customer satisfaction rates.
Trained 7 new staff members in all aspects of housekeeping, ensuring that they meet health and safety standards
An applicant stuffs the keyword “customer satisfaction” on their resume.
See how extreme this is?
This technique might get your resume past the ATS, but will immediately turn off the hiring manager — ruining your chances of getting hired.