Amanda Sharp

I am an open-minded individual who is willing to work hard for success. Currently I’m taking a small business course through the Stratford Career Institute, and once I have completed this I will be then taking a Fashion and Merchandising course through the same school. I am working on all of this online, on my own time, and hope to have the first course completed by next year.

My future goals include having my own small business here in my city. I would be designing, creating and customizing garments/clothing for local customers within a niche network. I currently have no contacts within this field and hope to make some as soon as possible. I understand that starting a business on your own is very difficult, let alone a business within a niche, but I am determined to make it happen.

I have been working in the field of customer service since I was 15 years old, starting with Burger King. I then moved on to work with Pizza Hut as a waitress and cashier. From there I went to University for 1 year, discovered that a general BA in psychology wasn’t for me, and went back to working again, this time at a call centre called Nucomm International. At Nucomm I did many different jobs over the phone from technical support for Comcast Internet, Retention for Vonage and Billing for Brighthouse Cable. After 2 years of not moving anywhere within the company I chose to move on to Sitel. I worked for a Canadian company called Direct Energy in basic customer service and sales, and when that company chose to leave Sitel I moved on to Rogers Wireless billing and sales. After 1 year with Sitel and seeing the same patterns arise, I chose to also leave for my own reasons. I am now no longer employed and working on my schooling while I find another job.

I decided to join BrightFuse in order to make contacts within the career path that I know I enjoy. Networking online is professional and a fast way to get yourself out there, not to mention much easier to do now days.

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• • Small Business
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• • Looking for opportunities and possibilities
• • Networking worked for me...and it can for you, too!

• Jul 2007 - Sep 2008

  st. catharines, ON (CA)
  SITEL
  Customer Service
  Rogers Wireless - Cell Phone contracts, billing and sales.
  
  Direct Energy - Energy services. Contracts, sales and general customer service.

• 2008 - present
  STRATFORD CAREER INSTITUTE
  Associate's - Small Business
  "Start your own Small Business" Is the name of the course. It's taken through a career institute here in Ontario Canada. I will be obtaining a Degree, hopefully with high honors. My goal is to finish this course by summer of next year and move on to the next course called "Fashion and Merchandising".