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Receptionist

  • Work Term: Temporary
  • Work Language: English
  • Hours: 30 to 40 hours per week
  • Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
  • Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
  • or equivalent experience

Work setting

  • Private sector
  • Willing to relocate

Tasks

  • Greet people and direct them to contacts or service areas
  • Provide basic information to clients and the public
  • Obtain and process information required to provide customer service
  • Operate switchboard or telephone system
  • Order office supplies
  • Record and relay information
  • Send invoices
  • Maintain work records and logs
  • Receive and issue payments
  • Perform clerical duties, such as filing and sorting and distributing mail
  • Answer telephone and relay telephone calls and messages
  • Arrange teleconferences
  • Calculate billing charges
  • Monitor mobile radio or telephone
  • Provide directory assistance
  • Provide emergency services
  • Relay service to persons with disabilities
  • Perform data entry
  • Provide customer service
  • Perform basic bookkeeping tasks

Computer and technology knowledge

  • MS Office
  • Database software
  • Electronic mail
  • MS Excel
  • MS Outlook
  • MS PowerPoint
  • MS Word
  • MS Windows

Area of work experience

  • Cleaning

Security and safety

  • Criminal record check

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Ability to work independently
  • Fast-paced environment
  • Work under pressure
  • Tight deadlines
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Attention to detail
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking

Screening questions

  • Are you available for shift or on-call work?

Employment terms options

  • Evening

Employment terms options

  • Shift
  • Flexible hours
  • Morning
  • To be determined
  • Day
  • Weekend

Health benefits

  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan
  • Paramedical services coverage

Financial benefits

  • Commission
  • Gratuities
  • Life insurance
  • Pension plan

Other benefits

  • Free parking available
  • Learning/training paid by employer