Ajia Kirkpatrick
Falls Church,VA
Summary
4+ years of professional hospitality expertise with proven skills in mixing and serving beverages, managing bar inventory, and ensuring customer satisfaction. Strong focus on team collaboration, adaptability, and achieving high-quality results. Skilled in providing exceptional service, handling high-pressure situations, and maintaining clean and organized workspace. Known for reliability, flexibility, and creating positive experiences for patrons.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Bartender
Bartaco
11.2022 - Current
- Maintained a clean and organized workspace, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations.
- Organized bar inventory and storage procedures to keep stock within optimal levels and meet expected customer demands.
- Kept bar stocked with liquors, juices and garnishes for drinks.
- Cultivated strong relationships with repeat customers, engaging in friendly conversation and memorizing drink orders to promote loyalty.
- Performed opening and closing duties, printing sales reports, setting up for incoming shift, and taking inventory.
- Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
- Served high customer volumes during special events, nights, and weekends.
- Trained new bartenders on drink preparation, product promotion, garnish preparation, and sanitation protocol.
- Proactively addressed potential conflicts or disturbances among patrons, maintaining a safe atmosphere for all guests.
- Contributed to a positive work environment through effective teamwork and communication with colleagues.
- Upsold menu items to customers, driving up per sale revenues and maximizing profits.
- Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
TECHNICAL RECRUITER (Contract)
Serco
05.2022 - 10.2022
- Providing full life cycle recruitment within Serco's METS Division
- Work closely with Program/Hiring Managers to fully understand scope of work and discuss strategies and solutions to find candidates with Secret clearances up to TS/SCI FSP
- Approve requisitions; work with Hiring Manager to obtain role briefing and to agree to sourcing strategies and timeline
- Extend verbal contingent offers; and manage the contingent offer process
- Partner with the HR Onboarding team, in drafting and approving offers while ensuring a seamless transition for candidates and hiring managers throughout the onboarding process
- Responsible for sourcing, recruiting, and screening applicants for a variety of technical positions, including cybersecurity engineers, acquisition analyst, logistics specialist, and marine engineers
- Utilize iCIMS applicant tracking system (ATS) for all recruiting activities to ensure a high level of data integrity enabling accurate data tracking and reporting
RECRUITER
AMI Expeditionary Healthcare
01.2022 - 04.2022
- Execute recruiting strategies to achieve require staffing levels for Certified Medical Assistants, Certified Nurse Assistants, RN's, Logicians, Paramedics and Applicators across the country
- Creatively source candidates using a variety of recruiting channels such as, social media, and database mining
- Conduct potential candidate interview process and submit candidates, request I-9 documentation, coordinate with onboarding team to perform background checks
- Weekly calls with hiring managers to define position requirements, job competencies, and candidate profiles
SERVER/BARTENDER
Cork and Pig Tavern
05.2019 - 12.2021
- Provide exceptional service throughout process of taking and delivering order, while acting as a team player and supported the bar/service staff depending on which side of house was busiest
- Maintained knowledge of 100+ food and drink items to proactively up-sell menu items to guests while ensuring customer satisfaction
- Scheduled for every holiday/special event, trained new employees, promoted to bartender, and entrusted as key manager when needed
- Handled cash and credit transactions using Aloha Point of Sale (POS) system
- Execute and manage private events for VIP military members
Education
High School Diploma -
Potomac Falls High School
Sterling, VA06-2018
Skills
- Verbal and Written Communication
- Flexibility/Adaptability
- Problem Solving
- Strong multitasking
- Customer Service
- Highly reliable
- Customer service expertise
- Organizational ability
- Responsible Alcohol Service
- Memory retention
Timeline
Bartender
Bartaco
11.2022 - Current
TECHNICAL RECRUITER (Contract)
Serco
05.2022 - 10.2022
RECRUITER
AMI Expeditionary Healthcare
01.2022 - 04.2022
SERVER/BARTENDER
Cork and Pig Tavern
05.2019 - 12.2021
High School Diploma -
Potomac Falls High School