Rachel Marhefka

When my husband and I got married in 2022 I chose to leave the workforce and focus on responsibilities in the home so we could build a strong family unit and adjust well to being married. Some of these responsibilities include:

• Finances: I build a sustainable budget based on the needs and dynamics of our family, balance the books, and ensure assets and investments- stocks, roth IRA, etc.- remain stable and grow.
• Inventory: Just as an office manager oversees supply stock, so I do with the supplies of our home. Making adjustments as needed to remain cost effective, time efficient, and energy saving.
• Community: Homemaking allows for a flexible schedule and one of the ways I use that to my advantage is getting involved in my local community. Here in South Carolina I express that through maintaining leadership responsibility within a faith-based women's group on Tuesday mornings.

When I was in school for cosmetology I also worked a part-time job at a hair salon. My responsibilities were as follows:

• Hygiene: Consistently maintain cleanliness and organization of personal workspace as well as whole salon. Cycling laundry, maintaining product stock for stylist use as well as customer purchase, disinfecting tools and equipment.
• Customer Service: Answering phones, booking appointments according to work dynamic of stylist and customer demand, greeting, seating, and collecting payment from customers, and assisting with right product purchase to meet customer's need.
• Administration/Finance: Maintaining product stock and inventory, balance the books and open/close the cash drawer according to shift, set up and maintaining product displays and proper descriptions according to price changes.

• Answered a multi-line, multi-office phone system. Routing calls and taking messages accordingly.
• Managed vendor relationships, negotiating contracts for cost savings while maintaining high-quality services.
• Streamlined office operations through organization, implementing efficient filing systems.
• Kept track of inventory, ordering necessary items to prevent stock shortage

• Answered a multi-line phone system, routed calls, and delivered messages to staff while also greeting and directing visitors.
• Ensured accurate record-keeping via diligent data entry and database management.
• Improved document organization with thorough file system restructure and archiving outdated records as necessary for efficient retrieval of relevant records when needed.