Tara Kluth
Columbus,NE
Summary
Dedicated assistant manager with a proven track record in providing excellent customer service and working as a team player. Skilled in staff training, quick learning, decision-making, and creating efficient systems. Committed to encouraging team performance and customer satisfaction.
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Manager
Chocolaterie Stam
Rochester, MN
06.2022 - 01.2026
- Provided excellent customer service to a wide variety of customers from around the world
- Used suggestive selling techniques to pair a variety of products and improve sales
- Maintained a well stocked and clean store following food safety regulations
- Scheduled employees and filled in gaps as needed
- Trained new employees in all aspects of sales, food safety and store opening and closing procedures
- Created opening and closing procedures and checklists for employees to follow
- Created a detailed list of jobs employees could do during downtime
- Handled requests for donations from community members
- Took phone orders and prepared them for shipping
- Made gelato for the store following recipes, developing new recipes and maintaining the work space according to food safety regulations
Production Assistant
Country Bathhouse
Rochester, MN
2019 - 2021
- Provided excellent customer service in a small retail environment
- Created displays of a variety of product including for seasonal changes
- Utilized suggestive selling techniques to improve sales
- Followed recipes to create product in downtime
- Trained new employees in workplace expectations
- Worked quickly and efficiently to produce product
- Maintained a tidy work area
- When the store moved to a warehouse environment to focus solely on online sales: organized and inventoried stock, trained new employees in production and procedures and continued to excel in quick production and a clean environment
Real Estate Assistant
TruLiving Realty
Rochester, MN
2015 - 2020
- Created a filing system for past clients and organized the realtor's paper files
- Complied the client database from old paper files to an online system as the office changed databases
- Wrote a monthly newsletter with support from the head realtor
- Organized various events including educational opportunities for the public, a "Parents' Night Out", and training lunches for the team
Full Time Stay at Home Mom
Kluth Household
Rochester, MN
2000 - 2015
- Primary caregiver for four children from the time they were born until the youngest was in early elementary school
- Volunteered in various ways in our church and school including as Nursery Coordinator and later the Children's Ministry Coordinator. I was able to pull together a variety of curriculum into one cohesive outline for the entire year for three total classrooms
- Well known in the community as someone who could create systems well, keep an organized and tidy home and able to bring out the best in children
Education
Bachelor of Science - Elementary Education, Early Childhood And Reading
Northwestern College
Orange City05-1998
Skills
- Customer service
- Money handling
- Team leadership
- Decision-making
- Time management
- Customer relations
- Staff training and development
- Staff supervision
- Task delegation
- Problem-solving
Timeline
Assistant Manager
Chocolaterie Stam
06.2022 - 01.2026
Production Assistant
Country Bathhouse
2019 - 2021
Real Estate Assistant
TruLiving Realty
2015 - 2020
Full Time Stay at Home Mom
Kluth Household
2000 - 2015
Bachelor of Science - Elementary Education, Early Childhood And Reading
Northwestern College