Tifani Hoornstra's profile answers

Hard-working, dependable, smart, helpful.

The wrong hiring manager pulled me into a room and started interviewing me for a much more experienced role than I had applied for. I answered her questions as best I could, and after 15 minutes of confusion, the hiring manager I should have been interviewing with came in to get me. I was so thrown off that the "real" interview was less than stellar!...

I was recruited to work for the summer as a door-to-door book salesman my freshman year of college (across the country). That was an intensive introduction to sales I'll never forget. Not long after, I got into film promotion and PR, where I worked for a few years. That was fun, but not quite as fulfilling as the sales world. So here I am....

Babysitting, and lots of it. My first real job, however, was a Courtesy Clerk at Safeway during high school (later Helper Clerk and Checker). My friends and I liked to call it "Slaveway" at the time, but overall working there for two years was a great experience.

1. Designing and implementing creative promotional plans for each movie
2. Lots of free movie swag (posters, t-shirts, etc)
3. Seeing movies in advance of opening, running PA Tours when celebrities come to promote their films

I built out data in Jobster's recruiter application to demo at the launch of Jobster, and later for the sales team to demo the service (ficticious "Red Brick" company). I also helped to develop a formal Customer Referral program.

My sales director from Apex Learning migrated to Jobster and called me up to join him.

Our office is an open layout - everyone has some kind of view, but I'm very fortunate to have a corner-cube by the window facing the water.

We called it "the fishbowl."

Through my department in college (internship).