Objective
Priya Raman
Office Manager
Experience
Dec 2024 – Present
Office Manager • Bayline Wholesale
Feb 2022 – Dec 2024
Administrative Assistant • Harbor & Vale Imports
Mar 2021 – Feb 2022
Office Intern • Olsen Hartley LLP
Rewrote the office supply and courier procedures for a 25-person law firm, which cut the monthly stationery spend by 18% and ended the twice-weekly courier queue at reception.
Education
Laney College, Oakland, CA
Associate of Science in Business Administration, Aug 2019 – May 2021
References
References available upon request
Communication
I am the first voice a supplier, a client or a new hire hears at Bayline. I write the weekly operations note the whole company reads, run the onboarding sessions for every new starter, and handle the calls nobody else wants to take, in English and Tamil, without a complaint reaching the directors in two years.
Leadership
I manage a receptionist and two administrative assistants, set their rotas and targets, and took the team through a move to a new building without a lost working day. I introduced monthly one-to-ones, and both assistants have since been promoted from within.
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Priya Raman, Office Manager
Priya Raman is an office manager five years into administrative work, from an internship at a law firm through an assistant post at an importer to running the office of a 40-person wholesaler, sending this resume to companies that need someone to keep the place moving. An office manager is hired for organisation and temperament as much as for a history, so this resume keeps the roles to three dated lines and gives the two strengths that matter most a heading each.
Why this resume works
- The objective sits in the column under the portrait and says the size of the company she runs the office for, 40 people, so a reader has the scale before the roles.
- The three roles read as dated lines from intern to assistant to manager in the same trade, which shows the promotion path without a paragraph for each.
- The one paragraph on the page carries two numbers, an 18% cut in stationery spend and a courier queue ended, chosen because they are the kind of result an office manager is measured on.
- Communication and Leadership are sections of her own under the same plum headings as the history, each a short paragraph with a fact in it, the two languages she takes calls in and the two assistants promoted from within.
- The degree is one bulleted line under the college, an associate degree in business administration, which is the honest weight for a role hired on experience.