What I do at Christian Horizons

Tasks at the West District Office

Christian Horizons

Markus Eigenheer

March 2011

Position: Administration Support

Past Tasks:

Ø      Submit my own paid hours until a new way of submitting hours started.

Ø      Edit contact information into No-Letters for people who didn’t get their job

Ø      Enter Serious Occurrences Summaries

Ø      Enter Behaviour Colour plot for individual for Behavioural Therapist

Ø      Help create small pictures of movies for an individual – Help – Behaviour Therapist

Ø      Burn individual case files on CD’s from previous Behaviour Therapist

Ø      Type up miscellaneous documents and memos

Ø      Do Laminating

Ø      Change the Server Room Computer Back-up tape every day I’m here

Ø      Giving Direction to the Bathroom

Current Tasks:

Ø      Everyday first thing bring mail over to Corporate Office and pick up mail

Ø      Answer and Transfer incoming phone calls

Ø      Greet and direct people

Ø      Enter resume contact information into Applicant database

Ø      Read and submit O/I’s (Occurrences/Incidents) Summaries via the internet

Ø      Submit my own volunteer hours over the internet
Ø            Enter other volunteer’s hours every month into a spread sheet that I designed

Ø      Record my own paid and volunteer hours in an Excel spreadsheet

Ø      Create reference forms packages – letter, 2 employment forms, 1 pastoral form

Ø      Create Interview packages – 2 sets of interview questions, 1 written scenario

Ø      Help with mass mailings

Ø      Label file folders for Corporate Office once a year

Ø      Help labeling file folders

Ø      Help filing Serious Occurrences

Ø      Photocopy miscellaneous documents

Ø      Check my Christian Horizons e-mail account

Ø      Clean up Work room

Ø      Sweep Kitchen and Workroom

Ø      Giving Direction to the Bathroom

Ø      Cleaning Coffee machine and Coffee pot at the end of each day I’m here

Include a few sentences of things you enjoy doing in the office and also include a few things you have difficulty doing or would prefer not to do.

I enjoy entering contact information into the Applicant Database and submitting O/I’s via the Internet and doing any computer related tasks basically.

What I enjoy less doing is mass photocopying and putting photocopied packages together it becomes too overwhelming.  I also don’t enjoy when I have no work for hours at a time.

Write a paragraph or two about yourself to introduce yourself (example – your likes and dislikes, your personality, what you like about working at Christian Horizons, and anything else you might think is important).

Hi, my name is Markus Eigenheer but I go by Marc.  I enjoy working here at the West District of Christian Horizons because of the Christian atmosphere and how I’m cared for and appreciated.  I feel that I could go to anyone here about anything in case of emergency.  I enjoy being at the front desk computer and answering phone calls and greeting people and labeling things.

I work best when I have guidance in certain things and someone to go to for support when I don’t know what to do.  I also work best when there is a routine that is familiar to me.  I love typing up documents and doing data entry!  On a typical day, first thing I do is carry mail across King Street too the Head Office (Corporate Office), and bring back any mail they have for us the West District Office.  From there I check my e-mails, and record how many hours I work that day in an Excel Spread Sheet.  After that I check if there are any O/I’s to submit, and how many resumes (contact information) there is to enter into the Applicant Database.  Depending on whether there are more O/I’s or more resumes, I do one or the other first.  With the O/I’s if they are no sufficient, I submit them into the follow up folder.  After that’s done I ask the Office Administrator and other people what other tasks there are for me to do.  At the end of the day, I wash out the coffee machine and coffee pot before I leave.

I live here in Kitchener on my own in a junior bachelor apartment and take the bus to and from work.  I work 3 days a week in the afternoon, one of which I get paid for and that day is Tuesday (Monday and Thursday are volunteer hours and are more flexible for when I come and go).  Monday and Thursday I usually work from between 1:00 pm – 2 pm and leave at 4:45 pm.  On Tuesday I work from 12:45 pm – 4:45 pm.  On Wednesday I volunteer for my Brother-in-Law, and on Friday I volunteer folding towels at the YMCA here in Kitchener, so I’m busy Monday – Friday.

I often struggle with feeling lonely, anxiety, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder.  I also struggle to take the courage to connect with others and new people.  I often isolate myself.  My hobby is watching TV Shows on DVD which I have my own library full.  Another area I struggle with is having the willingness and courage to cook for myself but my support from social workers in that area comes from Waterloo Regional Homes for Mental Health.

Last Updated: August 2009