1. Charles D. Benson
bensoncareer@yahoo.com
Transferable Skills and Knowledge
• Supervision Skills: Supervised / Managed employees and projects. Over ten years total experience.
• Leadership Skills:
• Participated in Toastmasters. One year+ experience.
• Founded a student organization while in college.
• Participated in student government in college.
• Administrative Skills:
• Assumed responsible for administrative duties of employer’s Ohio Department of Commerce’s licensing
requirements. Four years experience.
• Administered three 100+ hour training courses which were regulated by the Ohio Attorney General Office and
lead to 60+ students being certified by the state of Ohio.
• Coordinated 300 hour and 600 hour training programs for two adult training schools. Three years experience.
• Instructional Skills:
• Instructed over 5,200 hours in classroom.
• Attended over 200 classroom hours of courses on the subject of Training and Development.
• Trained employees on the job.
• Computer Skills:
• Used Microsoft Word & Excel at work and at home for eighteen years.
• Applied Microsoft Access, PowerPoint, & Visual Basic in developing needed solutions at work and at home.
• Writing Skills:
• Wrote many ten page papers while in college.
• Documented hundreds of pages of procedures from notes and verbal input.
• Developed and wrote hundreds of pages of lesson plans from needs assessment, experience and multiple
resources.
• Documented daily activities on logs and wrote all incident reports for shift as a Law Enforcement Desk
Sergeant in the USAF. One year experience.
• Organization Skills:
• Experienced using: Mindjet Manager software for brainstorming; Allclear software for flowcharting; Microsoft
Excel for data storage; and Microsoft Project for time management.
• Organized: Tasks to complete multiple special projects at the same time; Research material for writing
reports, procedure manuals and lesson plans; and weekly work schedules for 35 employees; and.
• Performed multi-tasks as a Law Enforcement Desk Sergeant in the USAF.
• Interpersonal Relations Skills:
• Completed 42 semester hours in Psychology, Sociology and Counseling.
• Worked and interacted with people from all walks of life, from multi cultures and around the world, (including a
tribe of pigmies, MRDD, inmates, drug dependent, military generals, President Reagan and Bill Clinton).
• Counseled students and employees.
• Analytic Skills: Analyzed training needs and procedures to determine methodical order and gaps.
• Problem Solving Skills: Taught topic in class and during counseling students.
• Innovative Thinking Skills (“Thinking Outside the Box” Skills): Developed many simple cost effective innovative
solutions which improved performance and /or saved money.
• College Degree: B. S. Degree from Bowling Green State University with a minor in business.