Event Specialist - CORT : Job Details

**Event Specialist**

CAROUSEL_PARAGRAPH

* Everett, Washington

* Administration

* 4134

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** Job Description**

**Overview**

With more than 50 years of experience, CORT Party Rental has the Northwests largest selection of everythingyou need to create a unique event. Our team of experts understand every event is unique and well be there to help inspire, design, and bring your vision to life. From weddings to corporate meetings and conferences, our high-quality products; including tents, china, stemware and linens, we'll ensurethat every moment is memorable.

**The Event Specialist is primarily responsible for closing profitable Special Event revenue within the showroom by providing exceptional customer service, efficiently handling showroom traffic, and proactively managing onsite inventory processes.**

**Pay is between $18-$20 per hour, depending on experience.**

**Schedule can be Tuesday-Saturday or Monday-Friday (depending on business needs).**

For more information, please visit **www.cortpartyrental.com.**

**Responsibilities**

* Demonstrates Proficiency answering phones and directing calls.

* Assists customers in the Showroom with basic rental contracts. Assist professional clients with events in the showroom or through email/Phone.

* Utilize computer to complete Quotes, prepare Rental Contracts and obtain necessary information from customer.

* Provide an outstanding showroom experience for our clients with particular care given to the appearance of showroom and work area.

* Demonstrates a basic understanding of rental inventory with focus on tabletop and cooking products.

* Maintain exceptional relationships with customers to encourage additional revenue opportunities.

* Demonstrates thorough understanding of rental inventory including basic knowledge of basic stage options including accessories

* Responsible for following established opening and closing procedures of the showroom. Maintain a clean and orderly showroom.

* Follow necessary processes and policies diligently to ensure timely communication between departments and customer.

* Follow company and District procedures to protect store security and company assets.

* Belongs to an industry networking group and regularly attends after hours meetings.

* Support all District sales and marketing efforts, including CORT Furniture Rental, CORT Tradeshows, and CORT Clearance Center business

**Qualifications**

* High School diploma/GED or equivalent work experience.

* 2-3 years customer service and/or sales experience.

* Event knowledge or planning a plus.

* Ability to speak, read and write English fluently.

* Maybe required to work Saturdays.

* Ability to quickly connect with others and demonstrating exceptional customer service and presentation skills.

* Excellent communication and reasoning skills, computer proficiency, Phone skills, follow through skills, and account development and management skills.

* Ability to pass pre-employment background check and drug screen. As a condition of continual employment must be able to pass all random and post-accident drug tests.

* Required regularly to stand, walk, and talk or hear. Occasionally required to walk and climb or balance. Frequently required to sit, stand. Occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

* Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

**Additional Information**

**Compensation & Benefits**

* Hourly pay rate; guaranteed 40 hours/week with occasional overtime opportunities

* Promote from within culture

* Comprehensive Health Insurance (Health, Vision, Dental)

* 401K with company match

* Employee Discounts

* Paid holidays and time away from work

We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please consider applying. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and excellence. Therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions. Please let us know if you require accommodations during the interview process.

As part of a national company, CORT offers opportunities for career development, professional growth, competitive salaries with position-specific incentive or commission plans, a comprehensive benefit plan, 401(k) and Profit Sharing, educational expense reimbursement and employee discounts.

For more information on CORT Business Services, please visit our website at **www.CORTPartyRental.com**.

CORT conducts drug screening, background checks and MVR checks (if applicable) as a condition of employment. CORT also participates in the E-Verify program.

EEO/AA Employer/Vets/Disability

*Pursuant to the Fair Chance Hiring Ordinance for participating locations , CORT will consider all qualified applicants to include those who may have criminal history records. Check your city government website for specific fair chance hiring information.*

**Accessibility Statement****Compliance status** We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the broadest possible audience, regardless of ability.

To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortiums (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.

This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the websites UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.

Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the websites HTML, adapts its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.

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**Screen-reader and keyboard navigation** Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers can read, comprehend, and enjoy the websites functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Heres how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements:

- **Screen-reader optimization:** we run a process that learns the websites components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others.

Additionally, the background process scans all of the websites images. It provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts embedded within the image using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustment