Cara Contreras

Cara Contreras has been working in the industry since 2017. Cara began their career as a Hairstylist for Heaven a Hair Boutique. In this role, they serviced high-profile clients with intricate coloring and highlighting techniques using Kerastase/L'Oreal products, assessed customer needs and provided expertise in hairstyle and color options, maintained organization at the company by sanitizing tools, restocking supplies, and cleaning the salon daily, and shampooed and blow-dried hair in addition to other hair treatments. In 2019, they were promoted to Social Media Manager, where they were chosen to take lead and fully control the salon's entire marketing platform via social media, developed and updated the company website to leverage social media to grow its reach, and produced daily posts on each social media platform for consistency of increasing customer awareness of the company's products, services, and promotions. In 2020, they moved to Sycamore Living as Head Receptionist & Admin, where they served as first point-of-contact and first impression to the newly established nursing/rehab facility, ensured continuous patient satisfaction by providing highest level of customer service and immediate attention to every need, and heavily supported all internal departments, specifically nurses and management team, to improve processes for efficiency and ease. Later in 2020, they joined WeShield as Business Development, where they were responsible for identifying opportunities for healthcare and retail companies through targeted marketing campaigns, e-mail campaigns, and cold calls, persistently followed up on qualified leads by deeply utilizing CRM tools like Salesforce to convert prospects into new customers, and cultivated long-term relationships by identifying customer goals, challenges and needs with a passion to solve problems. Currently, Cara Contreras is a Clinical Recruiter for done.

Cara Contreras is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from West Virginia University, which they began in 2015.