MEET our people CHRIS MIDWINTER
to start my family. In between, I worked the twilight shift at Endsleigh Insurance.
Working as a receptionist for Hazlewoods means you are the welcoming face for everyone who walks in through the doors on a dayto-day basis. Greeting people, making them feel welcome and organising the increasing number of meetings and staff member diaries to ensure everything runs smoothly is no easy task. Luckily, Hazlewoods has a team of receptionists who expertly manage all of this.
My day-to-day duties at Hazlewoods are mainly to answer the telephone and direct our clients to the correct member of staff, along with meeting and greeting clients. One of the best parts of the job is seeing clients face to face when they have meetings as you can then put a face to a name, especially those that we speak to on a regular basis. On reception we also see to the incoming and outgoing post, along with a lot of other duties.
“Hello, I am Chris and work on reception at the Cheltenham office. I have worked at Hazlewoods part-time for 19 years (celebrating my 20 years next April). Previously, I worked for 10 years at the head office of Kraft Foods - which has now been turned into a complex of retirement apartments - before leaving
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All of the members of staff at Hazlewoods are very friendly and great to work with; numbers have grown so much over the years. When I started working here there were only approximately 50 members of staff in this office and now we have over 160, and still growing, so there are now a lot more faces to put names to! Things have changed a lot since I started, for the better, and I look forward to working here for a few more years to come.�
CHRIS MIDWINTER Receptionist 01242 237661 chris.midwinter@hazlewoods.co.uk
