HUMAN RESOURCES
Resilient, persistent, reliable, and motivated, with a passion for Human Resources. Completed a 6-month internship in a recruiting firm and gained experience in selection and candidate management and mentoring. For this firm, elaborated an improvement project aimed at enhancing the management of the candidates’ information and participated in the creation of an equality plan. Hardworking, target-driven, and able to work under pressure and to deal with new challenges.
WORK EXPERIENCE AND ACHIEVEMENTS
11/2013 – Currently |
FC BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE; Client Services Representative |
A fast growing media Company operating worldwide and in a variety of sectors, based in the City of London.
· Experience in an administrative environment that improved my organisational and team working skills and broadened my knowledge of office systems and processes. It also strengthened my written and verbal communication skills and IT literate, especially, on Word, Excel, Outlook and Internet Searching.
· Providing customer service in a professional manner, over the phone and via email, to deal with any enquiry in an immediate and efficient way. Giving the best client service experience, displaying a ‘can-do attitude’ at all times, both to internal and external stakeholders and keeping regular and fluent communication flow with them to avoid confusions and errors. Use of both English and Spanish languages.
· Conference data management in the following sectors, among others: Concentrated Solar Power, Photovoltaic, Energy Storage and Renewable Waste. Example: MENASOL 2014 (more than 400 people registered):
· Attending meetings with the Conference Organisers, Venue Organiser and Sales Team to develop the best action plan for the product offer and information emails (confirmation email, accommodation and payment reminders, cancellation and replacement emails and final information instructions). Thus, having to send mass and personalized emails.
· Experience of working under pressure in a project environment to meet tight deadlines.
· Data base (Sage SalesLogix) management and entry: creation of events, products, discounts and templates, addition and modification of companies and people details. Assurance of data accuracy and spelling and experience of working with a large database.
· Preparing documents and data needed for the conference, such as delegate lists, unpaid package and main badge report.
· Ability to complete tasks efficiently with a high degree of attention to details and to recommend innovative solutions by analysing problems.
· Ability to plan and prioritise own workload as well as to meet objectives with the minimum supervision.
· Delegate and Sponsor/Exhibitor booking management (time response less than 24h):
· Invoicing and payment chasing.
· Payment management via credit card, bank transfer or cheque.
· Completion of New Vendor Forms.
· Replacements, cancellations, refunds and future credits.
· Attendance Certificates and Visa Letters.
· Ability to manage information with confidentiality, discretion and sensitivity. Strong work ethics.
· Managing the purchasing of reports, from invoicing to sending.
· Learning and Development course taken: Core Business Skills (Time Management, Effective Communication and Handling Problems & Stress).
· Sporadic tasks: Packet and Letter delivery management and guest introduction.
During my period at FC I also trained 2 new starters in our department.
•Providing thorough and complete training to new starters.
•Preparing a training packages with instructions a daily to-learn list.
•Continuous feedback and support to the trainee.
•Mentoring through the training process at all levels (from technical issue to workplace and interpersonal skills).
10/2013 – 11/2013 |
THE LANDMARK HOTEL; Room Waitress |
An temp-job in the room service department of The Landmark Hotel (5*), London.
· Breakfast service.
07/2013 – 09/2013 |
Working on the publication of an article |
Working on the publication of an article of my Degree's Final Project, with my tutor on such project - Jordi Balagué - and another professor - Joan Solé.
09/2012 – 04/2013 |
AXXON SELECTING ETT; Recruitment Consultant |
An internship for a well-established Temporary Work Agency based in Girona.
· Support new and current candidates in their job search, guided and gave them advice on job-related issues, such as resume writing or job application. .
· Assisted the Consultants team in screening and searching candidates in order to cover new vacancies.
· Managed the advertising and updating of job offers.
· Cooperated in the matching process of the firm, obtaining the maximum amount of information about the candidate, in order to improve and expedite the talent acquisition process of the firm.
· Did first interviews to candidates and subsequently wrote candidates’ reports.
· Elaborated an improvement project aimed at enhancing the website section that enables candidates to enter their details; project that was finally put into practice.
· Participated in the creation of the equality plan of the firm.
09-12/2012 |
UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA; Assistant in the Economics department |
A fellowship to collaborate with the Economics department of the university in a Research Project (“The evolution of the Spanish consumption pattern in a crisis context”).
· Assisted the Project Manager in the data management and statistical analysis.
Summer 2012 |
GELATI DINO; Waitress |
A vacation job working for an ice-cream parlour, located in Santa Margarita (Costa Brava, Girona).
· Developed waitress tasks such as the customer service, the local maintenance or the taking of orders.
· Handled to work under pressure.
· Ice-cream and crêpes service.
Summer 2011 |
SQUIRES OF PAIGNTON; General Assistant |
A vacation job working for a Fish and Chips Restaurant located in South England.
· Developed waitress tasks such as the customer service, the local maintenance or the taking of orders.
· Handled to work under pressure.
Summer 2009 & 2010 |
HOTEL PORT SALINS. RESTAURANT NORAY; Waitress |
A vacation job working for a 4-star Hotel, located in Empuriabrava (Costa Brava, Girona).
· Developed waitress tasks such as the customer service, the local maintenance or the taking of orders.
· Handled to work under pressure.
· Person in charge of the bar.
· Give assistance to the breakfast and lunch service.
EDUCATION
2009 – 2013 |
Bachelor’s Degree (2:1; 8.67 out of 10) in Business Administration and Management at the University of Girona. |
· 25% of the degree studied in English.
· Degree's Final Project: “The role of feedback in The Bologna Process, according to Goal Setting Theory: an exploratory study of students’ perceptions in the University of Girona”.
· Award to become a member of the Accounting and Business Administration Spanish Association (AECA).
· Trancript of Records: TRANSCRIPT_ENGLISH.pdf (1098185)
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
August 2012 |
Course in Recruitment and Labor Law, by END |
Sept. 2012 |
Payroll Management and Social Security, by IMAFE |
April 2013 |
Certificate: Fundamentals of Human Resources, by Alison |
Self-Training (on-going) |
Berger, L.A., Berger, D.R. (2003). The Talent Management Handbook: Creating Organizational Excellence By Identifying, Developing, and Promoting Your Best People. McGraw-Hill; 1st edition. Whitmore, J. (2002). Coaching for performance: Growing human potential and purpose. Nicholas Brealey Publishing; 4th revised edition. |
CORE COMPETENCIES
English |
High Level · 25% of the degree studied in English. · Work Experience in England. · TOEFL IBT score of 104, by ETS (Reading 27, Listening 27, Speaking 22, Writing 28). |
French and German |
Basic Level · Certificate of A1 level of German, by the University of Girona |
Spanish and Catalan |
Native Speaker |
Computer Skills |
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, high level SPSS, high level |
GMAT combined scores & percentiles 2012 - 2013 | 580 (55%) - Verbal 28 (50%), Quantitative 43 (58%), Analytical Writing Assessment 5.0 (60%) & Integrated Reasoning 6.0 (67%). |