laura doan current resume
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Laura Doan 41 Olympus Drive Lower Templestowe 3107
0402 177 599 [email protected]
Career Objective Exceptionally organized, highly motivated, professionally focused Bachelor of Business (Public Relations) student due to graduate in 2015. Excellent skills and experience in events management, recruitment, campaign planning and promotions. Now seeking a new opportunity and challenging graduate target role in Events Management and Campaign Planning. Education 2013 – Current Bachelor of Business (Public Relations) Swinburne University of Technology Key Study Areas:
-‐ Projects and Campaign Planning -‐ Recruitment and Selection (Human Resource Management) -‐ Writing client briefs -‐ Campaign Development
Industry Related Projects May 2015 – July 2015 Spirit Station Pier Events Ninja Responsibilities:
• Bookings Functions • Writing up proposals • Meet and greet clients • Running events • Creating run sheets • E-‐newsletters • Booking in appointments and hosting
appointments April 2015 Spirit Station Pier Gangster Palace Speakeasy Event Event Management Internship Responsibilities:
• Coordinating and planning promotional campaign
• Advertising for volunteers • Hiring promotional staff • Writing up briefs
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• Organizing volunteers and roles • Writing venue description
March 2015 – March 2015 Spirit Station Pier S6 Cocktail Wedding Showcase Event Management Internship Responsibilities:
• Managing Volunteers • Making up a power point presentation • Meet and greeting guest • Hosting • Bump in and Bump out • Food and drink service • Making up gift bags • Reporting back on volunteers and staff
June 2014 – August 2014 Ultraglow Paint Party (Fyooz Productions) Event Management Internship Responsibilities:
• Head of promotions • Hiring promotional staff • Booking in launch parties at various venues • Writing up briefing notes • Creating schedules for promotions • Putting together rosters
Achievements Being in charge of all the promotions gave me a huge responsibility and I gained better leadership skills and organizational skills.
March 2014 – April 2014 Amaze Autism Victoria Event Management internship Responsibilities
• Seeking and hiring photographers and performers
• Manage 150+ volunteers • Organize signage, nametags and maps • Create run sheets • Write up briefing notes for volunteers
Achievements Having all those responsibilities helped me gain better organizational and communication skills. It was challenging, but it was a great learning experience and very rewarding seeing the success of the event ‘Autism Awareness Day.’
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Employment History Nov 2013 – Current Casual Sales Assistant Platypus Shoes Responsibilities:
• Customer service • Opening and closing the store • Cleaning • Using the POS • Promotions
February 2014 – Current Singing Teacher CK Singing School Responsibilities:
• Vocal warm ups • Teach children to sing
August 2013 – Current Brand Ambassador/Promotional Model
Polite Promotions, Firefly Management, LINQ Promotions, On Foot Advertising, oOh! Edge, Eventurous Promotions, Lizardskin Talent, Media V, Sass Management, Gaston Management, JCRC Events, Quikstrike Responsibilities:
• Handing out promotional material and items • Interacting with customers • Mascot escort • Model Waitressing • Hosting • Mascot • Face painting
Jan 2013 – April 2015 Door Girl Cloud Nine – Inflation Nightclub Chapter Thursdays – The Bottom End Responsibilities:
• Checking guest lists • Collecting money • Meeting and greeting people
January 2015 – Feb 2015 Head of Promotions Chapter Thursdays Responsibilities
• Hiring promotional models and staff • Writing up briefs • Creating promotions • Budgeting • Running of promotions as supervisor
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• Reporting back to client/boss
January 2015 – Jan 2015 Crown Casino – XL Event Responsibilities
• They needed promotional models to work for them for this once off event and they contacted me asking me to help source them out girls
• Profiling to the client • Sourcing out and recruiting • Briefs sent out to promotional models
August 2014 – Jan 2015 Casual Sales Assistant Forever New Responsibilities:
• Customer Service • Opening and Close the store • Cleaning • Using the POS • Styling • Promotions
Oct 2010–March 2014 Casual Sales Assistant Diva Responsibilities:
• Promotions and add ons • Customer service • Open and closing the store • Managerial role (when we had no manager) • Cashing up the till • Training new Christmas casuals • Figures, budgets and variences • Creating rosters
January 2007-‐July 2011 Children’s Leader – Volunteer NewHope Baptist Church Responsibilities:
• Looking after children • Playing games • Singing and dancing
Qualifications
• Responsible Service of Alcohol Certificate • Working with Children’s Check
Hobbies
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• Children’s Performance Company of Australia (CPCA) – Triple Threats • Singing, Dancing, Acting
Skills Summary Organizational Skills
• Prioritize and plan daily, weekly, monthly tasks to meet deadlines and create reminders for meetings and events
• Effective at managing my time balancing full-‐time university with part-‐time work at five different places as evidence of being punctual to work and handing in all my assignments in on time.
Leadership Skills
• Being a supervisor at work shifts as I am responsible for uniforms, photos and report forms to fill out
• Actively managing the new Christmas casuals, co-‐ordinating a team with tasks and training them as well.
• Managing a team, giving them direction and leading them in what we do. Ensuring there is full involvement from all and encouraging everyone to support each other.
Communication Skills Written:
• Wrote up briefs for promotional work • Wrote up briefs for volunteers about their roles • Planned and written researched essays • Wrote up a social media plan for Firefly Management
Oral:
• Oral presentations at university • Ran an induction for new staff • Customer service – communicate effectively and clearly with the
customers Referees
Alysha Lauder Accounts Manager Firefly Management 0439 409 284
Kenny Lim Manager Ultraglow Paint Party (Fyooz Productions) 0425 267 671
Emily Kilsby Marketing Co-‐ordinator Amaze Autism Victoria 0400 132 526
Aimee Kousis Events Director Spirit Station Pier 0409 939 952 Miranda Jones Manager Platypus 0403 428 985
Samantha Meares Manager Diva 0433 975 419
Braden Goodes Manager Chapter Thursdays 0448 749 732