Work experience and education
Seasonal Visitor Advisor and Social Media updater
Location: Naantali Tourist Information
I have gained strong team and office work skills from Naantali Tourist Information. My main duties were updating their website, instagram and facebook. I also succeeded to carry out excellent customer service. I served approx. 100 customers a day during the hectic summer season with great feedback both from my customers and my colleagues..Marketing assistant internship
Location: Logomo Oy
Internship postion in the Turku city largest event venue. I produced over 15 pieces of adverts of the upcoming events using Adobe Photoshop. I also made the layout for 3 manuals with InDesign and several posters and instruction boards with Illustrator. I learned how to effectively use the material I was given, develop my visual eye and carry out top-notch quality marketing material.Marketing project manager and blogger
Location: Naantali Theatre
Marketing project for Naantali Theatre’s play included writing content to blog, facebook, creating adverts and leaflets, writing a press release. Screenwriting, directing and assisting post-editing the play’s trailer. I got important experience how to administrate the big picture, how time everything and importance of contacting essential co-operation partners.Local TV news insert reporter internship
Location: Turku TV
I was responsible of producing inserts for the daily local news. I interviewed people, disentangled the material, made a voice-over and helped to post-edit the material. I learned the importance of details and developed my brain power in a fast-pace newsroom environment. The quality that I most value from this experience is he knowledge of how to dig out the essential info from a large amount of data.Bachelor of Tourism Management
Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences
Haaga-Helia is a great school with good opportunities to work with real-life cases on selected study field. I learned to create relationships, and the importance of having an extensive net of co-operation partners and contacts. Writing reports was important part of the studies and it has been very helpful later on to be able to handle great amounts of data. I also completed exchange studies in Switzerland. I graduated on 2011 with excellent grades.marketing communications
Turun Aikuiskoulutuskeskus
School work consisted mainly learning the up-to-date info about social media and digital marketing platforms such as LinkedIn, Instagram, AboutMe, Twitter, Facebook etc. My focus was on learning to use Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesing. I had marketing project with Naantali Theatre play running alongside with my studies, so I learned how to multitask and manage my timetable efficient way. I graduated in 2014.Course in Radio and tv-journalism
Helsingin Evankelinen Opisto
Radio and TV-journalism course in 2007-08. Studies consisted of extensive amount of writing, photographing, filming and performing in front of a camera. We did many group projects for our practice radio channel Trombit which we run like a real radio station for one month in the Helsinki region. I learned to use my creativity and produce interesting digital and visual material using different technology.Public Relations studies in England
University of Sunderland
I studied Public Relations in University of Sunderland, North East of England for one year in 2006-07. Studies consisted courses in both PR and journalism. I did lot of practical studies as well in form of writing press releases and pieces of news in our classes. I got invaluable experience of communicating both in spoken and written English and I value my year abroad because it also taught me important life lessons and intercultural communications.About me as an employee
I have had most of my past work experience in customer service section. I am very social and talented at meeting new people and create contacts.
I value my intercultural experience which I have gained while living and travelling around the world. Intercultural relations is a skill that one can only learn by doing, not by studying.
I am proud of my skills of multitasking and ability to work even in the most hectic of environments. I have experience of guiding and serving more than 100 people a day and I always pursue to carry out expectations exceeding customer experience.
I am creative and visual person. I am an enthusiastic marketing material producer and always wanting to learn more. I have a good eye for image processing and layouts, but these are also skills I still have the most to learn. I am also excited to try out audiovisual marketing techniques as well as campaigns in the different social media channels.
Furthermore I love using social media as digital marketing tool and I enjoy analyzing and seeing the results of successful campaign. It is important for me personally to learn a large set of marketing skills in order to put together an impressive marketing projects.
I wish that in my job I can be creative and productive. I want to develop myself as a marketing material creator and embrace all new. That it is really, the marketing world changes at fast pace all the time and I desire to run with it. Fast!
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Adobe Photoshop
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Adobe Illustrator
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Adobe InDesign
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Wordpress
What type of person I am?
Hardworking visualizer
I am passionate about work that inspires me. I am full of new ideas and trying new things excites me. I have a very precise visual eye and I’m driven by urge to carry out excellent quality work, whatever it may include. I am happy to cut it out of my free time to complete my missions.
Fun enthusiastic and loyal co-worker
I have a good sense of humor and it makes me happy to make people smile. I get very enthusiastic about new ideas and value synergy in a working community. I am productive individual who enjoys hard work and also seeing the results of their efforts quickly.
Reliable and flexible employee
I am an honest and reliable person. I believe in good karma and that is why I try to be kind and supportive to others. That does not mean I cannot be strict and single minded when needed, but I believe making well will bring good in the future. I am also flexible and see the importance to have goals together.
Nature and fitness lover
I enjoy healthy life styles and outdoors, especially Finnish nature is close to my heart. I love to go to gym and train my body to be in fit shape. I love good brewed tea, dark chocolate and occasionally a glass of crisp chardonnay. In my opinion, Finnish sauna is the greatest invention on the Earth.
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