Freelance writer and editor
I am Cairo and City News
Total des années d'expérience :15 years, 0 Mois
Wrote several articles for both their bi-weekly free newspaper "City News" and several articles for their quarterly free magazine "I am Cairo"
Edited articles for City News.
Responsible for all administrative jobs, including ordering supplies and dealing with internal policies and procedures.
Deal with customer inquiries and complaints.
Obtain important information to help smooth the process for various aspects of expanding the awareness of the journal (e.g. donor pledges)
Dealing with financial procedures including creating invoices, sales reports and confirming payments.
Liaising between departments and the Cairo Review.
Arranging and holding meetings .
Compiling and executing distribution lists. Packaging and sending subscriber issues and comp copies.
Process subscriber information and maintaining databases.
Creating and maintaining various databases and systems.
Marketing off and on campus
Sales responsibilities
Event planning and coordination.
Helping fundraising.
Office management.
Compiling reports and charts.
Receiving deliveries.
• Instructing conversational English
• Teaching large groups
• Teaching private lessons
• Creating and researching activities
• Preparing lessons
• Teaching a variety of ages and backgrounds
• Effective communication of grammar
• Professional and friendly attitude with students
• Moderating exams and quizzes
• Marking exams and quizzes
• Teaching TOEFL & IELTS
• Cold calling leads in USA & CANADA
• Acquiring Decision Makers information
• Researching company information
• Adjusting and correcting Company information
• Sending E-mails to prospect customers
• Answering and dealing with quick on the spot situations
• Collaborating with other Team Members to close deals
• Using perfect English skills to effectively communicate with prospects
• Effectively adjusting work to suit the American time differences
• Using an American Accent
• Using excellent communication skills to execute Call Backs
• Perfectly executing Sales pitch to leads
• Proof reading all articles for The Travel Mag
• Proof reading for various other projects within the company
• Writing travel articles
• Procuring photographs for articles
• Researching materials for new articles
• Fact checking articles presented to me
• Contacting possible tourism resources
• Attending press conferences
• Holding interviews where necessary
• Picking new destinations and themes to write about
• Holding meetings
• Making hard decisions for the benefit of the magazine
• Published an issue of The Travel Mag
I put together a magazine in one month and a half, that should have taken three months. I worked on my own and collected professional photographs and saved the company thousands.
I covered many roles with efficiency. I covered order fulfillment, which meant I took customer orders, packed and shipped each one; I took phone orders with great service attitude; I dealt with customer complaints and issues; Processed purchase orders and dealt with orders coming in from major companies, such as Amazon.
My work involved plenty of time working alone, multi-tasking and great attention to detail, as the smallest mistake would have meant unnecessary expenses for my employers. There was a lot of customer interaction, which meant I always dealt with all customers in a friendly and appropriate manner at all time, regardless of query.
From the 8th-18th of november 2006 I helped out with the Caridff Film Festival at Cineworld Cinema. This would involve handing out tickets, ushering and a variety of customer services.
It was a job that required one to social and friendly and ready to move at any time to do their job. It was exciting and enabled one to meet a variety of people in the film field.
This job required me to prepare fresh food, before opening and upon request of customers. I also prepared hot and cold drinks (coffee, tea etc..) and operated the till. At times I served customers at their tables and cleaned the kitchen and equipment. Sometimes I in charge of purchasing supplies for the cafe. The was a continous need for customer service skills. The customers always right.
This job required me to be cheery and social. Constantly friendly to all customers. Ready to chat with them when they saw fit. It was interesting a enjoayable because of the variety of faces we saw everyday.
Worked with a number of teenagers to introduce a variety of different forms of art (fashion, video games, filmmaking, painting) to young teenagers in a fun and educational manner.
We were required to advertise, design and in some cases purchase catering. On the nights of the events, we set up, ushered, made sure all the guests and speakers were satisfied and later were in charge of clean up.
It gave us all sense of responsibiltiy and teamwork. Thus proving I can successfully lead and work with a team.
Was involved in retail, customer services, stock ordering and taking, till operation. For a period of time fresh sandwiches were served, so I was required to prepare food too.
This was a two week placement assigned to me by my high school. I was required to assist the teacher with the a variety of children. All ranging in different levels. Duties included reading assessment, help with classwork. Patrolling in the playground at break and lunch times. Helping with assembly. Discipling at the right moments etc... It was exciting and tested my patience and capability of handling children. Which according to my peers at the time I managed to achieve easily.
Its a 2nd BA honors degree. We made several films while studying gaining valuable practical experience. It can be seen as a "Good" ranking. Currently learning Japanese language (personal not institutional).
I took a TEFL course online at an accredited institution i-to-i. I took the 100 hour course which covered many areas important to teaching English under various situations. Through this course I have achieved additional certificates in; - Teaching Business English - Teaching English with limited resources - Teaching large classes - Teaching English to young learners
