Student Employee
Newcastle Univeristy
Total years of experience :1 years, 4 Months
o Worked with Newcastle University’s Career Services, under the Jobs On Campus part-time work scheme.
o Undertook various University promotion and maintenance related jobs under supervision.
o Work undertook includes: Library Assistant, Receptionist/Information Desk, Student submissions monitor, campus guide, New student welcome committee, accommodation tour guide, graduation team.
o Worked on Booker Prize Foundation’s campaign to encourage reading amongst science students.
o Build a communication database for the Martin Luther King Peace Foundation’s Christmas promotion.
o Worked with the University’s International Office on their student recruitment campaign, CARE (Convert, Advise, Research, Engage).
o Communicated with prospective students from India through phone calls and Emails to assist and advise on completion of application process to Newcastle University.
o Promoted Newcastle University to 1200 prospective students within 10 days.
o Worked under supervision of International Officers at Newcastle and India manager to satisfactorily fulfil the duties.
o Planned and pitched a publicity campaign for the Spanish-Portuguese cultural festival, VAMOS 2014, as per Digital PR course requirement.
o Worked as a team to promote the festival online using social media, under the tag #locohero.
o Used forms of online and direct communication to promote and share the #locohero campaign on Facebook and Twitter.
o Worked in the hospitality department during the Christmas/new year season as a guest relation’s executive.
o Developed good leadership skills by working in a team and delegated through fair division of labour.
o Interacted with a diverse clientele through calls, mails and in person.
o Communicated with potential sponsors and negotiated terms of agreement.
o Graduated with a merit from School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University. o Course representative for the postgraduate program, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. o Contributor to the international Pop-up Newsroom, covering Newcastle-based stories on women in the workplace. http://www.popupnewsroom.net/ o Student representative for the University’s International Welcome week events, University Visit Day and Alumni Association promotion. o Dissertation: Branding of UK Universities for Asian Student Recruitment. o Subjects: Digital PR, Multimedia Journalism, Strategies and Management in PR, Theoretical framework of PR, Media Analysis.
o Student representative for the years 2011-12 and 2012-13. o College top scorer, with a total GPA of 3.56 out of 4. o Worked as Event coordinator throughout the academic year. o Dissertation: Advertising for the Youth. o Subjects: Mass Communication, Journalism, PR, Entrepreneurship Development, Advertising
o Graduated with a distinction (89.4%) in May,2010. o Subjects: Home Science, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and English.