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Guys can you look at my mates resume at tell me what you think..?

cover letter:

Dear Sir / Madam,

Please accept the attached resume for the post of Marketing Executive as advertised in the -- on the 9th of December 2006. I am a highly motivated and ambitious professional who believes in doing any task to the best of my knowledge and ability.

I have a number of years of experience in sales, marketing and relationship building. As a marketing person, I have taken part in brand message promotional campaigns, advertising, market research and intelligence, as well as numerous sales presentations. In my relationship building role I had the opportunity to work on brokering new relationships between the UK Universities and local educational institutions both from the government and the private sector. Promoting educational products and building relationships throughout my career, I had the right attitude, professionalism and confidence to carry out my responsibilities, various assignments and projects in this role successfully. I also had

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to deal with customers of varying backgrounds and expectations, from those locally, the nearby countries, to the UK. Being an enthusiastic learner, I am confident that I will be able to pick the business up quickly and will be able to fit right in and offer the best of myself to the company. I would really appreciate the opportunity to make the move to the risk management and quality sector and given my strengths in interpersonal, presentation and relationship building skills, I have no doubt that I will be an asset to XXX.

Thank you for taking the time to review my credentials and experience in my attached resume. I am contactable via email or cell, if you’d like to arrange for an interview or should you have any questions.

Yours Faithfully

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resume:

Application for the post of Marketing Executive

Summary

•Over ten years’ experience in Customer Relationship Management in the service sector.

•Service oriented with Sales and Marketing experience to front line and corporate clients.

Key Areas of Expertise

•Analytical thinking – able to analyse issues from different angles and solve problems by being resourceful; had conducted market research where clients were shown the weak areas that needed improvement and highlighted new growth areas in other segments of the market for future investments.

•Communication skills and Relationship – good writing skills; excellent interpersonal communication skills and CRM capabilities; strong believer of using networking as a tool for communication to instill brand loyalty that will lead to lasting relationship.

•Organization & Presentation – have played an important role in gathering, analysing, interpreting and reporting market intelligence findings to clients an

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•Able to work Independently - able to work independently with little supervision and also as part of a team; likes challenges and motivated by achievements.

•Market Intelligence experience – set up Market Intelligence and Information data bank for team’s use

Work Experience

•2005 – 2006, Education UK Manager

Main responsibilities: Report market performance and Manage relationship building activities.

-Kept tab of market developments by constantly scanning media for information and networking with other education players.

-Advised UK member institutions who were interested in establishing partnership with Singapore private or public sector educational institutions and helped to broker relations between them.

-Handled university-bound student and parent enquiries and helped them with their choice of universities by alleviating their fear of investing in an unknown country.

Achievements:

-Instrumental in setting up Market Intelligence and Information Datab

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Work involved keeping tab of all the major and minor education players in the industry and judge from the analysis on which direction they would take next. These information would be used by the directors, managers and executives to advise our UK clients who had business interests in Singapore

•2003-2005 Postgraduate Programmes Executive

Main responsibilities: Sales and Marketing of educational products

Promoted postgraduate programmes on behalf of partner UK universities in Singapore. This included:

Providing advise to the universities on the general performance of the market, economic conditions and competitors; Formulating promotional plans; Managing each client’s promotional budget; Student management; Events management; Reporting the success of each promotional activity and performance of their portfolio to the clients (UK universities).

Achievements:

-During the post SARS period, the training industry was struggling as staff training budget was cut,

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As a result the demand for our postgraduate programmes was on the decline. Clients were not willing to spend extra and threatened to withdraw. The task of making them keep their investment in Singapore was challenging.

-I immediately conducted a market study and realised the problem of poor sales was not so much due to the economy but rather the marketing tools used. I advised them to segment the market and adopt niche marketing to increase sales figures and lower their operational cost.

-I helped them to establish contacts with local organisations and partners within our network who had similar interest and audience base, and coordinated our promotions together with theirs’ for maximum publicity. Client was pleased as numbers increased form 7 participants to over 100 with the new strategy.

•2000 – 2003 Training Consultant, Management Development Institute of Singapore

Main responsibilities: Selling corporate seminars and training programmes for member organisations s

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•IT Skills

-Microsoft applications such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, some Access, Outlook Express, Lotus Notes.

•Educational Qualifications:

-Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Finance Minor

-Diploma in Business Administration, Marketing

-GCE ‘O’ Levels

•Interests:

Current affairs and global concerns; reading; traveling

•Salary:

Expected Salary –open for negotiation.

•References:

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    I usually find things to criticize, this seems fine to me. Good luck.

  • 1 decade ago

    Are you looking for a job? Which one? Are you looking to change careers? Why?

    Remove the fluff, put your experience in the body of the resume under the appropriate prior job description.

    If there is anything left to your cover letter, sleep on it and try again tomorrow.

    Sorry

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

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  • 1 decade ago

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