An Example Resume

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Resume - Gillian Garfield

39 Filmington Road, Westport, Connecticut 12345

 (01234) 567890  myemail@hotmail.com

I am looking for an appointment as a senior PR/Marketing Executive. I have a professional diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing in the United Kingdom and have a wide range of commercial experience. Since qualifying I have accumulated broad experience across a number of sectors including cosmetics, hotel and leisure, financial services, retail and the construction industry. Latterly I had very close contact with regional and local government and built close working and productive relationships with them. I have a high degree of creative flair, initiative and instinct, and this has been borne out time and again through successful projects. It is now time to move to the next stage of my life and I am seeking to bring my experience to a senior position where I can contribute as a valuable member of a team focussed on success. I am a dynamic and original thinker, able to see the bigger picture and willing to take a very broad view of my responsibilities.

• Managed a portfolio of high worth clients ($25m+) successfully retaining them for my employer at a time when client relationships had been historically bad.
• Developed with a small team an award winning CD for the financial services industry to educate the public about pensions.
• Successfully produced marketing communications resulting in the winning and securing of new business.
• Edited, redesigned and relaunched a B2C magazine resulting in a 25% increase in readership.
• Managed customer research campaigns with high returns of 60% as a consequence.
• Successfully formed and managed a new procurement team resulting in increased and more efficient output.
• Managed successful events from conception to completion resulting in increased market penetration and enhanced customer/client relationships.
• Managed the production for over 60 fund fact sheets. Included copywriting, accurate fund charges and accurate reporting of fund performance data

Professional Skills

• Project Development and Management.
• Leadership, Mentoring and Training.
• Negotiating and Sales.
• Creative Writing and Design.
• Presenting proposals and solutions to all levels of management, clients and customers.

Personal and Interpersonal Skills

• Conscientious team worker
• Ability to enthuse others
• Results driven
• Wide ranging contacts
• Light-hearted personality; good humoured and sincere

ABC Inc. 2006-2011

Marketing Communications Director for County Highways with particular responsibility for media communications and PR guidance to senior management, and the development of brand identity and trust.

Independent Contractor 2004-2005

• Sales Manager – Milano Italian and Spanish Shoes
• Marketing Executive – Feltage Roofing
• Communications Manager – Eternal Perpetual Inc

True Investments Inc, 1997-2004: Communications Manager

Responsible for all marketing communications activity in North America and offshore markets.

Resolute Hotel Group Ltd 1996-1997: PR Assistant

PR responsibility for all luxury hotels in the US including brand awareness.

York Cosmetics Ltd 1993-1996: Training/HR Co-ordinator

Advised and supported Area Managers to act within employment legislation on HR issues and acted as a knowledgeable advisor on all skincare products.

• Professional Diploma in Marketing
• Major in Business & Leisure Studies

• Effective Manager, Interviewing and Appraisal skills; Presentation skills.
• Copywriting skills, Layout and Design, Print and Production and Publisher skills.
• Divorce and Pensions, Money Laundering and other pension related courses.

References: Available on request

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