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Grace Kwon
Age: 30
Citizenship: not specified
Academic Degree: not specified
Certificates: CertTESOL
Current Location: New Zealand, Auckland
Description
My name is Grace Kwon and I am interested in teaching English in Korea. However as I have quite a bit of work experience in administrative work; I'm open to the possibility of working as a personal assistant or teaching assistant!
I was originally born in Korea but I have spent over half of my life abroad in America, Europe and NZ.
For the past 4 years, Iâve been living in New Zealand,
but I am flying back to Korea on the 28th of January 2010. I recently completed a 100 hour TESOL teaching course and I have practical experience from private tutoring, lessons, summer camps, and free lance interpreting and translation.
Attached is my resume. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via e-mail or phone!
Other Qualifications:
- NZQA Level 4 Certificate in Applied Christian Ministry
- (120 Credits) Equippers Bible College, ACTS Training Schools Auckland
Work Experience:
- Curriculum Vitae
- Grace Kwon â 114 Surrey Crescent
- Mob: 0210 228 4207
- Email: ottergrace@hotmail.co.uk
- Career Objectives
- Over the years, Iâve worked in various occupations and I have learned that even the most negative experience can become a stepping stone for growth and character development. I have many creative talents, and I enjoy being around people. I am bubbly, assertive, energetic and confident. As a team player, I am a great communicator, and I love to see results. One of my character strengths is that Iâm very teachable. Iâm always open to improvement and adjusting to suit any environment that I may find myself in.
- Education/Qualifications
- TESOL Certificate III (2010) ACG Building, Level Four, 345 Queen Street
- Certificate in Applied Christian Ministry NZQA Level 4 (2009/2010)
- Equippers Bible College, Auckland
- Hongik Univeristy (Seoul, Korea)
- I was accepted in 2001 at the English Education Department with a full scholarship. However, after three years, I decided to pursue my passion in travel and world missions.
- Sang Dang High School (Cheong ju, Korea) Graduated in 1999
- Employment History
- The Langham Hotel, Auckland (Sept 19 2008 â December 2008) employed as a call centre operator (telephonist)
- Responsibilites and achievements, skills I attained through this period of employment
- ⢠Time management and prioritizing task list, programming computer wake up calls
- ⢠Logging down tasks and paging housekeeping with hotel services. I.e) towels, guest amenities, limo bookings, turn down service, laundry pick up etc. also guest servive.
- ⢠Taking down phone messages, both written and verbal; ensuring they get to the appropriate guest or staff member
- ⢠Mentoring new colleagues.
- Alternatively, I covered shifts in our club lounge as a food and beverage attendant, and some banquets shifts as a beverage floater and waitress.
- Mt Eden Fish Shop â shop assistant (May 2008- august 2008)
- Responsibilities and achievements
- ⢠Set up shop in the morning
- ⢠Was responsible for various cooking and food preparation roles
- ⢠Developed my customer service skills
- ⢠Cash handling
- Youth With a Mission : Crystal Springs â Youth Mentor (August 2007- February 2008 )
- Responsibilities and achievements
- ⢠This is a 5 month bible study and mentorship program and a live in staffing position.
- ⢠I was in a group of 12 staff who mentored a group of 45 young adults
- ⢠My role was also as a personal assistant to the school leader. I was responsible for the office admin work
- o Developed my secretarial skills such as filing documents, developing phone manner, photocopying and typing
- o Organized travel arrangements for missions trips
- o Responsible for school photography
- o Created orientation booklets for the students
- YWAM Family Ministries â Home school teacher February 2007- April 2007
- Responsibilities and achievements
- ⢠I was assigned to teach a small international group of students to assist them with their homeschooling
- ⢠I was working with another teacher and we gave them daily assignments and were in charge of going through their home school curriculum with them
- Bar âOâ September 2003 â August 2004
- Responsibilities and achievements
- ⢠Began working as food and beverage attendant and was promoted to assistant manager after two months
- ⢠Was responsible for opening the shop
- ⢠Was in charge for ordering bar supplies: liquor, fruit etc
- Western Bar & Grill February 2002 - September 2003
- Responsibilities and achievements
- ⢠Was responsible for opening and closing of the bar
- ⢠Assisted with food preparation and cooking for the pub food
- ⢠Worked during the 2002 Soccer World cup that was held at the stadium next to the bar which enabled me to develop my efficiency skills during this busy time
- Skill Summary
- Non Technical Skills:
- ⢠Communication skills
- ⢠Cooking
- ⢠Party Planning
- ⢠Nannying
- ⢠Baking
- ⢠Making basic cocktails
- ⢠Wait services
- ⢠Art
- ⢠Acoustic Guitar
- ⢠Jazz singing
- ⢠Piano
- ⢠Cello
- Computer Skills:
- Adobe Illustrator; Beginner
- MS Excel; Beginner
- MS Word; Beginner
- Macintosh; Beginner
- Languages
- Fluent English and Korean
- World Missions, Travel
- Hospitality
- Fine Dining
- Creative Writing
- Illustration and Graphic Design
- Music, Photography
- Linguistics , Literature, and Foreign Languages,
- People, Typography, Cinema
- Character references
- Dongsun Kim
- Supervisor of Private Language School
- Ph +0082 â 19-9663-0816
- The Langham Hotel
- Sheryl Geraghty â senior call centre operator
- Ph +64-9-298-4042
- Youth With A Mission : Family Ministries NZ Directors
- Ross and Sheryll Watkins
- Ph: +64-7-888-5687