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Have a wide range of employment experience, largely thanks to working for Quality Personnel and Office Angels Temping Agencies during summer vacations. Have worked in various administrative positions, as well as in retail and publican environments. Jobs teaching English in France and French in England proved to be enriching experiences. Also have experience of warehouse and factory work.

• Summer 2002: Westfalia Separator, Old Wolverton, Milton Keynes. Assistant sales person. Working in spare parts team in busy sales office. Responsibilities included quotations, order processing, despatching and invoicing goods as well as dealing with frequent customer queries. Employers Reference available.
  
  

• Also Summer 2002: MK Language Centre. Teaching French to adults (beginners level) at RAF Henlow, Bedford. Job included giving conducting examinations. Employers Reference available.
  
  

• Summer 2001: Best Jeanswear, Milton Keynes , England . Worked as shop assistant. Customer care training undertaken.
  
  

• Also Summer 2001: Evenings as Barman in busy Wetherspoons Pub, Moon Under Water, Central Milton Keynes.
  
  

• September 2000 - May 2001: Collège Les Garrigues and Collège Pic S^t Loup, Montpellier , France . English Assistant in both collèges. Ran own English classes in conjunction with other teachers for pupils aged 12-16 years. TEFL training I have received allowed me to work largely, alone, planning my own classes and using my own materials. Employers Reference available.
  
  

• Summer 2000: McKecknie Vehicles, Kiln Farm, Milton Keynes . Office clerk. Variety of tasks including updating sales and purchase ledgers and setting up new accounts system. Employers Reference available.
  
  

• Also Summer 2000: Rockwell Automation, Kiln Farm, Milton Keynes . Analysing and adjusting database in preparation for homogenised company-wide database system. Employers Reference available.
  
  

• Summer 1999: Mailcom, Milton Keynes . Working on a review of pensions policy for several major pension companies. Involved working with confidential and potentially sensitive information. 
  
  

• Also Summer 1999: One month voluntary work at La Sabranenque, near Avignon , France . Heritage work reconstructing partly ruined local castles using traditional techniques taught by team leaders.
  
  

• Summer 1998: Alpine Electronic, Blakelands, Milton Keynes . Testing and reporting on new GSP technology for route-mapping. Contract for Jaguar.  
  
  

• Summer 1997: Alpap Packaging, Newport Pagnell, Bucks. Supervisor in warehouse environment. Employers Reference available.
  
  

• 1997 - 1998: Craftworld, Westcroft, Milton Keynes. Assistant Framer, craft consultant and shop assistant. Learned to frame as well as being trained in numerous arts and crafts for the purpose of services. Courses in customer care completed.  
  
  

• Christmas 1996: Woolworths, Central Milton Keynes. Shop Assistant. Regular use of tills and interaction with customers. Employers Reference available.
  
  

• Summer/Winter 1996: Bell Hotel, Winslow, Bucks. Waiting and general kitchen duties.

this page last updated: December 2002.