Work Experience:
Company: Idealo.co.uk
Position: Content Manager
Dates: June 2012 – Current
Duties:
My daily priorities are to ensure that the data pulled from the partner sites is correct, and editing data where need be. This role also includes content management for SEO purposes as well as quality management for a large amount of data every day.
Company: Cape Town Food Markets
Position: Marketing
& Sales
Dates: June
2011 – June 2012
Duties:
In addition to Oded’s Kitchen, I have also worked at a few small
businesses catering to the Food markets in Cape Town, as their sole source of
income. I have done duties ranging from - managing staff, stock take and
administration as well as deliveries of products and stock, and working at the
food market stalls making sales as well as interacting with customers and
creating relationships with customers for return business and sales. My most
recent role was that of General manager which included running and managing a
small production kitchen with 3 staff members, ordering of stock, creating,
developing and initiating new products, managing of shifts and staff members,
deliveries and errands, as well as all administrative tasks such as weekly and
monthly recon, product pricing comparison and
costing products and ingredients.
After spending a year following my passion for food, I now have
my own market stall selling organic mushrooms at the Hout Bay market every
weekend. This includes all tasks relating to the running of a small business
from staffing, administration, stock ordering and stock take - to the running
of a stall and creating new products.
Company: Oded’s Kitchen
Position: Marketing
& Sales
Dates: June
2011 – June 2012
Location: Woodstock,
Cape Town
Duties:
At Oded’s Kitchen my job started on a casual basis as a sales
and marketing representative on Saturdays at the Earth fair Food market in
Tokai, which evolved to working most market days, and then ultimately a full
time sales position, which included organizing meetings with owners and
managers of various delicatessens in Cape Town to assess their needs and
customer base, and then secure sales of different preserved food products as
well as working in the shop doing tasks such as stock take, counter sales and
customer service for a few months. I do still currently work for Oded’s Kitchen
on a part time bases, some weekends – at various food markets in Cape Town.
Company: Private Au pairing - Noordhoek, Cape Town
Position: Au
pair / Baby sitter
Dates: June
2011 – January 2012
Duties:
My duty was to look after two girls ages 6 and 9 and this
included helping with lifting to and from school, help with homework, keeping
them busy and entertained, cooking meals for the family and just assisting
wherever needed. My time with the family was unfortunately cut short due to a
divorce, which resulted in no need for assistance any longer.
Company: Pam Golding Properties Head
Office - Bishopscourt, Cape Town
Position: Online
Content Editor
Dates: October
2010 – June 2011
Duties:
At Pam Golding properties, my job role as an online content
editor has many different daily duties which include:
Updating changes to the http://www.pamgolding.co.za site (Mainly
the area and development pages) Using both the design view of dream weaver as
well as HTML.
Creating and editing pages in Joomla for the intranet which also
includes working in html and editing images.
Adding daily press releases to the Pam Golding website
Uploading and editing properties which are to be placed on
Savills.co.uk or Savills.com as Pam Goldings’ international partner which
includes editing images in Photoshop.
Other ad hoc marketing tasks which included creating and editing
PDF’s for addition onto both the website and the intranet.
My role was no longer necessary as the work load had become
considerably less in the few months since I had started and thus my contract
was not renewed.
Company: Tamar.com - Mowbray, Cape Town
Position: Online
Campaign Executive
Dates: May
2009 – October 2010
Duties:
At Tamar my job description was that of "link negotiator”
which includes:
Researching and
identifying relevant and high quality websites to approach for link building.
Establishing systems and new ideas for monitoring quality of
links as well as the capturing and storing of data.
Working with the team on constantly reviewing and refining
process and strategies
Initiating link request and managing email campaigns and
developing ongoing relationships with site owners.
Generating regular reports on monitoring progress with both
email campaigns as well as telephone call campaigns,
Other duties include directory submissions and content and press
release submissions as well as creating sitemaps and ranking graphs, and social
media research or ranking jobs. Please contact me if you require further
information about any of the responsibilities in my job description or further
information on any of the sites I have done work for.
Company: Synergize.it
Position: Online
Marketing Strategist
Dates: July
2008 - April 2009
Location: Westlake,
Cape Town
Duties:
Implement Marketing strategies for each of our clients in order
to obtain and keep a number one ranking on Google for the chosen keywords.
Strategies that include Link Marketing, Blogging, Social Bookmarking, Social
Media Marketing.
Duties also include the day to day monitoring of each site and
its rankings, as well as doing all updates and maintenance for a Cape Town Accommodation and
Travel site. Where updates and maintenance include creating all new listings
for the accommodation directory, creating artwork and banners and editing
images where needed. Please contact me if you are interested in viewing the
list of sites I have done any previous work on.
Company: Customer Care
Solutions
Position: Call
Centre Agent
Dates: February
2008 - June 2008
Location: Woodstock,
Cape Town
Duties:
Various Campaigns, but for each campaign I had to call the
customer and ask them a few questions relating to customer service. For
instance Drivers Circle. For Drivers Circle I had to call on customers and
ensure that they were happy with the service of their vehicles and ask if we
could send them more information on newer vehicles.
Company: African Day Wine Club
Position: Wine
Sales Agent
Dates: August
2007 - February 2008
Location: Plumstead,
Cape Town
Duties:
Calling clients for wine purchases, including finding all of my
own new clients and cold calling to generate an interest and a sale.
Company: Mexicorn
Position: Office
and Admin Assistant
Dates: January
2007 - July 2007
Location: Paarden
Eiland, Cape Town
Duties:
Call on clients daily in order for them to place an order for
their Nachos or Wraps as well as
occasionally finding new clients. Looked after the Local network
and did troubleshooting if there were any problems with the computers.
Company: Chris Willemse
Painters
Position: Office
and Admin Assistant
Dates: January
2006 - December 2006
Location: Kenilworth,
Cape Town
Duties:
Answering and making calls, printing out quotes and maps for
quotes. All filing duties
and faxes. Coordinating drivers painting jobs. General office
administration and PA function.
Company: Tudor Lodge Bed and
Breakfast
Position: General
assistance and management
Dates: 2005
- Current
Location: Rondebosch,
Cape Town
Duties:
Growing up living in a guesthouse has greatly helped my
experience in running a guesthouse. Tasks included reception and front of house,
cooking and serving breakfast and any other meals on request. I have also
helped with the marketing, and design of the website, transporting guests and
any other duties necessary to assist in the day to day running of a bed and
breakfast. The house is now for sale, and as the guest house will be closing
down there is no longer a need for my assistance.
Company: Idealo.co.uk
Position: Content Manager
Dates: June 2012 – Current
Duties:
My daily priorities are to ensure that the data pulled from the partner sites is correct, and editing data where need be. This role also includes content management for SEO purposes as well as quality management for a large amount of data every day.
