Name Kim Ara

Address (Mailing)

C-09-15, Suriamas Condominium, PJS 10/11, Bandar Sunway, Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Telephone

(+60)018-2448263

Email mabssosa@gmail.com

Nationality

Korean

Gender Female

Language

Korean Mother tongue

English Intermediate

Japanese Basic

Computer

Microsoft Word

Advanced

Microsoft PowerPoint

Advanced

Microsoft Excel

Intermediate

Windows Movie Maker

Intermediate

Adobe Photoshop

Intermediate

Year(from)

Year(to) Institution

Qualifications/

Achievements

July 2011 July 2014 Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus

Bachelor of International

Tourism (Hons) Event managemen

t

March 2008 February 2011

Korea Tourism

Senior High School

Tourism Japanese

Interpretation

Department

Year Institution Awards

December 2012 Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus

Dean’s List award(semester

3)

September 2012 Taylor’s University NATC Club

1st prize in T-shirt design

competition

August 2012 Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus

Dean’s List award(semester

2)

November 2011 Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus

Dean’s List award(semester

1)

YearPlacemen

tPositi

onDepartments

January – March 2013

(3 months)

Grand Dorsett Subang Hotel

Trainee

Sales & Marketing/Dorsett

Prestige Club (membership)

Date 3 May 2012

Place Taylor’s University

Subject

History, Arts and Culture

I was given group presentation assignment which had 40% of mark. Each person was given around 10 minutes to speak. Our group chose ‘The World War II in Japan’. Actually this topic was unfamiliar and even I had no confidence in public speaking. But I love challenging and decided to work it out. So I had countless practice 2 weeks before the day of presentation. Before 5 minutes my presentation, I couldn’t remember what I practiced and I forgot what to say. I was so frustrated and nervous, however, I tried to control mind myself. I reminded countless times ‘I can do this, I know already my part and totally understand. Just do not get nervous. I am just telling the story to my friends.’ Eventually, it ended successfully. I wasn’t nervous and frustrated at all. I didn’t make any mistake and after presentation, the lecturer said to me ‘I can feel that you had a lot of practice and preparing.’ That time, I was almost dying to be happy. My effort proved that I can do anything. This assignments helped me regain my confidence.

Date 15-17 June 2012

Place Johor Bahru

Subject

Tour & Travel Operation 2

I was given huge scale of assignment which is planning tour for 80pax together with classmates. We spent lots of time on this tour through few months either a lot of effort. I was involved in marketing so our department had to make all the promotional materials to promote our trip. I felt sense of achievement. After that, we did fund raising to cut down cost that we charged to guests. As a result, we began to find supplier and sold sushi, cut fruits, jelly, drink, nasi lemak and so on. It was great try for us and finally we sold out our seats. In the end, we all finished our trip successfully. Our guests were satisfied and we were either. Everything we prepared were ended as we planned in terms of accommodation, transportation, activities, and dinner party. This project was prepared throughout few months and still satisfied what i have done it with my classmates.

Date 28th November – 1st December 2012

Place Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus

Subject

Event Operation

This subject enabled me to practice and adapt theory in real event that i l have learnt throughout my degree study. This Asia Euro Conference was held throughout university and many of distinguished people were invited. So our class, as staffs had to be accurate and well trained so that not to make any mistake in front of guests. The job given to me in this significant event was marketing department and in practice, ushering. However i realized again that event elements are mostly variable. For instance, suddenly staff was needed in one of the venues, then i had to go to help them and after it's settled, I had to get back to my position in LT20. Sometimes i was asked questions that i know roughly only, then I had to make sure that i would get back to that person. Ushering among large amount of people was not even easy. And I learnt how to cooperate and communicate with other people to operate the event successfully.

Date 5-6 May 2012

Place

Bukit Tinggi Selesa Resort

At first, I had feeling ‘It’s just expensive and it must be tough’ before we leave team building trip. However, now I can say it was definitely good. We had each team which is consist of more than 10 people from different semester class. We got through all activities and difficulties altogether. During the activities, we could be friend either learnt how to play role in team, sociability and how to be harmonious. The gladdest thing is our team won 1st prize. When we finished first activity which is captain ball, we got 3rd prize out of 4 teams. So our team was a bit depressed but we cheered together again and again and finally our cheer worked out. And then most of our team member thanked each other and said ‘thank you, thank you, we made it together’. As a result, tired schedule was not really obstacle. I’m sure we all had fun as well as instructive lesson.

Date 8-9 May 2012

Place

Taylor’s University

On early of May, Taylor’s held Borneo Jazz festival preview. It was all day long event in 2days. One of our lecturers asked us who want to be a volunteer for this event and I definitely joined. There was no issued certification, pay for volunteer but I thought it would be o ne of my experience. For 2 days, I and my friends’ job were managing game booths. We just promote and wait for people who want to play. Then when people came, we let them know about game rules and sometimes played together. Honestly I had dissatisfaction about my job since it was just boring and actually only few people joined games. On the other hand, I had thought all events must have this kind of boring part but still somebody need to do own job. This time that boring part was in charge of me so next time I will be in charge of more exciting and bigger job in event. In the end, this event made my desire of organizing event bigger and become more eager.

Date 7 January 2013 – 27 March 2013

Place Grand Dorsett Hotel Subang

Departments

Sales & Marketing / Dorsett Prestige Club(DPC)

This internship was my first working experience that I have done in oversea. Indeed, working in another country was not easy. I had faced language barrier, cultural barrier and so forth. However, though I had not gotten many tasks because mostly they are dealing directly to clients thus any small mistake is not accepted, I was able to observe what are the tasks for each of them or structure of organization, how to communicate with clients to generate more profit. Especially I could understand what are the process of holding event in hotel and how to coordinate events. I believe hotel should be involved in tourism industry simultaneously with events as venue or accommodation and one of the most effective ways to bring sales. As a result, this internship opportunity allowed me to acknowledge work place particularly hotel and to have higher desire to work in tourism industry.

Throughout my 1 to 3 semester, I was able to gain a lot of information and practical exercises especially specialized in event and tourism through many experiences. I have set up my own goal which is getting CGPA above 3.5 and I managed to achieve my goal in every semester so far. Not only numerical goal, also I planned to develop and improve myself during my university life in terms of intrapersonal, communication skill, interpersonal skill and also in moral ethics and so forth. Furthermore, every at the end of semester, writing portfolio allowed me to remind what I have done in this semester and what is outcome through particular subject and even I could evaluate myself. I believe now what I need to do is doing my best towards my future and accomplishing my degree successfully.