MY OWN CV (FICTITIOUS)

SARA HERNANDO 

PROFILE:

Young candidate seeking career on Translation Studies. Resourceful and knowledgeable about English and Spanish culture. Interniationally traveled . Excelent common sense and responsability. Able to speak fluent English, Spanish and French, and to converse in Italian. Hard working individual and  good worker in a team.

EDUCATION and QUALIFICATIONS:

1997 - 2010  Primary and Secondary school at Santo Angel de la Guarda
2009 - 1012  Bachelor of Social Science at IES Las Musas  
2008  First Certificate of English
2010  Certificate of Advanced English
2012  Certificate of Proficiency English - Complete studies in French at the School of Languages
2014  Third year studying Italian at th School of Languages
2015  Third year studying Translation and Interpretation at Universidad Complutense de Madrid

SKILLS:

- English, French and Spanish Proficient.
- Able to give and take instructions and maintain active listening during times of pressure
- Competent user of PowerPoint, Word, Outlook and Excel applications.
- Working with large quantity of children give me experience:
      .  Dealing with difficult behaviours; dealing with a wide range of people in sometimes
stressful situations
      .  Training/mentoring; I was given increasing levels of responsibility

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS:

- Participation in the school magazine with articles related with the learning of languages
- Second place in a literary competition in my city not written in my mother tongue, 2010

RELATED EXPERIENCE:

2012 SUMMER : Two months working in a summer camp in Canada, which gave me experience working with children in English and French exclusively
2012-2013: Working as teacher giving particular classes of Fench and English to 6 different children. 
2013 SUMMER : Lived in France during three months working in an enterprise as an intern, while I was living with a family as part as a exchange.
2014 : Working as au-pair in Ireland taking care of three children. This gave me experience as I had to get on in English.
2014 SUMMER: Taked in my house the French girl of the previous year exchange 

HONORS and ACTIVITIES:

- Ireland: lived with an Irish family for one year 
- France: lived with a French family for three months
- Extensive travelling around Europe
- Winner of the second prize in Madrid Non-Spanish Literary Competition