RESUME

PERSONAL DETAILS

Name

: MAKIKO FUKUSHIMA

Address

: 22 Roberts Street, Camperdown, NSW 2050

Phone & Fax :

(02) 9557 4669

Date of birth:

9 May 19** (** years)

Sex :

Female

Nationality:

Japanese

Visa status:

Permanent residential visa (Independent)

WORK HISTORY
November 1993 to present, Program Co-ordinator
Japan Australia Network Pty,. Ltd, Sydney, Australia

Japan Australia Network Pty,. Ltd. is an organisation which
supplies various programs to people of all ages, particularly students who wish to experience a different culture. These programs include "High school Students Exchange Program" for high school students wishing to study abroad for one year, "Japanese Assistant Teacher Program" which supplies Australian schools with volunteer native Japanese as assistant teachers, University and High school exchanges to Japan, as well as long and short term exchanges for both young Japanese and Australians.
Established in 19**, the company currently has * full-time employees in the head office in Sydney and * full-time employees in the Japanese liaison office as well as a number of part-time employees.
As the Program Co-ordinator, I develop and co-ordinate cross-cultural programs on the Japanese side which involve administrative jobs with computer literacy in both languages as such utilising my bilingual skills, planning advertising and marketing strategies. In addition, a major role of my position is consulting and counselling participants of our programs.

May 1989 to September 1992 Calbee Foods Co., Ltd.Tokyo,Japan

Calbee Foods Co., Ltd. manufactures and sells confectioneries. Established in 1949, the company is capitalised at 220 million yen and has approximately 1,500 employees at present. I was able to improve my skills in many fields, especially in advertising and marketing by working at Calbee Foods Co,. Ltd. through being involved in the following activities:

Mar 1991 to Mar '92 Product Manager, First Product Planning Division
As Product Manager, I have overall responsibilities for Calbee's snacks except it's potato chips, covering Product Development, Advertising, Sales Promotion and Marketing Budget Control. I successfully launched "Shrimp Chips (Kappa Ebisen) with Wasabi Flavour" in 1994 whose sales were over A$100 million within the year.
Main Product covered:"Maccha (Green tea) Snack", "Pasta Snack", "Pumpkin Snack" and "Sapporo Potato".
April 1990 to Feb '91 Marketing Division
During this period, my marketing experience covered Planning, Analysis, Product Development, Consumer Field Survey, Concept-making, Product Test, Advertising and Sales Promotion.
Product covered: "Pasta Snack , "Rice Snack", "Apple Snack", "Potato Soup", "Green Snack" and "Cheese Snack".
May 1989 to March 1990 Advertising Division
I was originally employed by the company as a member of staff within the marketing department. During this period, I was involved in the following marketing activities:
Product Development, Concept-making, Package, Marketing Research and Consumer Field Survey(GI, HUT) of "Apple Snack", "Shrimp Chips", "Green Snack", "Squid Snack", "Sapporo Potato", "Rice Snack" and "Pasta Snack".

January 1993 to December 1993 Academy of Language Arts, Tokyo, Japan

"The Japanese Teacher Training Course".

April 1987 to April 1989 Saison Marketing Information Service Co,. Ltd.Tokyo, Japan

Saison Marketing Information Service Co,. Ltd. is a market research and system consulting company. Established in 1969, the company is capitalized at 40 million yen and has approximately 75 employees at present.
Upon graduation from university, I was employed by the company and worked as a researcher. Here I was trained for 1 year in regard to developing special skills of marketing research.
My main clients were: Ajinomoto, Ajinomoto Danone, Ajinomoto General Foods, Nestle, Snow Brand Milk Products, Nakano Vinegar, Lotte, Kagome, Kao, Lion, Johnson, Kanebo, Pola Cosmetics and Seibu Department Store.

CASUAL WORK

Aug 1995 - Present: Reporter for Radio Broadcasting, TOKYO-FM, Japan
Oct 1994 - Jan '95: Freelance Marketing Reporter, Japan
Sep 1986 - Dec '86: Clerk, Nippon Telephone and Telecommunication, Japan
April 1983 - Mar '87: Private Tutor for school students, Japan

SKILLS

Excellent Marketing skills

Good Managing skills in a small team

Good counselling and problem-solving skills

Prominent oral and written Japanese communication skills

Good organisational skills

Deeply understanding Australian and Japanese culture

Computer literate: IBM Microsoft Word and Excel in bilingual environment

Fluent in spoken English, competent in written English

Competent typist (50 words in Japanese, 40 words per minute in English)

EDUCATION

ELICOS Centre, The University of Sydney

Sydney,April to September 1994

Following my suggestion that staff should study abroad in order to learn English and another way of thinking during joining Calbee Foods Co., Ltd., the company allowed me this opportunity.
After the completion of "Business English Course" and "Upper Advanced Course", I marked 6.5 in IELTS.

Management Course, Calbee University,Tokyo, Japan, April 1993 to March 1994

Bachelor of Art, Ochanomizu University,Tokyo, Japan, 1987
Major in Sociological philosophy

"the invisible discrimination"

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

January 1995 to May 1995 Member of Non-Government Organisation for Children in Kobe

December 1992 to December 1993 Co-ordinator of SGI(Special Interesting Group)in a telecommunication network

"On-line business"

REFEREES

挨拶状サンプル

Makiko Fukushima
22 Roberts Street
Camperdown NSW 2050
Tel&Fax: (02) 9557 4669

International Student Service
*** Berry St.
Sydney 2000
Date: 15 July 1996

Dear Madam/Sir,

I am writing to apply for the position of " Japanese speaker" advertised in SMH on ** July 1996.
As you can see my resume, I am a co-ordinator for cross-cultural programs. During working at ******* I have learnt a lot of know-hows related to "student exchange programs". I am, however, leaving this company in July because of my future plan.(e.g.: study at University, obtain qualifications) Therefore, a part-time position would be preferable for me at this stage.
I strongly believe that my skills, knowledge and experience can be utilised at your company.

I would be happy to be present at an interview. I can be contact on 9557-4669 after 7pm or your facsimile can be received on this number anytime. As I have a full-time job at the moment, I am available for the job interview later than 6:30pm of weekdays until the 24th of July preferably, although your offer of another time can be considered.
I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Faithfully yours,

（サイン）
Makiko Fukushima

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