Nawel Aourarh

Personal Profile

A second year BA Business Studies with International Business student, keen on working in the
marketing sector. Work well in a team and on own initiative. Currently seeking a one year
industrial placement in a marketing and media environment with the aim to develop a long
term career in this sector.

Skills Profile

Communication

• Presentation skills - gained through participating in university modules such as

Interpersonal Skills for Business. For example, I performed an individual presentation on
the Royal Bank of Scotland and focused on the employees interpersonal skills identifying
how to improve them. I achieved a 2:1 overall for this module.

• A group assignment involved presenting a situation analysis on Nokia for a university

module called Theory and Practice of Business with a follow on report including a PESTLE
and SWOT analysis.

• Interviewing skills- gained by interviewing two managers in a university module called

the Role of The Manager, to create a report on whether or not managers fit theory of the
managerial escalator.

Teamwork

• Participation in group work - Researching and analysing within a group required

patience, assertiveness and excellent communication to produce successful results.

• Distribution of work within the team and regularly meeting to put our thoughts and
information together to generate a report and presentation where I achieved a 1st for
group work for the university module Theory and practice of Business.

• Contributing valid ideas in an assertive manner in Theory and Practice of Business to

achieve a 1st.

Creativity

• A level in Media Studies enhanced my creativity through various individual and team
projects.

• Worked in a team for A level Media Studies to create the opening of a thriller movie and
pop video using professional recording and lighting equipment and Final Cut Pro to edit.

• Created a magazine cover for a fictional quarterly magazine using Photoshop and
Publisher at college.

Computing

• Word processing- experience using Word for writing reports and essays on university
coursework projects.

• Spreadsheets - experience of using Excel to create spreadsheets and calculations for the
Accounting and Finance and IT course modules.
 • Minitab - used the software through the module Essential Data Analysis to create various
tables and graphs to analyse data for a fictional company.

• PowerPoint- used to create presentations for university course modules.

Languages

• Arabic - Fluent

• French - Conversational

• Spanish – Conversational

Education

2007 - Present University of Westminster

BA (Hons) Business Studies with International Business

First year achieved: 2:1

Modules included:

Essential Data Analysis, Theory and Practice of a Business,

Introduction to Accounting and Finance, Interpersonal Skills for Business, Role

of The Manager, Economics for Business, An Introduction to ICT.

Modules this year include:

Principles of Marketing, Business Decision Making, Organisational,

Behaviour, Global

Markets, Business Law.

2005 - 2007 City & Islington Sixth Form College

A levels: Business Studies (C), Media Studies (C), English Literature (C)

GCSE: Spanish (A)

2000 - 2005 Edmonton County Secondary School

9 GCSE’s including: English Lit (A), English Lang (B), Maths (B), Business
studies (C), Technology (C)

Work Experience

November 2008 Leyhausen International Call Centre

- Present Market Research Telephone Interviewer

 Duties Involve:

• Calling consumers at home and businesses persuading them to take part in

a survey

• Reading off a script, in a polite and enthusiastic manner

• Accurately recording the target person’s answers electronically

• Uploading the target person’s answers on an electronic database

• Getting customers to give another appropriate time to call back

June 2004 Khan & Co Accountants and Auditors

Duties involved:

• Collecting and organising Invoices for clients

• Calculating figures in clients cash books

• Photocopying clients details and records

• Managing records using a filing system

• Writing letters to clients regarding their accounts

• Shadowing an accountant in their day-to-day duties

Interests

• Travelling - I have been to France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Morocco

• Cooking - Enjoy cooking and trying new recipes

• Keeping fit - Enjoy going to the gym and playing sports such as tennis, football and
netball

References Available upon request