* Research Assistant, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America
: December 2011 - Present
- Researching and annotating second and first hand sources for historical works.
- Conducting archival research.
- Writing research reports for independent scholars and authors.
- Preparing manuscripts for publishing through completing bibliographies and reference sections.
- Working independently to build background information on relevant topics.
* ESL Teacher, Kim Bo Min English Academy, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-Si, South Korea
: September 2009 – October 2010
- Teaching children of all ages as well as adults.
- Developing the role of an ESL teacher within the school through drawing up disciplinary protocol and expanding on previous courses offered by the school so as to maintain the school's competitiveness.
- Organising class curriculum to best suit both the educational needs of the children and the Korean Education system. This occurred both through individual class preparation as well developing long term teaching structures such as setting up TOEIC classes.
* Customer Service, Buildings and Services Department UCD, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
: June 2008 – June 2009
- Liaising with various departments around campus to insure the highest standard of our postal services.
- Payroll and Accounts duties, this involved using both MS Excel and MS Word to provide accounts and reports.
- Customer service relations, involving tracking down missing post, organising couriers, and arranging special collections for unusually large amounts or urgent post.
- Handling samples in a safe manner, both for myself and the integrity of the sample.
- Implementing new quality assurance protocol through creating and maintaining a new checking system, this mostly involved MS Acess.
* Customer Service and Sales, Habitat Ireland, Suffolk St, Dublin 2, Ireland
: September 2007 – May 2008
- Sales, both over the counter and order placing. This involved maintenance of invoices, personal information and large sums of money
- Order Management, this involved working with the SAP software to place and manage individual orders, as well building databases for information retrieval.
- Customer Relations, This would involve tracking orders, maintaining relations with customer, occasional house calls to ensure standards of products.
- Shop front preparation. performing maintenance, design and preparation of the furniture floor
- Interest Free Credit applications, which involved handling personal information from the potential customer and liaising with the shop’s bank branch in order to assess credit ratings.
- Supervisor duties, which entailed taking responsibility for staff, sales targets, security issues and customer service. I also attended and reported at the weekly managers briefings.
* Editor, I.A.D.T, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland
: Sept 2007 – August 2007
- This was a project based job which saw me take over the position of communications officer for the IADT Student Union. The job specifically entailed the completion of the Student Handbook for the 2007 – 2008 semester as well as assisting with the redesign of the Student Website.
- Working with a team of Graphic Designers and the staff at IADT so as to create a product representative of the colleges image and ambitions
- Creating outlines for the presentation of the book using MS PowerPoint
- Working closely the Student Union representatives, being aware of all their upcoming plans for the year as well as their key goals for their roles.
Personal Introduction
Hello,
My name is John Flynn and I am writing to find information on teaching in Korea.
I am writing on behalf of myself (Irish citizen) and my fiancee, Renee (American citizen). We are trying to find work either in a couples position or in positions that would be near each other, and would like to enquire about the availability of either as well as start date, salary, etc.
We have both taught English in South Korea before; myself in a private school and my fiancee in a public high school, both for one year.
We both have accredited Bachelors degrees. I have a BA in History and Philosophy and an MA in the Philosophy of Language from University College Dublin. Renee has a degree in Psychology from Roosevelt University, Chicago.
I have attached pictures and resumes of us both.
Again, I am looking for suitable positions either as a couple or working in the same area or city.