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Lower Hutt, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Lower Hutt, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

The two year Jarden corporate services graduate program involves me rotating through four different teams. I will be spending six months with each team and after the two years, will be placed permanently in one of the teams.My first rotation had me placed in the Wealth Research team. This placements primary duty was working on six different investment reference portfolios. These ranged from Global Equities, Australian Equities and NZ Income portfolios. For these, I was required to… Show more The two year Jarden corporate services graduate program involves me rotating through four different teams. I will be spending six months with each team and after the two years, will be placed permanently in one of the teams.My first rotation had me placed in the Wealth Research team. This placements primary duty was working on six different investment reference portfolios. These ranged from Global Equities, Australian Equities and NZ Income portfolios. For these, I was required to learn how to use data providers such as:- Bloomberg- Iress- Refinitiv EikonMuch of my work was using the above tools alongside Excel to request data and run models in the most efficient way possible. Show less

Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand

Being a salesperson required me to be observant and deliberate. It involved asking calculatedquestions to qualify the customer needs while building a rapport. This linked to my tutoring stylewhere my goal was to create an easy going environment so neither customer or students feelpressured, but feel encouraged to ask questions. I believe this has helped me build many positivelong-term relationships which in the case of Harvey Norman have been some of the mostenjoyable and… Show more Being a salesperson required me to be observant and deliberate. It involved asking calculatedquestions to qualify the customer needs while building a rapport. This linked to my tutoring stylewhere my goal was to create an easy going environment so neither customer or students feelpressured, but feel encouraged to ask questions. I believe this has helped me build many positivelong-term relationships which in the case of Harvey Norman have been some of the mostenjoyable and profitable. This strategy has lead my sales to grow 25% across the two fiscal years Ihave worked for Harvey Norman (from $1.2 million to $1.5 million). Show less

Wellington, New Zealand

This role helped me build my confidence not only in the course content but also in mypresentation and problem-solving skills. I enjoyes inspiring students in creative ways such astwisting the given content in ways that requires deeper thought. I have found this helps studentsgain a better understanding of the course, rather than simply learning the processes to answer aquestion. I found this approach has kept student engagement high while creating a fun andengaging… Show more This role helped me build my confidence not only in the course content but also in mypresentation and problem-solving skills. I enjoyes inspiring students in creative ways such astwisting the given content in ways that requires deeper thought. I have found this helps studentsgain a better understanding of the course, rather than simply learning the processes to answer aquestion. I found this approach has kept student engagement high while creating a fun andengaging environment.Courses Tutored: ECON141, ECON202, ECON305 (Macroeconomics at intro, intermediate andadvanced level), QUAN111 (Maths for Economics/Finance), FINA202 (Intro to investments)FINA301 (Corporate Finance). Show less

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

This project involved me being placed within the Modelling and Research Team at The Treasury.My work was heavily focused on the generation process of the New Zealand Activity Index. Thisinvolved writing code to automate the download, preparation and output processes (within Matlab and Excel). This was asteep learning curve for me as I did not have prior experience with coding or cloud-based versioncontrol. However, I quickly picked these up and within the ten weeks, I made a… Show more This project involved me being placed within the Modelling and Research Team at The Treasury.My work was heavily focused on the generation process of the New Zealand Activity Index. Thisinvolved writing code to automate the download, preparation and output processes (within Matlab and Excel). This was asteep learning curve for me as I did not have prior experience with coding or cloud-based versioncontrol. However, I quickly picked these up and within the ten weeks, I made a significantcontribution to the New Zealand Activity Index. Show less

Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand

Upper Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand