Jamie Davies, Age-37

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Jamie Davies, Cover Letter

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To whom it may concern,

My Name is Jamie, I’m a British citizen (white Caucasian), 37 years old. I left The UK over twelve years ago and have been living The Pearl River Delta ever since.

In that time, I’ve owned businesses, and worked in: Thailand-6 yrs, HK-2 yrs, The Pearl River Delta, S. China (Shenzen-3yrs, Zhuhai-2yrs). I owned my own bar in Thailand, which was located on the main bar street in Chiang Mai. After the Bar, my girl friend (at the time), and I bought a restaurant and guest-house, that we proceeded to make into a thriving, popular venue. Just the experience and lessons I learned from the undertaking of running those businesses, taught me many invaluable life lessons.

After 7 years, I left Thailand in 2007 and returned to Cardiff, my home city in The UK and started working as a bar manager at Barry Town F.C., club-house. I stayed in the UK 6 months until September, when the winter started to set in and Asia was calling me again. I had already been secured a job while I’d been in Thailand (through an agent), that was in Shenzhen- S. China. After moving to Shenzhen in 2008, I started teaching English. Over 7 years in China, I gained experience and people skills that are invaluable to me- lessons and experiences without which, I would not be the man that I am today.

In 2011, I moved to Hong Kong, where I lived and worked as a teacher at a prestigious kindergarten in Kennedy Town. As well as this I was tutoring private students for their IELTS exams. Again, a great many lessons learned and I stayed in HK for one year, and enjoyed every minute of it. I later returned to Mainland China to work in a prestigious boarding school, connected to Peking University.

I’ve been in Macau for 2 months and am looking for work. My fiancée and I are expecting our first baby, who will be arriving into the world mid April. I'm looking for (preferably), a permanent position with a company where I can make progress and grow with said company, ultimately making a more secure and better life for my family.  I’d describe myself as honest, straightforward, reliable, physically healthy, easy-going, well balanced, cooperative, consistent and conscientious. I also possess strong organizational and interpersonal skills and can easily adapt to different situations. In the ten years I've been living in Asia, I have gained a very wide ranging set of communicative and people skills. I am a hard worker-with continuity, an objective listener and am always looking for ways to improve my skills and improve on everything I've learned so far. 

 I value and respect any and all responsibility given to me and take from it many rewards.

Best Regards,

Jamie Davies

Ref. furnished on request.

Education-Highest;

B.A.; English Language and Communication.

T.E.F.L.

Experience:

Private Tutor (Full-Time) 07/07/’14-03/01/’15Acting as a full-time tutor to a 6 year old girl, who had moved to HK with her family. As a full-time position, I was responsible for creating lesson plans in the subjects of English, Math, Science and History-in accordance with the Hong Kong school curriculum. Then, delivering these lessons on a one on one basis in the students’ home.

Zhuhai Primary School Attached To Peaking University16/2/’13-04/04/’14Teaching grades 1-9，teaching oral English and a set curriculum provided by the school. Because of the big gap in age and grade, I use a lot of different teaching styles and methods as the students/particular class, dictates.

Yung Wing International Kindergarten, Zhuhai. 5/2/’12- /01/14Class Teacher.Teaching a class of 25, 5-6 year olds how to speak English; through games, songs, activities and text books, in the most prestigious kindergarten in Zhuhai.

Kindergarten, Class Teacher. St. James Settlement, The Belchers Child Care Centre.Hong Kong 5/9/’11-6/08/12Teaching groups of K2 students for 2.5 hours a day, 5 mornings a week; oral English, phonics and grammar. Preparing lesson plans, including songs, games and interactive learning.Afternoons in 3 different schools around HK (same age and level as above)

Book City Training Center04/12/'10-14/05/'11Teaching classes of 5 to 9 year olds spoken English, phonics and grammar. Preparing lessons based on the course text book (Magic English) provided by the school.Sat- Sun. Part-time.

Shenzhen Police Training School07/03/'11-06/05/'11

With the Universiade fast approaching and the Chinese governments promise to turn Shenzhen into a English speaking city, the Shenzhen Police Department required 5 experienced native English teachers to participate in a three month training course which was held at the Shenzhen Police Training School in SZ. Held in 3 week blocks;100 new students would arrive for intensive English training. Lessons were held 4-5 hours per day. My duties included preparing lessons based on the relevant course content provided by the school, communicating with the students through conversation, situational dialogue, role play, games and general every day chatting.The students Level varied from very low, to those who had studied overseas and earned a masters in English, or related subject.It was a very interesting and rewarding experience.

Private Tutor10/12/'10-20/05/'11

Visiting the home of and teaching an 11 year old boy for 2 hours each week. Helping improve his spoken English, including; general speaking, phonics and grammar.

Private School

Teaching pre-school and kindergarten age and level students spoken English. Using games pictures, songs and the white board. Utilizing 'The National Geographic Kids'

Material to fulfill and interest the kids in many different topics. I and the students enjoyed each lesson very much.

Ivy English, Shekou.02/10/09

Teaching students from grade 1 to grade 8, in classes of no more than 10 students, oral English and grammar.(Part-time)

Hampson English, Futian.05/06/09-17/09/09

Teaching students of all levels, but concentrating on students doing IELTS, or TELFL courses (one to one), who were on their way overseas to work or study. Full-Time

Royal Kindergarten, Futian, Shenzhen. 16/01/09-29/04/09 Full time class teacher.Teaching a class of 25, 4 to 5 year olds how to speak English; through games, songs, activities and text books, in the most prestigious kindergarten in Shenzhen.

St Lorraine Kindergarten, Nanshan. 03/10/08-22/12/08

Teaching English vocabulary and writing skills to 4, 25 min individual classes every day to children between the ages of 3 and 6.

Bar Manager at Barry Town F.C., Club House

Manager of a busy club house connected to a successful S. Wales football team. Responsible for the management, of staff and event coordination. Stock take, re-stock and basic management of the club. Working behind the bar as well as meeting with the public and suppliers.

N.E.S. New Zealand Education Service 01/05/’07

Teaching English grammar and conversation (speaking and listening) to groups of students from the age of 12 to18 .Encouraging them to pronounce the words properly and construct their sentences correctly. Teaching advanced conversation and grammar to adults. TESOL and IELTS

C.E.C 01/09/’07

On Saturday mornings I’d take a class of 5-8 year olds, teaching them basic conversation trough games, activities ad speaking and listening. It was always really good fun. Monday to Wednesday I taught 11-16 year olds, from beginner to intermediate. Thursday and Friday I taught advanced adults TESOL and IELTS.

Bar owner

Running my own business; a small bar in the tourist night-life district of Chiang Mai , Thailand. As the owner of the bar, it was my responsibility to build up a small business into a successful venue. Responsible for the management of staff and event coordination. Stock take, re-stock and basic management and running of the bar. Making contacts with suppliers and others in the same industry. Working behind the bar as well as meeting with and talking to people from all walks of life.

Youth Worker 01/06/’98

I was part of an organization that was set up and funded by the National Lottery in the U.K. Groups of teachers/youth workers would visit deprived areas of South Wales once a week, where we go to the local youth center. We would teach; creative writing, music/song writing, drumming, circus skills and drama to the young people there. Then, every three months all the students that had enjoyed the previous sessions would be picked up from their respective youth centers and taken by bus to a halls of residence( some where out side of their home towns ) where, on arrival they were given a choice of activities and classes they could attend over the coming days. The lessons were time tabled and they had a choice of which ones they most wanted to pursue .Everybody always thoroughly enjoyed themselves and it was a very rewarding experience.

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