Karina Parulski

• Assist students of all ages with English grammar, writing, reading and speaking
• Work closely with businesses
• Assist businesses when they require an English native speaker
• Develop and organise lesson plans

As one of Australia’s leading employment agencies, Sarina Russo Job Access offers a comprehensive range of recruitment services to employers and jobseekers. We understand organisations and their recruitment needs. Sarina Russo specialises in finding work for the long-term unemployed, parents, youths, the mature aged and people from non-English speaking backgrounds. We place our fantastic candidates into work they love and are suited to.

My role as a Job Placement Officer Involves:
• Building strong relationships with local employers by understanding their needs, identifying open and prospect job vacancies and then placing suitable candidates to these roles
• Cold calling and reverse marketing jobseekers to employers
• Assisting candidates with interview techniques and resume building
• Helping candidates build up their confidence and determination to ensure they are job ready
• Developing business relationships with employers and networking with community groups
• Pre-screening candidates, interviewing, phone screening and briefing candidates on suitable positions
• Conducting all recruitment services for employers from the beginning till end
• Maintaining knowledge of labour market trends
• Ensuring strict compliance with Government legislation
• Supporting employers and job seekers post placement
• Organising appropriate interventions and strategies to help candidates find and maintain employment
• Achieving performance targets and business goals
• Driving job clubs and employer events
• Working part of a close knit team

• Assisted Postgraduate Students (mainly International students) studying a Human Resource Management unit to understand HRM concepts and develop essential research and writing skills

• Assisted students to achieve a better overall result, many students who had been in my PASS class achieved distinctions and high distinctions

• Assisted a class of postgraduate students with their assessments and helped them achieve results in their university postgraduate course

• Assisted international students to adjust to university life in Australia

• Joined an Interview Panel to recruit another PASS leader for a management unit

Office Management/Administration
• Managed the Office
• Prepared and delivered all necessary paperwork
• Dealt with subcontractors and suppliers on a daily basis
• Daily emailing and phone calls
• Attended meetings with Architects and other Consultants
• Direct contact with directors and project manager (personal assistant to them)
• Multi-tasked every day and adapted to every aspect that needed to be completed at Promax
• Used Adobe Software, Microsoft Office Suite and Outlook on a daily basis
• Booked flights and meetings
• Updated the Promax Website, wrote descriptions for new projects and new team members
• Used Xero on a daily basis- reconciled thousands of transactions
• Marketing- social media- tender page, Google plus, Instagram, Facebook
This job has given me a lot of experience in small business; as a result I am very competent at multi-tasking and prioritising work, and adapting to whatever needs to be done.

Marketing and Procurement Manager
• Found new projects to tender for, contacted numerous Architects and Developers and marketed Promax to others
• Met with directors of other companies to discuss future partnerships
• Obtained quotes on a weekly basis, then compared and selected quotes
• Created numerous Purchase Orders and followed through ensuring all requirements were completed
• Monitored construction programme and project progress

Human Resource Management
• Assisted clients in preparing their resume and profiles
• Recruited an accountant and a number of labourers for Promax. Created job advertisements, conducted interviews, screened and selected the best candidates.
• Trained a new staff member to understand the Accounting system at Promax