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Communication
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| Clarity | I am a clear communicator, with a good command of English. Foreign students of the English language tell me that they find my explanations (and accent) very clear. | |
| Colour | The process of hypnotherapy benefits greatly from the creative use of metaphor and analogy. I have worked to develop this. | |
| Content | Also, effective communication is emphasized, where the explicit content of a message may be reinforced by proper phrase and structure. | |
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I have a good speaking voice and I speak well and confidently in public. Working as a fundraiser has further polished my telephone manner. |
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Interpersonal
Skills
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| Soft Skills | Hypnotherapy training, as well as some Biomedical Sciences modules, included the use of listening skills and basic counselling skills, which I can exercise in the proper environment. | |
| Instruction | Often, I have been required to instruct new or temporary colleagues on aspects of the job at hand, e.g. a new software application or procedure. | |
| Computer
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| Windows literate | I own a PC and have frequently installed and un-installed applications and performed hardware upgrades. I am always quick to acquire familiarity with new applications and I enjoy working with computers. | |
| Internet literate | MS Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, FTP clients. | |
| Microsoft Office | Word General document production, word- processing, form letters, labels, mail-merges, tables. Outlook General email and news-reading, mailing lists, appointments. | |
| Excel Tabulation, calculation, graphs and charts, some formulae. | ||
| Access Design of small scale relational databases. | ||
| Outlook General email and news-reading, mailing lists, appointments. | ||
| Adobe Pagemaker | I have edited forms, catalogues and manuals using Adobe Pagemaker software. | |
| Adobe Photoshop | I have used Photoshop to retouch photographs and edit images. I have also used it to generate web page components such as the animated eyes on the index page.. | |
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller | Production of portable document format files, e.g. downloadable booking forms. | |
| Macromedia Flash | I have produced some animations using the keyframe feature of Macromedia Flash. Examples here. | |
| Macromedia Dreamweaver | I have designed my own website and other client-facing pages. | |
| Visual Impact System VI | An event management application based on a relational database. By Event Management Systems. | |
| Crystal Reports (Seagate) | A database querying tool. Used for structuring and formatting reports from a variety of different databases. | |