About India

Digital Creative Content alchemist, Word Artist. HSK 4 Mandarin, C1-2 Spanish, C1-2 French. (Published Author).

“India has a can-do attitude that money can’t buy” and “we awarded her the Santander Scholarship because of her initiative by offering to do an unpaid internship with us when we offered her a freelancing role.” Gina Buckney, Wellness and Company Director, Motivational and Educational Speaker of YPAYP.

India has lived, worked and studied abroad in five countries: Costa Rica, China, France, Spain and the U.S snd she has completed cultural exchanges in France and Italy. A highly adaptable, strong interpersonal, always open to growth and learning, creative mind, culturally sensitive, skilled international networker, excellent public speaker and team player, keen eye for colour, engaging blog and designing visual content, proactive. Would like to put language skills, digital creativity, social media, design, multicultural awareness and writing skills to use working in the professional creative industries.

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India is a BA (Hons) Spanish, French and Mandarin Chinese graduate. She successfully completed her year abroad studying and volunteering in Costa Rica for two months (volunteering Ostional Turtle Conservation and La Academia de Español Nicoya), China (Shanxi University 山西大学) for four months (volunteering at Chungdu Panda Conservation) and in France (L'Université Catholique de Lyon) for six months.

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Skills

⭐️ Mandarin Chinese (intermediate), Spanish and French: listening/reading/speaking/writing: as part of my undergraduate degree we learned dubbing, subtitling, debate, presentation, translating humour/culturally-specific idioms/rhyme/rhythm/childrens’ literature. Highly versatile/adaptive culturally/understanding different cultural lenses

⭐️ Online presence/digital native/very digitally resourceful: researching and finding new tools and sharing them

⭐️ Writing: copywriting, scriptwriting, blogging/article writing, books, songwriting/poetry

⭐️Public speaking: LAMDA Speaking Verse and Prose

⭐️ Stagecoach Performing Arts

⭐️ Social media content creation/design

⭐️Keen eye for colour and design

⭐️ Great with animals, kids, seniors and understanding the neurodivergent lens being neurodivergent myself

⭐️ Entrepreneurship/creative brainstorming

⭐️Leadership

⭐️Mentoring

⭐️Interpersonal/networking

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Working with India —

“India worked for me as a graduate intern Jan-March 2021 and then until June. We awarded her a Santander Scholarship because of her ‘can do’ attitude. I saw her significantly develop her technical and interpersonal skills and flourish in areas of design and creativity. India always pushes herself to grow and learn.” Gina Buckney, Wellbeing and Company Director and Motivational Speaker for YPAYP

Qualifications

HSK 4 Mandarin Chinese, Spanish C1-C2, French C1

A* Mandarin Chinese

LAMDA grade 4 Speaking Verse and Prose

ABRSM Singing grade 4

ABRSM Piano grade 1

First Aid qualification

CPR trained

Duke of Edinburgh Gold

The Chester Difference Award

NPLQ Lifeguarding

Barista Level 1 Winchester School of Coffee

Education

BA Hons (Spanish, French and Mandarin Chinese) The University of Chester

A levels English Language and Literature, Spanish and French, Mandarin Chinese GCSE Barton Peveril

GCSES English Language and Literature, Maths, Biology, R:E, French, Spanish, Art and History
St Anne’s Catholic School

(For information about specific grades, please visit India’s Linkedin profile)

Experience

* Product specialist at The Apple Store

* Copywriting placement with Armstrong Creative Agency

* Digital and Events ambassador for Uoc Chester Recruitment and Marketing

* Guest Blogger for The Chairmans Bao

* Social media team Snag Tights English, French and Spanish

* Marketing Assistant for Chester Difference Award Uoc Careers and Employability dept

* Kids Party Host Freedome Trampoline Park

* Intern (awarded Santander Scholarship) at YPAYP role of Design Lead and Creative Content Manager

*Chester Students Union Marketing assistant and Street Team member

*International Student Ambassador

*Reslife assistant The University of Chester

*Volunteered at Chungdu Panda Conservation in China

*Volunteered at Ostional Turtle Conservation in Costa Rica

*Foodrunner, Waitress and Barista Storyhouse, Chester

*Concordia Language Villages El Lago del Bosque, Bemidji, Minesota USA Camp Councillor and Shop Keeper

*Lifeguard, Gosport Leisure Centre

*Invited twice to be a live-in English Language Aupair (through Languages Create) in Spain, Binéfar, Aragon

*Shop assistant at Rowans Hospice Charity shop

*Assisted The University of Southampton Languages Resource Centre

*Southampton City Arts Gallery, assisted gallery tours and workshops

*Tudor House Museum, assisted Touch Tours for the Visually impaired

Blog

This Girl Can CSU Women in Sports

My postgrad story

My YPAYP Journey

Your People Are Your Power Partner with Inspiring Futures Programme

The Story Behind Journals For Life

Advice from an International Student Ambassador

Virtual Team Building Feeling Like A Caged Animal Stuck at Home? Unleash some Fun

The Jenga Affect of Staff Burnout

Mental Health Tsunami on The Rise

Your People are Your Power Partner with Code Your Future

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About Little Brown Mouse

When Little Brown Mouse hosts a tea party for her friends in Little Mulberry, she finds herself caught up in a mystery. Will the local detective Miss Yolks be able to crack the case?

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