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Efrossini Chaniotis

Mobile: 0438 502 908

Email: eficorfu@hotmail.com

Creative, Motivated and Community Focussed Professional Profile

With a professional background in the Arts, Retail, Community and Human Services fields I can provide the highest level of customer service to any role. I am a creative, energetic and highly self-motivated person with a strong work ethic, excellent in any role that involves communicating with the public. I am committed to serving my community and working in an

environment that demands the best of who I am.

I am available immediately for Creative, Customer Service and/or Retail positions.

Skill Summary

• Wide range of Customer Service and Retail experience

• Self-employment experience and co-founder of a business • Freelance Artist, marketing and installing my own exhibitions

• Worked independently in a highly demanding tourist sector overseas • Worked in diverse team environments • Designer and Facilitator of Art programmes and Community Projects.

• Facilitator of team building workshops using the Visual Arts • Counselling and Conflict resolution

• Handling customer enquiries quickly and efficiently • Fluent in Greek and adequate knowledge of Spanish and Portuguese

• Empathetic, warm and friendly when dealing with others • Cash handling , register and EFTPOS experience

• Visual Merchandising and Window displays • Switchboard operation

• Ordering stock, opening and closing of premises

Education

2003-2005 Masters of Art therapy, La Trobe University, Melbourne

1994-1999 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece

1997 Erasmus Scholarship, Madrid School of Fine Arts, Madrid, Spain

1988-1993 Bachelor of Visual Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide

Employment History

2012-2014 Retail Assistant, Venom Designs, Brunswick

2014 Boxing In, Street Art Project, City of Yarra

2012 Retail Assistant, Joya, Northcote

2011-2012 Retail Assistant, Made in Japan, South Melbourne

2008-2011 Assistant Manager, Made in Japan, Southgate Leisure Precinct, 2008-2009 Sales Assistant, Jasper Junior, Fitzroy

2008 Sales Assistant, Card n’ Caboodle, Chadstone Shopping Centre, 2005-2008 Art Therapist/Business co-founder, Melbourne Art Therapy Studio, Abbotsford Convent Arts Precinct, Melbourne

2004-2008 Art Therapist, Edith Pardy House, Mind Australia (formerly The

Richmond Fellowship of Victoria) Psychiatric Residential Service, Albert Park

2004-2007 Psychiatric Service Officer, Mary Guthrie House, Austin Hospital

2003-2005 Respite Coordinator, Southern Respite Service, Richmond Fellowship of Victoria

2003-2004 Key Worker, Edith Pardy House, Richmond Fellowship of Victoria

Volunteer Experience

2015 Tagua Village Playground, volunteer programme, Seineken NGO, Santa Marta, Colombia

2014 Mural Project for Asylum Seekers , Clayton United Church, Adelaide

2014-2015 Mural Project, Waldorf School: Jardin do Cerrado, Chapada dos

Veadeiros, Brazil

2012 Receptionist, PBS Community Radio. Collingwood

2005 Waitress, Lentil as Anything, Abbotsford Convent

2002-2003 Arts Worker Assistant, Arts Project Australia, Northcote

2000-2001 Information Desk, Art Gallery of South Australia

2000 Telephone Counsellor, Life line, Melbourne