charmainehon.com

The story so far:

Charmaine Hon graduated from Murdoch University (really awesome place with fantastic staff) in 2007 with a degree in Mass Communication with majors in Journalism and Public Relations. In 2008, she decided to pursue an Honours in Journalism, but dropped it due to major illness. By the time she recuperated, the economy had tanked and jobs in media and communications were scarce.

In the meantime, she got a job as a newsagency assistant in the lovely town of Fremantle, and worked there until August last year, when she left it to focus on a work experience job that has taught her an immense amount about the trails and tribulations of working life, public relations as well as account management and design consultation.

While she’s still job hunting, she is also freelancing as a writer, artist and sometime website consultant. But mainly as a writer.

In the meantime, she’s currently studying at the school of hard knocks.

What she can do:

Charmaine has done both paid and pro bono copy-editing work, which includes brochures, website text, and a published book. She has also helped several not-for-profit organisations set up basic websites to cater to their internal publics.

As for printed work, Charmaine has been published in The Australian, Murdoch University’s online publication, as well as a short story anthology. So far.

For Public Relations experience, Charmaine was part of organising team for her Public Relations class’s major end-of-final-year public service conference. She was also the Coordinator for the Murdoch University Catholic Community. During her tenure there, she organised camps, created newsletters and did much of their internal communications.

Back in Malaysia, Charmaine was also active in many extracurricular activities. One of her chief accomplishments was running her secondary school’s 70+ strongTaekwon-do club, and reviving it into a competition powerhouse after a performance slump.

Her event organisation experience includes organising the above Conference, youth camps, annual club dinners and state level Taekwon-do competitions.

Right now, she is blogging here in an attempt to polish her writing skills, experiment with social media in a working context and to just have a presence online.

For samples of her work, do check out her writing and art portfolios, or you can visit this page for a list of her services.

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