Mai Huong Ngo ID: 102649858 Cover sheet for submission of work for assessment SWIN BUR * NE * SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY UNIT DETAILS Unit name Career Work Skills Class day/time Office use only Unit code CAR20001 Assignment no. 01 Due date 27th August 2020 Name of lecturer/teacher Rebecca Peachey Tutor/marker's name Rebecca Peachey Faculty or school date stamp STUDENT(S) Family Name(s) Given Name(s) Student ID Number(s) (1) Ngo Mai Huong 102649858 (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) DECLARATION AND STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP 1. I/we have not impersonated, or allowed myself/ourselves to be impersonated by any person for the purposes of this assessment. 2. This assessment is my/our original work and no part of it has been copied from any other source except where due acknowledgement is made. 3. No part of this assessment has been written for me/us by any other person except where such collaboration has been authorised by the lecturer/teacher concerned. 4. I/we have not previously submitted this work for this or any other course/unit. 5. I/we give permission for my/our assessment response to be reproduced, communicated, compared and archived for plagiarism detec- tion, benchmarking or educational purposes. I/we understand that: 6. Plagiarism is the presentation of the work, idea or creation of another person as though it is your own. It is a form of cheating and is a very serious academic offence that may lead to exclusion from the University. Plagiarised material can be drawn from, and presented in, written, graphic and visual form, including electronic data and oral presentations. Plagiarism occurs when the origin of the material used is not appropriately cited. Student signature/s I/we declare that I/we have read and understood the declaration and statement of authorship. (1) Huong (4) (2) (5) (3) (6) Further information relating to the penalties for plagiarism, which range from a formal caution to expulsion from the University is contained on the Current Students website at www.swin.edu.au/student/ 1
Mai Huong Ngo ID: 102649858 Part 1: Career Story Born in Vietnam - a country lied at South East Asia, from a very young age, I was educated to be comprehen- sively good and achieve high marks at every subjects, including Mathematics, Physics, Literature, Arts, and so on. This, on the one hand, turns me into a perfectionist who is strictly demanding on myself, on the other hand, limits my ability to discover different career opportunities due to the lack of soft skills. As my mom holds a small retailed shop for selling clothing, I had my very first experience of working with customers, dealing with them, receiving payments, and recording financial transactions since I was 10. Gradually, I found great as- piration of making my own business specializing in beauty. To gain sufficient skills and be equipped with di- verse knowledge to achieve this goal, as well as to search for new experience, I decided to take Bachelor's de- gree of Accounting aboard in Australia. What happened here is more than my expectation - until the lockdown because of Corona