Victor Staes

Nationality: Belgian | victorstaes@hotmail.com | Date of birth: 30/11/2000

Education
BACHELOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS | CURRENT TRAINING | ARTEVELDE HS
· I am in the 2nd year of international entrepreneurship in the professional bachelor at Artevelde HS in
Ghent, Belgium.

DIPLOMA TSO BUSINESS ECONOMICS | 2019-2020 | SINT-LIEVENSCOLLEGE BUSINESS

· Major: Economics
· Side course: word & excel
· Related study assignment: GIP financial analysis of a company

Languages
ENGLISH | NATIVE LANGUAGE
ENGLISH | GOOD
FRENCH | MEDIOCRE

Work experience
SOLE DIRECTOR | AUTO AMERICA B.V. | 25/10/2021
· Auto America B.V. is a Dutch company that buys damaged cars outside the EU, imports them into
Europe and sells them to European dealers.

ASSISTANT ACCOUNTANT | AZ LOKEREN | 02/09/2021 - 13/09/2021

· In this job I worked as an assistant accountant for the General Hospital in Lokeren. Here I have been
able to see how an accounting department works and have been able to deal with some accounting
tasks myself.

EMPLOYEE CHIP SHOP | BRUSSELS GEBAK | 03/09/2021 – 08/09/2021

· In this job I worked in a chip shop at the Lokerse feesten. The reason why I took this job is because I
no longer had time to spend my day usefully after working as a assistant accountant, that's why I had
taken an extra job.

CONSULTANT | SMART SN | SINCE 06/01/2020

· Smart SN is a subsidiary of Orange and as a consultant for Smart SN I search for customers on an
independent basis through word of mouth.

FACTORY EMPLOYEE | NUSCIENCE DRONGEN | 01/09/2018 – 31/09/2018

· In the summer of 2018, I worked for a month in a factory that produces animal feed. This shows that
I am a hard worker.

SALESMAN | MEDIAMARKT OOSTAKKER | CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS 2017 - 2018

· In the Christmas holidays between 2017 and 2018 I worked for 2 weeks as a salesman in the media
markt of Oostakker. My function was to increase the sales of all JBL and Harman Kardon products,
this was also a significant success.
AMBASSADOR | DIRECT RESULT GHENT | SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2017
· In the autumn of 2017 I worked as a salesman for Direct Result in Ghent. My job was to sell
memberships of charities such as Amnesty International, WWF and The Red Cross on the street and
D2D (Door-2-Door). In this job I learned a lot about addressing and engaging people of all kinds.

EMPLOYEE | SELF-EMPLOYED SOLE PROPRIETORSHIP | 2015 - 2016

· Throughout 2015 and 2016 I worked at a proprietorship located in the construction sector. This was
my first job and it taught me that working is very hard, especially as a self-employed person.

Skills and talents

MANAGEMENT
· I am constantly helping family with renovating houses and constructing plant-rich gardens. This also
involves a lot of management tasks so that you can work as efficiently and as quickly as possible,
because time is money.
· In addition, I also make a lot myself. I do this by reducing costs as much as possible and looking up
how to do something myself. For example, with a budget under € 1000 I made a garden shed of 18m2
that is insulated, furnished and equipped with internet and electricity.

COMMUNICATION
· Communication is the key to success, so the way you say or convey something is crucial to have your
message clearly interpreted by your listener. But not only your voice and what you say is important,
especially your body language and sometimes what you don’t say such as a pause is extremely
important. I grew up with dyslexia which did not make writing, reading but especially talking easy. I
was a huge stutterer and therefore often did not know what to say myself. That's why I taught myself
how to get better at this, what makes people listen to you and how you can bring out a message well
as what charismatic traits are and how you can improve yourself. Now I often hear after a
presentation that I come across as very communicative.

SALE
· Both in my studies and in the work experience I have had, I have learned a lot about how to sell. From
addressing people, showing appearance and gaining trust with people to knowing what people want
to hear and knowing what is important or where I should put my priorities.

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