Career Development Class

1. Maria Avksenenko
Northwood University
Career Development
Professor Luzar

2. Table of contents
 Introduction……………………………Slide 3
 Goals…………………………………....Slide 4-5
 Resume…………………………………Slide 6
 Samples of Work
 Fashion Assignment……………………...Slides 7-9

3. Introduction
 This portfolio is a representation of my work and
achievements throughout my high school and college
career.
 In high school I was interested in international
business. Over the past three years I have been
focusing on international business. The main
attention has been on Fashion Marketing and
Management.

4. Goals
 Find a new job that will help me develop and expand
my current skill set.
 Continuously learn and stay on top of current times
in the business world.
 Use my skill set and knowledge to help grow and
expand the company I work for.
 Become a more active member in my community.
 Eventually use everything I have learned to start my
own business.

5. Goals
 To continue to increase academically
 To keep improving my game on the tennis court and to
aid my team to strong finishes
 Gain an opportunity to further my knowledge in my
particular field of interest

6. RESUME Maria Avksenenko
4000 Whiting Drive
Midland, MICHIGAN
avksenen@northwood.edu
Education
2016
Northwood University – Midland, MI, USA
Currently I am a student-athlete at Northwood University (2012-2016). My major is International
Business, and minor in Fashion Merchandising.
2012
Gymnasium 622 – Saint-Petersburg, Russia
I attended Gymnasium 622 (2001-2012), in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. I graduated with a 3.8
GPA.
2011
Benedict School – Norwich, England (summer 2011)
I developed my English there, went to school for three weeks, lived in a host family with other
Internationals.
Work experience
In summer 2013 I worked as a receptionist at Helvetia Hotel in Saint-Petersburg. As a
receptionist at the hotel I valued experience of dealing with the public, I have got the ability to
keep calm under pressure, the ability to keep calmly with difficult situations, the ability to
balance conflicting demands.
Highlights
 Time management
 Creative and artistic
 Self-motivated professional
 Flexible
 Mature

7. Fashion Assignment
What is sustainability?
 Take out of a system the same amount of energy that you put in.
 A sustainable process is one you can do forever without exhausting resources or fouling the
environment.
 Is it possible?
Within the fashion context, we must consider:
 People
 Processes
 Environment
 And how they are interconnected

8. Difficulties to consider:
 The concept of fashion is one of change again and again and again.
 With change you generate waste.
 With this change, very little thought is given to the old clothes that you no longer wear.
 Today we are society that moves toward overconsumption along with a desire to pay as little as
possible for most products.
Embrace “the rethinking” of the process:
 Garment creation (create new design)
 Garment use (washing clothes; people through many things)
 Garment disposal (recycling)
 Garment re-creation (cut your jeans to make a pair of shorts)
 Garment reuse to expand the usable life and their meaning
Other areas that must considered:
 Maintaining healthy economies
 Solving social inequities
 Can we consider all areas at once?

9. Solution: Now is the time to generate new ideas to produce new garments with a sense of
ethics , using organic and renewable resources and manufacturing them in humane conditions
that together sustain the planet and the people who design, produce, retail and purchase them.
Possibilities: Design
 Produce custom made clothes from an individual body scan
 Study the human body, leads to better pattern making.
 Use a seamless method of knitting
 Uses one yarn to complete one garment without cut and sew.
 Increase use of inf. Technology
 Lower water temperatures
 Launder less frequently
 Share equipment with community laundries
 Purchase fewer garments and have multiple uses for those garments.