INTERVIEW

COMPANY: BAVARIA
CHARGE: GENERAL MANAGER


DIALOGUE

Oscar_ Hello..... Good afternoon.

Ricardo_ Good Afternoon.

Oscar_ I know it seems that sir?

Ricardo_ know I'm not sure ---- My name is Ricardo Bravo

Oscar_ Of course you are the president the Audi,
I read an interesting article in the journal you money you are a very good
Businessman. !! I admire.

Ricardo_ Thanks if you also read the article..... What is your name?

Oscar_ My name is Oscar Parra

Ricardo_ Oh, Oscar Parra … I heard from you, nice to meet you?
What brings you for Bavaria? Business?

Oscar_ Not exactly, I'm one of the candidates for General Manager of this company,
And you, Mr. Bravo because it is in Bavaria?

Ricardo_ oh! The same, I am also one of the applicants.

Oscar_ You are my opponent's !!! Excellent!! ,, Tell me about yourself? Mr. Bravo

Ricardo_ I'm a professional in international economic relations
With 10 years of experience in business administration, I am a graduate of the
University Autonoma of Colombia, I have a Master’s in Business Administration
from Nova Southeastern University in Florida, USA
I have worked in companies such as Audi Colombia and International
Development Advisory Services, Inc. (IDAS)…..
Why should they give the job?

Oscar_ I am Economist with over 15 years’ experience in administrative and supervisory work. I
have experience in directing large companies
Ricardo_ Excellent.

Oscar_ What kind of person are you?

Ricardo_ I am a dynamic, results-oriented, leader, work well under pressure and time-bound,
I enjoy working with a variety of people.
What are you good at?
Oscar_ In the financial area, I have good skills in managing budgets, inventory and costs, as well
as all subsystems of the accounting cycle; credit portfolios, interest rates and damping,
recognizing weaknesses in the tax area.
What is your major achievement?

Ricardo_ In Colwagen, to achieve the implementation of new ideas to attract new customers and
Keep existing ones, creating new experiences such as the Audi Driving Experience
(For the first time in Colombia and is held annually).
What are your strengths?

Oscar_ I am visionary, enthusiastic, dynamic, enterprising, initiative and innovation
What sort of salary are you expecting?

Ricardo_ must be above twenty-five million which is what I am currently paid in Audi.
Do you like to work in a team or on your own?

Oscar_ I know what bavaria is a large colombiana company, your own is sabmiller, i worked the
last year’s wiht sabmiler in ecuador, What motivates you? Mr Bravo

Ricardo_ Apart from the salary motivation, the knowledge to be gained in this company, not
everyone comes to this position. It could be a catapult for the job in other SABMiller
group companies, in another country
What do you like best about your current job?

Oscar_ I working in team, listening ideas and project of assessors, provided with very good
results.
What did you learn in your last job?

Ricardo_ The work in groups for the positioning of a foreign brand in my country, for give a
Favorable living standards to customers and allows the generation of employment
Opportunities, in addition to advantage the opportunities and internet facilities given
by the communication.
What long would you plan to stay with this company?

Oscar_ I like overcome the expectations the partners, IS exciting know objectives meet
What will you do if you don't get this job?

Ricardo_ I am the manager of Audi Colombia.
_ I am sorry, the board of directors call me
Bye

CURRICULUM VITAE

Ángel Ricardo Bravo Osorio
International Economic Relations
Residence Address: Street 163 N ° 72 to 61 House 98
City: Bogotá D.C.
Home Phone: 571-472 27 58
Cell Phone: 313 723 0845
Email: bravo.osorio.ricardo @gmail.com
Years Experience: 10


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Audi de Colombia – Grupo Colwagen S.A.
Brand Manager - Audi of Colombia
February 2009 – Actual.
Bogotá, Colombia

In charge of the Audi brand in Colombian. Responsibilities:
- Responsible of all Audi Importer and dealers in Colombia (Bogota,
Medellin, Cali)
- Accountable for the general Audi budged
- Accountable for the Sales, service, spare parts, new orders and
import divisions
- Accountable for sales, promotions, service and marketing strategies
and supervision of its implementation by the Audi team.
- Accountable for general expenses
- Accountable for import procedures
- Exploring and opening new regions to develop the Audi brand (since
2005 I manage to open Audi branches in 2Colombian cities Medellin
and Cali-; before 2005 Audi had only presence in Bogota)
- Managed a working team of over 50 people

International Development Advisory Services, Inc. (IDAS)
April 2005 – February 2009
Miami, Florida, US

Sales and Marketing Coordinator (Part Time Job during MIBA studies)

- Responsible for the development of new business proposals and the
acquisition of new clients.
- Responsible of monthly results.
- Responsible of marketing strategies and events.

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
International Consultant
August 5th 2002 – June 1st 2003

Analysis of the economic, social, political, financial and foreign investments policies in Colombia. Assigned Projects:
- Investment Policy Review Project of Colombia,
- Andean Community Benchmarking Project

All this information was send to UNCTAD in Genève - Switzerland in order to process it and generate the final report on Colombia’s investment situation.

Andersen Legal Ltd.
Legal Consultant
August 1st 2000 - August 2nd 2002. Bogotá, Colombia.

- Development of Service proposals
- Indirect Taxes (VAT, ICA, withholdings, remittances and others)

- Responsible for Foreign Trade activities (International Exchanges,
Foreign Investments, Imports-Exports and CustomsRegulations,
Free Trade Zones and Andean Community policies),
- Transfer PricingServices provided to multinationals and local
companies like, Tetra Pack, Smith International, Halliburton, Johnson
& Johnson and others.

EDUCATION

Nova Southeastern University
Fort Lauderdale, Florida - USA
Master of International Business Administration (MIBA)
Graduation Date: June 2005

Universidad Externado de Colombia
Bogotá - Colombia
- Specialization in Economic Law
- Post Graduate in Economic Analysis of the Law 2002 – 2003.

Universidad Autónoma of Colombia
Bogotá - Colombia.
Professional International Economic Relations 1996 – 2001.

LANGUAGES

Spanish, French 80% and English 100%

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

International MBA with 11 years of experience. Dynamic, results-oriented leader, work well under pressure and deadlines, enjoy working with a variety of people. Utilize keen analysis and insights and team approach to drive organizational improvements and implementations of best practices.

Strong leadership skills, strategic thinker, teamwork oriented, creative & innovation strengths, analytical thinking, people & results oriented make me a strong candidate to work in Brand Building, Brand Development, Customer Service & Management oriented positions.


Additional areas of expertise include:

• Contract Negotiations and Strategic Alliances
• Latin American Business and Trade Vision
• Strategic Planning
• Brand Building
• Customer Service Building
• Profitability and Cost analysis
• Finance, Budgeting and Cost Management
• Team building

90´s

INVENTIOS THE 90’S

  

- In 1990 the World Wide Web was born

At CERN in Geneva, a group of physicists headed by Tim Berners-Lee created HTML, based on SGML. In 1990 the same team built the first Web client, called WorldWideWeb (WWW), and the first web server.

In the early 90's, with the introduction of new facilities for interconnection and simple graphical tools for network use, started the boom that now you know the Internet. This massive growth brought about the emergence of a new user profile, the majority of ordinary people not linked to the academic, scientific and government.

In America was born 1990 in genetic medicine

WARS THE 90’S

WARS THE 90’S

Gulf War

It was a war between Asian countries, Iraq and Kuwait, beginning in August 1990 with the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq,

In response to these events, the January 16, 1991 an international coalition of 31 countries led by the United States and under UN mandate, began a military campaign to force the invading army to retreat.

End of war, Iraqi representatives accepted allied terms for a provisional truce on March 3 and permanent ceasefire on 6 April. Iraq agreed to pay reparations to Kuwait, reveal the location and extent of its stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and eliminate its weapons of mass destruction.

Yugoslav Wars

The Yugoslav Wars were a series of conflicts in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, that occurred between 1991 and 2001. Groups comprised two successive wars that affected the six former Yugoslav republics.

The wars were marked by ethnic conflict between the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, mostly between Serbs on one side and Croats, Bosnians and Albanians on the other

The Yugoslav wars ended with much of the former Yugoslavia reduced to poverty, massive economic disruption and persistent instability in the territories where the worst fighting occurred.

THE MUSIC 90’S

In Colombia in the 90's began a decade of music where rock bands are born national to leave behind the Spanish rock groups of the 80, we find bands like

 

Other bands in the world

     

MAJORS  GLOBAL  OF THE 90´S

In the nineties politcas show two leading figures recognized the world over to find Bill Clinton the U.S. president and Prime Minister Tony Blair Ingaterra.

BILL CLINTON  ---  EE.UU.

 TONY  BLAIR

EXTRA  POINT

The first successful cloning of an adult mammal, a sheep named Dolly, from one of its cells.

Dolly started her life, as with all other cloned animals, in a test tube. Once normal development was confirmed at 6 days, the embryo, that was eventually to become Dolly, was transferred into a surrogate mother.

INTRODUCTION

Our purpose is to organize and prepare and practice the pronunciation of English, learning new concepts in the financial sector, to implement them in the profession we chose to practice in our lives and be more competitive in society. We also know other languages can open many doors to globalization work we are facing today
Falabella is ONE of the most new to our country and has had great support sobrae especially in the capital Bogota. show the products they offer and what is their global strategy
OBJECTIVES


Researching the company Falabella Colombia, origins and commercial development in the country.

Ready to improve our pronunciation and strengthen our knowledge in English


FALABELLA
Falabella is one of the largest companies and consolidated in Latin America. Conducts business through various business areas, the main, the department store, department stores, home improvement and construction, commercial finance company CMR, bank, travel and insurance Falabella.
The department store is today the largest in South America with over 65,000 employees with operations in Chile, Argentina, Peru and Colombia.
Some History
Source
Its origin dates back to 1889, when Salvatore Falabella opens the first great tailoring in Chile. Later, with the involvement of Alberto Solari, the store is further strengthened by introducing new products related to clothing and home, thus becoming a department store and expanding its coverage with new stores.
Consolidation
In the 60's, Falabella started its phase of expansion in Santiago de Chile as in other regions of the southern country. Twenty years later, in order to meet growing customer demand for a payment system more convenient and flexible, the company ventures into a new business, launching its own credit card, CMR Falabella, which counts with 5.5 million cardholders in Latin America. In the 90's, Falabella started its internationalization process, extending its operations in Argentina and later in Peru. It also continues to expand its portfolio of services with the creation Falabella Travel and Insurance.
Expansion
In 2003 the group merged with Sodimac SA which allowed him years later to enter markets such as Colombia.
For over 100 years, Falabella has offered first class products to help meet the needs of its customers. Their commitment to long-term growth has been accompanied by major investments in the areas of distribution, information systems, and creating new business and additional services.
In official form opened in Colombia's Banco Falabella,t he first financial institution Chilean capital, which will have as main objective the attention of the market of natural persons.
Falabella now has over800 000people who have the cardin your wallet CMR Falabella,as their primary means of purchasein stores Falabella and Homecenter.
In terms of employment generation, the arrival of the Bank will mean new jobs. The bank had about 1,300 jobs across the country.



Banco Falabella is different from a bank currently operating in Colombia, is a bank-oriented natural persons and deliver a range of different financial services, allowing you to continue creating value for its customers.
THE MAIN FIGURES
The Bank's share holders are the Falabella Group with 65percent and the Corona with 35percent.
According to figures reported to the Superintendency of Finance, the Bank Falabella has positive indicators of trustworthiness and fairness. In March,its solvency coefficient was around12% when the minimum required for the financial system is  nine percent.
Your patrimony is124 billion pesos,also higher tan that required bythe Financial Superintendence.
Bank revenues were 125thousand 477millionpesos in2010, when in 2009hadbeen95.729 million. As of March2011were45,182,000.
In December last year had more than99 billion in CDTs, had is sued bonds for192 billion, given credit for85 billion and savings of1,000 million. At  the endof March rose toCDTs165 billion, credits and$ 104 billion savings accounts quadrupled to 4billion.
With respect to earnings, the figures are positive: in2009 he won6.897 million pesos in 2010rose to15.167 million(an increase of over 100percent),and inthe first three months of 2011reported a profit of4.736 million.
Last year the bank's portfoliowas511.995 millionand  the first quarter was 599 billion.
The products
Falabella currently has over 800thousand users of the Card CMR Falabella .At the end of first quarter had more than722 000, becoming the fifth financial institution is suing plastic cards.

Last year card sales exceede done trillion dollars, nearly twice the sales of the year to June2009had alreadyexceeded700 billion pesos.
Customers can accumulate points CMR for all purchases with the card and can be redeemed for products for free, have access to unique opportunities in the shops Falabella, Homecenter stores, the travel agency and insurance company.
For the product package only pay a handling fee if you have balance or the card has been used in the billing period.
In savings accounts customers will have full coverage Master Card Debit, transactions between bank accounts have no cost, have the potential to be exempt from tax of4 per thousand, and has 24 hours a day to make transactions through the 1,400ATMsServibanca.
Current account customers will also have coverage Master Card Global Debit, over draft quota and 24hours a day to Servibanca operations.
The CDT's are can open with 500thousand dollars for a term of30 days, and will be easily negotiable the secondary market and be transferable by endorsement.
Have an excellent complian cerate for programmed savings for 12months,will not be charged handling fee Gmay be with drawn using the fingerprint on the Bank's branches, and may be exempt from the4 per thousand.

Card CMR
 Now your card CMR guarantees you to be able to buy with complete certainty in Falabella Internet and accede to all the benefits, offers and exclusive promotions of our shop.
Credit system
 System of agreed quotas
 It allows to choose in every purchase the quantity of quotas in which it is wanted to cancel. The quotas are fixed and in weight and can be paid even in 12 quotas in Wardrobe and in 36 quotas in Home.
System of Remolten Balance
 With this system it is possible to buy in an alone quota and to cancel the total of the account to few price and without interests. Or, to pay as minimum 5 % of the total of the bank statement, more the interests and corresponding taxes, taking refuge this way, to a credit for the balance. And if this way he wishes it, the client of Remolten Balance also can choose to fixed quotas.

Trips Falabella
 He Takes advantage of the opportunity to buy passages and tourist programs in Trips Falabella, always to the best price and with the possibility of cancelling even in 36 quotas with the Card CMR.
Insurances Falabella
 To possess the Card CMR also allows to contract a wide range of insurances for cars, home, life and health, which can be cancelled even in 12 quotas, without interest, using the Card Falabella's CMR.
Products
 21 shops Falabella along the whole country, as well as his shops located in Peru and Argentina, offer a wide mix of products distributed in 15 lines:
 •  Men  •  Perfumery  •  Footwear  •  Children
 •  juvenile Corner (men)  •  Juvenile Corner (ladies)    •     Electric home  •  White
 •  Sports  •  Underwear  •  Decoration  •  Basic
 •  Ladies  •  Incidental Woman  •  Seasonal  •  Deco home

The products that sell are:
Auto Home Health Life Personal Accident Unemployment protected shopping bag in Route Publish Channels of Sale they are:
 Shops (13 points of sale between Falabella and SODIMAC) Inn Own CMRCall Center (Mendoza) Call Center Externos Call Center in Chile

My Daughter

Presentation

Hello! My name is Ricardo, my last name is Bravo,  I am thirty  years old , my birthday is on January four, my eyes is of color brown, my hair is short black, I am from Bogota, my  address is  St.  163 # 72 – 61 home 98, my telephone number is   4-72-27-58, my cellphone number is   313-723-08-45. My favorite color is Red, I don`t have a pet. My daughter is Maria, she is ten years old, she is a school student, and my parents are Jose and Elsy and I live with them. I play Football soccer on Sunday morning at the park near my house; my favorite food is pasta with chicken, it is very delicious, and I like to drink ice tea. 

I speak Spanish, My nationality is Colombian.  

I work in Sulibranza, my role is credit analyst; I review documents ,  I answer emails all day and I attend to vendors, the address of the office is St. 57 Nº 14 – 14, my work schedule is of half past seven a.m. to six p.m. I lunch from one to two p.m. Actually, I leave my house at seven o’clock to the office and I return at eight p.m. 

I watch TV.in at night and I slept on my bed, to rest; because I arrive tired, except on Fridays  

On Fridays, I listen to music and I dance salsa at night; I do not like smoke it is very bad for my health.   

I listen to radio news of Monday to Friday at noon .