Yidi Zhao

Experience

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  Child Psychological Mediator - Halton Center for Cognitive Therapy & Stress Reduction

  Sept 2014 - Jan 2015

  Psychological Clinic Internship

  I mainly helped with administrative and consulting work in this psychological clinic. I learned many practical consulting skills from joining the psychologists’ consulting and their weekly meetings in the clinic.- Assisted with psychological counseling on topics such as domestic violence, addiction, depression, parent-child relationships, and suicidal ideation. - Maintained portfolio of therapy sessions conducted, maintaining strict discretion and privacy of all patient information to comply with all legal requirements.- Accurately tracked and documented patient information and scheduled regular counseling appointments to implement individualized treatment plans. Show less

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  Queen's University

  Sept 2016 - Mar 2017

  Administrative Assistant

  Assisted with planning and facilitating 2 career events for over 500 students, seeing to it that all participants were engaged to increase their success in job placement. - Consolidated and streamlined office and equipment operation procedures, including use of new cloud-based program for document scanning and storage. - Effectively collaborated with all departments to create company-wide supplies ordering process, leading to cost-savings and a jump in efficiency.

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  University of Saskatchewan

  Jan 2022 - Mar 2022

  I assisted a student with ADHD and no logic background in need of academic support in the “Introduction to Symbolic Logic I” class, leading to an improvement in logical reasoning ability and average improving scores by 25%. Resulting in 100% client satisfaction. Assisted teacher in facilitating instruction during 2 classes weekly, seeing to it that all students were engaged and involved in classroom discussion. Tracked and documented all coursework received and graded in cloud-based grading system and spreadsheets to convey pertinent information to 148 students.

  • Logic Tutor

    Jan 2022 - Mar 2022

  • Critical Thinking Teaching Assistant

    Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
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  EigoPaathshala

  Oct 2022 - Nov 2022

  Human Resources Intern

  My role in the internship is to help the company with the hiring cycle including interviewing and building relationships with future employees who from various countries around the world. My aim of work is to find potential employees in areas of Digital Marketing, IT Service, and HR.- Assist in development and execution of new employee orientation program, including training on all legal guidelines and business procedures to improve employee retention efforts with effectiveness.- Coordinate with HR Manager on drafting correspondence and other legal documents for 8 exit interviews to align with company expectations and legal requirements.- Maintained strict discretion and privacy of all employee’s information to comply with all legal requirements.- Expertly perform regular administrative and clerical duties, including operating office equipment and editing various documents on behalf of manager. - Distributed meeting agendas, minutes, and other correspondence to 3 departments – Marketing, IT, HR departments -- to maintain 100% compliance with all legal requirements. - Familiarized 4 new employees on all office procedures and employment law, resulting in a 50% decrease in required on-boarding time. Show less

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  University of Saskatchewan

  Oct 2022 - Dec 2022

  I helped Professor Alward, who is a logician and Philosophy Department Head at the UniversityofSaskatchewan, edit his new Critical Thinking textbook.- I proofread and marked up 200 textbook manuscripts using Grammarly and Adobe InDesign while tracking changes and comments in Microsoft Word and Spreadsheets.- I submitted edited documents to my supervisor, ultimately achieving 100% acceptance rate resulting from attention to detail during proofreading and editing process.- I maintained detailed and accurate documentation of all edits and revisions by date to coordinate textbook editing, leading to 5% fewer revisions required. Show less

  • Writing Tutor

    Sept 2022 - Dec 2022

  • Critical Thinking Textbook Editor

    Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
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  Uppal Legal Group

  May 2023 - now

  Immigration Legal Assistant