E-commerce graduate. Legal affairs assistant experience. Now a law master’s student, preparing for the next stage of a career in digital business legal support.
Explore my background ↓My name is Zhao Yongsong. I graduated from Liaoning University of International Business and Economics in 2019, majoring in E-commerce.
After graduation, I worked as a legal affairs assistant in an e-commerce company. I am now studying for a master’s degree in Law at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.
My career direction connects these three parts of my background. I want to support an e-commerce business through careful legal preparation, a practical understanding of online operations, and continued professional learning.
Major: E-commerce. A foundation for understanding online business and its operating context.
Experience in a legal support role within the industry I studied. This is a relevant starting point for my next career step.
Master’s degree in Law — in progress. I am developing deeper legal knowledge and a more structured analytical approach.
My specific former duties, employment dates, and achievements are not listed here because they have not been supplied. The work sample below is a proposed exercise.
Supporting a company’s legal team with research, document organisation, issue tracking, and communication.
A company needs legal support that fits its business processes. In online commerce, questions can arise around sales terms, supplier agreements, promotions, customer complaints, and information handling. An assistant helps make the facts and documents clear before the legal team decides what action to take.
This is an illustrative role profile, not a specific company’s vacancy or a jurisdiction-specific statement of legal duties. Exact qualifications and responsibilities must be checked in the employer’s advertisement.
Recognise how product listings, orders, customer service, and supplier relationships connect.
Identify relevant questions, locate appropriate sources, and check their authority, date, and jurisdiction.
Organise agreements, compare versions, check key details, and keep track of approvals.
Collect documents and timelines, identify missing information, and prepare questions for review.
Ask focused questions and share concise updates with legal, operations, and customer service colleagues.
Follow confidentiality procedures, maintain reliable records, and seek guidance within the role’s limits.
My E-commerce major helps me approach legal questions with an understanding of the business setting. I want to explain the operating process clearly before moving to the legal issue.
Foundation: undergraduate study in E-commerce.
My legal affairs assistant role gives me a direct connection to company legal support. I can build on that background while assessing which practical skills I need to strengthen.
Foundation: previous legal affairs assistant employment.
My current master’s study supports a more systematic approach: establish the facts, define the questions, check sources, and explain what remains uncertain.
Foundation: postgraduate legal study in progress.
My working approach: careful reading, organised notes, clear questions, and timely escalation. I want to demonstrate these habits through work samples and supervised practice rather than rely on a job title alone.
A customer requests a refund and says the product did not match the listing. The operations team has an order record, but the version of the listing shown at purchase has not yet been confirmed.
My aim would be to prepare a balanced file for the legal supervisor, preserve relevant information, and avoid reaching a conclusion before the facts are checked.
This scenario is created for the portfolio. It does not describe a real dispute I handled or provide legal advice.
Gather the order, listing version, purchase terms, customer messages, and any images supplied, using approved access procedures.
Record purchase, delivery, complaint, and response dates. Separate confirmed information from disputed points.
What did the listing say? What difference is alleged? Which policies and jurisdiction-specific rules require review?
Present both accounts, list missing evidence, flag applicable deadlines for confirmation, and record the approved response.
Example case note: “The customer reports a difference between the product and the listing. The order record is available, but the listing version at purchase is unconfirmed. Please advise which further records are needed before a response is approved.”
I bring a relevant combination of industry education, legal support experience, and ongoing legal study. The next step is to show how those foundations translate into reliable work for a particular employer.
| Employer need | My current connection | Evidence / development priority |
|---|---|---|
| E-commerce knowledge | E-commerce major; graduated in 2019. | Explain business processes clearly and learn the new employer’s platform and procedures. |
| Legal support experience | Worked as a legal affairs assistant in an e-commerce company. | Prepare accurate descriptions of actual duties and non-confidential examples for interviews. |
| Legal knowledge | Currently studying for a master’s degree in Law. | Connect coursework with practical research and verify jurisdiction-specific sources. |
| Issue organisation | The sample demonstrates my intended method for preparing a complaint review file. | Show accuracy, completeness, and balanced reporting in supervised tasks. |
| Communication and reliability | I recognise the need for focused questions, confidentiality, and clear records. | Provide practical examples and meet the employer’s standards consistently. |
No professional licence, language certification, or quantified achievement is claimed in this portfolio. Eligibility should be assessed against the actual vacancy.
Continue my master’s studies and develop focused research notes on topics relevant to online businesses.
Develop non-confidential document exercises and describe my actual past responsibilities accurately.
Seek a role suited to my experience where I can support legal and compliance work and learn from qualified colleagues.
My goal is to become a legal professional who understands how an e-commerce company operates and helps the team respond to problems with clear facts, careful research, and practical preparation.