United Kingdom
I enjoy being involved in steering committees, planning the future and most of all, volunteering to pass on my gifts to charities in the UK. Especially smaller charities that are in need of good skills. Accordingly, my IT and Operations experience working within the finance and healthcare sectors led me to good, nay, best practices. I have been fortunate to have spent years with gifted individuals who were not only really smart and have achieved continuing wonderful success, but also business insiders at the highest levels that gave invaluable insights into these industries. I use this knowledge whenever I am exposed to an opportunity to save money and make life easier too. Doing this voluntarily brings me joy. Work wise, if the right opportunity came along, sure, I’d consider if it was in a leadership of a young team or approaching retirement age team that I could encourage, excite and support. Good luck to you.
I offer a private and highly confidential service to my clients, mixing my recruitment skills with life coaching & counselling in order to progress peoples passions and boost career performance. It's never too late to pursue a career you truly want, or obtain skills. You can do whatever you want to do, and my role is to motivate, encourage and provide you with a career path to enable you to do just that. I specialise in the IT / Talent Acquisition / L & D and Finance sectors. With working knowledge within each of these areas. If you are thinking of a career change, furthering your current position, or want to pursue an alternative path to the one you are currently walking, we should talk. As we face many obstacles, both professional and personal, I have an added value of being able to counsel my clients on their drawbacks and how they may be impacting your career path and potential.
Remotely Based. -Lead all IT recruitment activities for a newly established international recruitment firm. -Recruited and placed all levels of staff. Typically salaries ranging from $60k per year to +$200k. -Negotiate packages to maximize ROI, by targeting billables at 25% of contract value (amongst other factors). -Develop and execute multiple recruitment plans and strategies. -Manage and streamline full cycle recruitment, from initial sourcing, screening, negotiation, placement and onboarding. Reducing time from acceptance to initial start date from months to weeks. -Expanded portfolios of clients and business partners by 27% within 3 months. -Recruited for multiple divisions simultaneously (Cybersecurity, Analytics, Software Engineering, Help Desk, and Database Developers). -Striving to bring in the best people to fill company needs. -Conducting screenings and follow up interviews by phone and in person. -Utilized Workday, PeopleSoft and Tableau to create reports and track hires.
Solutions Driven provides a range of high-impact talent acquisition solutions, offering fully customised and flexible services to help organisations meet their specific needs. For example, we can provide RPO, project recruitment, search and consulting services to our global client base - from Fortune 100 to fast growing SMEs. As a Delivery Specialist at SDL, I'm delivering business requirements to multiple accounts across the SDL services and across the globe. Assignments have been successfully completed both as a sole contributor, and most recently, with the support of a Talent Sourcing Specialist. Currently the lead Delivery Specialist for market research projects supporting clients who are seeking business intelligence/ market insight with bespoke market mapping services.
-Hired to manage portfolio of over 100 open IT positions within the Healthcare industry. -Reduced portfolio size by recruiting by over 10% within 2 months of hire. -Recruit and place at least 2 candidates per week. A target I regularly exceeded. -Sourced (LinkedIN, Indeed, Monster, Government agencies and corporate hiring events), screened, interviewed, negotiated and hired qualified candidates for IT positions for a top 5 LA based company. -Assessed and developed specific job descriptions for newly developed positions. -Negotiated compensation packages by working closely with Payroll, Relocation, Benefits and the applicant themselves. Negotiated relocation packages typically ranged from $25k to $55k. -Assisted with HCM software transition from PeopleSoft to Workday. -Maintained over records on all IT recruiting activity, including employee files and contracts. -Prioritized hires by taking account business needs and impact on business. -Developed strong partnerships with hiring managers and presented recruiting efforts to senior Management, including CFO and CIO. -Produced weekly reports (impact on business, new applicant numbers, # days position open, time taken to fill a position, average compensation value, total portfolio value etc) for SLT, combined with briefings and suggestions on how to improve recruiting operations by utilizing PeopleSoft and Workday by streamlining workflow and reducing human input errors. -Adhered to government regulations and complied with Equal Employment Opportunity laws.
-Developed our own in house solutions to software challenges instead of going to 3rd party vendors, saving money by implementation and eliminating the need for long term SLA’s. -Hiring and training of new employees. -Manage overall IT Service Desk daily operations; ensuring good delivery of IT Support to all levels of staff, from Tellers to Board of Directors. -Managed projects involving opening of additional branches & back end processing offices. As well as software rollouts, hardware and software inventory, virus protection and overall IT support. -Develop internal relationships, validate importance and promote IT department to company. -Assist and complete external/internal audits. -Maintain company social media and online exposure. -Identified as key player for IT department during DR situations. Including direct communications with President of the company. -Manage and maintain software and hardware inventory. Identify areas of cost savings & continual analysis of processes to achieve optimal efficiency of staff.