Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
An expert in all aspects of Early Careers with over 25 years of recruitment, development and HR experience. Excellent relationship management, project management and team management skills with a keen focus on results delivery. Specialties: Graduate recruitment, Apprenticeship recruitment, Apprenticeship Levy planning, volume recruitment, assessment centre design, strategic workforce planning, brand development, communications, social media, project management, stakeholder management, team management, virtual team management, redeployment and redundancy, organisational design, change management, HR generalist
Early Careers Specialist within a large multi-national energy trading business. Currently leading placement student programmes within the UK, ensuring they are structured to support development towards future talent pipelines including our global graduate programmes. We are currently ranked the 5th Best Placement Provider for our size in the HigherIn (RateMyPlacement) rankings. Managed end-to-end Global Graduate Programmes from attraction, recruitment, selection, onboarding, development, programme management and offboarding in key markets - including UK, Germany, Singapore and USA - during periods of significant growth. Vendor management of key partners including RPO, Test provision, video assessment platforms, and digital assessment technologies to ensure we are utilising effective technologies to support the candidate journey and selection of the right talent for the business. Developing an approach to Strategic Workforce Planning using data to better inform the business on potential recruitment and development activities to fulfil their future needs. Implemented strategic planning and delivery of an apprenticeship development structure to support business growth utilising Levy funding. Supporting wider employer branding strategies and implementation within an expanding global organisation Providing thought leadership on continued development of Early Careers and Future Talent opportunities to meet business needs.
We help organisations realise how well thought out and executed early talent strategies can have significant impact on the growth and strength of your business. Early Talent Consulting is passionate about the potential opportunities for Early Talent to positively disrupt and innovate organisations for a better future. We assist a variety of organisations, large or small, in many ways: Strategic workforce planning to understand the options available for Early Talent to grow your organisation. Strategies to effectively deal with the Apprenticeship Levy. Design and delivery of Early Careers programmes for Graduates, Interns and Apprenticeships. Project management of Trailblazer Apprenticeship Groups looking to create new Standards. Employer branding and student engagement strategies. Recruitment and selection processes including assessment design and candidate management. Design, development and delivery of internal talent development programmes.
Leading AXA's Early Careers proposition within the UK. Attracting and recruiting the best entry level talent to join one of the world's largest organisations, and develop successful careers. Strategically reviewing AXA's apprenticeship frameworks and leading a cross-company project to take AXA positively forwards in this important talent sector. Management of Centre of Excellence responsible for shaping AXA UK's Graduate and Intern proposition including the development of new programmes to meet our strategic workforce planning needs for entry level talent. Representing the UK business as part of a global graduate working party to improve connections and opportunities for talent across or global business. Continuing to work with the Insurance Trailblazer Apprenticeship group to design and deliver the best standards of apprenticeship frameworks to our industry.
Strategic planning and delivery of Graduate, Intern and Early Careers solutions for AXA UK across a complex business model. Part of a Global team designing international synergies to deliver best practice attraction, recruitment and development across the Global AXA Group. Initiatives include: The Great Global Adventure Game (winner of 2015 CIPD Recruitment Marketing awards for Best use of Mobile and Best use of Social Media); A new Global Graduate Brand (to be launched in September 2015); A Global Graduate Camp - bringing together all new graduate recruits in our Paris HQ with senior executives each year; and identifying opportunities to increase international mobility for graduate talent. AXA UK are currently in the Top 20 of The Job Crowd's Top Employers Graduates would like to Work For, and in the Top 100 of Universum's Most Ideal Employers. In 2014, shorlisted to the final 4 for the RAD Award for Best Graduate Campaign and runner-up in the National Graduate Recruitment Awards for Best Student Marketing Campaign. In 2009, short-listed to the final six for AGR/AGCAS Award for my impact on campus in improving the curriculum. I work on a cross-industry steering group to design Trailblazer Apprenticeship Standards (Level 3 & 4), for the insurance sector alongside other employers, training providers, professional bodies and government. I am responsible for employer branding including website management, social media, on-campus activities and media buying within a budget that needs to add value. I design end-to-end recruitment processes for delivery including online applications, aptitiude testing, video assessment and assessment centres for diverse professional families. Vendor Relationship Management of RPO, video assessment, ability test providers, and recruitment advertising partners. Programme management of flagship Business Leaders Graduate Programme sponsored by UK CEO. AXA UK Resourcing Board member providing thought leadership on early careers.
Providing generalist HR support to managers and leaders within the AXA Life division. Key projects included organisational design restructures, redeployment and redundancy programmes and transitioning Admin Support to a central service function.
Internal recruitment manager responsible for recruiting a wide variety of roles and levels into the AXA Life division.