Benjamin Smith Email & Phone Number

Sydney, NSW, AU

Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• A standalone role within the HR team that was responsible for all talent acquisition across the company
• Partnering with hiring managers to deliver recruitment strategies to best engage candidates in difficult and highly competitive markets.
• High volume workload with 25+ roles across the capital markets, wealth management and institutional APAC teams
• Utilising multiple recruitment methods – LinkedIn, Seek Talent Search, networking, and traditional advertising.
• Experienced in creating and implementing sourcing strategies to meet business needs.
• Reviving the employee referral program

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Responsible for the SA and Victoria portfolio for volume recruitment roles (Lead Educators and Educators).
• Partnering with Centre Managers to deliver recruitment strategies to best engage candidates in difficult markets.
• High volume workload with 50+ roles on at any one time across 25 centres.
• Utilising multiple recruitment methods – LinkedIn, Seek Talent Search, Modern Hire, networking, and traditional advertising.
• Experienced in creating and implementing sourcing strategies to meet business needs.
• Strong relationship management and consulting skills.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Responsible for all Lending roles across 3 Westpac brands (Bank of Melbourne, St George Bank and Bank SA)
• Using internal and external candidate sourcing methods (Seek, LinkedIn recruiter licence and 3rd party PSA Recruitment companies)
• Phone screening and organising of interviews
• Processing the recruits using Taleo recruitment system
• All associated recruitment paperwork
• Weekly reporting

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Solely responsible for end-to-end recruitment nationally across all departments including CIB, Compliance, Treasury, Finance, Human Resources and Operations
• Worked with Managers to create the core competencies and position descriptions
• Used internal and external candidate sourcing methods
• Revived the employee referral program
• Behavioural interviewing in dual languages
• All associated recruitment paperwork

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Worked in a team that was responsible for the HR function for the Faculty of Arts (the largest faculty in the university) and the Department of Vice Chancellor’s Academic portfolio
• Responsible for end-to-end recruitment across all departments within the portfolio (Academic and Professional - Full Time Permanent, Fixed Term and Contract)
• Understanding, interpreting, and advising employees and Managers on all aspects of the dual Employee Agreements
• Provided industrial and employee relations advice
• Managed employee behavioural and disciplinary issues
• Point of contact for all employee and Manager queries with regards to following Macquarie University policy and procedure

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

• Human Resources Advisor on the Air Warfare Destroyer Program. Australia’s largest defence project in scope and spend Implemented Oracle Procurement to introduce automation, governance, effective spend analysis and.
• Being first point of contact for 371 FTE employees and contractors for all their HR, ER, IR requirements
• Secret – Negative Vetting 1 Security Clearance
• Responsible for all recruitment across the program. Full Time Permanent, Fixed Term, Contract and Casual across a multitude of Integrated and Cross Product Teams (Engineering, Combat Systems, Administration, Stores.
• Recruited within the security guidelines of the Department of Defence
• Provided high level industrial and employee relations advice