As the Head of Talent Acquisition, I lead our experienced hires and early careers (Clerk and Graduate) recruitment teams, global mobility, client secondments and Allens Adapt team and manage executive / Partner recruitment. I hold a People & Development leadership role and am involved in the creation and execution of the People Strategy.

As the Senior National Resourcing Manager, I am responsible for the strategy of the team and ensuring key resourcing projects and campaigns are successful. I also manage and deliver end-to-end recruitment initiatives across the firm. This includes direct sourcing using social media, talent pooling and networks as well as working closely with business leaders to define recruitment requirements at a strategic and tactical level and managing resourcing needs for future business hires.

As a Talent Sourcing professional I am responsible for identifying and engaging senior and rare top talent for hard-to-fill roles across the Asia Pacific region, predominately supporting our Tax Service Line. I map competitor companies and candidate markets and develop talent pools and pipelines for both immediate short-term and strategic long-term needs to assist EY’s wider expansion efforts.I am responsible for developing National campaigns and strategies to attract individuals for Tax roles that are difficult to recruit via traditional sourcing methods. I also utilise advanced social media along with creative and innovative sourcing methods to locate and engage with individuals.I completed a six month secondment to the lateral Tax Recruitment Team whilst at EY, where I was responsible for working closely with the Partnership to source professionals for the following sub-services lines within Tax: - Business Tax Services- International Tax Services- Transaction Tax- Indirect Tax- Human Capital- Global Compliance & ReportingI worked directly with the Tax Partners to fully understand their business needs and I helped them find, recruit, hire and retain top talent to meet increasing talent demand. I also helped them to understand where the growth areas would be within Tax to ensure relevant candidates were introduced to the business to meet this demand.

As a Recruitment Advisor I am responsible for the end-to-end recruitment of Norton Rose Fulbright’s fee-earners and business services staff on a permanent, fixed term and temporary basis. My role involves identifying the most appropriate sourcing channels to attract the best talent for the role and assisting Hiring Managers and Partners with their recruitment needs. My role involves conducting resource planning with Hiring Managers and Partners to anticipate future staffing needs, market mapping and headhunting suitable candidates from our competitors, producing and maintaining detailed recruitment statistics and reports for Hiring Managers, Partners, Head of Human Resources and Human Resources Business Managers and advising and informing Hiring Partners of trends in the market place, alongside distributing weekly recruitment practice-wide e-newsletters.On a day-to-day basis I am responsible for appropriately screening candidate applications based on job specification and information from Hiring Managers and Partners and the wider Human Resources team, interviewing all selected candidates alongside stakeholders and assessing their suitability for our roles, negotiating salaries and terms and bill rates to align with current market rates and job criteria and preparing offer paperwork for new joiners.

As a Consultant I am responsible for recruiting and hiring candidates on a temporary basis for Banking and Financial Services clients, including: Investment Banks, Hedgefunds, Venture Capitalists, Private Equity Companies, Asset Managers and Insurance Firms. My role involves: cold calling clients for business development, headhunting suitable candidates across all levels, writing and posting job adverts for niche job boards, distributing weekly market updates across the business and also sending updates to clients.I interview candidates for live roles, analysing their skills, experience and personalities and discussing vacancy options with them. For those that aren’t suitable for the live roles, I create candidate pipelines and talent pools for future positions.As a Consultant I attend agency briefings and liaise extensively with both clients and candidates to build mutual relationships. My role also involves hosting candidate and client events.