Chrisoulla Spyridonos Email & Phone Number

Redbridge, Waltham Forest & Enfield

Working for Local London working on the London Enterprise Advisor Network (LEAN), in partnership with The Careers and Enterprise Company and Greater London Authority. Working with Enterprise Advisers, Schools, Colleges and PRUs in East London to help schools to meet the Gatsby Benchmarks. The LEAN helps young people to build the skills and experiences they need to lead successful futures. It does this by connecting businesses with schools and colleges.• Responsible for a portfolio of 20-25 schools in the Redbridge, Waltham Forest and Enfield boroughs.• Coordinating the relationship between business volunteers (Enterprise Advisers) and Schools, Colleges and PRUs in East London to help schools to meet the Gatsby Benchmarks in order to improve their careers programme to a standard that exceeds statutory requirements.• Supporting Enterprise Advisor to assist and advise schools on increasing engagement with employers and developing a whole school careers plan that works for their students.• Recruiting suitable senior business professionals to join the network.• Organising and managing events for education and business professionals including CPD sessions, networking meet-ups and celebration events.

Hackney

Providing specialist advise and support to young people aged between 13-19 years who are at risk of becoming NEET or are NEET. Working in partnership with Young Hackney, working out of Youth Hubs to engage with young peopleWorking in partnership with Social Workers, Youth Workers, Gang Workers, Educational Psychologists, leaving care team, CAHMS, Virtual Schools, SEN workers to provide a holistic support service to Young PeopleProviding careers advice against Gatsby Benchmarks in SchoolsDelivery of Pearsons Btec Work Skills to NEET Community calling, case loading and providing drop in service to all young people within Hackney

Working on The Mayor’s Employment Project - Newham’s one stop shop Job Brokerage to support Newham residents into work and to offer a professional recruitment service to London-wide employers. Working with people aged 16+ Managing caseloads of up to 500 candidates , assisting individuals to overcome barriers to help them into employment and conducting action plans with SMART goal setting and reviewsProviding career guidance, benefit expertise, independent financial advice and guidance, as well as in depth support to help residents secure and sustain and progress in employmentSpecialising in working with ex-offenders and outreach work with Probation officesPlanning, implementing and running training sessions and workshops to address various candidate needs Working with clients to match their skills, experience and aspirations with appropriate vacancies and to screen candidates against client specifications as well as providing constructive feedback.Implementing and sourcing work experience opportunities, monitoring and evaluating progress

Managing Employer accounts – working on the Westfield Stratford City and LOCOG accounts as well as developing new business outside of thisDeveloping strategies and solutions to increase employer engagement & developing and maintaining relationships with employers by providing good quality innovative services and solutions and running employer screenings Working with candidates to match their skills, experience and aspirations with appropriate vacancies and to screen candidates against client specifications as well as providing constructive feedback.Interviewing candidates on behalf of clients and issuing and marking assessments on behalf of clientsArranging and holding Employer open days and recruitment open days Implementing and sourcing work experience opportunities, monitoring and evaluating progress

London, United Kingdom

Motivating and monitoring a team of 11 staff in line with internal policies and procedures Delivering budgeted profit and performanceActively promoting development to individuals and teams to empower people and maximise performanceSupporting consultants and PM in achieving targetsUndertaking caseload reviews and coach individuals appropriatelyUsing business intelligence to determine and manage performance against delivery plans reviewing, amending and agreeing actions required to achieve targetsDealing with all staff issues including absence, lateness, exit reviewsAlso started off as a Marketing Consultant, Providing a range of recruitment solutions to employers, account managing

London, United Kingdom

Managing Employer accounts and developing business relationshipsPre-screening ‘candidates’ for vacancies and arranging interviewsDelivering employability sessions to classes of up to 15 clients Caseload management as well as managing financial budget for each client

London, United Kingdom

Worked as a fortnightly interventionist releasing JSA payments.Dealing with both Employment Service and Benefit enquiriesConducted job searches via the Labour Market System and arranged job interviews for clientsActed as the Employment Service Systems Administrator, which involved: dealing with any IT problems, Liaising with the IT help desk to solve problems, maintaining and updating both ES and BA users on the IT systemActed as Training for Work and Adjudication officer which involved: Conducting ‘pre-entry’ interviews for clients going onto courses or voluntary work provisions, completing appropriate paper work and setting up benefit system accordingly

Master'S Degree, Industrial And Organizational Psychology

Bsc, Psychology