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Don’t just build a team; build a team of ‘A’ Players!Established in 2016, Cobalt Search is a specialist recruitment search firm with expertise in providing ‘A’ Player talent to clients across the US, Canada, Middle East and the UK. Whilst we know that we’re one of many in a noisy and competitive marketplace, we firmly believe that our different values, methods and attitude make us stand out from the crowd.We support our clients by finding exceptional talent who stay, have impact and deliver significant value. To achieve this we follow a rigorous process that focuses on identifying, attracting and effectively assessing ‘A’ Player talent. Our approach consistently brings together talent and employers who are the optimal cultural, operational, and strategic fit for each other.Our mission is to disrupt the recruitment industry by being fundamentally different from other recruitment agencies; being respectful, professional and ethical, working with high levels of integrity and providing feedback at every stage of the process.We aim to deliver the #ultimaterecruitmentexperience to all of our clients and candidates.

Allium Talent is Cobalt Search's sister company providing talent pipeline recruitment services into Saudi Arabia

Kingston Bagpuize, Oxfordshire, Gb

Established an inhouse talent acquisition function for Newton Europe, across all recruitment needs from graduate (c10,000 applications) to experienced hire (c3,000 applications). Developed and implemented a creative recruitment strategy, delivered process optimisation, source mix improvements, analysed key metrics to drive continuous improvements, ensuring an outstanding candidate experience. Implemented a social recruiting strategy.

Middlesex, England, Gb

Strategic and operational responsibility for the recruitment of all non-permanent agency contractors and temporary workers for Sky. Managing an onsite team (11), matrix management of all offsite support functions (c20).• Contract renegotiation, improving position to full managed service provider• Programme management of a 500 contractor/31 agency transition project• Growth of account, tripling value over the course of 15 months• Increased direct sourcing from 56% to 82% in 12 months• P&L, budgeting and forecasting responsibility• Consolidation of supply chain from 84 to 27• Working to a comprehensive set of SLAs• Providing detailed reporting and analysis

Middlesex, England, Gb

Providing support for Experis, sourcing both active and passive permanent and non-permanent candidates. Skills utilised include:• Stakeholder engagement, management and influencing• Talent mining and candidate sourcing through searching CV databases, the Internet, and social networking sites• Expert in the creation and use of Boolean search strings, facilitating the sourcing of passive as well as active candidates.

Toronto, On, Ca

Providing support for Experis, sourcing both active and passive permanent and non-permanent candidates, alongside screening and shortlisting candidates that have applied through Thomson Reuters' website and those responding to advertisements. Skills utilised include:• Stakeholder engagement, management and influencing• Talent mining and candidate sourcing through searching CV databases, the Internet, and social networking sites• Expert in the creation and use of Boolean search strings, facilitating the sourcing of passive as well as active candidates.

London, Gb

• Qualify suitable opportunities • Work closely with colleagues in Carlisle Staffing, designing solutions and ensuring business opportunities are maximised to the benefit of the whole company• Complete pre-tender, tender and proposal documents in order to win business, ensuring compliance with company standards, gathering and managing responses from other areas of the organisation (for example IT, Implementations)• Prepare, design and deliver client presentations• Maintain a library of bid material

London, England, Gb

Managing a Permanent Recruitment Team of 11 staff (7 new business, 4 corporate accounts) supplying IT Permanent staff across the full range of IT disciplines

London, England, Gb

• Project Management of Managed Vendor Agreement with 1 day/week on site representation, supplying 25 permanent staff via database, online and offline advertising and the management of 8 Secondary Suppliers. Chaired weekly meetings with the client and provided weekly and monthly MIS• Managed a New Business Contract Sales Team of 5 staff• A/C Manager of Getronics (formerly Wang Global) during its initial stages. Supplied a project team of 50 engineers for an 8-week project, which was completed ahead of schedule. The success of this project cemented Hays IT’s status as Sole Supplier to this client• Managed a project for Standard Chartered Bank to novate all contractors on site via non-preferred suppliers. Included negotiation with Standard Chartered Bank, non-preferred suppliers and contract staff.

• Managed team of 2 consultants and 2 resourcers supplying contract Desktop, Network and Communications staff to EDS Ltd, Computacenter, British Telecom, ICL, Siemens, Computer Science Corporation and Post Office• Personally placed over 200 contractors in 20 months• Personally improved Computer Team Group’s status on Computacenter’s Preferred Supplier List from 7th to 2nd• Responsible for growth of team figures achieving 160% of target.

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