Joseph Edney Email and Phone Number

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀Solving Talent Problems for fast growing, ambitious software houses and tech businesses.

Building high performing teams in growing businesses.Sales, Account Management, Product Marketing, Customer Success,

I set up and organised the following MeetUp events in the Oxfordshire area:Java Oxford: https://www.meetup.com/J-O-X-Java-Oxford-Meetup/PHP OxfordPHP BerkshireGo OxfordDevOps OxfordAgile OxfordWomen in Tech - OxfordLeaders in Tech - OxfordOxford Video Games MeetUp for Techies and Creatives

Doing talks and presentations to students on careers within Technology. Volunteering to do Mock Interviews for students and offering guidance and support.

Own a very small amount of shares in the following, excellent startups through Crowdfunding websites, like Crowdcube,:- GoHenry Limited - Now Exited- Oxi-Tech Solutions- Rest Less- PhotoCrowd Limited- Powervault Limited- Hire Space Website Limited- Vibe Tickets Limited- Molecular Warehouse Limited

Hiring up to 20 new hires for rapid expansion, including, but not limited to:- NodeJS Developers- React Developers- Test Automation Engineers- Manual Testers- Non-Functional Testers- Software Engineering Leads- Embedded Software Engineers (Headsets)- Azure DevOps EngineersHowever, if you just want to work at a great company like VoCoVo - reach out. :-)Relations

CETA Software are looking to scale up their team quickly in order to push a new product out in April to the Film and Television sector. They brought in the Humand Talent team to scale up quickly using a range of Talent Solutions.

Since becoming a Director, I made a big push for the company to have a business plan, company values and a clear and transparent progression plan for all staff (something which we never had before). I lead the company discussions around the values, which we decided as an organisation with every employee involved, and then rolled this out to the business. I wrote the business plan from scratch and then after several reviews implemented this. I arranged for personal progression plans to be created with quarterly meetings around finding out from our teams what they want from the organisation. I also made a basic organisational chart for the business. I am currently in the process of breaking down all of our internal systems and processes and building them back up again with the input of our staff. This includes everything from the dealings with candidates through to sales and marketing as well as redesigning our internal database and CRM tools. Since I introduced the more collaborative, employee focused management style we have changed the profitability of the business positively and staff retention has shot up. Although still at early stages of Senior Leadership, I have made great strides in this area largely down to proactively reading and learning more in my spare time. I have looked at how Servant Leadership, Leading from the Front and Agile methodologies can be implemented in my domain and read books on this subject, as well as attended seminars and webinars. I am looking to complete the REC Leadership qualification in the next 12 months.

Responsible for revenue of over £2.5 million per annum into the business.My role is recruiting permanent and contract staff for FTSE250 companies in sectors such as Defence, Banking and Publishing. I am exposed to very niche skill sets and I am involved in the full recruitment lifecycle, from sales and new business development to contractual administration, account management and candidate resourcing.More recently, since becoming a Director I made a big push for the company to have a business plan, company values and a clear and transparent progression plan for all staff. I lead the company discussions around the values which were decided as an organisation and rolled this out to the business. I wrote the business plan from scratch and then after several reviews implemented this. I arranged for personal progression plans to be created with quarterly meetings around finding out from our teams what they want from the organisation. I am currently in the process of breaking down all of our internal systems and processes and building them back up again with the input of our staff. This includes everything from the dealings with candidates through to sales and marketing. Since I introduced the more collaborative management style we have changed the profitablity of the business and staff retention has shot up. January 2012 - Joined as Resourcer on an 18 month Trainee Recruitment Consultant Programme.September 2012 - Promoted to Associate ConsultantApril 2013 - Promotion to Recruitment ConsultantOctober 2013 - Promotion to Senior Recruitment ConsultantFebruary 2014 - Promotion to Regional Management TeamMay 2015 - Promotion to Principal Recruitment ConsultantAugust 2016Key Account DirectorSeptember 2017 - Company Director

In this part-time Director position, I was involved in the formation of a new online business. I have been involved heavily in the development of the site from a managerial point of view. I also derived a marketing stratergy and long term aims for the business.

In this Interim role, I dealt with customer service for large enterprise companies such as House of Fraser, Fly53, Symantec, and Red Cross.