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Kat's Adventures is a travel agency, tour operator, event management company. www.katsadventures.comThe mission of Curious Kat's Adventure Club is to spread happiness among people! We create joy, friendships, and a sense of achievement. Through trying out different things and meeting like minded people, the customers become part of Curious Kat's Family. They help create the community through volunteering their time, and get benefits in exchange for their help. We are all about working together on our dreams. You can tell us what you want and we find a way to make it happen. Whether your dream is to travel, have a group of fantastic friends or just bringing a little bit of adventure into your life by getting out of your comfort zone, join us and take the first step on your journey there.Curious Kat's Adventure Club is a very small but global company, with small overheads and virtual offices. This is how we can afford to provide quality on a budget. Our trips frequently include excellence in its class, but basic accommodation, such as hostels. We do this to enable you to explore more and travel more often. However more often than not upgrades to single rooms are available, even in the hostels and we do also have quite a few luxurious options with spa stays included.

Streamlining and setting up processesAdvising managers on the daily PM issuesRecruitment (designing competency based JDs and PSs, designing interview questions and tasks that correspond to competencies, advertising, shortlisting and interviewing the candidates)Visa and immigration issues for the sponsored employeesIIP re-accreditation projectDesigning and delivering management training sessionsPreparing of management reports to measure company progress on HR business objectivesStaffing of a new clinic - project management from the HR sidePolicy writingLocumsSetting up HR database system (workflows, on-line recruitment etc)Implementing and rolling out on-line recruitment moduleAdminitsrative dutiesBest 100Drafting and implementing communications strategyEditing HR ManualTNA

I was recommended by my colleagues at St. Christopher’s to CDG. Initially I started as a HR Assistant in order to gain more insight into general HR and in 2010 I was promoted to Resourcing OfficerMain achievements: • Implementing HRIS (Cascade) and rolling out self-service. I have been involved in every stage from setting up workflows, designing screens, through training managers on how to use it to the maintenance of the system and fielding queries• Project working. I have worked on a pilot of volunteering programme set to revolutionise the Welfare to Work sector, which is now being rolled out nationally. • Managing entire recruitment for CDG: from setting up processes and ensuring efficiency, through creating the interview questions and materials and interviewing to compliance checks• Cost effectiveness. I have set up a PSL and negotiated excellent rates with recruitment agencies and job boards. • Modernising of the paper filing system to ensure accuracy and ease of use. • Organising the electronic files database system to ensure easy access to the information• Signing the company up to Cycle to Work scheme and other benefits• Training and supervising 2 HR AssistantsResponsibilities:• Recruitment • Suppliers • Restructure • Organisational Charts • Payroll • Administering the company pension scheme and other benefits • HRIS • Ensuring the bonus forms, probation reviews and monthly one to ones are uploaded by the managers and done to the required standards and in the appropriate time frame• Absence management • Leavers • TUPE • Reports • Induction • Maternity process • Training/Coaching • Daily administration duties• Assisting with disciplinary/performance/attendance management proceedings as required

Responsibilities:• Liaising with branch members and committee members with regards to the mentoring scheme• Collating data and producing reportsReason for leaving: As I was studying for the CiPD qualification at the same time and worked full time for CDG I could not continue volunteering my time.

Main achievements: • Setting up a recruitment spreadsheet that allows everyone involved to check what stage of the process candidates are on• Negotiating excellent T&Cs with the suppliers• Maximising filing space by doing a review of the files and weeding out the ones we no longer needed • Setting up a new more efficient filing system for withdrawn candidates that allows to remove the unnecessary documents after prescribed length of timeResponsibilities:• Providing administrative support to HR Officers

Preparing and co-facilitating a workshop titled ‘Managing Redundancy with compliance, confidence and compassion’ for HR professionals within the legal sector on behalf of HR in Law - an organisation affiliated to the Chartered CIPD.

Main achievements: • Managing the entire recruitment process for all the restaurants in London (approximately 2 000 employees)• Project Work – managing the recruitment and staffing levels of a new venture opening, ‘York and Albany’ on time and within budget• Implementing a new database called Candidate Manager – creating and uploading all the standard documents and advertisements, as well as training colleagues on the basic features of the software.• Contract negotiations with agencies and job boards to maximise the budget• Reducing advertising costs – through implementing a monitoring system of the effectiveness of the job boards used• Contributing to employer branding – changed the perception of the brand within the catering community by more focused advertising• Reducing the number of vacancies from 60 – 70 to about 15 (in the first 2 months of my employment). I did this by targeting specific audiences on the specialised job boards• Shortening the time to hire with about 80% of the positions filled within 2 weeks (down from the 4 -5 weeks period that applied when I started)• Setting up requisition form system

• Business development and client appointments• Candidate generation and short listing• Conducting Warner Interviews with candidates• Identifying training needs and proposing appropriate training programs• Requesting applicants’ references from their present or past employers • Updating records when an employee receives a promotion or changes address• Keeping up to date with the knowledge of legislation related to recruitment and employment

(fixed term contract, recruiting for PWC)

Collecting and collating qualitative and quantitative data Maintaining databases Writing progress and literature reports Liaising with clients and multidisciplinary staff

General office administration dutiesPrior to working at Beresford & Co., I worked for one year as an Administrator at the English College, London. The previous appointment, after Alaja, was as a Front of House Manager for one year for the Souk Bazaar Restaurant in London.

* Preparing reports for managers within the organizations * Interviewing and assisting with the selection of the employees* Administering aptitude and interest tests and personality questionnaires* Explaining the organization's employment policies and referring applicants to the hiring manager* Job evaluation, Implementing appraisals system* Assisting with designing motivational structures for employees (salary and bonuses)* Identifying training needs of the employees * Designing and providing appropriate training programs* Designing promotional campaigns and putting them into practice * Organizing integration workshops and away days