Linda Mckenzie Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

As 2IC to the National Workforce Delivery Manager, I was responsible for people management duties and the delivery of senior administrative tasks for a large, high performing team within Defence Force Recruiting's (DFR) Headquarters. My role performed senior administrative, data entry and analysis functions with a heavy focus on stakeholder relationships.Key responsibilities: • Extensive data entry and analysis duties relating to DFR’s recruiting targets and performance, including regular fortnightly/monthly reporting tasks in addition to frequent ad hoc requests. • Stakeholder engagement – responding to enquiries from managers, headquarters staff and Australian Defence Force personnel and communicating information out to the business around areas of focus and risks to job fulfilment. • Administration support for National Workforce Delivery Manager. This included assisting with drafting policy and procedure documents, updating documents on the team intranet page for the business to reference, and collecting evidence and writing responses for formal Requests for Information from DFR stakeholders and Ministers of Parliament. • People Management duties – providing direction, support and mentoring to Team Leaders, and performance management. • Performed end to end recruitment processes for internal team vacancies. This included writing job ads and position descriptions, shortlisting, preparing interview questions and conducting candidate interviews, submitting staff hire requests and providing candidate feedback. I also completed administration for on-boarding new staff including coordinating system access and IT assets as well as planning the on-boarding training schedule.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

In this role I was responsible for driving National General Entry recruitment results through our team's administrative and data management functions. This included leading a team of four (4) high performing Coordinator staff, and ensuring the General Entry team were delivering exceptional service to stakeholders and using every lever available to drive results. This role was a key liaison point for DFR Area Managers, HQ Military Operations, Reporting Team and external stakeholders within ADF and Defence Travel Solutions. I also performed critical analysis and reporting tasks relating to General Entry.

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Responsible for the coordination of administrative processes to facilitate national target fulfillment for general entry positions for the Army Portfolio. This included manually tracking and moving targets for DFRCs to fill with candidates (heavily Microsoft Excel focussed), reporting and providing analysis for target results and implications for any service initiated changes to job vacancies. I was the main point of contact for Army General Entry matters for both internal and external stakeholders and built a strong reputation with the Army Recruitment Liaison Office. I also coordinated nominations for the Army Diversity recruitment initiatives for female and indigenous candidates on behalf of Defence Force Recruiting, and advocated for eligible candidates to attend the courses.

Canberra

In my role as Recruitment Officer, I assisted in the end to end management of high level recruitment processes for the University, and provided operational support for recruitment and appointment processes. As part of the ANU Search and Talent initiative, I was responsible for researching and identifying outstanding talent for appointment to both corporate and academic positions. A key focus of my role was to provide an exceptional standard of candidate care.

Canberra, Australia

As Hudson's dedicated Scribe Manager I successfully facilitated and managed the provision of scribing services for both minor recruitment processes, as well as numerous bulk recruitment rounds for Federal Government departments, both locally and nationally.Hudson is a global talent solutions company with expertise in leadership and specialised recruitment, contracting solutions, recruitment process outsourcing, talent management and eDiscovery.

Provided administrative and delivery support to Canberra's Public Sector, Office Support and Talent Management practices.

Canberra

I began my career with Hudson in 2011 as the Receptionist for the Canberra office, following the completion of a Bachelor Degree of Science in Psychology.Key Responsibilities: • Greeting clients and candidates • Attending to phone and email enquiries • Managing the calendars of Recruitment Consultants; including booking and rescheduling appointments in personal calendars and booking meeting rooms in shared calendar. • Data entry of new candidate records into CRM • Taking inventory of office supplies and ordering stock as required • Maintaining meeting rooms and office floor as required