Liz Kane Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

I manage the internal recruitment for Asia Pacific region. This involves sourcing and hiring talent for a wide variety of positions across our service lines, which includes: Claims & Dispute Resolution, Quantum, Delay & Disruption, Engineering, Forensic Accounting and Commercial Damages and Advisory; which covers Strategic Advisory, Commercial Advisory, Project Delivery and Project Controls. The positions that I typically recruit for range from Partner-level hires to Expert Witnesses to emerging consultants within the infrastructure and construction industry. We work on high profile projects and pride ourselves on the high quality, innovative approach that we provide to our Clients.HKA is the world’s leading consultancy of choice for multi-disciplinary expert and specialist services in risk mitigation and dispute resolution within the capital projects and infrastructure sector. As trusted independent consultants, experts and advisors, we deliver solutions amid uncertainty, dispute and overrun, and provide the insights that make the best possible outcomes a reality for public and private sector clients worldwide. Our experts have testified across the globe on many of the largest quantum, delay, engineering, architecture, and commercial damages matters. If you are interested to find out more, please visit our website: https://www.hka.com/about-us/

Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

Harwell, Oxfordshire

I manage the entire recruitment process for Ricardo Energy & Environment, identifying and attracting talent with a particular focus on Sustainable Transport, Air Quality & Environment, Environmental Policy, Energy & Climate Change, Resource Efficiency & Waste Management, Chemical Risk, Energy & Power Networks and Water and EIA practice areas. I also manage the recruitment for our central function areas too, which include Sales, Marketing, IT, Finance, Commercial, Bidding and HR business areas.I have also recently completed a Recruitment Improvement project for Ricardo Rail, focusing on their offices throughout Asia. This was a three-month project, which I project managed in order to identify and implement specific recruitment improvement initiatives that would enhance candidate experiences, expand their candidate pipeline and remove recruitment wastage.

Oxford, United Kingdom

· Working alongside the Hiring managers to identify the resourcing plan and ensure that recruitment plans connect to fill vacancies, skills gaps and that a pipeline of qualified project candidates are waiting to be hired.· Take accountability for leading the end-to-end recruitment process and develop a resource strategy in conjunction with recruiting line managers to attract high quality candidates. · Advise recruiting managers on recruitment market conditions for specific portfolios and advise on the most appropriat e recruitment channels, taking advantage of changes in other relevant companies. · Drive candidate attraction and build talent pools using direct sourcing methods, marketing material and recruitment agencies. · Conduct pre-screening activities and conversations to improve the quality of CVs presented to recruiting managers. · Develop links with relevant university departments, research institutions and international development organisations to tap into their alumni networks to ensure a quality pipeline of post-graduates. · Advise recruiting managers on best practice recruitment processes, creating attractive and competitive adverts, accurate job descriptions, and embedding those processes in conjunction with the rest of the team. · Train, coach and influence recruiting managers on interviewing and selection skills.

Harwell, Oxfordshire

I am responsible for managing the entire recruitment process for Ricardo Energy & Environment, identifying and attracting talent with a particular focus on Sustainable Transport, Energy & Climate Change, Air Quality & Environment, Resource Efficiency & Waste Management, Chemical Risk, Energy & Power Networks and Water and EIA practice areas. Also responsible for the Sales, Marketing, IT, Finance, Commercial, Bidding and HR business areas.

Darwin

• Manage the end to end recruitment process for both white and blue collar roles. • Filling a wide variety of roles across the Defence sector on a number of different contracts.• Assist with the mobilisation process and onboarding of candidates.• Assist in designing and implementing attraction strategies in line with workforce planning. • Increase candidate attraction strategies by using online and local advertising and social media and also creating talent pipelines in order to engage passive candidates.• Effectively build strong working relationships with hiring managers and stakeholders both internally and externally. • Providing advice, training and support to line managers.• Organise group assessment interviews.• Working alongside business leaders to reduce agency spend for short term staff. • Provide interview training to new recruiters and managers.• Creating culture change awareness.

Darwin, Australia

• Specialised in recruiting senior finance staff and also office support staff within white and blue collar industries.• 360 degree recruitment• Meet various key performance indicators including business development calls, client meetings and monthly financial target• Responsible for building and maintaining client relationships and determining recruitment need• Strategic business development • Conduct market and industry analysis • Conduct job assessments and determining job risk levels in accordance with Occupational Health and Safety standards• Implementing candidate attraction strategies via a range of methods • Registering and interviewing candidates both over the phone and face to face • Conducting reference checks• Responsible for arranging pre-employment medicals • Providing aftercare on placements made for both temporary and permanent placements • Responsible for writing and publishing job advertisements and managing applications• Negotiating both client charge rates and candidate pay rates • Reporting and administrative duties

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Provide consistent, high quality and proactive advice to both advertisers and users of the website• Encourage advertisers to adopt new product features in order to ensure a high standard of advertising throughout the site• Respond to incoming telephone calls and e-mail enquiries using a variety of tools to address the issue • Educate customers on how to best use the website and products for successful advertising• Responsible for reporting and following up and technical issues• Proactively seek product feedback from customers and collate and feedback to the relevant department

Swindon, United Kingdom

• Responsible for attracting candidates and matching them to temporary and permanent positions with client companies• Attract candidates using a variety of skills including; drafting advertisements for the use in a wide range of media, networking, headhunting and referrals• Conduct interviews with candidates, conduct reference checks and match them to appropriate vacancies• Attract business from client candidates using sales, marketing techniques and networking both over the phone and face to face• Work towards targets that relate to the number of candidates placed, business leads and the revenue generated on a monthly basis• Negotiating pay and salary rates and finalising arrangements between both clients and candidates

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Various positions whilst travelling around Australia.

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Responding to email, phone and face to face enquiries• Proactively selling a wide variety of STA products to the mass market such as flights, hotels, tours, insurance and activities• Working to individual and branch sales targets, pricing products with a view to maximising profit margin• Developing and building relationships with customers in order to improve future business• Providing a tailored service to each customer, often working unsociable hours to ensure customer needs are met• Taking ownership of escalated issues and ensuring they are professionally resolved• Complying and adhering to company travel policies / procedures• Work proactively with team members to maintain service standards• Supervise new team member and assist in product knowledge training

United Kingdom

Various full-time and part-time positions whilst studying.

First Class Bachelor'S Degree, Tourism And Travel Services Management, First Class Honours

Modules studied included: Accountancy and Finance, Economics, Critical Issues in Tourism, Strategy and Leadership, Business Management.

Four A Levels: English Literature, General Studies, Sociology, Food Technology

Eleven Gcse'S