As an experienced business leader within the Recruitment space, it is wonderful to work with a organisation that is as forward thinking as CPL. Having the confidence of a progressive Pan-European organisation allows us to perform in a manner which is rare within our sector. A true small company relationship experience which is backed up by a multi-national's infrastructure. Our clients enjoy a yes we can make that happen attitude as we endeavour to entrust our talented teams to create solutions to aid their retention, budgetary and legislative challenges. Our Best Of Breed systems and technology allow us to identify, engage and strategically manage high numbers of valuable sector specific staff. These teams are manged and placed across a wide range of national and local clients that require Flexible and Long Term Talent Solutions with immediacy.

During the last year I have been assisting clients to streamline their business recruitment processes, increase sales and profitability, migrate businesses to e-platforms and open eyes to new strategies that enhance ROI on existing clients. All of this has been very rewarding but has made me realise that my the deployment of my skills is most enjoyable working with teams and enhancing their skills and goals both at work and life.

Challenged with taking a start up to 'Everest Like' Heights, SRSbecame the largest independently owned recruitment company inBerkshire. Branding, marketing and business generation were theinitial primary roles with no budgets in place and the need to makemultiple tiny steps to create a £1m business within the first year. Thebusiness evolved and the experiences have given me many keylearnings.Enhanced annual top line by Circa 2500% over an 8 year period bypersonally and collectively communicating effectively withcustomers to determine needs, provide recommendations andupselling services / volumes.Leadership of national sales and resourcing staff (circa 28 members inc 4 regional sales managers) with minimised internal attrition due to effective supervision of entire sales function.Generated company growth for 8 consecutive years through organicclient selection / acquisition / management whilst building companymarquee client from £300k to a turnover in excess of £10m annually.Generated monthly, quarterly and annual sales / forecasting reports.These matched the respective sales objectives.Ongoing tracking of sales to develop senior leadership reports fordevelopment planning.Streamlined hiring processes, including identifying and staffing toptalent.Created and implemented sales training and processes to deliver.

WCN Plc, is a leading e-recruitment software supplier and a pioneer of e-recruitment, set up in 1995 to meet the anticipated demand from employers to recruit via the Internet. We offer a unique blend of recruitment expertise and software to support recruiters at the worlds largest organisations. We aim to provide our clients with a complete solution from candidate attraction to recruitment website design and management, response handling, outsourcing and strategic advice through to online application forms and tracking systems. We work with international banks, major professional firms, FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies, public sector organisations and other leading national and multinational organisations.

Recruitment Prospects are now Readings largest independent industrial recruitment agency, boasting major clients such as Tesco, JLP and Christian Salvesen. During 2002 - 08 Prospects doubled and the business won 3 industry awards. A traditional paper based recuitment company was forced into an electronic age whilst managing 9 direct reportees located in a multibranch network. Recruitment Prospects remains one of Readings leading agencies in temporary recruitment with a growing permanent professional resourcing focus; an evolving business to meet the needs of an evolving marketplace.

To sell referencing and marketing data to the financial markets (predoninantly compliance departments), Business Week 1,000 prospects and the top tier of D&B's exsisting client base. During 2001 I was a european citation winner and globally top performer within segment. During the my time at D&B I accounted for 65% of the 'Worldbase' product sales within Europe.