Michael Barrett Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

- Collaborated and strategized with hiring managers to help identify their talent needs, define their recruitment processes and manage the end-to-end process including contract negotiation and closing, ensuring internal equity is kept in line. Working internationally across North America, Europe and China. - General talent assessment and interviewing skills to ensure that the right candidates were being sent forward to the hiring manager for review.- Also worked as a sourcing partner with other recruiters on especially difficult roles to fill. This means understanding what work has already been done on the search, what candidates would make it through the pipeline and dedicating more time to sourcing on these searches.- A focus on talent intelligence and talent engagement with lots of research, market mapping and pipeline building.- Worked on several projects related to DEI, recruiting guides and an internal team hub. - Hired into several projects such as Fortnite, LEGO Fortnite, Rocket League and the Epic x Disney collaboration.

London, United Kingdom.

- Primarily responsible for hiring into the art and animation teams here, along with other roles in areas such as business operations, HR, Data Analytics and Community Management. My offer acceptance rate was 84%, with 89% of these hires coming without using an agency (65+ hires).- Hired into the Fall Guys and Yahtzee Dice with Buddies teams.

London, United Kingdom

- During my time at Datascope, I rose through the ranks from an Associate Recruiter to a Senior/Principal Consultant within the company. - Built the desk out to the point I was leading two other consultants, both of whom have gone on to be successful recruiters in the video games industry. - I was the account manager for several high-profile gaming studios and I maintained good relationships with these clients to ensure they were happy and were getting the service they were looking for. - I resourced for numerous roles across the art and animation sector at all levels. - The role mainly encompassed a lot of headhunting and negotiation, as well as general database management, marketing of roles and some business development.- Working with game studios across all platforms in the UK, Europe, and a little bit of North America and Asia also.

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Lincoln, United Kingdom

Los Angeles, United States.

Professional FIFA player for the Birmingham Salvo CGS franchise and Team Dignitas.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), 2:1 Computer Games Production., Computer Games And Programming Skills

Btec National Diploma, 3D Animation & Visual Effects, Merit/Merit/Merit

Nine Gcse'S At Grade C+ Including Maths, Science, English + I.C.T.