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Worked on a number of short term assignments assisting clients including Goodman Fielder, SAP, News ltd, Ventia, Samsung and Vodafone.My role was to source, select and on-board a wide range of candidates across various professional staff in Sales, Marketing Finance, ICT, HR, Legal, Purchasing, SHEQ and support functions. My challenge was to manage the end to end recruitment process including sourcing, agency management, internal transfers, internal movement, on-boarding and… Show more Worked on a number of short term assignments assisting clients including Goodman Fielder, SAP, News ltd, Ventia, Samsung and Vodafone.My role was to source, select and on-board a wide range of candidates across various professional staff in Sales, Marketing Finance, ICT, HR, Legal, Purchasing, SHEQ and support functions. My challenge was to manage the end to end recruitment process including sourcing, agency management, internal transfers, internal movement, on-boarding and re-deployment. Show less

Dell delivers technology solutions that help countries, communities, customers and people everywhere to achieve more, whether they're at home, work, school or anywhere in their worldSales Recruitment Specialist (contract role) The main focus of the role was the recruitment of Account Executives, Pre-Sales Consultants and Technical Sales Specialist. The contact has been extended three times.AchievementsDesigned and delivered a “Candidate Care” workshop for the APJ… Show more Dell delivers technology solutions that help countries, communities, customers and people everywhere to achieve more, whether they're at home, work, school or anywhere in their worldSales Recruitment Specialist (contract role) The main focus of the role was the recruitment of Account Executives, Pre-Sales Consultants and Technical Sales Specialist. The contact has been extended three times.AchievementsDesigned and delivered a “Candidate Care” workshop for the APJ regionDesigned a “how to sell Dell” workshop for the APJ regionSuccessfully built a business case for “Great Place to Work” accreditationReduced time to fill for Account executives to an average of 22 daysReduced Technical Sales Specialists vacancies to 0 for first time in 3+ yearsIncreased direct fill rate to 92% Show less

IAG is an international general insurance group, with operations in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Asia.AchievementsReduced time to recruit retail staff by 14%Re-wrote the 'how to recruit' guide for Retail hiring managersIncreased attendance at assessment centres to 97%Introduced innovative advertisingGained final buy in from Line Managers for new Employee Valuation PropositionTALENT 2 onsite at QBE Insurance SEPTEMBER 2008 - FEBRUARY 2009A leading… Show more IAG is an international general insurance group, with operations in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Asia.AchievementsReduced time to recruit retail staff by 14%Re-wrote the 'how to recruit' guide for Retail hiring managersIncreased attendance at assessment centres to 97%Introduced innovative advertisingGained final buy in from Line Managers for new Employee Valuation PropositionTALENT 2 onsite at QBE Insurance SEPTEMBER 2008 - FEBRUARY 2009A leading ASX listed Human Resources company providing executive search and recruitment, Human Resources Information Systems and Talent Acquisition Management (Recruitment Process Outsourcing). Show less

A Korn/Ferry company & global leader in middle management recruitment. The company is also a specialist in the provision of Managed Solutions (outsourced recruitment centres).Recruitment Specialist - Diageo (Diageo is the world's largest premium drinks business, with an unrivalled collection of brands, including Bundaberg Rum, Guinness, Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker and Baileys. In Australia, the company operates from eight locations with almost 600 staff)Part of the HR team and… Show more A Korn/Ferry company & global leader in middle management recruitment. The company is also a specialist in the provision of Managed Solutions (outsourced recruitment centres).Recruitment Specialist - Diageo (Diageo is the world's largest premium drinks business, with an unrivalled collection of brands, including Bundaberg Rum, Guinness, Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker and Baileys. In Australia, the company operates from eight locations with almost 600 staff)Part of the HR team and working in partnership with line managers in the recruitment of both internal and external sales and marketing staff across the country. Managing the transactional recruitment of an estimated 111 roles annually, with 80% of candidates to be sourced by the Recruitment Centre of Excellence (RCOE). Managing the recruitment of 20-25 roles at any given time.Charged with "transforming BDM recruitment". Recruitnment software Brassring/KenexaAchievementsThe recruitment team awarded the inaugural Simpler Faster Better "Spirit of Diageo Award" 2006. In addition, I was personally nominated for this award in 2007 Show less

successfully merging the 'Brands' and 'Business Services' teams to achieve budgetWinner of the 'New Consultant of the Year' award 2004Winner of the "Turning Heads" award in September 2003 - as national employee of the month determined by the senior management teamBillings regularly exceeded $100,000 per quarterHighest billing consultant in NSW for Q1 in 2005 (15 consultants)Highest billing consultant nationally for March 2005 (over 80… Show more successfully merging the 'Brands' and 'Business Services' teams to achieve budgetWinner of the 'New Consultant of the Year' award 2004Winner of the "Turning Heads" award in September 2003 - as national employee of the month determined by the senior management teamBillings regularly exceeded $100,000 per quarterHighest billing consultant in NSW for Q1 in 2005 (15 consultants)Highest billing consultant nationally for March 2005 (over 80 consultants)Recruitment Software: Recruit ASP Show less

the on-line recruitment leader, the world's largest recruitment advertising agency network and one of the world's largest search and selection agencies.

Managing existing relationships and developing new business in Publishing, Broadcasting and Entertainment industries.

Recruited and managed a team of two consultants (contract and part-qualified) and one administrator as well as maintaining personal fee levels."Mentor" to two additional new consultants based in other teams.Relationship manager working closely with the BBC's Financial Recruitment Project Manager leading to eventual signing of PSA.AchievementsFee income 40% over target (Outer London team record) - January 2004Successful business development for other teams including;… Show more Recruited and managed a team of two consultants (contract and part-qualified) and one administrator as well as maintaining personal fee levels."Mentor" to two additional new consultants based in other teams.Relationship manager working closely with the BBC's Financial Recruitment Project Manager leading to eventual signing of PSA.AchievementsFee income 40% over target (Outer London team record) - January 2004Successful business development for other teams including; Legal, HR, IT,Office SupportAs a result of personal marketing to Nortel Networks, HW Group was invited to respond to a National preferred supplier agreement (was part of thesuccessful presentation team)Successfully introducing new business from major target clients including;United News & Media, Universal Music, BBC, William Hill and The Pentland GroupSignificant client development for the team with McDonalds, Phillips, Guinness, Compass, Nortel, MFI, The Car Phone Warehouse Show less

JWEL was established in early 1996 to work specifically within search and selection of Senior Management for organisations outside the parent company's 'traditional' area of Banking.ConsultantEstablished a client base within Distribution, Logistics and Management Consultancy.AchievementsSecured the first three placements for this newly established part of the companySuccessful placements for HR Management and Logistics Management roles made with clients including… Show more JWEL was established in early 1996 to work specifically within search and selection of Senior Management for organisations outside the parent company's 'traditional' area of Banking.ConsultantEstablished a client base within Distribution, Logistics and Management Consultancy.AchievementsSecured the first three placements for this newly established part of the companySuccessful placements for HR Management and Logistics Management roles made with clients including Woolworths and McKinsey & CoMonthly prize for highest number of interviews in five months out of seven Show less

The world's largest staffing company with offices in 58 countries around the world. Adecco provides the services of temporary and full-time clerical, industrial and technical staff. Brands included Jonathan Wren and Alfred Marks.

Cultivated relationships to maximise levels of business from existing and potential City clients.Project Manager for a major recruitment project - part-time sales staff on behalf of a national client AchievementsContributing to being awarded Highest Revenue Branch, Permanent Division 100% success in filling all part time Automobile Association retail roles across London, resulting in the securing of a major national contract

Retention of the existing business levels and successful sales and marketing to new clients.Responsibility for branch profit and expenditure.Management of two consultants and one assistant.AchievementsProgressed the branch from the 39th to 31st in the company's profit ranking. (115 branches).Reduced the average number of debtor days from 45 to 32 days.

Solely developing new business for the branch Increasing revenue by over 30%.