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The Winning Group is an award winning, family owned retail group made up of Winning Appliances, Appliances Online, Home Clearance and Winning Services.As part of the Team Experience (HR) team at the Winning Group, I first supported our Logistics and Installation business, Winning Services and most recently our Technology and Marketing business areas as a TX (HR) Business Partner. As a trusted partner to the Winning team, I align business objectives with people and management. As a generalist, I support all facets of Human Resources for Winning Services including recruitment, onboarding, induction, training, culture, manager capability, performance and employee relations.

I was promoted to establish and lead a centralised recruitment and rostering team which represented a key strategic project for the executive in 2016. The Talent Management Team brought together all existing rostering, administration and recruitment resources with the goal of consolodating and improving our recruitment and workforce management practices to create organisational efficiencies. My team of 5 recruit for all positions in the organisation up to Senior Management (approximately 150+ per year), and produce weekly rosters for 29 child care sites (approximately 500 staff). Key Achievements:• Designed and implemented a workforce plan for the Talent Management Team that took advantage of each employee’s skills and expertise, while ensuring flexibility and responsiveness to changing workload demands• Successfully centralised the rostering of 13 child care sites where rosters were previously produced by individual managers. This was an incredibly high profile project with significant resistance from internal stakeholders. Successfully decreased agency usage by 50%• Volume recruitment: Designed and implemented a 4 step application and assessment process for the first “Ascend” Traineeship Program (20 places) which included video applications, custom designed practical assessment centres, psychometric assessment and behavioural interviews• System expert for easyEMPLOYER (rostering and time capture software) • Implemented X-Ref reference checking software for use in volume recruitment processes• Management of vendor relationships with two recruitment agencies for temp placements

In a generalist role, I supported all areas of HR for a not-for-profit organisation with over 700 staff. This was a fantastic opportunity for me to innovate – change processes, utilise new technology, and begin to transform recruitment and talent acquisition. Key Achievements:• Independently implemented Communities@Work’s first e-Recruitment system• Delivered recruitment training for hiring managers – including developing a system user guide• Redesigned new starter forms and implemented Adobe E-Sign to significantly reduce time to hire for new starters• Secretariat support for Enterprise Bargaining Committee. • Redesigned the Communities@Work careers webpage• Led the development of a recruitment marketing video to use in job advertisements for all child care roles• Critically evaluated several psychometric assessment providers and successfully implemented the McQuaig system

Operating in a KPI driven environment, my role was to match Human Resources candidates to Federal Government jobs based on both technical skills and culture fit. This involved building relationships and developing new business with key senior clients, managing and screening applications, and conducting interviews and reference checks.

After volunteering with the Student Equity Regional Partnerships program for 2 years, I was offered a paid Senior Ambassador role. This role involved administering programs with Student Equity's regional partnership schools. I led two programs which both involved around 50 high school students where I managed a team of volunteers and ran the program including liaising with presenters, teachers and students.• Engineers Without Borders Sustainability workshop for Thursday Island students• The 'Explore Your Universe' excursion including a workshop and presentation from Nobel Prize winner Professor Brian Schmidt.

I ran three laboratory sessions each week for a first year psychology course, each consisting of a maximum of 20 students. I delivered material set by the lecturer, but also have the freedom to design activities to facilitate deeper understanding of the concepts presented in lectures. I was responsible for marking weekly quizzes, and am also the first point of contact for questions about the course for all of my students.

As a trainee I was responsible for filing and safe custody, reception and front office, diary management, client enquiries including billing and payments, ingoing and outgoing mail, conveyancing administration and banking.