Sarah-Jane Stratford Email & Phone Number

Mckinnon, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

The Zalt Group is an Employee Relations Consultancy specialising in Workplace Conflict Resolution. Services include: Conflict coaching, mediations, investigations and workplace health checks/audits. My role involved providing administrative support to the business by:• Coordinating employee interviews and ensuring participants understood the process they were taking part in.• Communicating the value proposition of taking part in company health checks and identifying the overarching… Show more The Zalt Group is an Employee Relations Consultancy specialising in Workplace Conflict Resolution. Services include: Conflict coaching, mediations, investigations and workplace health checks/audits. My role involved providing administrative support to the business by:• Coordinating employee interviews and ensuring participants understood the process they were taking part in.• Communicating the value proposition of taking part in company health checks and identifying the overarching themes from the results of people surveys. • Taking an active role in management meetings and strategizing alongside Directors on future initiatives• Conducting feedback interviews post completion of our services• Managing in-house marketing activities: LinkedIn and targeted email marketing campaigns via Mailchimp. Created corporate videos and showreels for use in securing new speaking engagements at industry conferences and events. • Managing Zalt Group events including Training, HR Leaders round table discussions & networking forums etc. Circulated key take-away information to post-event attendees.• Maintained a database of past training participants, general contacts & testimonials etc.• Administered corporate website: https://www.thezaltgroup.com.au/ • Internal recruitment including advertising roles, source and selection, shortlisting and carrying out 1st stage telephone interviews Show less

Bristol, United Kingdom

Placing permanent and contract IT professionals within a wide variety of organisations, offering professionally tailored full lifecycle recruitment solutions. - Stakeholder Engagement. Working with key people and partnering across the business to fully understand requirements.- Search & Selection – utilising databases, job boards & Linkedin but also engaging candidates in their own social hubs (GitHub/Stack Overflow etc) and headhunting specialist roles.- Candidate management –… Show more Placing permanent and contract IT professionals within a wide variety of organisations, offering professionally tailored full lifecycle recruitment solutions. - Stakeholder Engagement. Working with key people and partnering across the business to fully understand requirements.- Search & Selection – utilising databases, job boards & Linkedin but also engaging candidates in their own social hubs (GitHub/Stack Overflow etc) and headhunting specialist roles.- Candidate management – guiding candidates through each step of the process from CV submission through to interview(s), offer and acceptance. Remaining in touch after on-boarding and maintaining an audit trail throughout.I'm use my resourcefulness and 'never-give-up' approach to recruiting the most difficult-to-fill roles; aligning company requirements to the candidate market and I give realistic expectations. Show less

Bristol, United Kingdom

My role here focused on personnel tasks such as in house recruitment, writing and issuing contracts, authoring and distributing health and safety communications to the workforce and running & recording weekly business meetings for the Management team. I also updated all of the company policies and mission statements.

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Meeting the needs of my clients with a commercially viable solution. • Interpreting detailed job specifications (Writing them on behalf of clients when applicable).• Searching and screening thousands of CV’s from varying databases and online job boards.• Approaching potential candidates with job specifics to qualify and secure interest.• Scheduling regular meetings with HR, Line Managers and Heads of Departments in order to fully assess and understand their ever-changing… Show more • Meeting the needs of my clients with a commercially viable solution. • Interpreting detailed job specifications (Writing them on behalf of clients when applicable).• Searching and screening thousands of CV’s from varying databases and online job boards.• Approaching potential candidates with job specifics to qualify and secure interest.• Scheduling regular meetings with HR, Line Managers and Heads of Departments in order to fully assess and understand their ever-changing resource needs and culture.• Advertising within the parameters of the law and industry best practice. Ensuring my adverts attracted the right calibre of candidate for the role and providing a response to each candidate to their application in a timely manner.• Staying abreast of relevant business news, ensuring clients were aware of any changes to legislation that may impact their business from a recruitment/ HR perspective• Building pipelines of technical talent and providing competitor analysis to assist in talent attraction• Interviewing candidates both face to face and via the telephone. Scheduling interviews with clients along with any necessary technical or psychometric profiling. • Managing all offers and subsequent employee start dates and maintaining a high quality of aftercare• Ensuring audit trails existed in each case and being responsible for the integrity of data contained within the internal database• Negotiating and completing legally binding contracts between us, our contractors and our clients. Show less

Bristol, United Kingdom

After 8 successful years in the Travel Industry, I joined Experis, the worlds’ largest IT & T recruitment consultancy to embark upon a new career in Recruitment. Commencing as an entry-level consultant, I was tasked with re-establishing contact with old accounts that had not been contacted in recent years. I managed to turn two of these accounts into some of our teams’ biggest billing clients! I went on to specialise in the Microsoft /Network Infrastructure arena and approached new businesses… Show more After 8 successful years in the Travel Industry, I joined Experis, the worlds’ largest IT & T recruitment consultancy to embark upon a new career in Recruitment. Commencing as an entry-level consultant, I was tasked with re-establishing contact with old accounts that had not been contacted in recent years. I managed to turn two of these accounts into some of our teams’ biggest billing clients! I went on to specialise in the Microsoft /Network Infrastructure arena and approached new businesses with real value-added proposals. Show less

Bristol, United Kingdom

Store Manager 2001-2006 Assistant Manager 2000-2001 Travel Consultant 1998-2000I spent 8 years in the Travel Industry working for Going Places (which latterly became Thomas Cook). I entered at Travel Consultant level and rose to Branch Manager within 3 years, I managed 4 different stores in my time, won 3x top store awards and ended up managing Bristol’s flagship store which turned over £8m per year.Achievements:• Won 3 regional top store awards• Top store seller… Show more Store Manager 2001-2006 Assistant Manager 2000-2001 Travel Consultant 1998-2000I spent 8 years in the Travel Industry working for Going Places (which latterly became Thomas Cook). I entered at Travel Consultant level and rose to Branch Manager within 3 years, I managed 4 different stores in my time, won 3x top store awards and ended up managing Bristol’s flagship store which turned over £8m per year.Achievements:• Won 3 regional top store awards• Top store seller and retained a place in the top 3 performers divisionally. Show less