OPEN TO WORK DUE TO REDUNDANCY, AVAILABLE DECEMBER 2024As the Senior Talent Acquisition Manager at ForrestBrown - an award winning commercial tax consultancy, specialising in research and development (R&D) tax credits - I have been in the unique and exciting position to help our small but mighty business grow.I joined the business at a time of significant growth and have helped to deliver talent across all areas including early talent, tax and accounting professionals, researchers and technical writers, technical roles including engineers and software specialists, and business support roles including sales, finance, marketing and communications and administration. As a standalone 360 degree recruiter I am responsible for the management of the entire recruitment journey from vacancy identification, delivery of an attraction strategy, candidate sourcing, shortlisting and assessment including interviewing, through to onboarding. Key achievements include:• Development and implementation of all recruitment processes, policies and procedures to ensure best practice, compliance, fairness and most importantly a best in class candidate experience. • Procurement, delivery and ongoing management of our ATS system (Eploy).• Successfully built candidate engagement in all our major markets, through active promotion of our amazing employer brand across a broad range of channels including social media, content and thought leadership, events and creative outreach.• Delivery of an early years careers recruitment programme.• Development of strong relationships with key senior stakeholders to understand workforce planning requirements, identify skills gaps, and develop accurate and engaging job descriptions.•Development and delivery of all assessment and selection methodologies including design and delivery of assessment centres• Recruitment and direct line management of a Talent and Development Advisor.• Speaker at Recruitment events including Talent Labs and IHRE

On a day to day basis I am responsible for all legal recruitment and resourcing in the UK, from newly qualifed to lateral hires from sourcing to onboarding.My role involves identification of potential candidates through a variety of routes:Direct sourcing using multi media platforms as well as good old fashioned networking; brand management in terms of recruitment and careers; print and online advertising.Third party resources: maintainance of relationships with key recruitment agencies contimues to direct sourcing, and as a firm we have worked hard to partner specific agencies in a commercial and collaborative way.Building candidate pipelines through use of a ATSI support Partners and line managers in short listing and assessment, and use a variety of tools to ensure the most reliable outcomes as possible including psychometrics where applicable. Onboarding is an equally important part of my job and sealing the deal is one that I love! It's great to be able to talk openly and honestly with candidates about their aspirations and hopes for the future. When we can see that a role at Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) is right for the candidate and us it is great to be part of a process that makes that happen. I work closely with business group heads and board members on strategic recruitment projects including executive search, and lateral team hires.Internal recruitment projects have included streamlining processes and procedures, implementing a candidate ATS system, salary and benefit benchmarking, career structure profiling, and partner promotions.I am a registered BPS test user, qualified at both A and B level.

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