My role at Merkle is to act as a Talent Operations Lead for our markets across EMEA and to collaborate with these markets to execute ATS implementations while streamlining our recruitment processes. I specialise in recruitment data reporting and insights, while introducing new processes and ATS features to ensure that we are hiring to the best of our abilities.

Merkle, a data driven, digital and CRM agency acquired Periscopix to enhance its performance marketing footprint in EMEA back in 2015. Since the acquisition the Periscopix agency have continued to grow organically at an exponential rate. Merkle is now part of the Dentsu Aegis Network. As a Graduate Recruiter, my responsibilities include: • Pre-screening CV's across early careers roles• Partnering with Universities, schools and student societies • Organising and running assessment centre days• Owning the relationships with third party vendors, including graduate job boards • Supporting talent attraction campaignsTo view our current vacancies across the EMEA group visit https://www.merkleinc.com/emea/careers

- Scheduling and coordinating candidate phone interviews, video conferences and in-house interviews across both experienced hire and campus hiring efforts- Responsible for handling candidate travel and reimbursement expenses to and from Interviews- Dealing with a high volume of requests and inquiries across several email inboxes in a fast paced environment- Communicating new ideas to improve the hiring process to help achieve set hiring goals- Providing a high amount of feedback calls for unsuccessful candidates- Establishing and maintaining strong working relationships across the Engineering department and wider recruitment team- Assisting in the organisation of in-house and external recruitment events

- Arranging and facilitating assessment centre days for candidates across the Global Markets business division- Coordinating a variety of recruitment events across several universities in the United Kingdom and throughout Europe.- Presenting to and networking with prospective students at recruitment events- Conducting a high volume of telephone Interviews and declining unsuccessful applicants via telephone- Formulating ideas for our first ‘Spring Insight’ programme and overseeing the running of the programme- Organising the candidate reimbursement process for travel expenses