Nov 2021 – Sep 2022 · 10 mos

Jun 2021 – Nov 2021 · 5 mos

Oct 2017 – Oct 2020 · 3 yrs

• Provide a full and comprehensive range of recruitment services for all Head Office roles both in the UK and internationally, offering advice and assistance to Hiring Managers to ensure the Company’s reputation and culture is consistently evident throughout the recruitment process.
• Responsibilities:
• End to end recruitment across a wide variety of disciplines and departments including Ecommerce, Design, IT, Finance, Production, Distribution and Interior Design. Level of role ranges from intern level to management
• Utilising the ATS to effectively complete all administrative tasks, including advertising, shortlisting, scheduling interviews, candidate follow up, and outcome
• Interviewing at the Company offices in both London and Nottingham
• Organising and supporting recruitment days for seasonal, volume recruitment
• Completing project work to enhance the candidate experience and journey
• Maintaining communication and engagement with new starters throughout their notice period
• Ensuring all applicants meet the Asylum and Immigration criteria and that all documentation required if up to date and correct at the interview, taking all copies required

Dec 2016 – Oct 2017 · 10 mos · Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Working within Boots Opticians, I am responsible for sourcing and recruiting talented and professional Optometrists into the business. I work in partnership with Regional and Multi-Site Managers throughout the full recruitment lifecycle and work closely with third party suppliers to ensure a smooth process and positive candidate experience.
• Responsibilities:
• Adopt and develop new strategies for hard to fill areas, adding focus and attention to particular vacancies through the means of advertising and social media
• Manage a vacancy through the end to end process
• Managing relationships with key stakeholders to understand their key priorities and resource challenges
• Carrying out Practice and Field visits to ensure I remain close to the business and Practice Managers
• Sharing best practice and learnings between colleagues and regions to drive results across the business
• Advocating the Boots Opticians brand within social media and attraction campaigns

Mar 2016 – Dec 2016 · 9 mos · Nottingham, United Kingdom

• I am responsible for delivering timely and accurate recruitment for Professional functions and other areas of the business where help is needed. I work closely with my team members and consultants to ensure an effective and efficient candidate journey whilst responding to telephone calls and other correspondence from my customers.
• Responsibilities
• Manage and monitor vacancies through the end to end process.
• Recruitment activity across the E.ON group in line with best practice methods and full recruitment lifecycle.
• Advise and align selection processes, to agreed governance including reasonable adjustments where requested.
• Posting roles accurately, internally and externally.
• Monitoring and updating all costs relating to each vacancy.
• Manage the feedback process, ensuring all feedback is noted and delivered in a timely manner.
• Supporting Interviews and selections events when required.
• Support and facilitate interviews, ensuring best candidate experience.

Sep 2006 – Oct 2013 · 7 yrs 1 mo · Nottingham, United Kingdom

• I was responsible for carrying our Consultant and Managerial duties within a highly respected and trusted firm. I worked closely with colleagues and clients to ensure a positive candidate experience, operating in an effective and efficient manner and overseeing all operational activity.
• Carrying out end-to-end recruitment coordination.
• Account management, resolving queries between clients and candidates.
• Creating job advertisements for job specifications, ensuring the essential requirements are clear and precise as well as capturing the important skills and experience needed by the successful applicant.
• Travelling to sites across the UK to meet with prospective and ongoing clients to discuss their current recruitment needs
• Sourcing CV's from various job boards and social media Enterprises prior to arranging telephone and face-to-face interviews.
• Discussing and describing the work duties, salary and benefits of a particular vacancy with potential candidates. Short listing candidates within the company database for any new specification obtained by a company.
• Securing successful acceptance rates andhaving strong and effective negotiating skills when discussing offers and contracts.