Apr 2024 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · Remote

• Key responsibilities:
• Manage recruitment processes for all disciplines at Electric Square and Lively.
• Liaise regularly with company Directors and Hiring Leads to gain a deep understanding of role requirements and hiring needs.
• Engage with and headhunt candidates, as well as handle referrals, direct applications, and LinkedIn enquiries.
• Manage and track candidate pipelines for all live and upcoming career opportunities.
• Continuously refine, improve, and evaluate hiring methodologies and tracking systems to ensure a streamlined process and a positive candidate experience.
• Arrange, schedule, and coordinate all meetings between candidates and Directors.
• Conduct introductory/screening calls and job offer calls.
• Maintain and nurture relationships with external recruitment agencies and manage candidate submissions.
• Create frequent social media content to engage the wider community, promote the studio, communicate vacancies, highlight achievements, and support educational outreach.
• Contribute to external content and initiatives such as live panels and podcasts focused on game industry topics.
• Support and deliver educational sessions for universities, maintaining professional relationships with educational institutions and representatives.

Mar 2023 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Remote

Apr 2024 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · Remote

• Key responsibilities:
• Manage recruitment processes for all disciplines at Electric Square and Lively.
• Liaise regularly with company Directors and Hiring Leads to gain a deep understanding of role requirements and hiring needs.
• Engage with and headhunt candidates, as well as handle referrals, direct applications, and LinkedIn enquiries.
• Manage and track candidate pipelines for all live and upcoming career opportunities.
• Continuously refine, improve, and evaluate hiring methodologies and tracking systems to ensure a streamlined process and a positive candidate experience.
• Arrange, schedule, and coordinate all meetings between candidates and Directors.
• Conduct introductory/screening calls and job offer calls.
• Maintain and nurture relationships with external recruitment agencies and manage candidate submissions.
• Create frequent social media content to engage the wider community, promote the studio, communicate vacancies, highlight achievements, and support educational outreach.
• Contribute to external content and initiatives such as live panels and podcasts focused on game industry topics.
• Support and deliver educational sessions for universities, maintaining professional relationships with educational institutions and representatives.

Mar 2023 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Remote

Jun 2022 – Mar 2023 · 9 mos · Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany · Remote

• Key responsibilities:
• Engage, source, manage and support potential candidates for across a range of areas (including production, programming/tech and art & animation)
• Support candidates through the full-cycle recruitment process from initial resourcing to offer negotiation,
• Use in-house ATS (and other tools) to manage and organise processes,
• Maintain constructive, open and positive dialogue with studio leadership and hiring managers to best understand and meet our hiring needs,
• Use social media platforms for advertisement and engagement,
• Refine recruitment strategies with talent acquisition management to maximise effectiveness,
• Continue to successfully build and utilise an international professional network within the gaming sector,
• Ensure a positive candidate experience via a friendly, approachable and attentive approach,
• Attend and exhibit at gaming events (such as Gamescom)
• Maintain a creative approach to candidate engagement (and continue to explore/research new methodologies)

Feb 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Leeds, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

• Key responsibilities:
• Be the recruitment point of contract for candidates and clients across the UK, Europe, US, Canada, Australia and Asia (360 recruitment)
• Engage, attract and source potential candidates for a variety of global gaming roles, using platforms (such as LinkedIn and ArtStation), social media channels and my ever-growing personal network.
• Effectively communicate with and support candidates through recruitment processes
• Constructively laisse with clients and hiring managers in order to best meet their recruitment needs, forging positive, lasting working relationships.
• Provide market feedback to clients, backed by data/analytics
• Remain creative, and continually develop, adapt and inform my recruitment strategies, in order to achieve the best results.
• Use my knowledge of the games industry, to improve candidate engagement. (This included the establishment of a dedicated Pivot Gaming Twitter presence, a podcast, written articles/blogs, and video content.)
• Attend and represent our company at dedicated gaming conventions/events

Sep 2020 – Feb 2021 · 5 mos · Swinton, England, United Kingdom · On-site

Nov 2019 – Apr 2020 · 5 mos

• Contributed written articles for the We The Players videogaming social platform Facebook page covering gaming history and trivia. Responsible for the following article types between November 2019 and March 2020: "This Day in Gaming", "Platform Profile", "Icons of Gaming" and video game themed quizzes.
• (Selected articles archived at https://medium.com/@warrenleigh85)

May 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · South Yorkshire

• Key Responsibilities:
• Undertake temporary short and long-term teaching contracts at primary schools across South and West Yorkshire, including Sheffield, Doncaster, Barnsley and Wakefield,
• Remain flexible and adaptable to suit different situations, schools, subjects and age ranges,
• Plan, deliver, monitor and assess learning in accordance with the primary national curriculum,
• Maintain a well-managed classroom and positive learning environment,
• Ensure personal accreditations are maintained and current (e.g. safeguarding, child protection, e-safety)
• Remain up to date with new teaching methods and strategies, as well as the latest developments in the curriculum,
• (Previously registered with Teaching Personnel, PK Education and Eden Brown)

Nov 2018 – May 2019 · 6 mos · Rotherham · On-site

• Key Responsibilities:
• Help and support graduates (both recent and imminent) in securing roles in the videogames industry.
• Source new and upcoming talent for videogames and tech studios,
• Provide CV, portfolio and application guidance and support,
• Act as a point of contact for those looking for a role in the videogames industry,
• Remain a constant and reliable source of support for those in the job application process,
• Regularly laisse with candidates, clients and academics
• Tour universities and colleges offering advice on how to get started in the videogames industry,
• Support in the running of the Search for a Star student competition and Grads in Games educational initiative.

Sep 2016 – Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · South Yorkshire

• Title: Lead Learner - Primary Computing/ICT
• Key Responsibilities:
• Lead and manage the computing curriculum across a range of primary academies, to ensure computing skills are embedded.
• Travel to and teach within a range of primary academies across South Yorkshire.
• Lead classroom lessons in classes of children from Foundation stage (4 years old) to Year 6 (11 years old).
• Observe, monitor and support staff in the teaching and assessment of primary computing.
• Produce, signpost and provide relevant guidance and documentation for staff.
• Lead staff training/staff meetings on a range of relevant areas (such as e-safety and programming in the classroom).
• Meet and liaise with academy principals, subject leaders and trust IT technicians to ensure infrastructure and curriculum complement one another.
• Create, share and support the adoption of a trust-wide primary computing assessment tracker.
• Be a constant source of support for teachers across the trust.
• Produce displays in schools to maintain the presence of computing in each primary academy.
• Promote national computing initiatives and celebrations across each primary academy (such as Safer Internet Day).
• Produce supporting documentation for parents (on subjects such as e-safety).
• Remain flexible and adapt to an ever-changing timetable.

Sep 2010 – Sep 2016 · 6 yrs · South Yorkshire

• Key Responsibilities:
• Responsible for the educational success of children in my class.
• Developed creative and stimulating topics and projects for children to engage with.
• Provided regular feedback to parents and carers regarding academic progress and behaviour.
• Maintained a positive rapport with children; establishing a communicative classroom.
• Led a drama group (part of the Rotherham Shakespeare Festival).
• Co-led an after school music group.
• Confidently attended child review meetings, as well as meetings involving external agencies.
• Took an active interest in changes and updates to the curriculum.
• Organised and led a variety of school trips.
• Managing and deploying support staff.
• Maintaining a stimulating and effective learning environment.
• Established and promoted a child-led blog for children to share learning.
• Supported school residential excursions (5-day and 3-day residential).
• Facilitated and mentored teaching students (second and third year teaching students).
• Travelled to, and taught in, Zambia as part of a global schools programme to establish link with school there, and hosted Zambian staff during their reciprocal visit to England.
• Held role of school website administrator – monitor updates, website maintenance.
• Held role of technology coordinator – Responsible for computing and DT within school: liaise with school technicians, implement and monitor new technologies within school, created and supported staff’s understanding of new computing curriculum within school, delivered training to staff, created and updated policies.

Sep 2008 – Sep 2010 · 2 yrs · South Yorkshire

• Key Responsibilities:
• Responsible for the educational success of children in my class.
• Developed creative and stimulating topics and projects for children to engage with.
• Provided regular feedback to parents and carers regarding academic progress and behaviour.
• Maintained a positive rapport with children; establishing a communicative classroom.
• Led 1:1 after-school tuition (Year 6 SATs preparation)