Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos · Remote

• Leading Talent Acquisition at Dambuster Studios, supporting our devs in cooking up the next chapter of the Dead Island saga. Check out our careers page for our latest roles: https://careers.dsdambuster.com/vacancies
• Partnering closely with and agreeing sourcing and hiring strategies with senior leadership
• Developing strategies to enhance the recruitment processes, ensuring the right candidates go through the appropriate process
• Collaborating with HR and Marketing teams to elevate employer branding endeavours
• Data collation and monitoring, ensuring a diverse range of candidates
• Attracting candidates via social media and external methods
• Delivering training to managers and interviewers
• Supporting hiring managers with the interview process
• Ensuring a first class candidate experience
• Managing relationships with agencies
• Attending gaming events to promote the studio
• Creating documents and frameworks to support hiring manager, interviewers, and streamlining TA processes
• Offboarded and implemented new ATS

Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

Sep 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• Led a group of Talent Partners in delivering the talent acquisition strategy for our Internal and External Operational business areas across the EU and US. Including Corporate Strategy & Data, DEI, Finance, L&D, Legal, People/HR, Account Management, Client Success, Fan Support, Field Operations, and Onboarding.
• Committee member of the internal LGBTQ+ employee network group

Sep 2018 – Sep 2021 · 3 yrs · London, United Kingdom

• Overseeing and overall accountability for high volume recruitment campaigns for LU Surface roles and Fleet. Including Customer Service Assistants, CS Supervisors, CS Managers, Area Managers, Trainers, and Compliance Officers; and Train Maintainers (engineers).

Jul 2018 – Sep 2018 · 2 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Recruited for permanent roles within the business, including but not limited to Surface, Major Projects Directorate (MPD), Specialist Services, Operational Property, HR, and the ongoing Transformation Programme, from Bands 1 – 4

Apr 2018 – Jul 2018 · 3 mos · London, United Kingdom · On-site

• Managing the hiring processes for multiple areas of the business, including Central, Commercial, Digital, Technology, Editorial and Operations, from junior individual contributors to managers across all 21 brands (including but not limited to Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Esquire, Reveal, Real People, Inside Soap, and Digital Spy);
• Owned the full recruitment lifecycle, from vacancy briefing, through to selection and offer management, sourcing and headhunting, recruitment marketing, face to face interviewing, and stakeholder management;
• Represent Hearst Magazines when communicating with external candidates and contacts;
• Accurate and timely updating of the ATS (Ascendify and Taleo), using data & insights to inform decision-making

May 2017 – Apr 2018 · 11 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Manage the hiring processes for multiple areas of the business, including Commercial, Retail, Gaming, Marketing and Corporate, from junior individual contributors to senior managers.
• Own the full recruitment lifecycle, from vacancy briefing, through to selection and offer management, sourcing and headhunting, recruitment marketing, and stakeholder management.
• Responsible for delivering the Graduate Programme across UK & Ireland for 2017/18.

Jan 2015 – May 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Recruiting all levels of retail recruitment across the UK retail business (300+ shops including England/Scotland/Wales, including Customer Service Assistants, Customer Service Team Leaders, Assistant Managers and Shop Managers, as well as Senior Shop Managers, all over the UK);
• Recruiting for all shop manager positions in London (within M25);
• Working closely with Senior Shop Managers, District and Regional Managers to ensure the vacancies are up to date and forecast any recruitment needs and to maintain stakeholder relationships;
• Computer literate, and I excel in all programmes within Microsoft Office;
• Experienced using the Taleo and Fairsail ATS on a daily basis as well as using them for reporting;
• Reviewing all recruitment material such as advert creation, interview booklets, posters, and job descriptions;
• Creation of outreach materials to competitors;
• Source using boolean, database searching, head-hunting, website screening and LinkedIn Recruiter;
• Responsible for the creation, smooth operation and delivery of Assessment Centres;
• Devised, developed and implemented our interviewer training course which allows our shop managers to conduct interviews for their shops;
• Supporting the interviewers across the country to ensure consistency on all levels.