
Internal Recruiter/ Consultant at Associated Newspapers
United Kingdom

Internal Recruiter/ Consultant at Associated Newspapers
United Kingdom
Experienced In-house Recruiter at Associated Newspapers since June 2009. Responsible for Sales, Marketing, Copywriting and technical recruitment. Responsibilities include Vendor management, direct recruiting, Line management liason and requirement gathering. Previously worked for an IT recruitment agency. Recruiting across all roles of all levels, upto CEO and VP level. Advising and managing the recruitment process and consulting managers on all aspects of the hiring process, from sourcing to offers and after placement management. Sourcing most candidates directly, meeting all KPI's and SLA's including CV to placement ratio, Time To Hire, Agency Usage.
I have specialist knowledge across the whole IT Market as a generalist recruiter for areas such as Software Development, Business Intelligence, Infrastructure, Storage, Project Management, Business Analysts or as a specialist consultant of ISO27001, BS7799, Penetration Testing, CLAS, Business Continuity (BS25999), IT Audit, Consultancy, Identity Management, PCI DSS (QSA) , SOX (Sarbanes Oxley), CHECK Team Member/ Leader (CESG), Information Assurance.
I posses expert skills of the recruitment lifecycle providing an end to end recruitment service across varied disciplines.
Strong network of candidates across IT including Software Development, Business Intelligence, Storage, Project Management and specialist candidates such QSA. CEH, CISSP, SSCP, CISMP, CISM, CLAS, BS25999, CHECK, ITPC, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, CISA, MSc in Information Security; as well as Vendor specific qualifications as RSA, Checkpoint, F5, Juniper, Symantec and Cisco.
(Public Company; Newspapers industry)
June 2009 — Present (8 months)
End to end management of the recruitment Lifecycle from meeting with management to discuss departmental needs, taking of briefs, meeting with suitable agencies according to discipline, negotiation of fees and Recruitment cost per position, CV vetting, telephone and face to face competency based interviewing, assessment and selection of suitable candidates per vacancy, Relationship management within the business and induction of new staff into the business ,advertising of positions in varied mediums to gain response and some involvement in recruitment expenditure. Direct sourcing through headhunting and Social Media. Experience of direct recruiting and managing complex, high volume recruitment processes effectively and efficiently. In-depth understanding of HR policy and legislation and aspects of equality and diversity relevant to recruitment. Strong prioritisation skills and experience of working in high pressured environments to meet tight SLA’s and KPI’s.
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2008 — June 2009 (10 months)
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 5 months)
2003 — 2005
Interest in all sports, especially Rugby, Football, Cricket. Travelling is a key interest. Music and Films.