Michelle Fischer

Current

HR & Talent Management Consultant and Director at Creative Leadership Ltd

Past

Recruitment Manager at Portman Building Society
Recruitment & Referencing Manager at Liverpool Victoria
HR Advisor at Business Link for London

Recruitment Manager at Fidelity Investments
International Recruitment Manager at PriceWaterhouse Coopers
Recruitment Consultant at Badenoch & Clark

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Education

University of Exeter
Bradfield College
Talbot Heath School

The Forton Group

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Human Resources

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Michelle Fischer’s Summary

I’ve specialised in Recruitment and Career Management for more years than I care to count (!) and am one of those people who truly loves my job.

When I left school, like so many people, I had no idea what I wanted to do and fell upon Recruitment rather fortuitously. Looking back, I think it’s this lack of knowledge that inspired me to want to help others both find people for jobs and find jobs for people.

After a brief foray in the world of agency Recruitment, followed then by several years heading up the Recruitment and Resourcing functions for a number of large organizations, I was made redundant in 2007 following the merger between Nationwide and Portman Building Societies and saw the opportunity to set up my own business.

Since then I’ve made it my purpose, and that of Creative Leadership, to help people and businesses with simple and effective HR, Recruitment, Resourcing and Talent Management tools that save time, effort and money. We do this through the provision of specific HR services including Recruitment, Generalist HR Support, Learning & Development and Transition Management, as well as Leadership Coaching and a broader HR outsourcing provision.

Most recently I've been exploring the use of Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, Linked In and many other social media within HR, resourcing and recruitment (as my status updates might highlight...) Can you believe that only a few years ago these things didn't exist? The future is changing and this new method for communicating will revolutionise the way we do things. Arguably, it already is.

But whilst I'm curious about the web 2.0, personally I'm most inspired when I see that flash of inspiration reflected in someone's eye when they've figured out for themselves what it is they want to do next and how easy it can be to achieve!

Simple things.

Michelle Fischer’s Specialties:

Recruitment, Executive Recruitment, Candidate Attraction, Social Recruitment & Social Media, HR, Interviewing and Selection, Assessment Centres, Talent Management, Learning and Development, Training, Leadership Coaching, Career Coaching, NLP, Outplacement, Competency Based Interviewing, Psychometric Testing, OPQ 32, Thinking Styles.

Michelle Fischer’s Experience

HR & Talent Management Consultant and Director

Creative Leadership Ltd

(Privately Held; Human Resources industry)

2007 — Present (3 years )

Alongside running the business, I also work with and lead a team of associates in the delivery of HR and Talent Management consultancy.

Together we work with a diverse mix of clients providing solutions including:

★ Strategic and operational HR support
★ Multi-level and volume Recruitment Strategy and Operational support including Social Resourcing and RPO
★ Talent Pipeline and Succession Planning
★ Learning & Development including Training and Master Class Delivery
★ Management and Leadership Coaching
★ Redundancy Management and Outplacement
Recruitment Manager

Portman Building Society

(Public Company; Financial Services industry)

2006 — 2007 (1 year )
Recruitment & Referencing Manager

Liverpool Victoria

(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

2004 — 2006 (2 years )
HR Advisor

Business Link for London

(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)

2002 — 2003 (1 year )
Recruitment Manager

Fidelity Investments

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Investment Management industry)

2001 — 2002 (1 year )
International Recruitment Manager

PriceWaterhouse Coopers

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Accounting industry)

2001 — 2001 (less than a year)
Recruitment Consultant

Badenoch & Clark

(Public Company; Human Resources industry)

1997 — 2000 (3 years )

Michelle Fischer’s Education

University of Exeter

1993 — 1996
Bradfield College

1990 — 1992
Talbot Heath School

1986 — 1990
The Forton Group

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Michelle Fischer’s Interests:

Social Media and it's impact on how we communicate, what makes people tick, beautiful places and things from history and particularly the middle ages, getting out in the fresh air.

Michelle Fischer’s Groups:

I'm a member of The CIPD, British Psychological Society (levels A&B qualified), HR Heads Networking Group, NLP Dorset, and Business Exchange Wessex. In my spare time I help out the Prince's Trust as a volunteer mentor. I also support Orchid - the Male Cancer charity and am co-organiser of Love Balls at AFC Bournemouth.