Michael Beattie

I manage the entire recruitment lifecycle of my division, delivering a seamless experience for both candidates and internal stakeholders.

My responsibilities included:

• Client & Stakeholder Engagement : Built and maintained strong relationships with hiring managers to understand business needs and define role requirements.
• Job Scoping & Advertising : Created compelling job descriptions and managed postings across relevant platforms to attract top talent.
• Candidate Sourcing : Proactively identified and engaged candidates through direct outreach, job boards, social media, and referrals.
• Screening & Assessment : Conducted initial interviews and assessments to evaluate candidate fit, both technically and culturally.
• Interview Coordination : Scheduled and facilitated interviews, ensuring smooth communication between candidates and hiring teams.
• Offer Management : Led offer negotiations, ensuring alignment with budget and candidate expectations.
• Onboarding Support : Partnered with HR and hiring managers to ensure a smooth transition for new hires.
• Data & Reporting : Maintained accurate records in the ATS and provided regular updates on pipeline progress and hiring metrics.

This end-to-end approach ensured consistency, improved candidate experience, and strengthened internal hiring outcomes.

Key Achievements:

• Successfully placed over 600 candidates in 30 months, exceeding quarterly/yearly hiring targets.
• Reduced average time-to-hire by 30% through process optimization and proactive sourcing. Through job boards and LinkedIn to name a few
• Built a high-performing talent pipeline that supported rapid growth in key business areas.
• Introduced structured interview guides that improved hiring manager confidence and consistency. Thomas Testing and Wilo video interview.
• Achieved a 91% offer acceptance rate through effective candidate engagement and expectation management.
• Maintained an average of 48% interview to offer ratio over 2.5years

Directed comprehensive coverage of division responsibilities across all departmental levels.
Included oversight of roles ranging from entry-level to senior management in finance through to sales.

• Company Overview: Working in a fast pace highly individualised workplace where the Amazon leadership principles are a core part of everyday life.
• Managed the entire recruitment lifecycle, delivering a seamless experience for both candidates and internal stakeholders.
• Handled end-to-end recruitment processes, ensuring smooth and swift transactions from initial advert to job offer.
• Maintained a consistent pipeline of candidates for 14 departments.
• Wrote job description adverts for Indeed, German University boards and LinkedIn.
• 194 candidates placed in FTE, Internships and working student contracts in 2022.
• Building and attending a university events schedule, with 24 universities in Germany.
• Registered new candidates, developing a wide-ranging database to meet Amazon recruitment needs.
• Results; increased applications by 40% over the previous year's performance.
• Working in a fast pace highly individualised workplace where the Amazon leadership principles are a core part of everyday life.
• Ownership - To accept responsibility for my actions both good and bad, and effect change.
• Bias for action - Taking a proactive approach to problem solving.
• Deliver results - Working towards results, following through on my own commitments and tasks.

• Worked my way up through the Talent Acquisition team, to learn and perfect my skills and knowledge along the way.
• Worked across many different areas within recruitment such as Tele Communications, Finance and Background checking (DBS).
• Liaised and worked closely with colleagues, Team leaders and supervisors, building rapport and strengthening connections.
• Running an Experienced Group of recruiters to fill business needs within a high-volume recruitment campaign.
• Identifying market trends and reacting to keep a consistent approach to recruitment and interviews in uncertain times.

• Carried out initial screening and interviews of prospective candidates, both telephone and face-to-face.
• Responsible for developing and applying an in-depth knowledge of the job specifications.
• Responsible for development, implementation, and administration of full recruitment process via workday (ATS), HRIS etc.
• Maintained accurate and concise records.
• Worked with hiring manager(s) and appropriate bodies to determine final decisions on candidate hiring.
• Utilised various resources to source qualified candidates directly and indirectly.
• Proactively created documentation to assist with the training of new colleagues.

• Carried out initial screening of candidates.
• Background checking (DBS).
• General admin duties.

• Inbound calls from existing Vodafone customers.
• Selling phones and HBB.
• Dealing with customer queries and complaints.
• Working towards KPI's.

• Performing safety checks on the vans.
• Using handheld smart scanners for Navigation with use of voice commands.
• Working to a Target time of +/- 15mins for Deliveries to meet KPI's set by the company.
• Face to face customer service.
• Dealing with complaints.

• Managing staff of 5.
• Receiving stock/deliveries and processing through stockroom - all stages.
• Recruitment of new staff with Job adverts and Interviews.
• Appointed person (first aider, Fire Warden).
• Rota management.
• Responsible for hitting targets.
• Organization of sale in stockroom.
• Staff progression, through in store courses.
• Key holder - Opening and closing of store.
• Till operation.

• Till operation.
• Stock replenishment.
• Module stock rotation.
• Fresh replenishment.
• First aider, Fire warden.

• Till operation.
• Stock replenishment.
• Stock taking.
• Opening and closing of store.
• Processing deliveries.
• Visual merchandising.

• Team medic.
• Radio operator.