Natasha Collingwoode-Williams
Colindale,London
Summary
An enthusiastic, highly motivated and results-oriented Recruitment Talent Consultant with over 10 years of extensive experience in identifying, attracting, and retaining top talent for diverse industries. Proven track record of building strong client relationships, delivering strategic recruitment solutions, and contributing to organizational success. A dedicated worker who is able to remain calm under pressure whilst delivering a high standard of customer service. Now seeking a new permanent opportunity to leverage current expertise in talent acquisition and strategic HR consulting.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Talent Consultant (FTC)
TPX IMPACT
London, ENG
11.2022 - Current
- Selecting and screening candidates across various opportunities & disciplines including but not limited to: Design, Delivery, Ops, Development, Cloud & Infrastructure
- Completed recruitment campaign to hire 6 new content designers across 3 levels in under 2 months
- Take part in role qualification calls and understand JDs to independently work from these to source and identify suitable candidates for opportunities
- Partnering with Resource Managers, line managers, and interviewers to schedule all candidate interviews
- Juggling complex diaries for interviewers and identifying ways to make scheduling easier
- Working independently to input into recruitment process, identifying opportunities for process improvement where appropriate
- Working collaboratively on company's employee value proposition and committed to developing inclusive attraction strategies
- Updating ATS system to ensure that all candidate's profiles are up to date and are communicated with at every stage of the recruitment process
- Proactively managing talent pools of candidates across several disciplines to ensure quick reaction to requirements
- Ad-hoc recruitment-related responsibilities and projects
- Gathering recruitment-related documentation, and security clearances and working alongside people and resourcing teams to collate relevant information for onboarding
- Stakeholder management
- Project work
- Sourcing and filling niche and technical roles through creative recruitment methods
Resourcing and Onboarding Officer (FTC)
Place2Be
City Of London, LND
11.2021 - 11.2022
- Stand-alone onboarding officer
- Introducing and running fortnightly onboarding drop-ins for onboarding staff
- Ensure all contracts of employment, offer letters and other contractual paperwork comply with HR best practice and relevant employment legislation
- Manage onboarding process to ensure all pre-employment checks - DBS/PVG, eligibility to live and work in UK, references, health declaration and qualifications
- Liaise with Line Managers to ensure all new starter details and offers are accurately entered into Applicant Tracking System and that HR has the correct details ahead of processing monthly payroll
- Organising and managing induction and clinical training
- Updating and maintaining HR records on cascade
- Ensure appropriate secure disposal of confidential information
- Oversee onboarding process for all regions as well as office and non-clinical
- Act as first point of contact and 'super user' for queries regarding Applicant Tracking System, Eploy, ensuring candidates and managers receive professional, high-quality service and have positive recruitment experience
- Advise managers on recruitment and selection cycle from advertising, shortlisting and interviewing in line with Place2Be's recruitment policy, promoting equality and diversity at all times
- Work with hiring managers in order to enhance their knowledge and skills which will include assisting in delivery and development of recruitment workshops and training on Applicant Tracking System
- Keeping abreast of new and relevant job boards and advertising platforms for advertising
- Promoting and advertising vacancies via Social Media platforms (LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other external job boards
- Compiling and creating talent pools and mailing lists / job alert emails to candidates
- Assisting with high-volume recruitment campaigns
- Advise recruiting managers on recruiting schedules, appropriate advertising, job descriptions and person specifications
- Proactive and creative solutions to sourcing difficult-to-find candidates and hard-to-fill posts
- Expert recruitment knowledge and experience of recruiting for jobs nationally as well as locally
- Maintain service delivery in line with applicable customer service and quality standards and support continuous quality improvement
- Maintain all recruitment campaign documents and updated consent requests, policies and records via ATS
- Established ATS super user drop-in training sessions for new and existing staff
Business Owner
Black Marble Events Ltd
London, ENG
05.2016 - Current
- Family-Owned Business
- Networking to gather more business for Black Marble
- Administrative needs of the business
- End-to-end recruitment for Black Marble
- Roles including, Administrators, Content Creators and Graphic Designers
- Creating Job specs, advertising on job boards, conducting interviews and compliance checks on successful candidates
- Social Media Management, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter
- Creating and running The Spark Social Event quarterly
- Produced and sold personal dating card game
- Creating and running The Platform Talent Show online during lockdown
- Scouting and showcasing talent for competitions etc
- Advertising and Marketing
- Event Management and Consultation
- Hired and trained team to take over the day-to-day running of Black Marble Events and its initiatives
Recruitment Account Manager/ Resourcer
Prospero Health and Social Care
London, ENG
12.2018 - 03.2019
- Resourcing across multiple job boards for Support Workers/ Carers
- Conducting telephone interviews and booking candidates to register with the agency
- Creating Job Adverts in line with client requirements
- Registered a minimum of 7 candidates a week
- Completing all compliance for registered candidates, clearing them to work with us
- Assigning them training
- Maintaining existing client relationships
- Filling all shifts for clients with temps in good time, according to requirement and matching need to the right temp
- Working towards target GP for the week
- Dealing with candidate and client enquires
- Monitoring temp availability on a weekly basis
- General administrative duties, and data entry
- Updating the Influence system with all shifts booked
- Mediating between client and temp worker
- Meeting personal deadlines and targets
Regional Recruiter (Redundancy)
London, Allied Healthcare
UK
06.2018 - 12.2018
- Running recruitment in 5 branches across London
- Working with the branches in my region as an integral part of lead generation
- Developing action plans for each branch and ensuring they follow through and advising
- Identifying problems within the branch affecting recruitment
- Building local attraction campaigns
- Building and maintaining relationships with local colleges, job centres and back-to-work providers
- Leading local engagement in the recruitment process
- Providing regular recruitment presentations to candidates
- Meeting with branch managers to discuss recruitment plans
- Attending job fairs
- Overseeing recruitment administration and compliance
- Conducting face-to-face and telephone interviews
- Negotiating between branch and third-party providers
- Actively Identifying new recruitment opportunities in the community
- ATS and Asana trained
- Creating and maintaining my own schedule and diary
- Updating database with candidate progression
- Meeting deadlines and targets
- Working with central recruitment and central HR team
Recruitment Resourcer
Kelly Resourcing, The Kelly Group
Wembley
10.2017 - 06.2018
- Conducting telephone and face-to-face interviews
- HRnet trained
- Complete compliance checks for all candidates
- Oversee a project with BT solely to recruit 30 candidates every 2 weeks for training
- Delivering an end to end recruitment and selection process that exceeds the expectations of our internal and external customers, as well as candidates and applicants
- Actively and proactively sourcing quality candidates across varying skill sets for placement at either external customers or our own operating companies across the United Kingdom using our in-house database, Internet research, referrals, job boards, social networking etc
- Updating database with candidate updates
- Liaising with internal and external customers
- Being the mediator between the client and the candidate at interview stage, gathering feedback from both parties
- Maintaining and compiling management information and reports
- Dealing with inquiries from candidates and clients via telephone and email
- Negotiating salaries
- General data entry, admin and paperwork
- Identify skills to match appropriately with vacancies
- Manage own time and tasks to meet given targets
- Candidate documentation and identification checks
- I was hired on a temporary basis.
Trainee Recruitment Consultant (FTC)
London Recruitment
London, ENG
09.2017 - 09.2017
- Updating database with candidate updates
- Booking candidates on to required training to be eligible for healthcare work
- Meeting targets and KPI's weekly/monthly
- Managed 50 cold calls per day
- Sifting and sorting through hundreds of CV's daily
- Interviewing candidates, determine their suitability for role
- Compliance checks, Candidate documentation and identification checks
- Administrative work
- Dealing with Inquires from clients and candidates via telephone
- Registering applicants with our recruitment agency
- Managing and prioritising my own time
- Health and social care recruitment
- Travelled and was actively looking for work once I returned
Independent Consultant
Send Resourcing
London, ENG
09.2016 - 07.2017
- Cold calling 30 companies per day and networking through LinkedIn to drum up new business
- Creating and maintaining job adverts across indeed, totaljobs, CV library etc
- Headhunting and sourcing suitable new candidates according to role requirements, sifting through 100s of applications and CVs
- Conducting telephone interviews
- Negotiating contracts
- Placed a minimum of 4 new hires per month
- Managing my own time and prioritizing responsibilities
Resourcer
Extrastaff Agency
London, ENG
04.2016 - 06.2016
- Creating job ads across various job boards
- E.g, Indeed, Gumtree, Universal Jobmatch, Reed, Cv Library etc, and monitoring response
- Sorting and sieving through 100's of CV's through telephone interviews and analysing suitability for role
- Actively sourcing quality candidates across varying skill sets for placement at either external customers companies across the United Kingdom using our in-house database, Internet research, referrals, job boards, social networking etc
- Registering applicants with our agency, assessing and identifying their skills and job history to put them in the right job
- Compliance checks, Candidate documentation and identification checks
- Headhunting and sourcing candidates through several effective methods
- Updating database with candidate updates
- Uploading candidates onto our in-house database EFOS
- Dealing with enquires from clients and candidates via telephone, email and face-to-face
- Conducting face-to-face interviews
- Proposing new ideas to improve candidate quality and Ad response
- Manage own time and set own targets
- Working towards weekly targets
- Shortlisting successful candidates
- Arranging interviews and client meetings for Consultants
- General administrative duties
Recruitment Resourcer/Internal Recruiter
Kelly Resourcing, The Kelly Group
London, ENG
10.2015 - 03.2016
- Managed a minimum of 20 telephone interviews per day
- Face-to-face interviews
- Arranging interviews for Consultants and lead resources
- HRnet trained
- Delivering an end-to-end recruitment and selection process that exceeds the expectations of our internal and external customers, as well as candidates and applicants
- Actively and proactively sourcing quality candidates across varying skill sets for placement at either external customers or our own operating companies across the United Kingdom using our in-house database, Internet research, referrals, job boards, social networking etc
- Updating database with candidate updates
- Liaising with internal and external customers
- Being the mediator between the client and the candidate at interview stage, gathering feedback from both parties
- Maintaining and compiling management information and reports
- Dealing with inquiries from candidates and clients via telephone and email
- Negotiating salaries
- Making final hiring decisions for in-house vacancies
- General data entry, admin and paperwork
- Identify skills to match appropriately with vacancies
- Manage own time and tasks to meet given targets
- Candidate documentation and identification checks.
Candidate Attraction Consultant
Just IT Apprenticeships
London, ENG
06.2014 - 09.2014
- Run weekly open-day seminars
- Source candidates
- Contact candidates, inform them about program and invite them to open days
- Follow up with candidates
- Get candidates to sign on program
- Deal with enquires
- Met daily targets of a minimum of 15 registrations per week
- Screen potential candidates
- Updating candidate database
- Updating/creating spreadsheets
- Conduct telephone interviews
- Track all activity on the database
- Administration duties
- Actively looking for work
Administrator (TEMP)
Wembley Windows
London, ENG
03.2014 - 04.2014
- General administrative duties
- Effectively managed incoming and outgoing mail to maximize office efficiency.
- Interacted with customers professionally by phone, email and in-person to deliver accurate service information.
- Managed office supply inventory, performing stocktake duties and ordering additional supplies to meet staff needs.
- Enhanced administration system workflows by developing improved automated systems.
- Organised physical files and digitised records to support ease of access and GDPR compliance.
Administrative Assistant/ Learner Engagement Officer
Maze8 Future Training
London, ENG
01.2013 - 11.2013
- Stand-alone role
- Registered up to 30 new apprentices per week
- Screen, interview and recruit learners for Work Based-learning Apprenticeship vacancy opportunities including confirming eligibility to access government funding under the Apprenticeship Work-based learning programme
- Carry out vacancy matching for any vacancies secured by the Employer Engagement Officer for Apprentice vacancy opportunities across the region
- Support in resourcing of vacancies through social media, job boards and similar sources to ensure targets are met for placement of learners onto Apprenticeship programmes
- Support in resourcing of candidates for job vacancies utilizing the National Apprenticeship Service vacancy matching service, liaise with National Careers Service, Youth Contract services, Work Programme providers and Jobcentreplus
- Provide coaching and mentoring to learners both individually and in groups to develop employability skills
- General administrative duties such as, sending emails, making phone calls, filing, scanning, dealing with enquires, handling personal data, data inputting
- Uploading personal information unto online portals such as Quals-direct, using the NAS website
- Microsoft office for spreadsheets etc
- Interviewing/screening potential apprentices
- Assisting in the running of pre-employment workshops
Education
Some College (No Degree) - Level 2 Information, Advice Or Guidance
10.2023 - 12.2023
Foundation Degree - Event Management
09.2018 - 06.2022
Diploma of Higher Education - Business Management
09.2014 - 06.2017
Skills
- Accurate, discreet, good at working in schedule
- Good spoken and written communication, good telephone manner
- Experienced with ATS, MS Office and IT literate
- Compliance
- Resourcing
- Account management
- Excellent with handling personal and confidential information
- Building and maintaining relationships
- People orientated
- Professional manner and work ethic
- Strong organizational skills
- Managerial and Leadership skills
- Independent and confident worker
- Time Management
Interests
During my free time, I engage in various hobbies to stay active and intellectually stimulated. I have a keen interest in literature and music, spanning across different genres. As a family-oriented individual, I find true happiness in spending quality time with my loved ones. Exploring history and diverse cultures is a passion of mine, and I actively pursue this through travel, museum visits, and research. Additionally, I am committed to expanding my linguistic abilities and am currently focused on learning Korean.
Languages
English
Native
Korean
Beginner
Timeline
Learning Curve - Some College (No Degree), Level 2 Information, Advice Or Guidance
10.2023 - 12.2023
Talent Consultant (FTC) - TPX IMPACT
11.2022 - Current
Resourcing and Onboarding Officer (FTC) - Place2Be
11.2021 - 11.2022
Recruitment Account Manager/ Resourcer - Prospero Health and Social Care
12.2018 - 03.2019
Barnet And Southgate College - Foundation Degree, Event Management
09.2018 - 06.2022
Regional Recruiter (Redundancy) - London, Allied Healthcare
06.2018 - 12.2018
Recruitment Resourcer - Kelly Resourcing, The Kelly Group
10.2017 - 06.2018
Trainee Recruitment Consultant (FTC) - London Recruitment
09.2017 - 09.2017
Independent Consultant - Send Resourcing
09.2016 - 07.2017
Business Owner - Black Marble Events Ltd
05.2016 - Current
Resourcer - Extrastaff Agency
04.2016 - 06.2016
Recruitment Resourcer/Internal Recruiter - Kelly Resourcing, The Kelly Group
10.2015 - 03.2016
Barnet And Southgate College - Diploma of Higher Education, Business Management
09.2014 - 06.2017
Candidate Attraction Consultant - Just IT Apprenticeships
06.2014 - 09.2014
Administrator (TEMP) - Wembley Windows
03.2014 - 04.2014
Administrative Assistant/ Learner Engagement Officer - Maze8 Future Training
01.2013 - 11.2013