Oliver Medwin

• Global lead for all Technology and Product focused hiring into our Next Generation Software Solutions team.
• Grown the team from a small team of 25 in 2 locations to 186 people in 7 locations.
• Hired over 80 of these people myself,
• Implemented a new Agile way of recruiting and working with my stakeholders in a sprint format to ensure best in class process and fast and efficient candidate experience
• Led with empowering and empathetic leadership style, leveraging emotional intelligence and proactive communication to defuse conflict.
• Coached junior team members on effective headhunting techniques to improve response rates and interview conversions.
• Men's mental health ambassador and lead an affinity group in Bain to support people by running events and workshops.

I joined Tempting ventures in their infancy as a new venture capitalist firm supporting the recruitment industry. I worked on 2 projects while at TV.

• Firstly, I worked with one of our clients, Hydrogen Group as a Consultant with the focus to improve their ability to hire and retain new staff. This was a 12 month contract which included:
• Assessing the current leadership teams interview style and approach and making recommendations on changes based on my findings
• Creating and running a new style of graduate hiring boot camp. This enabled us to shortlist a credible group of applicable candidates for all teams to interview and hire
• Recruiting a new permanent Talent acquisition specialist to join Hydrogen to take over
• Improving high level, experienced talent acquisition.

• Secondly I founded a new contracts division on Uniting Cloud, another business owned by Tempting Ventures that run a purely permanent business.
• I built a team of Technology focused recruiter specialising on the Cloud area of Technology with an emphasis on AWS, GCP & Azure.
• In the first year we landed some big clients, including HSBC, Google, NTT Data, Credit Suisse, Infosys and Close Brothers.
• I Facilitated knowledge-sharing sessions to disseminate best practices within team and upskill consultants on new areas of Technology

Salt is a global recruitment business focusing on Technology, Product, Marketing and Sales recruitment. I joined the team in the London office to run one of the Technology teams.

• I built and managed a team of 9 recruiters
• I was also responsible of billings of over £300k per annum
• I encouraged a collaborative working group with morning stand ups and huddles to share our goals for the day.
• I Worked closely with stakeholders, promoting cohesive approach to recruitment strategies, processes and compliance.
• I Coached candidates through interview process to secure top roles.
• I worked with our MD, Chris Redmond to land Salt's first ever Statement of Work business with John Lewis partnership. Creating a full deliverables based plan to help JLP with their website and cyber security.

I founded the IT recruitment function for Eximius.

• Created a team of specialist recruiters with expertise in individuals areas of IT including, Software, Cyber, Cloud / Infrastructure, Architecture, QA / Testing & Senior appointments
• Leveraged existing client relationships to offer a new service line and expand our footprint with current clients
• Devised and executed a new Go-To-Market plan for winning new business
• Interviewed, hired and trained more than 10 new recruiters into the business
• Educated other leaders in the business on the importance of cross-selling IT and helping them understand some of the technical jargon

At Square One, I was hired to run all recruitment training for new hires and then experienced consultants.

• Maintained corporate responsibility by staying up-to-date with laws that affect human resource training programmes.
• Analysed employees' skill levels and implemented new techniques to boost knowledge.
• Created and ran multiple 13 week Academy's hiring up to 12 graduate recruiters and fully inducting them into the world of Technology recruitment
• Working with the leadership team to define hiring strategies and needs based on the business
• Supported on Client facing meetings for junior members to ensure that we secured business and assist them on any tricky situations that may arise.

I joined TechNET as a billable technology recruiter focusing on Software and Architecture clients in EMEA before joining the client services team to focus on running a team to offer the best client experience for our Tier 1 accounts.

• Recruited over 60 technology specialists for clients including, Oracle, Kingfisher, Spindrift, Hybris, Vodafone and Betfair
• Resourced and recruited staff internally to promptly fill positions.
• Set and conveyed recruitment goals to downstream staff.
• Completed reference and DBS checks on applicants and new employees.
• Advocated direct sourcing practices, developing and implementing attraction strategies for candidates.
• Screened candidates, conducted interviews and selected ideal talent to fill open roles.
• Informed candidates about interview results and made job offers to successful interviewees.

I joined Premier Appointments as a new recruiter with a focus on Technology.

• Studied and focused exclusively on Software and Architecture and would aim to speak with over 50+ candidates a day to enhance my network
• Build over £250k in my second year
• Attended stakeholder management training sessions
• Did a foundation in NLP
• Hired my first resourcer