Priya Sachania

Major Recruitment:

Perm recruitment for major corporate clients. Recruited for a wide range of roles including Key Account Managers, Plant Managers, Valets, 1st Line Service Desk Technicians, Sales, Recruitment executives, Vehicle Service Managers across various locations.

Equity Partners

James Grace Associates:

I managed and recruited for 3 key accounts. As well as specializing in niche markets, James Grace provides recruitment solutions to both white and blue collar sectors. The accounts I recruit for are primarily white collar roles. Typical roles include IT team lead, Scheduler, Inventory/export/transport Co-ordinator, Accountant, Shift Manager, Web Designer, Medical Secretary, Administration Assistant, Purchasing Assistant, Data Support Administrator, Sales Advisor, Customer Service advisor, HR Advisor, Accounts Payable Team Leader, Accounts Assistant and Commercial Lawyer. I have also recruited for blue collar roles such as Cleaners and Warehouse Operatives.Managing the accounts (different clients, locations, processes) requires multitasking and dedication to each. Duties include:

• Sourcing and pre-screening candidates
• Arranging interviews and briefing candidates for interviews
• Provide interview feedback to candidates
• Client visits

Edwards Employment:

Recruited for and managed commercial/call centre clients. High volume recruitment with up to 50 - 100 candidates a week at times. Duties included:

· Advertising roles on various platforms

· Shortlisting and contacting candidates

· Completing pre-screens with suitable candidates

· Interview prep

· Compliance

· Interview feedback

· Candidate aftercare

· Making sure the client is happy at all stages of the process

Project Exertis :
This was a 3 month project where i worked with a client needing to fill approx. 40 permanent roles due to expansion and relocation. The roles were mid –senior specialist roles and i generated in excess of 80k revenue for the company.

Project Axa: I worked with and managed a multi national client, assisting in all their temp recruitment needs across the UK and Jersey. This included the full cycle recruitment process.

• Receiving job requisitions and posting job advertisements on various job boards and social media platforms.
• After identifying key requirements and non requirements, sourcing and shortlisting suitable candidates
• Conducting thorough prescreens
• Arranging interviews and preparing/coaching candidates for interviews
• Interview feedback
• Offers and preparing the hire to start. Prior compliance checks done before the candidate was able to start. ID check/RTW check
• Working alongside the background checking services team on a stage 2 compliance process
• Payroll, including timesheets, rates, pay, payslips, P45‘s
• Online timesheet portal management for both candidates and managers
• Managing candidates throughout their temp assignment
• 1st day/week checks
• Dealing with sickness/holiday/lateness/leavers
• Conducting back to work interviews
• Conducting exit interviews
• Processing temp to perm candidates
• Managing various trackers/systems to ensure all information is recorded and stored correctly

High volume recruitment that is very fast paced and requires attention to detail, a through knowledge of the client's needs and a talent for finding the right candidate for each different role. The account was solely my responsibility and i ensured to fill all roles working alongside business partners, business team leaders, managers and the compliance department.

I was a temps consultant at Reed Education. Reed Education is a division of Reed Recruitment, and specialises in permanent, long term and day to day recruitment of staff in Education settings. This includes Secondary teachers, Primary teachers, Newly Qualified teachers, EYFS teachers, Special Education Needs teachers, Support Assistants, teaching assistants, Special Education Needs Teaching Assistants, Cover Supervisors and Exam Invigilators.

Each day was different in this recruitment role and that is what I loved about the job. I was responsible for the below:

• Sourcing candidates from various databases
• Conducting telephone interviews and arranging registrations for the candidates to come in for a formal registration
• Conducting candidate registrations and interviews
• Formatting CV's to send to the clients
• Conversing with both candidates and clients
• Sourcing candidates for permanent and temporary positions and arranging interviews for clients
• Going on client visits
• Creating timesheets for all candidates each week and making sure they are completed in time. Also, ensuring that the timesheets are authorised by schools in time for the payroll cutoff.
• Setting up clients and candidate on the timesheet portal system
• Processing DBS's
• I was responsible for the compliance of all candidates from start to finish. The Education division is high compliance as we recruit candidates to go into schools, therefore compliance has to be very through. The process includes ensuring the candidates have all the right documentation, including the right to work in the UK, completing interview packs, scanning all documents onto the internal system, sending a audit request to the compliance team, working directly with the compliance team to ensure all checks are done correctly and all documents are within the compliance requirements, working directly with the candidate to ensure they have provided the right paperwork and keeping them updated with progress reports.
• Requesting referencing as well as completing references for external companies and agencies
• Dealing with any payroll queries
• Training new members of staff

For a brief period, shortly after I started at Reed, I was responsible for covering recruitment for the Nottingham and Derby area and specialised in sourcing for Nursery Managers in this area. This includes preparing and sending mailers out highlighting my candidates and following up with sales calls to the potential clients.

In addition, I was the account manager for two contracts. I look after and am solely responsible for a Leicester City Council contract and a Leicestershire County Council contract with the agency, which means meeting all education recruitment needs for the councils. I source candidates to fill vacancies and take them through the entire registration process and get them clear to work following the councils' compliance requirements. Positions I recruit for are Nursery Nurses, Nursery Managers, Deputy Managers, Education Physiologists, Education consultants, Teaching and Learning consultants, Associate Raising Achievement partners and Associate Raising Achievement Consultants. The weekly revenue ranges between £550 - £1000 for these bookings. I have grown the Leicester City Council desk from 25 LT days to 51 LT days.

Recruitment is a fast paced thriving environment and with my workload, I have to constantly multi task and be on top of things. I enjoy a busy work environment and it drives me to improve on my performance everyday.

The Priory Group is a rapidly growing organisation that is a leading provider in behavioural care in the UK. The group runs health, social care and education centres across the UK. It consists of four business divisions and 12,000 permanent staff. It has approximately 300 sites across England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

I was based in one of the Head offices in the Learning and Development department. My job involved ensuring all members of staff were fully trained in Health and Social Care diplomas from Level 2 - 5, diplomas in Leadership and Management - Level 7, and also Functional Skills in ICT, English and Maths.

I managed my own workload and was responsible for ensuring training was delivered in accordance with company policy and statutory regulations.

I was solely responsible for the below:

• Maintaining and updating all training records
• Maintaining training registers
• Maintaining the online training database
• Liaising with all site and external trainers to confirm availability, book training dates and venues and confirm training outcomes
• Liaising with staff to communicate training bookings, managing training bookings and communicating to staff any reminders about training out of date or nearing expiry.
• Assisting with HR administration, filing, minute taking, photocopying and report construction
• Ensuring site compliance for training is maintained at all times
• After the completion of the course, I entered the modules to the governing body's website (EDI and Edexcel) to generate certificates
• Posted certificates to relevant candidates/sites

In addition, I was responsible for generating £15,000 of revenue for the completion and certification of the courses. This involved liaising with govt bodies outside of Leicestershire. The revenue was added to the total budget of the Learning and Development department

The Riverside Group is a Housing Association that provides affordable properties for rent and purchase through voluntary right to buy schemes, 50% part ownership, etc.

This was a temporary role to cover sickness. I ensured the below tasks were completed:

• Sending out contracts to new homeowners
• All paperwork was signed by the appropriate people and sent to right departments/people
• Liaising with new and current homeowners
• Answering email queries
• Completing information on the internal database such as value of the house, deposit paid, balance left remaining. Also calculated certain figures based on the information and analysed it
• Filing, photocopying of all essential paperwork
• Updated database on all activity

This internship was extremely valuable for me as it introduced me to the world of recruitment and showed me just how much passion I have for this industry. I worked in all areas to get a better understanding of how everything works, and to widen my knowledge. Some of my duties were:

• Short listing candidates for temporary and permanent positions in varied fields. I spoke to prospective candidates in regards to jobs to ascertain if they were suitable for them
• Requesting necessary references for all candidates
• Conducting sales calls to new businesses and updating/adding it to the database
• Checking all documents/certificates were up to date for audit purposes
• Preparing a mailer and sending it out to prospective businesses as a point of introduction
• Scanning documents onto the system
• Making sales calls to current and prospective potential businesses within Leicestershire
• Conducting telephone interviews