Rachel Bracha

After selling the business, Reach Education Ltd in December 2022, remaining with Academic Appointments - AA, the buyers, for a year to ensure as a smooth transfer for our clients and candidates and the business continued to perform.

During this time, I had numerous duties:

• Training new full-time staff who would remain with AA.
• Learning new computerised systems.
• Dealing with incoming cash from Debtors for Reach Education.
• Meeting with schools to introduce new staff so that new relationships were established.
• Attended regular meetings with MD's to discuss progress against targets and devise strategies for improvement if needed.
• Coordinated interview schedules between candidates and clients, ensuring seamless communication.
• Participated in career fairs and networking events to promote the recruitment agency's services.
• Enhanced candidate database by actively reaching out to prospective talent on professional networking platforms.

• Involved in every aspect of starting and running Reach Education Ltd, an education recruitment agency.
• To ensure Reach Education met regulations and guidelines.
• To recruit and provide temporary staff to schools to support pupils with SEND. Reach employed over 3000 temporary staff over 16 years.
• Finalising weekly payroll.
• Chasing payments of invoices.
• Maintained client and candidates records to meet with GDPR guidance.
• Build relationships with temporary staff and staff in schools.
• Always ensuring confidentiality.
• Organising external training for temporary staff.

After relocating back to Sheffield the role of Senior Consultant was offered to an already established division.

Duties as below for Divisional Manager, except responsible for 2 members of staff.

• Motivating 6 members of staff.
• Working to achieve office targets of over £100,000 GP per month.
• Negotiating rates of pay and charges.
• Reporting figures and predictions to Regional Manager.
• Induction and training of new staff.
• Bringing on new clients by telephone and face to face visits.
• Implementing new marketing strategies for new business.
• Recruitment of candidates.
• Ensuring good working conditions.
• Account Managing.
• Presentations to schools.
• Being ahead of competitors.
• Analyse targets, figures and profit daily.

• Mentoring staff.
• Successfully placing candidates in suitable vacancies.
• Over achieving targets on regular basis, bringing in £32,000 GP per month personally.
• Attending Recruitment fairs and presenting to University Students to encourage students to register with Capita
• Chasing Leads.
• Establishing relationships with Clients.

• Bringing on new business via telephone sales and sales visits managing over 60 customer calls a day.
• Ensuring teachers are placed in suitable positions.
• Interviewing Teaching staff, establishing suitability.
• Servicing current clients, promptly and professionally.
• Developing and maintaining excellent relationships with clients and Teachers.
• Achieving targets and thriving to overachieve.
• Account Managing, chasing outstanding invoices.

• Ensuring suppliers are paid promptly and accurately.
• Review staff to ensure departmental and personal targets were achieved.
• Produce and analyse weekly reports.
• Assist Financial Accountant with balancing year-end figures.
• Attend regular meetings with Managers of other departments discussing how to increase productivity.
• To meet and increase the Public Policy Payment. This increased Considerably after obtaining this position, reaching 97% of invoices paid within 30 days.
• Facilitated staff training, resulting in better customer service.

• Processing Invoices.
• Petty Cash.
• Controlled stationary.
• Liaising internally and externally by telephone and written communication.