Ryan Cool

• Asked to join Corio an Offshore wind farm developer due to major hiring project – 200 FTE’s required for their global portfolio projects, APAC, Americas, Northern Europe
• Roles: mid to senior level candidates within engineering and construction, communications, commercial, corporate, finance and divisional heads
• Managing relationship with key stakeholders in all aspects of recruitment on a global basis level of stakeholder
• 43 hires in year 1 (33 direct)
• Reviewed both live and historic data for all hires to identify potential improvements to the recruitment process. Specific focus on Time to Hire & diversity metrics
• Developed shorter interview processes for more junior level hires gaining a 50% reduction in time to hire, whilst also increasing the success of completions by 10%
• Identified specific areas of the business where diversity issues existed to allow teams to make quicker decisions for offering instead of waiting for the perfect diverse mix of candidates
• Reviewing recruitment strategy, successes, and failures and lessons learned to enable constant improvement in our processes and approach
• Creating market mapping and talent attraction strategies in The UK, Ireland, Denmark, Asia including Taiwan, South Korea, USA & Brazil
• Proactively talent pooling and building pipelining for future hires in line with companies growth strategy and project plans

• Roles included: Java, Python, C++ engineers, Data engineers
• Procurement, Operations and investment start-ups
• Direct line manager to a team of 7: 3 Recruitment Consultants & 4 administrators, Coaching, development and training
• Managed relationships with key stakeholders in the business level and titles
• Full intake strategy briefing sessions with hiring managers and stakeholders to understand need within the team, and well as role, looked at discussed best options to be successful
• Responsible for the full end to end recruitment cycle including talent pooling and pipelining, briefing session with hiring teams, direct sourcing, screening and interviewing, psychometric assessments, offer and onboarding as well as post hire care
• Worked closely with overseas teams, in Australia, USA, Central Europe as well as daily activity to support our offices in the 2 major tech hubs in Gurugram
• Implemented a continuous improvement process, to constantly monitor results and allow for change, resulting in a significant reduction in time to hire
• Standardised adverts to improve attraction rate, leading to a 50% increase in applicants
• Increased diversity hires by over 20% gender, social mobility, ethnicity, women in tech
• Developed relationship with a charity providing education to employment in several fields of technology, leading to 6 successful entry level data engineer hires with a 50/50 gender mix and a further 3 hires in other areas of the business.

Director

• Established new recruitment company aimed at helping companies attract niche talent to their organization
• Successful placements from month 1
• Pipeline of over £100k created inside 2 months

• Recruiting for Junior to Executive level staff in Tech & commercial requirements in the UK and Europe
• From junior to senior developers up to VP of Tech in Java, Python & mobile application development
• Developed 2 new recruitment procedures aimed at improving efficiency, created a pipeline for all future hires enabling us to proactively work with the leaders for all their hiring. Worked with 1 team to improve their hiring abilities by developing a 3-day system for feedback and interviews to commence with the end goal to be able to offer in a week. The team have filled their entire team as a result and cut the time to hire by 65%.
• Manage and monitor existing PSL agency suppliers, ensuring performance and quality was high., regularly calling/meeting to ensure they understand our company needs
• Negotiated with more agencies to increase number on PSL due to high levels of recruitment activity
• Gave input to strategic leaders on right course to follow for employing staff, advising them through the strict company processes. Created in house events & attend tech related events, with a focus on diversity
• Oversaw Apprentice recruitment campaign twice. Worked with the Hiring Manager to identify potential places to advertise, collaborated with the suppliers to ensure they were able to conduct requirements. Created our branded home page with their design team and ran through checks to ensure applicants found their way to the right landing page to complete their application & worked with training provider to ensure that we understood all requirements to satisfy the governments guidelines for hiring apprentices
• Managing relationships with internal stakeholder’s VP’s and Directors in the business for all permanent recruitment. Holding weekly catch up sessions to ensure the service we provide is working for them, as well as discussing future needs to enable the resource team to be ready
• Managed 3 overseas sourcing partners, day to day activity, performance etc

• Managed relationships with key contacts in major clients, developing attraction strategy, agreeing milestones, discussing ideal profiles, implementing strategies and managing project to ensure delivery within timeframe and budget
• Regular meetings with stakeholders of big 4 accountancy practices to discuss their recruitment campaigns to update on projects.

Ran my own recruitment company within LED & Solid State Lighting industry sourcing commercial and technical candidates within DACH, BeNeLux, UK, Southern Europe & the US.

Grew company from 0 to 8 staff at its peak, through Graduate scheme as well as directly sourced staff to work for my business.

Won and managed 2 very successful RPO's for thriving business in Central & Southern Europe. Met with MD, CEO and board members to discuss budget, future projections, our process and involvement. Sourced candidates for both businesses in technology and commercial positions. Advertised on behalf of both businesses and managed activity for all direct applicants, whilst providing proactively sourced profiles for our clients.

• Managed exclusive recruitment activity for a US start up and working directly with the CEO and EMEA Director hired 14 staff over 2 years to assist the company's expansion in Europe, Asia & Middle East
• Selected right ATS for the business, meeting with some of the latest developers in the industry
• Managed full admin & HR duties for both companies.

• Created and led 2 recruiting campaigns to hire graduate recruiters for future business needs
• Developed training programme, schedule, budget, delivery timelines
• Partnered with 2 local universities to assist students with interview, presentation and business skills, this gave great insight in to potential hires for our company whilst forging strong relationships with the students
• Visited several European Universities and Business Schools to present and discuss our graduate scheme, in order to provide staff for our European offices
• Advertised, proactively approached and engaged with local rec2rec agencies to attract direct hires for both the scheme as well as my own teams
• Ran specialist project to select new ATS system, involved in transferring over 100,000 live applicants to new system and bug testing for any issues
• Assessed, short listed, interviewed and hired 27 staff over a 2 year period
• Supported some of the leading electronics firms in the industry as well as partnered with smaller start ups, some even at incubator stage within leading Universities
• Recruited for commercial and technical candidates within DACH, BeNeLux and UK and became the regional champion for these areas
• Managed 14 Consultants across 2 sectors (Semiconductor/EDA & LED/Solid State Lighting) in 3 countries
• Ran the fastest growing sector, won consultant of the year due to my success and growth, placed over 80 FTE’s at mid to senior level within 1 year.

• Won new consultant of the year
• 4th highest biller in the UK
• Managed 6 Consultants