Experience

Magdalen College School, Oxford

• United Kingdom
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Admissions Manager

  • Sep 2016 - Present

  Magdalen College School is an independent day school in Oxford, for boys aged seven to eighteen and for girls in the sixth form. The Assistant Registrar works with the Registrar in managing the process of admitting pupils from initial enquiry through application, testing, interviews, offers and induction. I am responsible for applications for the Junior School, Middle School and Sixth Form. I am responsible for: • Liaising with prospective parents and students, ensuring that all families receive a personal service. • Admissions correspondence including offer and induction paperwork • Managing database information for each applicant • Organising open events, including whole school open day, Senior School Open Afternoons and Junior School Open Mornings, both in person and virtual. • Organising test and interview days • Maintaining links with feeder schools • Supporting the Marketing team and collaborating with teaching staff, Bursary and Development teams. Show less



Oxford University Press

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Recruitment Adviser

  • Dec 2008 - Sep 2016

  Part of OUP’s in house recruitment team. This service resulted in a significant reduction in cost per hire. Activities included developing best practice guidelines and policies, introducing and managing Agency PSL, creation and circulation of talent pool, and offering credible, tailored advice and support to hiring managers in all aspects of the recruitment cycle. I specialise in all roles within Editorial, Production, Operations and Support functions. Electronic recruitment system project delivery team: Involved with functionality/ design input, and once operational, trained hiring managers and HR team in system use. This resulted in greater consistency in requisition process, effective recruitment cost tracking and time to hire metrics, and measurement of internal KPIs. Coaching line managers in best practice interviewing techniques. I offer guidance and advice on all recruitment matters. I support managers with candidate selection, arranging and conducting competency based interviews; including devising assessment and scoring model to ensure consistency, meeting with managers to agree interview outcomes, making job offers and conducting negotiations in order to secure talent, and providing interview feedback, ensuring a positive and professional candidate experience at all times. Building relationships with university careers service and building links with publishing postgraduate courses. Attending campus events and organising work experience. Organising the summer internship scheme Advising managers on legal / market specific recruitment matters. Equality and diversity, visa and CRB obligations, and on appropriate salary benchmarking within industry, sector and locations. Creating and placing strategic adverts online and in appropriate publications, including development of social media strategy, Show less



Inspired Selection

• Publishing Recruitment Specialist

  • 2004 - 2008

  Responsibilities include:  Handing vacancies for all areas of publishing including editorial, production, marketing, sales, design, rights and administration - from first job in publishing to mid-level positions.  Developing and maintaining candidate base, interviewing and vetting candidates, maintaining their records and building rapport. Providing advice about publishing careers, CVs and interviews  Business development with new and existing clients, keeping in touch regularly to discuss specific vacancies, our services and their needs and also providing advice and information on recruitment.  Building and maintaining excellent work relationships with colleges and universities and representing the company at trade fairs, conferences, university presentations and career days.  Writing advertising copy and posting new jobs in online and print media. Show less



Blackwell Publishing

• Editorial Services Manager

  • Jun 2000 - May 2004

   Monitoring the procedures and systems of editorial offices of the division’s 70 journals, including many remote offices, to ensure that all journals have efficient and cost-effective editorial office systems which provide a good service to authors  Providing advice to internal colleagues and external Journal Editors, their Editorial Assistants on the setting up and maintenance of systems and procedures for managing editorial offices  Divisional expert on all manuscript tracking systems, providing advice and costings for journals looking to change systems and managing the introduction of new systems and training of staff  Line management for a team of editorial assistants, handling appraisals and supervising workloads Previously Editorial Assistant and Senior Editorial Assistant, responsible for the smooth running of editorial offices, including Journal of Advanced Nursing. Show less



Oxford Brookes University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• School Secretary

  • 1998 - 2000