Manager, Talent Acquisition

• Sep 2022 - Present

Senior Lead, Technical Talent Acquisition

• Feb 2022 - Aug 2022

Senior Technical Recruiter

• Aug 2021 - Feb 2022

Talent Acquisition Lead (Product, Content & Engineering)

• Jan 2020 - Aug 2021

I lead a Talent Acquisition team who partner with our Product, Engineering and Content organisations, finding the best new Gurus across the US and Australia for our fast growing company. My role consists of a blend between people leadership, building talent acquisition processes and recruiting positions for our team/s.Highlights of my role include:- Creating a self-serve information hub for Recruiters from our US, Australian and UK teams to find information on Talent Acquisition processes, best practices and general how-to's- Working alongside our global Engineering team/s to embed the Engineering competency framework into interview scorecards and hiring practices- Automated repetitive Recruiting reports for leadership stakeholders, so that basic recruiting information could be found with less friction and without any gatekeepers- Wrote, maintained and delivered A Cloud Guru's Recruitment and Interview training for Hiring Managers and Interviewers- Created a Recruiter bandwidth model (including anticipated attrition based on ACG company averages), so that our teams could better predict periods where our Recruiting teams would be stretched beyond their capacityA Cloud Guru was acquired by PluralSight in July of 2021.

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

• Nov 2018 - Jan 2020

As a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist, my role was to source and hire the best Engineering and Content talent into our team of Cloud Gurus. My work was primarily based around our needs in the Melbourne office, but I also hired positions in the US and UK.During 2019, we experienced a year of explosive growth after closing ACG's Series B raise, resulting in my contribution of hiring ~40 new people for our teams, ahead of our predicted schedule.Given I worked as part of a small team, I also got the unique opportunity to suggest solutions to problems (and then go and deliver them!) and contribute to the development of other Recruiters in our group.Highlights of my role include:- Shortly after the announcement and roll-out of A Cloud Guru's core values, delivering our first 'value-based' interview question templates, to be used to ensure all incoming new hires were values aligned to the business- Building a structure for Australia-based interview processes, that scaled in complexity depending on the level of role, including recommended interviewers- Leading a project team that delivered a talent marketing campaign to 'de-mystify' the Technical Instructor position in our Content team- Suggesting candidate experience standards for our ACG Talent team to upholdIn December of 2019, A Cloud Guru acquired Linux Academy, and I was promoted into a People Leadership role in the organisation.

Division Manager

• Jan 2017 - Nov 2018

I lead a team of Technical Recruiters, whilst also searching for candidates and placing roles in the contract / contingent Software Development field. I typically assist businesses when they are struggling to find a particular skill set, are against a project delivery time frame or need to solve a specific problem that lies outside of their current team skills.Typical roles I work on range from the following: - Software Developers (all technology stacks)- Testers (manual and automation)- UX/UI Designers- Architecture and software consulting

Senior Consultant

• Sep 2015 - Dec 2016

Consultant

• Jul 2014 - Aug 2015

Sales Consultant

• Sep 2013 - Mar 2014

 Responsible for hitting sales targets in a support role to the marketing department. Delivered a new reporting system ensuring all temps who work at CPA Australia have a simple method to record and report sales at the end of each campaign  Responsible for hitting sales targets in a support role to the marketing department. Delivered a new reporting system ensuring all temps who work at CPA Australia have a simple method to record and report sales at the end of each campaign

Business Development Manager

• Sep 2009 - Aug 2013

Outlook - Bespoke Windows & Doors is a boutique glass and glazing company based in the Cotswold town of Cheltenham. My history at the company included:- Promoted to BDM for the latter two years, responsible for attending all sales appointments, developing rapport with new and existing customers and maintaining the company's reputation and brand- Responsible for generating new business opportunities during the economic downturn in the construction industry by forging and maintaining important relationships with new and existing clients (building contractors, architects, tradesmen) which assisted in hitting new sales targets- Worked with key stakeholders under extreme pressure and tight deadlines to deliver a 20% increase in sales revenue over a 12 month period- Improved quotation times by creating a computer operated window quotation system, decreasing lead times- A key member of staff in winning several tenders for large commercial contractors, attending all of the initial meetings, formulating proposals and submitting final bids. Developed relationships with these contractors which led to profitable repeat business