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About Me

Professional Profile:
• 7 years Recruitment experience.
• Result driven and focused individual.
• Exceptional interpersonal, relationship management & negotiation skills.
• A very strong team player with excellent commercial awareness.
• A high achiever with the ability and positive attitude to succeed.

Self Development:
I take personal responsibility for my own learning and development through a process of assessment and reflection followed by taking action. I am continually updating my skills to remain commercially aware while striving to achieve goals and objectives.

Innovation:
I enjoy the creative process of innovation. Innovation enables improvement and the requirement to ‘think outside the box’. Innovation strengthens your vision and pushes you beyond your boundaries, in a positive way.

Motivation:
Motivation is the force that makes us do things: this is a result of our individual needs being satisfied (or met) so that we have inspiration to complete the task. Motivation is important for goal setting and achieving. I find motivation drives my ambitions and produces self-satisfaction.

Specialties:
Social Media Sourcing• Search and Selection • Research • Commercial Awareness • Training and Development • Coaching and Career Consultation

Work History

• LinkedIn
• EMEA Recruiter
• September 2010 to Present

• Recruiting roles for LinkedIn based across EMEA.

• Cpl
• Senior Recruitment Specialist
• July 2007 to March 2010

• Responsibilities
  • Recruiting marketing professionals at all levels across all industry sectors on a National and International level
  • Manage the life cycle of recruitment from job profiling, candidate sourcing, interview and selection, salary negotiation, contract issue and post hire support.

  Additional responsibilities include candidate and job sourcing, client relationship management, database management, administration, social media sourcing on an International and National level, coaching junior team members and target achievements.

• Elite Placement Agency
• Director and Recruitment Manager
• March 2005 to May 2007

• Director at Elite Placement Recruitment Agency. I specialised in the supply of temporary and permanent staffing to the retail sector- nationwide. Clients included successful branded names across the retail industry in the UK and Ireland.

  Objectives and responsibilities included:
  • Strategic Planning- inclusive of market research
  • Recruitment and Selection
  • Finance and Accounting
  • Marketing, PR and Advertising
  • Client Management

• Google
• Recruiting Specialist
• March 2010 to September 2010

• Google is a multinational public cloud computing and Internet search technologies corporation. I recruit within our Global Advertising Operations division. Our Advertising Sales & Customer Support teams are dedicated to supporting our growing base of advertisers, publishers, and users across all of Europe.

  I recruit for our Global Advertising Operations Division based in our EMEA HQ in Dublin, Ireland.

Education

• National College of Ireland
• CIPD in Training Practice
• 2008 - 2009

• Dublin Business School
• Diploma in Accounting and Finance
• 2005 - 2007