​​​​Alastair Taylor​

Kantan

At Kantan we're changing the lives of tradespeople by giving them the tools to excel in a competitive marketplace. Our product is an operating system for tradespeople that helps them serve customers, manage operations and make more money. We have scaled rapidly to thousands of tradespeople and hundreds of thousands of households on the platform. We are just getting started on our goal to revolutionise the £45 billion home maintenance industry. We are funded by the OVO Group.

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Talent Acquisition Lead - Engineering

May 2021 to date

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Consultancy agreement via Coders Connect hired in an advisory capacity to help set up and oversee the overall delivery of Kantan International Talent Acquisition function for engineering as they grow a remote engineering team.

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Responsibilities included:

• Just started more to follow

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Key Achievements: Just started more to follow

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JustPark

JustPark is The Parking App reinventing parking for the digital era. Parking has been difficult for too long, and we’re on a mission to make it easy.

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Talent Acquisition Lead - Data, Product & Engineering

April 2021 to date

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Consultancy agreement via Coders Connect hired in an advisory capacity to help set up and oversee the overall delivery of JustPark's Talent Acquisition function for data, product and engineering. I was the first-ever dedicated tech talent partner JustPark hired.

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Responsibilities included:

• Talent Partner for an established start-up, growing into scale-up. The hiring process was already well defined, I made minimal recommendations for improvement - thanks to some great work from the People Manager.

• Management

  • I had two Talent Scouts helping me deliver on this project​

• Stakeholder management​

  • Stakeholder management was a large part of the role, with a significant percentage of hiring leads and senior management either new to JustPark or new to a leadership role. My role required a fair amount of coaching and driving best practice hiring behaviours aligned with JustPark and the external tech market.

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Key Achievements: Achieved 14 job offers and 12 hires in the first 40 days (offer every 2.9 days and hire every 3.3 days).

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Infor

Infor is a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry. With 17,000 employees and over 67,000 customers in more than 175 countries, Infor software is designed for progress

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Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant - Technology

February 2021 to date

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Hired to help scale the technology groups in the Netherlands, Sweden and Poland as a member of Infor's Talent Acquisition function.

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Responsibilities included:

• Management

  • Leading recruiting campaigns across the Netherlands, Sweden and Poland within Technology (including Product)

  • Reporting: Created a bespoke self-service talent pipeline dashboard for hiring leads to have better visibility of specific hiring  

  • Managed the PSL, primary contact for all agency engagement. Ownership of direct sourcing capacity & budget responsibility for agency spend.

• Candidate management

  • Direct sourcing

  • Technical and cultural vetting

  • Networking active and passive

• Stakeholders management

  • Market data intelligence

  • Driving complex international cultured (stakeholders located in multiple global locations) recruitment campaigns, successfully!

  • Coaching international stakeholders

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Key Achievements: Achieved 31 job offers and 23 hires in the first 80 days (offer every 2.6 days and hire every 3.5 days).

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Satis AI

Satis.AI is an AI operational platform for restaurant kitchens aimed at improving decision making and reducing mistakes. At the core of the platform they uses computer vision to a) Detect Object, b) Track Object and c) Recognise Actions.

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Head of Talent

September 2020 to date

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Consultancy agreement via Coders Connect, hired in advisory capacity to help setup and oversee the overall delivery of Satis AI Talent Acquisition function.

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Responsibilities included:

• Management

  • Talent Partner for an early-stage start-up, setting up the talent function from scratch.

  • Reporting: Feeding metrics to Founder and Head of Engineering for direct sourcing efforts, utilising the key metrics to continuously improve direct sourcing success.

  • 3 person team, Talent Manager and Talent Scouts​

• Candidate management

  • Direct sourcing

  • Technical and cultural vetting

  • Networking active and passive

  • Recruiting roles: Fullstack Software Engineers - AI (Senior, Lead), Computer Vision Engineers (Mid, Senior), Head of Computer Vision and Deep Learning, Machine Learning Engineers (Mid, Senior) & Product Managers.

  • Offer management and onboarding

• Stakeholder management

  • Market data intelligence

  • Designing structured recruitment campaigns and driving successful lean hiring processes.

• Projects

  • Researched & implemented ATS (Recruitee)

  • Implemented Intelligence Interviewing platform (Hiring Bar)

  • Designed Job Descriptions

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Key Achievements: Achieved 7 job offers and 6 hires in the first 100 days (offer every 14 days and hire every 17 days).

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Chronomics

Chronomics has built an online digital platform that uses epigenetics to give people the knowledge of how their environment and lifestyle is imprinting itself on their DNA and affecting their health.

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Talent Acquisition Lead - Product & Engineering

September 2020 to February 2021

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Consultancy agreement via Coders Connect, hired in advisory capacity to help setup and oversee the overall delivery of Chronomics Product & Engineering Talent Acquisition function.

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Responsibilities included:

• Management

  • Talent Partner for all Product & Engineering.

  • Reporting: Feeding metrics to Founder and CTO for direct sourcing efforts, utilising the key metrics to continuously improve direct sourcing success.

• Candidate management

  • Direct sourcing

  • Technical and cultural vetting

  • Networking active and passive

  • Recruiting roles: Software Engineers (Mid, Senior, Lead), Senior DevOps Engineer & Product Managers.

  • Offer management and onboarding

• Stakeholder management

  • Market data intelligence

  • Redesigning complex and unstructured recruitment campaigns and driving successful lean hiring process.

• Projects

  • Implemented Intelligence Interviewing platform (Hiring Bar)

  • Redesigned Job Descriptions.

 

Key Achievements: Working 3 days a week; achieved 9 job offers and 7 hires in the first 48 days (offer every 5 days and hire every 7 days). Achieved an overall 78% offer acceptance rate. Maintained a £2.1k cost per hire (80% cost saving reduction)

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LibLynx

LibLynx helps organizations generate more value from their online resources by delivering a more engaging and seamless experience to their users, and insightful analytics to stakeholders.

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Head of Talent

October 2020 to January 2021

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Consultancy agreement via Coders Connect, hired in advisory capacity to help setup and oversee the overall delivery of LinLynx's Talent Acquisition function.

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Responsibilities included:

• Sole recruiter hiring Senior Fullstack PHP/Go Developers

 

Credit Digital (just capital)

Grow your business without giving away equity or personal guarantees: Get up to £250k in 24 hours to spend on growth

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Head of Talent

October 2019 to January 2020

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Consultancy agreement via Coders Connect, hired in advisory capacity to help setup and oversee the overall delivery of Credit Digital's Talent Acquisition function.

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Responsibilities included:

• Sole recruiter hiring Senior Ruby Developers

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B-Social (Kroo)

B-Social is a UK based financial technology company developing innovative services for a new generation of customer.​

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Head of Talent

September 2019 to December 2019

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Consultancy agreement via Coders Connect, hired in advisory capacity to help setup and oversee the overall delivery of B-Social's Talent Acquisition function.

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Responsibilities included:

• ATS implementation (HelloTalent)

• Refined the interview and on-boarding process working closely with the Talent Manager and People Manager.

• Management

  • 5 person team, Talent Manager and Talent Scouts​

• Stakeholder management​

  • C-level only​

• Projects

  • Created Company Culture video's and Engineering playbooks on Github, related to ways of working

  • Helped design EVP (Employer Value Proposition) and Company Values & Principles​

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Key Achievements: Managed a delivery team that achieved 8 job offers in 6 weeks. Week 1: designed and implemented an e2e talent function and on-boarded a new ATS (HelloTalent).  

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Babylon Health

Babylon Health is the UK’s leading digital healthcare service. Putting affordable healthcare in the hands of everyone on the planet.

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Talent Acquisition Lead, AI Cognition

January 2019 to December 2019

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Hired by possibly the UK's most recognized Health-Tech Start-ups, in the midst of a hyper growth phase. Industry experts have referred to Babylon Health as a double unicorn in the start-up tech-space.

 

Responsibilities included:

• Management

  • Delivery Lead (TA) of new Liverpool Street office. (sole Recruiter)

  • Talent Partner of the AI Cognition (Tribes x3 = Clinical Knowledge, Data & Health Management)  

  • Managed the PSL, primary contact for all agency engagement. Ownership of direct sourcing capacity & budget responsibility for agency spend.

  • Reporting: Feeding metrics to Senior Management Team for direct & agency sourcing efforts, utilising the key metrics to continuously improve direct and agency sourcing success and well as working with Senior Management on Sourcing Strategies. Includes cost savings for contingency hires; workforce planning for rolling off contractors & consultancies.

• Candidate management

  • Direct sourcing (online and events)

  • Technical and cultural vetting

  • Networking active and passive

  • Recruiting roles: Data Engineers (Mid, Senior, Staff, Lead), Data Scientists (Senior, Lead), Java Engineers (Mid, Senior, Staff, Lead), Senior DevOps Engineers, Senior QA Automation Engineers, Senior iOS Engineers, Senior Android Engineers, Agile Delivery Managers, Scrum Masters, ML Engineers, NLP Engineers & Knowledge Engineers.

  • Offer management and on boarding

• Stakeholder management

  • Market data intelligence

  • Redesigning complex and unstructured recruitment campaigns and driving successful lean hiring process.

• Projects

  • UK Visa Talent Lead; defined internal visa sponsorship framework

  • Redesigned Job Descriptions, specific focus on levels, linked to how I redesigned the interview process and how Babylon Health assessed Mid, Senior, Staff, Principal & Lead Engineers.

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Key Achievements: Initial 75 days: Responsible for over 30 hires of high calibre technology professionals, averaged and offer every 2.5 days. Setup a reporting slack channel; Stakeholders have visibility on active talent pools: offer declines (reasons), candidate stage (bottlenecks), Gender balance (awareness, not to impact evaluation), Source (talent hot spots / budget), Levels (hiring a balanced workforce)

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Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology professionals, empowering them to make better decisions, deliver better care, and sometimes make groundbreaking discoveries, that advance the boundaries of knowledge and human progress.

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Talent Acquisition Manager (Technology)

​August 2016 - January 2019

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Hired to help drive a direct hiring model and decrease the global cost to hire for Elsevier Technology Group.

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Responsibilities included:

• Management

  • Delivery Lead, management of RPO and contractors (team of 7)

  • Managed the PSL, primary contact for all agency engagement. Having an overview of direct sourcing capacity, budget responsibility for agency spend.

  • Reporting: Feeding metrics to Senior Management and team for direct and agency sourcing efforts, utilising the key metrics to continuously improve direct and agency sourcing success and well as working with Senior Management on Sourcing Strategies.

• Candidate management

  • Direct sourcing (online and events)

  • Technical and cultural vetting

  • Networking active and passive

  • Recruiting roles within: Executive hires, Enterprise Search (Solr, ElasticSearch), Big Data, Data Science, Full-Stack JavaScript (Node.JS), Backend Java, Marketing Automation Technologies (Adobe Campaign Manager), DevOps (Puppet, Terraform, AWS), End User Infrastructure, eCommerce (Magento), SalesForce.com, UX, BA, PM and QA Automation, Senior Director and VP of Engineering.

  • Offer management and on boarding

• Stakeholder management

  • Market data intelligence

  • Redesigning complex and unstructured recruitment campaigns and driving successful lean hiring process.

  • Educating international stakeholders on hiring into modern technologies (Data Engineering, Scala, Spark, Hadoop, Terraform, Node.JS, React.JS, etc)

• Projects

  • Key contributor for concepts and implementation for new Sourcing Strategies and how Talent Acquisition engages with new RPO.

  • Led research and trails for Talent Engagement Technologies; such as: TalentBin, HelloTalent, DevScanner, Workshape.io, Snap.hr, Hired.com, Stack Overflow (impressions), Snapchat & Instagram for Recruitment and various Online Candidate Databases (Job Boards).

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Morningstar, Inc

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

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Senior EMEA Talent Acquisition Consultant (Technology)

​May 2016 - August 2016

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Complete ownership of a 100% direct hiring model for Morningstar Real-Time Market Data Technology Group as the sole Recruiter. Managing multiple technology focused vacancies at mid-level to senior grades such as; Operations Engineers, Network & Systems Administrators, Application Support Analysts, Software Engineers, Software QA Engineers, Head of Software Development and Global Head of Software Development.

 

Responsibilities included:

• Candidate management

  • Direct sourcing

  • Technical and cultural vetting (part of initial telephone screening, technical assessments, panel interviews and senior management interviews)

  • Networking active and passive

  • Interview & Offer management

• Stakeholder management

  • Market data intelligence (salary & benefits benchmarks and recruitment process against the likes of Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, IDC, etc. Talent trends and indicators; candidate experiences)

  • Redesigning complex and unstructured recruitment campaigns and driving successful hiring process.

  • Interview training, helping inexperienced hiring managers improve interview skills and bring them in-line with C-level expectations

• Administration

  • Thoroughly maintaining Workday

 

Key Achievements: Initial 6 weeks: 3 offers and filled (2 Senior Executive roles) Head of Software Development and Global Head of Software Development vacancies (Headhunted), Designed and executed new Recruitment Business Process.

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Dell

Dell are historically known for PC’s & hardware but today Dell is a successful technology leader and a recognized end-to-end Solutions Provider.

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Senior EMEA Talent Acquisition Search Consultant (Technology)

June ​2015 - May 2016

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As part of Dell's Talent Acquisition organisation across EMEA, the Talent Search Team are experienced recruiters working in over 25 countries throughout the region. We are responsible for headhunting top talent, continuing Dell’s transformation into an end to end solutions provider.

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My role within the Talent Acquisition team as an EMEA Talent Acquisition Search Consultant / Senior Corporate Recruiter, I was brought in to focus on mid to senior level niche technology roles in Ireland (Dublin, Cork & Limerick). Working across various business units that include: Dell Services, Dell Software Group, Enterprise Solutions Group and End User Computing.

 

Responsibilities included:

• Management

  • Leading recruiting campaigns

  • Leading collaborating efforts of several Recruiters on multiple recruitment projects

  • Mentoring Recruiters

• Candidate management

  • Direct sourcing

  • Technical and cultural vetting

  • Networking active and passive

• Stakeholders management

  • Market data intelligence

  • Driving complex international cultured (stakeholders located in multiple global locations) recruitment campaigns, successfully!

  • Educating international stakeholders on hiring into new locations (Ireland was a greenfield site to many US & Asian based Hiring Managers)

• Social Media

  • As an extension of the employment branding team, delivering training on Social Media tools that proved useful for sourcing such as: EveryoneSocial and Sprinklr

• Administration

  • Thoroughly maintaining various ATS/CRM (Taleo, Avature & LinkedIn Recruiter)

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Key Achievements: Initial 6 months: 21 permanent hires and 24 offers (headhunted), Lead Social Media POC for TA/Talent Search Team, introduced Dell TA/Talent Search Team to new recruitment tools (Connectifier, now LinkedIn), Mentoring junior team members and leading larger recruitment campaigns hiring into Ireland for technology hires.

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Computer People (Part of the Adecco Group)

Computer People are a specialist IT recruitment consultancy, covering all areas of the contract and permanent market.

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Joined Computer People at the company’s entry level post as a Recruitment Executive, through hard work and ability earned multiple promotions (achieve a double promotion).

Managed a team of permanent recruiters, specializing in Java Resources. Since October 2013 moved across to our Contract department  further developing our Java Resource Division.

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Responsibilities included:

• Candidate management (sourcing, vetting, networking active and passive)

• Client management (external stakeholders management, service reviews, market data reports)

• Business development (referrals, lead generation, market mapping)

 

Senior Contract Recruiter (Java Resource Division)

October ​2013 - June 2015

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Having already set up the Java Resource Division a platform was already in place for my business to grow. My role is split between managing existing client relationships and new business development but  with a focus on contract.

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Permanent Recruitment Team Leader (Java Resource Division)

July ​2008 - September 2013

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Responsible for managing PSL clients as well as maintaining and developing business and relationships with non PSL and new clients.

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Management experience: Managing a team of 4 Recruiters I conduct structured monthly business reviews, giving my team advice and setting goals based on ratios and KPI’s of sales activities. Deliver adhoc training for my team in areas that require development and give hands on direction when required.

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Consultant experience: Lead Recruitment Consultant for Computer People’s Java Resource Division, I mentor my team in recruitment best practices. This includes: How to setup a vertical desk, How to target your client base, How to manage candidates and How to manage clients.

 

I’ve applied advance techniques on how to grow a vertical desk, I have a dedicated Twitter account, I am the administrator of multiple Java related groups on LinkedIn, I manage a Java Facebook page and I am part of multiple Java communities on Google+. These are some of the social media sites that have proven a great source for information, candidates and clients it is a very powerful tool to prove your creditability in the market. Other sources include: LinkedIn Recruiter, LinkedIn X-Ray, Smart Recruiter, Next-5, SourceHub, Viadeo, Behance, peopleperhour, Elance, Indeed, GitHub, Xing, Google, StackOverflow, Indeed, tech.pro, Connectifier, Sidekick...

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Joining specific forums and following particular blogs are great ways to identify passive candidates that have that often show a passion for their work.

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I am skilled at advert writing, search expert, research analyst and have a natural ability securing meeting with clients. I am particular about aftercare services and include a review with both candidates and clients as part of my services.

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Key Achievements:Serial incentive achiever, 4 promotions in 5 years, Delivered professional training seminars, Retained business / Executive search (multiple clients have conducted onsite interviews), Multiple exclusive accounts.

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Third Quarter

Third Quarter specializes in software development, infrastructure & sourcing and selecting IT professionals.

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Recruitment Team Leader & Internal Recruiter

March ​2007 - May 2008

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Third Quarter is an IT Outsourcing Technology firm with a side recruitment agency business. I was responsible for a small team of recruiters working the permanent and contract market in South Africa and responsible for all internal recruitment at Third Quarter.

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Rubeus Staffing Solutions

Rubeus Staffing Solutions are a specialist IT recruitment consultancy, covering all areas of the permanent market.

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Recruitment Consultant

June ​2005 - January 2007

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My first recruitment job, I enjoyed this experience and I was very successful due to a structured background in sales and administration.

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Scottish & Southern Energy

Utilities, Energy, Renewables, Electricity and Gas

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Field Sales Manager

August ​2004 - May 2005

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Recruited from Cape Town, South Africa as a Field Sales Executive to gain new business in the South Coast of England, United Kingdom. I sold Southern and Scottish Energy’s gas and electric contracts to the British community on a door to door basis. Where I averaged 40 - 50 new contracts per week, earnings averaged £800 - £1,200 per week. In the final 3 months I was promoted to Field Sales Manager, I trained Junior Sales Executives, kept a register of the teams KPI and kept the team motivated. In addition, I had the responsibility of driving the company coach to patch each day.

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Department of Housing for the Western Cape

Administration of government properties

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Administration Clerk / Data Analyst

June ​2001 - July 2004

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Position held as an Administration Clerk / Data Analyst, I complied databases using excel, tasked with various administration duties that included collecting files from government volts, drafting professional letters, assisted with account management, assisted with public enquiries (telephonic & face to face interview). Additional responsibilities were given to me after 12 months, during overtime I responsible for allocated department vehicles, escorting delegated personnel to their desired destination.