Nicole Thomas

LMA Recruitment

Head of Delivery 

Empresaria Group plc

Head of Delivery UK

Xpertise Recruitment

Xpertise Recruitment specialise in providing the best hard to find IT & Technology talent across the 
following areas:
Technology Recruitment:
• BI, Data Analytics & Data Science
• Business Change & Transformation
• Cloud, Infrastructure & DevOps
• IT Architecture
• NHS / Central Government 
• QA & Testing
• Project Delivery
• Senior IT Appointments
• Software Engineering
Finalist for Best IT / Technology Recruitment Agency - Recruiter Awards 2019 
Highly Commended for Best Specialist Recruitment Business – Global Recruiter 2019
Ones to Watch for Business of the Year – European Business Awards 2019
Winner of the Best Recruitment Company to work for up to £10m in the UK - 2017 RI Awards
Winner of the Best Small Recruitment Agency in the UK - 2018 RDLC Awards

Associate Director - Data 

The Nudge Group

Director EMEA

Cpl UK - Technology

Associate Director

CPL Specialist Talent Limited is a subsidiary of CPL Resources Plc. We are a global provider of people; CPL’s core goal is to power business growth through people.

We believe that there is an ideal Job for everyone, wherever you want to go in your career, we can help. The CPL Group spans 11 countries and has 41 offices worldwide, helping businesses to find and attract the very best talent in every industry. CPL Specialist Talent is a ‘ultra-specialised’ recruitment business focused on addressing candidate short niche markets in the UK technology staffing sector.

We deploy highly specialist recruiters into ‘micro niches’ ensuring they become the absolute experts at the what they do and add value to client and candidates by providing reliable and truly well-informed advice on hiring decision and career choices.

Our main areas of focus are in addressing talent shortages in the following space across UK and Europe.

- Change & Transformation
- Infrastructure and Cloud Services
- Cyber Security
- BI, Data and Analytics
- Digital and Development
- Strategy and Architecture
- AI, ML and Blockchain

Specifically, roles we’ll work on in the above areas would be UI/UX Developers & Designers, Business Intelligence Experts, Security/Cyber Security Experts, Cloud Architects and Integration Experts, Data Scientists, Mobile App Developers, Full Stack Web and Product developers.

Contact us today on (0)203 923 8877 or email nicole.thomas@cpl.com to speak with a true expert in your field and have an open and transparent conversation on the best career options available to you in the market today.

Client Partnership Manager

Youcrew Consulting 

YouCrew has a keen interest and passion for People, YOU our clients and our Candidates are at the centre of everything we do. 
A start-up, talent consultancy with a strong focus on providing RPO and Talent Solutions to Businesses in South Africa. 

•	Designing and implement sourcing strategies that supports the growth of clients.
•	Establishing teams of Talent Sourcing Specialists; recruiting the best candidates across Southern 
        Africa, UK & Europe.
•	Securing hiring in line with all industry and Governmental requirements.
•	Build and maintain candidate pipelines through; market mapping, competitor analysis, networking, 
         internet and database mining, headhunting and events nationally and internationally. 
•	Recruitment campaigns and advertising copy. Communicating and negotiating between the 
        Company and potential candidates in support of a variety of recruitment and employment related 
        matters. 
•	Managing the full recruitment process and life cycle including sourcing, initial assessments, 
        interviews, offers, hiring and employee induction / orientation

Founder

Falcorp Technologies

Engaged to design and execute a new HR, resourcing, and talent attraction strategy, across the business and move from an agency reliant recruitment function and ‘insource’ recruitment activity. 
•	Developed search and delivery model enabling rapid business growth
•	Led the recruitment for Enterprise Sales, Technology, Consulting, Digital, Marketing, Corporate & 
        Functions across the following industry verticals: Telecommunications, Banking Financial Services, 
        Insurance, Consumer Goods & Retail, Life Sciences and Healthcare. 
•	Overall responsibility for recruitment across BAU and Project resources. 
•	Consulted with the business on hiring needs and led the hiring process from start to finish 
        including engagement of preferred supplier search firms and internal direct sourcing team; 
        Provided reporting on weekly and monthly basis to stakeholders and senior leadership to 
        demonstrate progress against KPIs including cost to hire, time to hire, diversity and operational 
        excellence.
•	Increased the company’s visibility in the IT jobs marketplace through innovative advertising 
        campaigns (online and offline)
•	Redesigned sourcing processes, and broadened talent pool of candidates 
•	Hired across a multidisciplinary team from junior grades to senior management

Talent Acquisition and Human Resource Lead.

KPI Staffing

Established and managed this General Recruitment Agency. 
•	Supported Enterprise and Blu-Chip companies with recruitment services, as well as additional 
        responsibilities related to running a business 
•	Provided staffing related services from Junior to Executive level, within a variety of sectors 
•	Administrated matters relating to the running of a business, including but not limited to; strategic 
        planning, financial management, administration, communications, and everyday operational 
        matters

Core Medical LTD

Tasked with building strong relationships with NHS and Private Hospitals and Clinics across the UK. 
•	Responsible of onboarding and understanding NHS and Private Hospitals.
•	Strong understanding of Frameworks and compliance processes
•	Planning and executing Recruiting events across EMEA
•	Partnering with business leaders to understand recruitment needs and strategies
•	Partnerships with Banks, Site managers and HR.

Business Development Manager

Triple West Medical

Lead talent acquisition partner for NHS and Private trust across the UK.

Leading full cycle recruitment process from sourcing, interviewing and onboarding
Levels recruited at: SHO through to Consultant and Clinical lead level. Across the UK. 
•	Onboarding and full compliance process.
•	uploading candidates to third party systems, and completing compliance checklists
•	In depth knowledge of NHS.
•	Talent Mapping of locations, and partners to access key skills across, UK, Europe, India, Australia, 
         New Zealand and Africa
•	Strong relationships with Staff banks, HR, Internal recruitment and senior level stakeholders with 
        Trusts, Clinics and Private hospitals across the UK
•	Managed Team responsible for circa 80 vacancies per month.
•	Planning and executing Recruiting events across EMEA

Divisional Manager Acute Services

I grew up in starts up's, I loved the energy, creativity and insane way in which things changed from one day to the next 🤪💙 I could not imagine working any other way, being part of something from the ground up and watching it grow, is possibly the most rewarding gift I've given myself. 

Why work with me:
🧡Above all, I love what I do and I bring that passion into each project I work on.
🏁I'll Deliver! 
🤝Its partnership, I believe in communication and transparency. 
🧰We have spent many years creating tools that can help your business in the early stages. 
🌍We have a great eco-system that we can connect you into, 
👂Want to bounce ideas, talk through your CV, Interview prep, I am here!

Outside of all recruitment, I am a mommy, runner, trying to get toned...but love red wine, down to earth lady, who just really likes people and wants to help!

The Nudge Group works with global start-ups and scale-ups going through various stages of business growth. We connect them with world class talent and a trusted ecosystem, from pre-seed to Series A, all the way to IPO. 

Over the past 3 years, The Nudge Group has evolved and expanded, with new offices in the UK and Singapore, and our services spanning APAC, the UK, Europe, America, and Canada. While we are still very much working with start-ups and scale-ups to help them recruit the right talent, we have taken a more holistic approach to assist their growth. We have created an ecosystem designed to empower these start-ups to grow and scale across the world, connecting them to a large network of trusted suppliers to help them achieve their goals.

From introducing them to VC and private equity firms to raising their profile with our media channels, Give It A Nudge and Balance the Grind, to building remote teams in the Philippines and Vietnam with our Nudge Remote service, our ecosystem enables these start-ups and scale-ups to plug in and grow. 

Over the years we have helped companies launch into the U.S., Australian start-ups expand into the UK, Singapore scale-ups establish a presence in Australia, Hong Kong & India, with plenty more on the way!

Croydon Commitment 

Privileged to be a part of Croydon Commitment as a Trustee to give back to my hometown and community. Since 2004, Croydon Commitment has supported 200+ organisations, engaged 7,000 volunteers for 25,000 hours, and raised £160,000 in grants. With £1 million invested, we’ve focused on employability, education, environment, inclusion, and health, empowering through projects like Grassroots Awards. Our focus for the next two years is driving employment via the Ways 2 Work Programme.

Member Board of Trustees

Key Talent Solutions

With foundations dating back to 1978, KTS is a global, multi-sector recruitment group known for its expertise. Our network of talent partners, each a specialist in their niche, provides deep insights into their respective markets. This specialisation makes KTS the go-to partner for unrivalled access to premier opportunities and exceptional talent.

Chief Executive Officer

Newbridge Talent Associates

The growth partner of choice for leaders in a new world of talent solutions. We support recruiters through 3 distinct and codified solutions to help you drive growth based on your current situation.

Spearheaded the formation of CPL UK by bringing together all CPL assets in the UK under one brand and helped create a platform and SMT to drive growth as part of CPL's internationalisation strategy.

CEO - CPL UK (Tech & Health)

Cpl UK - Healthcare

Led the business through biggest downturn in the healthcare staffing market in over a decade as well the Covid-19 global pandemic, implemented a change management program to adapt and right size the business and execute on a succession plan to handover to existing MD.

Built from scratch, total talent solutions provider to the technology sector in the UK and grew rapidly through a global pandemic, handing over to MD with a list of major blue chips as customers and a great team to continue driving growth.

Founder & CEO

RIG Healthcare

Merged RIG Locums and RIG Medical and sold to CPL at £50m in Sales, c. £2m PBITDA in June 2017. Remained as CEO to help manage through a period of rapid change in the market, integrate acquisition into Group and take through a rebrand to CPL UK alongside other UK assets of CPL Group.

RIG Locums

Founded and built from scratch specialist doctors recruiter to £20m in sales in under 4 years, delivering a 10x Return on Seed Capital Invested, at exit in June 2017.

Founder & MD

I am simply a talent partner, since 2004 I have found an absolute passion for matching people with purpose. That's what a company is to me, its not a job spec, not a hierarchy, not a logo... a company is simply a group of people who align in a common purpose and together, try to create value in the world.

Having worked with some amazing mentors, investors and boards. I've been able to build from scratch some fairly successful niche recruitment companies over the years and exit successfully, as well as lead out on a number of turnarounds, mergers and consolidations. 

I love what I do, I am lucky to be able to work with extraordinary people and I am on a mission to keep providing transformational talent solutions as far and wide as I can.

I believe in leading with trust, setting a vision, aligning values and getting out of the way of good people to help them achieve great things.

For me "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, its about learning how to dance in the rain!", living every day with the mantra that "no matter what happens, keep moving forward."

Passionate about the recruitment sector, I believe in doing things properly and adding true value to our customers. In the process, I hope to help towards lifting the poor reputation of our profession as a whole.
 
Outside work I am a full on family man, a wannabe behavioral economist and game theorist. In my spare time I utilise my insights in this area to make macro economic predictions and invest as a position trader across global markets.

I care about my local community and neighborhood. I believe in service, doing whatever little I can with local charities to support and inspire the eco-system I am part of, I don't think we're here to build forts but instead to be active, contributing members of society and so I try my best to pay forward the privileges I am fortunate to possess.

I love to spend time in the gym and lift heavy things, a half decent poker player and I like to think I am fairly good at chess too!

Thanks for reading this and if any of my pursuits resonate with you, please feel free to reach out. 

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