Lauren Sears

Wushu Studios

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

AccessPay

Overseeing the businesses 360◦ resourcing activities
Drafting new and editing existing job specifications
Screening and shortlisting active applicants/candidates
Sourcing passive candidates via headhunting 
Conducting interviews
Proactively supporting the business in all recruitment activities, helping the company to achieve its annual hiring plan.
Manage internal/external stakeholders and candidates throughout the recruitment process.
Establishing and managing new and existing relationships with agencies, negotiating on costs and terms, maintaining a PSL.
Build  and  manage  candidate  pipelines  through  a  number  of  channels  including  job  boards, recruitment partners, networking events and employee referrals
Monitoring recruitment metrics
Develop a  strategic  and analytical  approach  to  recruitment;  create  mapping  documents  to highlight future hiring opportunities, produce insight reports and competitor analysis.
Provide  market  feedback  and  increase  awareness  of  the  company  and  manage  its perception with future potential candidates 
Salary benchmarking
Developing innovative ways to attract and retain employees
Coaching hiring managers in best practice recruitment & selection
Streamlining and developing the recruitment process and procedures
Developing and managing employer branding activities and increasing EVP

Recruitment Manager

Xinlung Group Limited

Leading the induction process for all new starters.
Managing the attendance and absence system and records.
Solely responsible for handling a large volume of niche vacancies and coordinating the recruitment activities to ensure vacancies are filled in line with agreed timescales.
Solely acting as the internal recruiter for the entire UK and Ireland business (fourteen offices nationwide) as well as one in Malaysia and one in Dublin.
Sourcing the best recruitment advertising streams, including: online marketing, social media, updating and posting adverts as required and negotiating costs with external agencies in line with business expectations.
Managing the 360 degree resourcing process from writing job descriptions, screening applications, arranging interviews and conducting face-to-face interviews to issuing job offers and onboarding candidates.
Business development - coordinating and attending networking events, career fairs and other events nationwide that may benefit the business' brand or recruitment strategy.
Overseeing the onboarding process, issuing contracts and relevant paperwork to new joiners and for existing staff, in case of promotion or contract changes.
Salary benchmarking analysis
Work closely with the finance team to advise of any new joiners, pay increases, FTE changes, referral fee payments etc.
Writing and optimising SOP's
Responsible for overseeing the organisations right to work checks and visa application renewals
Issuing and requesting employment, mortgage and reference letters
Processing leavers
Writing company policies and publishing internal communications, announcements and updates.

Senior HR Administrator & Recruitment Officer 

HR Administrator and Recruitment Officer

Slater and Gordon Lawyers

Responsible for generating all offer letters and contracts for all new starters to the business as well as enabling the set up of all new starters onto the HR and IT systems and overseeing the induction process.
Administering all contract changes for the business, liaising with the relevant approver, payroll, updating the HR systems and issuing all relevant paperwork. 
Streamlining HR processes and procedures.
General HR queries of the shared mailbox.

HR Administrator

Marks and Spencer

FPOC for all HR related queries for all Marks and Spencer PLC employee's.
After working in a contact centre position for almost a year, as of March 2016  I successfully interviewed to be part of the query management team; relating to more complex queries that cannot be resolved at first point and to liaise with our payroll department to resolve any pay discrepancies.
Including but not limited to:
Maternity pay, company and statutory sick pay, benefits, salary exchanges, advances, repayment plans, overpayments, holidays, bonus' and transactional errors. 
I was also the "bonus champion" - solely responsible for overseeing and resolving all 2016 bonus and annual salary review all queries across the entire business at both store and head office level.

Experienced in all things HR and recruitment with a demonstrated history of working in fast paced retail, legal, fintech and gaming sectors. Strong human resources professional with CIPD Level 5 in HRM.

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