Irwin Mitchell

Talent Acquisition Resourcer specialising in Legal Recruitment and the candidate journey for Irwin Mitchell.

Responsible for recruiting top talent for Irwin Mitchell throughout the UK & Ireland.

For more information on our open vacancies check out our careers page - https://www.irwinmitchell.com/recruitment - and feel free to drop me a private message or email.

Email - paul.mcginn@irwinmitchell.com 

LinkedIn - https://www.irwinmitchell.com/recruitment
Twitter - https://twitter.com/irwinmitchell
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/IrwinMitchellSolicitors/

Talent Acquisition Resourcer - Legal (via AMS)

Lead Sourcing Specialist with a focus on candidate generation and management.

Responsible for managing the full candidate journey for specialised client contract.

Passionate about making sure that all candidate's have a memorable and professional journey throughout the recruitment process and receive timely proactive communications throughout the journey.

Lead Sourcing Specialist 

Freelance Recruitment Consultant

Freelance Recruitment & Talent Acquisition Consultant

Available for Recruitment & Talent Acquisition Consultant projects and consultancy services.

Services include;
- Recruitment training, coaching & mentoring.
- Recruitment Strategy & development.
- Headhunting & Candidate generations.
- Volume Candidate or CV review.
- Process Improvement Consultancy.
- LinkedIn Recruiter training & coaching.
- Personal & Professional LinkedIn consultation.
- Client & Stakeholder engagement and data presentation.

Revolut

Headhunted to join Revolut and be part of their Talent Acquisition Sourcing team, due to experience, skillset, knowledge and experience in process improvement, team development and sourcing ability.

Managed between 5 - 15 roles, with headcount ranging from 10 - 40.

A 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱𝗜𝗻 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗺𝗯𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗿 🚀💪

I was responsible for sourcing top talent globally in line within 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁's requirements including; 
UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Hungary, Italy, Ukraine, Russia, India, and across the US.

Areas of specialty include:

✅ Risk, Compliance & Audit
✅ Growth
✅ Strategy & Operations
✅ Business Transformation
✅ Product
✅ Engineering
✅ Human Resources
✅ Legal

Example of roles Hired:

✅ Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MRLO)
✅ Deputy Money Laundering Reporting Officer (DMRLO)
✅ Compliance Manager (MLRO) & (DMLRO)
✅ Regulatory Compliance Managers
✅ Compliance Managers
✅ Compliance Regulators
✅ Compliance Specialists
✅ Conduct Risk Compliance Lead
✅ Head of 1st Line Credit Risk
✅ Head of Strategy & Operations Manage
✅ Strategy & Operations Card Payments
✅ Head of Strategy & Operations
✅ Head of Sales Affiliates
✅ Head of Sales Central & Eastern Europe (CEE)
✅ Head of Sales Northern Europe (NE)
✅ Head of UK Government Affairs 
✅ External Affairs Manager 
✅ Senior Credit Risk Manager

Completed Projects at Revolut;
✅ AB Testing of emails, LinkedIn reach out messages, follow up messages, follow up timeframes, etc - to help maximise recruitment efficiency and increase response rate by 10-20%.
✅ Introduced the use of TextBlaze and AB tested standardised messages for recruitment team use. Completed initial & updated training on TextBlaze use and benefits to wider teams.
✅ ‘LinkedIn Personal Branding’ training and coaching to Recruitment team of 300+.
✅ Training, coaching, and mentoring of sourcers within the team.
✅ Revolut Recruitment & Sourcer Newsletter

Senior Recruitment Sourcer - Risk & Compliance

Gained promotion to Principal Sourcing Specialist while working on the HSBC contract.

Principal Sourcing Specialist

Promotion into Lead Sourcing Specialist role when joined HSBC contract.

Lead Sourcing Specialist - UK & Ireland

Started at AMS as a Senior Sourcer with the Internal TA Team.

Sourcing Recruiters, Sourcers, Team Leaders, Team Managers, Sourcing Manager, Client Services Managers, Recruiter Coordinators, Interview Schedulers and Response Handlers.

Recruited across multiple industry sectors including Investment Banking, Banking, Financial Service, Pharma & Life Sciences, Defence & Aerospace, Aerospace, Tech & Digital, Sales & Consumer Service's and Management Consultancy.

Volumes of roles averaged between 25 - 40 open roles, and was a mixture of high-volume ad response and specialist/niche proactive sourcing or headhunting.

Senior Sourcing Specialist - UK & EMEA

HSBC

Senior Recruitment Sourcing partner on the HSBC contract through AMS.

Working on 30 - 90 open roles at any one time. Mixture of application management and proactive sourcing/headhunting.

Supported all area of the HSBC contract and was top performer.
•	Commercial Banking
•	Wealth and Personal Banking 
•	Global Banking and Markets

Was Senior Recruitment Sourcing partner on team that grew from 3 sourcer to 12.
Was responsible for new team members onboarding, initial training, coaching and mentoring - acted as buddy to all new hires.

Marsh & McLennan Companies

Short-term Secondment to assist with high volume requirements, process improvement, team training, coaching and training and launch of the UK recruitment team.

Focusing on Finance, Management Support, Marketing & Communication and Procurement divisions.

Managing all applications and proactive candidates sourcing for 15 - 30 open vacancies.

Senior Talent Acquisition Sourcer

Public Sector Resourcing

Project setting up a team of 10+ Recruiters and 10+ Sourcer to launch the framework and then joined the team to initial support with volumes.

Short-term secondment to assist with the launch of a new Public Sector Resourcing (PSR) contract, managed by AMS, the new framework through which public sector authorities can engage, hire and retain high quality, contingent talent across the UK.

Sourcing candidates within the following functions: Corporate – HR, Marketing, Procurement; IT; Digital; Finance; Project and Programme Management; Engineering and Construction; Scientific; Legal; and Niche.

Senior Sourcing Specialist

Royal London

Team set up project and short-term secondment to assist with the launch of a new RPO client contract.

Initial brought on to support with initial team support, training, process improvement and recruitment.

Focusing on Finance, Management Support, Marketing & Communication and Procurement divisions.

Managing all applications and proactive candidates sourcing for 30 - 50 open vacancies.

Vickerstock

Specialist 360 Recruiter within the Vickerstock Construction team.

Operating across the construction and property sector from Tier 1 Main Contractors, Specialist Sub Contractors, consultancy and practice clients. 

Managed a caseload of between 10 - 25 open roles at any one time.

I ensure we are consistently talent mapping the sector to keep both our clients and candidates informed of developments, trends, upcoming project requirements and One Move Ahead.

Recruitment Consultant: Construction Division

Recruitment Consultant

As a Talent Acquisition Resourcer at Irwin Mitchell, I specialise in the candidate journey for one of the UK's leading legal firms. 

With over seven years of experience in recruitment and talent acquisition, I have recruited for roles in various sectors and functions, ranging from sales and marketing to finance and legal.

I am passionate about finding and attracting top talent for Irwin Mitchell, and ensuring that all candidates have a memorable and professional candidate experience throughout the recruitment process. 

I am skilled in managing value-add projects, such as process improvement, business transformation, team set up, training/coaching & mentoring, recruitment marketing, AB testing messaging, and personal & professional branding. 

I hold the Social Talent Sourcing Strategy and Expert Sourcing certifications, which demonstrate my expertise and commitment to excellence in recruitment and sourcing.

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