
Experienced online recruitment specialist..
Plymouth, United Kingdom

Experienced online recruitment specialist..
Plymouth, United Kingdom
• Entrepreneurial online recruitment specialist, successfully launching, building and selling £1M online communications consultancy.
• Proven business manager, with incisive budgetary and cost controls, strategic planning and tactical implementation.
• Senior online marketing specialist, key skills include strategic, planning and campaign management, including all aspects of online advertising creation, online media planning and buying.
• 11+ years’ experience within the online recruitment marketing industry, focusing on achieving clearly defined sales, marketing and business development goals.
• Technologically adept and agile, maximising ROI through intelligent application of online channels, digital media, and specialist online targeting strategies. Advanced knowledge of Google and search engine marketing strategies (PPC + SEO).
• Social networking expert – advanced knowledge of using Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook to enhance online marketing campaigns
• Articulate, persuasive and high profile communicator and networker, with extensive business experience at a senior level, across a wide variety of sectors and company cultures.
• Current network of industry contacts including trade bodies, blue-chip clients and Linkedin.com network of 11,000+ first degree individual contacts.
• Launched and built Enhance Media into the UK’s market-leading online recruitment communications consultancy, earning a reputation for pioneering work within the market.
• Established Enhance as first Google Qualified recruitment advertising company
• Created the National Online Recruitment Audience Survey (NORAS), now recognised as the leading UK research standard for online recruitment insight.
• Part of launch team for Workthing.com, now a Top 5 UK online recruitment site
(Staffing and Recruiting industry)
March 2009 — Present (9 months)
Currently working with a number of recruitment technology companies, helping them develop new strategies, revenue streams and break into new markets.
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
May 2001 — March 2009 (7 years 11 months)
Co-founder of Enhance Media, a pioneering recruitment communications consultancy launched with my business partner to help UK business recruit more effectively and efficiently.
I managed the commercial operation of the business, exploiting new strategic opportunities built upon strong long-term client relationships and dynamic online marketing campaigns.
This included negotiating and delivering large-scale contracts to companies such as Dell, T-Mobile, AXA and Royal Mail to drive recruitment through online & digital channels, and optimise cost-efficiencies wherever possible while fulfilling agreed corporate quality objectives.
Established NORAS as the definitive UK industry standard for assessing recruitment websites and understanding the UK online jobseeker market, with over 42,000 annual surveys
Led strategic consultancy projects, developing leading edge online engagement and candidate attraction strategies
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year )
Part of senior management launch team assembled by Guardian Media Group to create, launch and consolidate workthing.com into the UK market in 2001. Now firmly established as a Top 5 UK Job Board.
(Staffing and Recruiting industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years )
Joined to help establish and grow the specialist New Media team, becoming consistent Top 2 revenue earner in this market-leading recruitment consultancy with over 50 consultants, working closely with clients on extensive recruitment campaigns spanning all sectors of print and digital media and online commercial projects.
Consistently grew revenues and relative market share in highly competitive arena
Helped maximise returns on emerging digital channels and recruitment solutions
BA (Hons) , Management Studies , 1989 — 1993
1983 — 1988
Married with 2 children, and a dog called Dylan. Fanatical about the internet. Terrible surfer, even worse at DIY, unhealthy interest in most sports. Also interested in modern politics and literature, if I get time. With a passion for food and wine.
ex-Southfields Conservative Association - Deputy Chairman
ex-Governor St Michael's C.E. Primary School - Southfields
AIRS - Certified Internet Recruiter - 2008
BTEC Level 2 award Search Engine Marketing for online recruitment - 2008
CIPD Approved trainer - Recruitment and the Internet - 2002-present
BTEC Approved Assessor – Online Recruitment - 2006