Scott McIntyre

Current

• Freelance writer at sole proprietorship

Past

• Policy Officer & Manager at Scottish Executive
• Training Officer at North Ayrshire Council
• HR/ Recruitment specialist at BT (British Telecom)

• Human Resources consultant at Crosshouse Hospital (National Health Service hospital)
• Lecturer in Business Administration at Falkirk College of Technology
• Editor & writer of newspaper column at Paisley & Renfrewshire Gazette

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Education

• University of Strathclyde
• The University of Stirling

Recommended

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Connections

75 connections

Industry

Writing and Editing

Websites

• My Website
• Twitter
• Digg

Scott McIntyre’s Summary

My aim is to develop my career as a freelance writer by creating first class content for both online (blogs, websites) and traditional (newspapers, magazines) media.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Advisor, Community Counselling & Advice Centre
• Offering support on consumer issues, debt counselling, social security benefits

Policy Officer & Manager, Scottish Government
• Depute Personal Assistant to the Scottish Government Minister for Health, ensuring that the Minister’s office operated efficiently while managing the performance of administrative staff in a busy and pressurised work environment
• Project management while organising major overseas diplomatic visits
• Effective writing skills in the drafting of minutes; contributing to Press & Publicity activity; writing speeches, and developing Government policy and strategy
• Implementing budgetary controls and quality standards to exceed Government targets

Editor & features writer for network of websites, Scottish Government
• Maintaining editorial calendar for Government websites promoting Scotland internationally

Training & Development Officer, North Ayrshire Council (Local Government)
• Conducting Training Needs Analyses
• Design, delivery, and measuring effectiveness of training courses

Human Resources Officer, British Telecom (telecommunications)
• Generalist HR work
• Recruitment and selection

Human Resources consultant, Crosshouse Hospital (National Health Service hospital)
• Consulting on the full range of Human Resource Management issues

Lecturer in Business Administration, Falkirk College of Technology (Higher Education)
• Preparing, delivering, and assessing coursework to students

Editor & writer of newspaper column- Paisley & Renfrewshire Gazette

Scott McIntyre’s Specialties:

writing; freelance writing; creative writing; editing; NLP student; Training & Development; counselling; Human Resource Management; recruitment & selection; developing Government policy

Scott McIntyre’s Experience

• Freelance writer

  sole proprietorship

  (Writing and Editing industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

  Launching a new self improvement/ lifestyle blog, "Vivid Ways," in July.
  
  Occasional guest blogger on other sites including, most recently, Liz Strauss’ successful-blog.com:
  http://bit.ly/hwZQx

• Policy Officer & Manager

  Scottish Executive

  (Government Agency; Government Administration industry)

  1999 — 2007 (8 years )

  Over eight years, held various posts within the Scottish Government, based in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
  
  • As Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister for Health and Community Care, I helped ensure that the Minister’s office operated efficiently. I had to constantly prioritise issues, quickly understand the key points of Ministerial papers and manage the performance of two administrative staff. I constantly dealt with people at all levels of the organisation — such as Ministers, senior management, officials and the Press Desk — as well as a variety of external contacts — such as officials in the NHS, lobbying organisations, MSPs and members of the public.
  • As Policy Officer with the Scotland Office, I arranged overseas visits for the Secretary of State and other Ministers. This involved setting objectives, creating a planning document and ensuring all elements were in place. Flexibility was a key requirement as changes to the visits occurred constantly, even up to the last minute. Sufficient time had to be built in to produce extensive briefing packs, which included background to engagements; speeches, and notes on topical issues.
  • I also was editor & features writer for a network of Scottish Government websites promoting Scotland internationally and maintained the editorial calendar.
  
  In all my posts, I have developed effective written skills in the drafting of minutes, contributing to press activity, dealing with correspondence, researching Parliamentary Questions and producing Ministerial briefing and speeches. I am confident dealing with issues in writing, face to face and by telephone.
  
  Each of my posts has involved liaising with both internal and external stakeholders and regular communication with organisations such as Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, other Whitehall Departments, VisitScotland etc.

• Training Officer

  North Ayrshire Council

  (Government Agency; Government Administration industry)

  1997 — 1998 (1 year )

  • Conducted training needs analyses
  • Designed, delivered and measured effectiveness of training courses

• HR/ Recruitment specialist

  BT (British Telecom)

  (Public Company; BT.A; Telecommunications industry)

  September 1994 — September 1995 (1 year 1 month)

  • Generalist HR work
  • Recruitment and selection

• Human Resources consultant

  Crosshouse Hospital (National Health Service hospital)

  (Hospital & Health Care industry)

  September 1993 — June 1994 (10 months)

  • Consulting on the full range of Human Resource Management issues, as part of work placement

• Lecturer in Business Administration

  Falkirk College of Technology

  (Higher Education industry)

  1992 — 1993 (1 year )

  • At age 23, was a lecturer in Business Administration at Falkirk College of Technology.
  • Prepared, delivered and assessed students' coursework.

• Editor & writer of newspaper column

  Paisley & Renfrewshire Gazette

  (Newspapers industry)

  1985 — 1987 (2 years )

  • Editor & writer of newspaper column; I was 15 and still in high school.

Scott McIntyre’s Education

• University of Strathclyde

  MSc , Human Resource Management , 1993 — 1994

• The University of Stirling

  BSc (Hons) , Business Studies & Psychology , 1988 — 1992

Additional Information

Scott McIntyre’s Websites:

• My Website
• Twitter
• Digg

Scott McIntyre’s Groups:

Charitable work:
• Samaritan (UK charity telephone counselling service)
• Citizens’ Advice Bureau Advisor; Children’s Hearings member
• Children/ Youth worker
• Studying Neurolinguistic Programming to become Life Coach

•    Blog
•    Health and Well-being
•    The 4-Hour Academy
•    University of Strathclyde Alumni (official)
•    New Media, Social Media, and Social Networking Participants
•    Social Media Today
•    Freelance Success
•    4 Hour Work Week
•    Freelance Web Writers
•    Freelance Writers
•    Scotland
•    The Freelance Writers Connection
•    Worldwide Independent Content Creators
•    Writers International
•    Stirling University Alumni
•    Wellness 2.0
•    SCOTLAND SCOTTISH SCOTS
•    Writers World
•    WritersWorld-International

Scott McIntyre’s Honors:

• At 15 years old, while still at High School, I compiled and edited a local weekly newspaper column for “Paisley & Renfrewshire Gazette”
• At 23 years old, youngest Lecturer at Falkirk College of Technology
• Won the TV game shows: “The Weakest Link,” “Passport Quiz,” “Chain Letters,” “Win Beadle’s Money,” and “Supermarket Sweep”
• Lost 7 stone (98 pounds/44.55 kilos) and had photoshoot and double-page feature in Slimming Magazine as winning Scottish finalist in UK “Slimmer of the Year 2001”. Subject of follow-up articles in the “Daily Record” and “News of the World” newspapers.

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