Senior Technical Recruiter / Organisation Consultant at Google
Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Senior Technical Recruiter at Google
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- Human Resources Manager at Pure
- Director at Liberty Consulting Ltd
- Team Leader / Senior Recruitment Consultant at Spring.com
- Senior Permanents Developer at Reed Plc
- Education
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- Chartered Institute of Personnel Development
- Oxford Brookes University
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Vicky Cohen’s Summary
Initially a technical and commercial recruiter, I specialized in winning and servicing national accounts including BUPA, Thales, Bank of New York and Ericsson.
Then ran my own business, Liberty Consulting, providing ethical recruitment, HR and training consultancy to the new media industry.
The next career development was as HR, Recruitment and Training Manager for Pure an award winning email marketing firm.
Now a senior recruiter for Google. Currently recruiting Senior Sales and Ad Ops / Trafficking consultants across Europe for YouTube. Also provide consultancy to plan and execute recruitment and career development strategy.
Vicky Cohen’s Specialties:
Always interested to meet people with a strong online sales, management or support background in media, display advertising, entertainment, TV.
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Vicky Cohen’s Experience
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Senior Technical Recruiter
Google
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)
January 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Recruitment: Hiring Senior Sales Management and Ad Ops Support consultants for YouTube in EMEA, particularly Italy, Spain and Ireland.
Sourcing and interviewing candidates, candidate management, negotiation and administration. We do not use recruitment agencies.
Organisation Consultancy: working with hiring managers and EMEA Director to plan and execute recruitment and career progression strategy.
Project work: I am involved in three pan-EMEA projects to improve Googlers' work-life balance (including reviewing company policies), provide internal training to my division and streamline inter-departmental processes. I have also provided training to the EMEA recruiters on Employment Law. -
Human Resources Manager
Pure
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
August 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 6 months)
HR Management: Acted as non-executive director to the board. Developed and implemented all policies and procedures relating to health and safety, data analysis, recruitment, employment terms, disciplinary and grievance, learning and development, commission and payroll. Aligned and updated employment contracts.
Learning and development: Initiated quarterly appraisal and performance review process. Developed academy-style career development program. Sales training and management. Developed desk and operational training material.
Remuneration: Benchmarked and set all salaries. Developed incentive, commission and reward program for sales team. Performed annual salary reviews. Calculated commission payments and payroll. Set up stakeholder pension scheme and administrated staff shares and options.
Recruitment: Increased headcount by over 300% in 17 months. At the time I left staff retention was 100%. -
Director
Liberty Consulting Ltd
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
February 2002 — August 2005 (3 years 7 months)
Acting as the outsourced Recruitment, HR and Training arm of our client base.
Recruiting, supporting and training a wide range of skilled staff in the new media, sales and travel industries. Our services were economical - providing significant savings over traditional recruitment agencies - highly ethical and very relevant to our clients who became loyal supporters of the business. -
Team Leader / Senior Recruitment Consultant
Spring.com
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
May 1999 — September 2001 (2 years 5 months)
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Senior Permanents Developer
Reed Plc
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
July 1997 — April 1999 (1 year 10 months)
Vicky Cohen’s Education
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Chartered Institute of Personnel Development
CIPD, Merit, Chartered Institute of Personnel Development, Certificate in Personnel Practice, 2006 — 2007
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Oxford Brookes University
Bsc Hons, Anthropology, 1992 — 1995
- Activities and Societies:
- Member of the Entertainments team - setting up sound and lighting rigs for events and gigs.
Charity work for Oxford based organisation for the homeless
Member of the juggling club
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