Recruitment Consultant
Apple Search & Selection
Total des années d'expérience :16 années, 9 mois
Recruiting across various sectors; Legal, Banking & Finance, Marketing & Communications, Executive Management, Administration, Business Development, Sales, Human Resources
Building long lasting strong relationships with Clients and Candidates ensuring a clear understanding of their requirements, their experience and their cultural requirements.
Dealing with hugely diverse cultures; learning about the sensitivities and idiosyncrasies of these to provide the best possible service.
Advanced negotiation skills, requiring them on a daily basis for Clients, Candidates, Debtors, Suppliers and Management!
Determined and persistent, a “can do attitude” attitude is required, as well as a constant positive outlook and the ability to empathize.
Ability to develop strong, ongoing relationships with Clients across a range of industries throughout the Middle East,
Pre-qualifying roles, providing accurate time line for Clients to work with to ensure their internal talent acquisition requirements are met.
Achievement of individual sales targets as per the Membership Department's sales plan and Clubs goals and objectives.
Business Development through prospect-building research.
Ensure that all prospects and changes in Members’ details are kept updated and all new business cards are copied by the Membership Coordinator, within one day of being received.
Responsible for interacting with new Members for the purpose of Member (and spouse) engagement and retention.
Assist the Director of Membership Marketing in the planning, preparation and implementation of Membership campaigns.
Participate in daily or weekly sales meetings to monitor targets, perform market mapping and plan sales strategies and programs.
Position Held: Client Manager
Responsibilities:
• Generate lists of properties that are compatible with buyers' needs and financial resources.
• Display commercial, industrial, agricultural, and residential properties to clients and explain their features.
• Arrange for title searches to determine whether clients have clear property titles.
• Review plans for new construction with clients, enumerating and recommending available options and features.
• Answer clients' questions regarding construction work, financing, maintenance, repairs, and appraisals.
• Inspect condition of premises, and arrange for necessary maintenance or notify owners of maintenance needs.
• Accompany buyers during visits to and inspections of property, advising them on the suitability and value of the homes they are visiting.
• Arrange meetings between buyers and sellers when details of transactions need to be negotiated.
• Advise clients on market conditions, prices, mortgages, legal requirements and related matters.
• Evaluate mortgage options to help clients obtain financing at the best prevailing rates and terms.
• Review property listings, trade journals, and relevant literature, and attend conventions, seminars, and staff and association meetings in order to remain knowledgeable about real estate markets.
• Investigate clients' financial and credit status in order to determine eligibility for financing.
• Contact property owners and advertise services in order to solicit property sales listings.
• Develop networks of attorneys, mortgage lenders, and contractors to whom clients may be referred.
• Visit properties to assess them before showing them to clients.
• Contact utility companies for service hookups to clients' property.
• Conduct seminars and training sessions for sales agents in order to improve sales techniques.
• Appraise properties to determine loan values.
• Solicit and compile listings of available rental properties.
• Secure construction or purchase financing with own firm or Mortgage Company.
• Rent or lease properties on behalf of clients.
• Locate and appraise undeveloped areas for building sites, based on evaluations of area market conditions.
June 2011 - Nov 2012: Keylet (Property Agents), Cardiff, UK
Position Held: Letting Negotiator / Lettings Supervisor
Responsibilities:
• Meeting and greeting prospective tenants who came into the letting agency.
• Responsible for conducting viewings of properties.
• Setting up tenancy agreements of the CFP property system, with rental values, contract lengths.
• Resigning current tenants for new contracts agreeing the new contract length, with the landlord and evaluating where rent increments were needed, and then administrating due agency fees.
• Gathered references for prospective tenants.
• Responsible for marketing and running the Keylet website to ensure the properties for rent were up to date and ensuring pictures and property details were accurate.
• Being on call to deal with any tenants queries should they have any and then refer them to the relevant person.
• Providing monthly figures to the Operations Director, detailing target status and current initiatives.
• Achieved 'Lettings Negotiator of the Month Award' for 3 consecutive months during 2011.
Oct 2009 - May 2011 - I was travelling around Australia and New Zealand during this time.
Oct 2005 - Oct 2009: Virgin Atlantic, London UK
Position Held: Flight Attendant
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for Health and Safety of passengers and fellow crew.
• Extensive first aid training, administered when on board when required.
• Promotion of products through duty free, encouraged to up sell and cross sell, worked to high targets.
• Excellent team player, built rapport quickly and easily, essential as different crew on every flight.
• Developed high standard of hospitality skills through working in First Class Cabin.
• Ability to work under pressure with constrictive time frames, excellent time management.
• Further developed excellent customer service skills.
• Learnt to think 'outside the box' in various situations.
Aug 1998 - Oct 2005: Going Places Travel, Bridgend, UK
Position Held: Assistant Manager / Senior Travel Consultant
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for all managerial duties when the store manager was away.
• Motivated staff to exceed targets within a sales-driven environment.
• Handled complaints with empathy and professionalism, diffusing situations and coming to mutually-acceptable agreements with customers.
• Administered staff appraisals, reviews and general invoicing.
• Responsible for recruitment and selection.
• Received award for highest sales within the Welsh division for 4 consecutive months.
• Consistently top sales person in a heavily target-driven environment, through use of effective up selling and cross-selling techniques.
• Built strong portfolio of repeat customers through excellent rapport and customer service skills.
• Exceeded customer's needs through effective consultation and attentiveness.
• Responsible for visual maintenance of shop environment and in-house promotions and marketing material.
• Excellent cash handling/foreign exchange and accounting skills.
• Achieved The Top Trainee Award for Sales for the South Wales Region in 2000.
Lifestyle and Interests
I enjoy reading, travel, socialising and exercising regularly. I love going to new places and experiencing different cultures.
• Aug 1998 - Aug 2000: NVQ Travel Services, Sales and Customer service
• Sep 1992 - July 1998 Bryntirion Comprehensive School •
