Yvette Janse van Rensburg

OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE:
Working with the support and managing a team of my own, the role involves working as a consultant to match and understand client and candidate needs to deliver an excellent recruitment service to Clients throughout the Middle East whilst being target driven as well as conducting training analysis to ensure my team is equipped with the necessary skills to help me achieve my specified individual and team targets.

• Started as a Researcher > Senior Researcher > Recruitment Consultant > Senior Recruitment Consultant
• Supervising a team including interviewing, training, mentoring and developing each member to achieve a strong support unit around the client requirements I am working on
• Working as a full 360 Consultant to match and understand client and candidate needs to deliver an excellent recruitment service
• Achieving set targets in new Business Development, Account Management and successful placements
• Strong social networking activity across Linked In, Facebook and Twitter to generate client & candidate leads
• Lead generation, cold calling, company research, competitor mapping etc to create strong BD leads
• Bring on new clients and manage the relationship effectively contacting the client on a regular basis to keep touch or follow up for feedback on candidates sent over
• Qualify job specification/ salary information and record an accurate and comprehensive job description
• Find new and inventive ways to advertise jobs and to source candidate and client leads
• Researching, searching, finalising and sending a final high quality shortlist within a very short time frame across all roles
• Complete database updating, management and training across candidates (old & new) and client
• Pre-screen candidates before their interview for suitability and conduct phone interviews to confirm all information and then arrange all relevant interviews with candidates for the client

• Working as part of a team to ensure a high level of quality during production is achieved
• Conducting inductions with all new staff members and completing relevant paperwork
• Ensuring that all staff are aware of any new Health and Safety procedures implemented
• Being a point of contact for all employees with personal problems or with job related enquiries
• Delegating work to the appropriate department and personnel

Skills gained:
1. Using a foci meter to measure the power on different lense types
2. Distinguishing between single vision and progressive lenses
3. Better understanding of equity and diversity in a work place - certificate received

• Opening and sorting the office correspondence and e-mail; stamping, sorting and posting
outgoing mail;
• Assisting other staff members with maintenance of computer records, including updating e-mail and contact lists;
• Reception of general telephone enquiries and visitors; taking messages;
• Dealing with enquiries and correspondence; where possible, helping directly; passing others on to
• the appropriate member of staff; despatch of standard information;
• Monitoring stocks of stamps, stationery, printed material and supplies; receiving and checking deliveries; transferring deliveries to stores and maintaining stores in a tidy condition;
• Providing coffee for staff and meetings; shopping, setting out and clearing up staff lunches;
• Interviewing candidates and filing of all contracts as well as supervising tests;
• Maintaining and updating candidate details and following-up on candidate references.
• Maintenance of employee personnel files and
• General office duties including filing, copying, making up information kits and updating records.