Agnes Latimer

• Establishing and cultivating a new desk specialising in Manufacturing, Engineering and Technical sectors, focusing on sourcing candidates, specifically the Brisbane area, as well as throughout Australia.
• Utilising strategic sales, business development, marketing techniques, and networking to attract clientele from diverse industries.
• Conducting client visits to foster and strengthen professional relationships.
• Developing a comprehensive understanding of client organisations, including their industries, operations, culture, and workplace dynamics.
• Creating and deploying job advertisements across various media platforms to promote vacancies.
• Harnessing social media platforms to publicise job opportunities, engage with potential candidates, and nurture professional connections.
• Utilising candidate databases to effectively match suitable candidates with client job openings.
• Managing the application review process, coordinating interviews, and curating a shortlist of qualified candidates for client consideration
• Advised clients on how to best utilize resources to improve operational efficiency.
• Developed, managed and delivered a range of consultancy services to clients.
• Assisted senior management in developing long-term plans and strategies for success.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships at executive levels, serving as a trusted advisor and key point of contact
• Provided support throughout the entire life cycle of a project from inception through completion.
• Set specific goals for projects to measure progress and evaluate end results.
• Implemented strategies to take advantage of new opportunities.

• Start a fresh desk and focus on building an industrial and commercial desk to supply candidates for clients based in and around South Wales specifically Gwent area but also around UK
• Using sales, business development, marketing techniques and networking to attract business from client companies
• Visiting clients to build and develop positive relationships
• Developing a good understanding of client companies, their industry, what they do, their work culture and environment
• Advertising vacancies by drafting and placing adverts on a wide range of media
• Using social media to advertise positions, attract candidates and build relationships
• Using candidate databases to match the right person to the client's vacancy
• Receiving and reviewing applications, managing interviews and creating a shortlist of candidates for the client

• Focus on building an industrial and commercial desk to supply candidates for clients based in and around South Wales specifically Gwent area
• Responsible for all Temporary Recruitment in the Gwent area including sales, servicing established clients whilst meeting all service level agreements and always providing an excellent customer service to clients and candidates
• Sole growth of the temporary desk from 21 temps to 124 in 12 weeks
• Fortnightly client visits to ensure high service delivery at all times
• Sourcing, interviewing and registering candidates on daily basis
• Oversee all pre-employment documents including right to work
• Elevated standard of full 360 recruitment process, harnessing strategic planning to generate compelling job adverts and develop targeted training packages
• Cultivated new business opportunities through marketing calls, client visits, event presentations and extensive networking
• Demonstrated outstanding headhunting skills to build robust candidate referral network and quality talent pools
• Handled end-to-end recruitment processes, ensuring smooth and swift transactions from initial advert to job offer
• Managed reference checks to verify candidate quality
• Developed strong understanding of client companies' values, work culture, and environment
• Registered new candidates, developing a wide-ranging database to meet client recruitment needs
• Monitored numerous job applications consecutively, qualifying and shortlisting responses to improve workflow efficiency

• Solely responsible for all Temporary Recruitment in the Newport Branch including sales, servicing established clients whilst meeting all service level agreements and providing an excellent customer service to clients and candidates at all times
• Covid Pandemic - Solely responsible for the NHS account providing high volume temporary labour 24/7 whilst adhering to the strictest compliance policies and procedures
• Upon reaching +120 temps, recruited a Resourcer to help maintain and build the service and also an administrator to assist with payroll
• I was responsible for managing, training and supporting both members of staff whilst working from home
• Providing the NHS and SMT with daily and weekly performance and compliance reports and attending weekly review meetings
• Whilst managing the NHS account, I have secured 6 new clients for the Newport Branch providing temporary labour
• Fortnightly client visits to ensure high service delivery at all times

RECRUITER Sep 2018 - Feb 2020

• To maintain and grow existing business through delivering an exceptional first-class service and building long lasting relationships with the clients and candidates
• Managing a temporary industrial desk, interviewing, registering, recruiting and filling bookings, briefing workers regarding role, responsibilities and effectively operating the candidate database / running sheets whilst providing adhering to compliance standards and offering excellent customer service to clients at all times., Responsible for the development of company legal requirements
• Investigate Complaints and coordinate action plans with other departments with Acorn Head Office
• Develop policies and programs that encourage staff to report suspected fraud or impropriety without fear of retaliation
• Review employee Standards of Conduct Certification Statement
• Controlling and reporting on assigned deliverables, making recommendations for further developments, action plans and progress
• Conduct Interviews with internal and external Candidates and Clients
• Responsible for all Head Office Health & Safety requirements, Analysis of all Acorn Branches health and safety reports which include, fire alarm/ emergency lighting testing etc
• Maintain and control any Head Office, Health & Safety issues reviewing the on-going development of the business' compliance strategy

• As an Account Manager I' am responsible for maintaining and building successful relationships with clients
• Based on site most of the time and managing 300-400 people working across 3 sites around England & Wales
• Sourcing, interviewing and registering candidates on daily bases
• Oversee all pre-employment documents including right to work
• Ensuring that all relevant paperwork is fully completed and approved as per the recruitment approval process
• Obtaining references and inputting new starter's information
• Daily planning, booking and managing temporary work force
• Responsible for building and maintaining good relationships with a client
• Providing weekly and monthly reports to the business
• Preparing presentations for weekly meetings with top management
• Processing payroll for all temporary staff on weekly bases
• Advertising roles internally and externally

• Supporting the Human Resources Department and Quality & Compliance Manager on a daily basis
• Effectively maintaining a robust compliance control program for Acorn Recruitments Head office
• Actively supporting the Government campaign ‘Stronger Together' along with developing training on Modern Slavery prevention within the group such as forced labor and human trafficking
• Screening candidate's application forms ensuring all of the requirement information is compliant with current legislation, this includes checking for correct bank details, NI Numbers and any duplicates
• Ensuring that all Right to Work documentation for candidates that are employed on temporary basis within the business are compliant and to the government standards
• Responding to branches with compliance results on daily basis
• Support the conduct of branch audits and investigations, to assess and to specifically identify where corrective action are needed, promoting a continuous improvement program within in all branches

• Based on site for a large production company
• I manage the recruitment and booking systems of between 80 - 300 workers a day, all of whom are booked in within less than 24 hours' notice
• I manage and operate the on call phone to ensure the clients and workers needs are met
• I am responsible for inputting data to the system (new starters)
• Communicate at all levels, with workers, managers and directors daily
• Provide financial and management reports daily
• Collate and deliver weekly KPI's
• Complete selection process including telephone interviews, registrations and testing
• Perform all necessary administration duties

• Started as an operative and shortly I have been promoted to a Packaging supervisor
• Provided major input into the process
• Operations management responsibility for maintaining the production line environment
• Working closely with Plant and Production management
• Work closely with Engineering Department to ensure that line reliability and performance is optimized
• Working towards targets and KPI's
• People management for 45 employees
• Creation and implementation of a Quality Assurance policy for the business
• Providing manufacturing information by compiling and analyzing production performance records and data- answering questions and responding to requests
• Measured the work success through the process being taken up by the business panel plant and passed all audits by the British Standards Institute (ISO 9001/14001) and Radmac

• Quality Control
• Responsible of overall production line running including technical support, QA duties
• Working towards targets, daily reports and meetings with management
• Responsible for all product safety tests
• Operations management responsibility for maintaining the production line environment
• Performed regular inspections of equipment to identify maintenance needs or potential issues.
• Monitored employee attendance and took corrective action when necessary.
• Assisted other departments during peak periods or when additional support was required.
• Maintained accurate records of line performance, employee hours worked, and inventory levels.
• Implemented changes as directed by management to improve overall productivity.

• Responsible of overall production line running including technical support, QA duties
• Working towards targets, daily reports and meetings with management
• Managing a group of 120 production staff - including labor and holiday planning
• Working closely with management and intend to daily production meetings