Emileah Cossu
Brisbane,QLD
Summary
Seasoned senior consultant with several-year background in the field. Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Unfailingly collaborate closely with internal teams to improve performance. Talented in using advanced statistical techniques and methods.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Consultant
Workfast
Brisbane, QLD
03.2024 - Current
- Successfully managed 60-80 casual staff simultaneously, overseeing all aspects of workforce coordination, including site attendance, payroll processing, accounts management, timesheet collection, PPE distribution, and general employee support.
- Spearheaded the end-to-end Human Resources function for large-scale shutdowns and major projects on behalf of a leading industrial services company. Handling all aspects such as pre-employment medicals, drug and alcohol testing, onboarding, compliance documentation, and full project workforce coordination.
- Built and maintained strong relationships with clients by gaining in-depth knowledge of their specific EBAs, union agreements, and legislative requirements to ensure compliant, high-quality service delivery.
- Regularly conducted site visits and check-ins with clients and candidates to ensure seamless operations and adherence to company service standards.
- Developed and implemented recruitment policies, processes, and procedures that improved operational efficiency and candidate quality across multiple projects and industries.
- Managed up to 40 open job requisitions concurrently, including both permanent and temporary roles, across various blue-collar and white-collar sectors.
- Composed and posted job advertisements across multiple platforms to attract top talent for diverse roles.
- Represented the company at key industry events to promote services and build brand presence.
- Coordinated bookings for site-specific medicals through WHA, Sonic Health, and local clinics for clients in the mining, quarry, and rail industries.
- Traveled extensively across Queensland and New South Wales to support client operations, conduct site visits, and oversee recruitment drives.
- Worked across multiple projects and industries with national and multinational organisations, including Fortune 500 companies, delivering scalable workforce solutions tailored to each client's operational needs.
Senior Consultant
Adecco
Brisbane, QLD
06.2023 - 03.2024
- Direct management for 4 associate consultants, providing guidance, instructions, and all aspects of their daily schedule.
- Expand the Corporate Service volume of clientele, in turn accumulating an increase in revenue, gross profit and weekly billable hours.
- Develop, maintain an nurture relationships with clients.
- Account Management of between 20-50 staff members that are on temporary assignments throughout a variety of sites and locations.
- Provide top satisfaction with services provided, to ensure clients want to return for future requirements.
- Demonstrate a proactive approach to sourcing high-caliber candidates through various platforms and techniques.
- Manage relationships with clients to provide temporary labour, including contract review and negotiations.
- Administer employment contracts and on-boarding documents.
- Build and maintain a talent pool to proactively full future vacancies to ensure speed to market services whilst maintaining quality of candidates.
- Daily compliance in order to stay within KPI requirements.
Recruitment Consultant
Adecco
Bathurst, NSW
02.2022 - 06.2023
- Deliver recruiting expertise and seamless support to high-profile, diverse industry clients in acquiring top talent.
- Provide management of 45-80 staff members that are on temporary assignments throughout a variety of sites and locations.
- Client retention, communicating with clients currently in contractual agreements.
- Conduct both face to face and over the phone interviews to determine suitability to proposed positions.
- Create, send, and follow up client registration and onboarding.
- Assist in resolving payroll and accounts payable issues that arise.
- Attend weekly meetings with clients to ensure satisfaction with the services provided and if there is any need for improvement in any aspects.
- Review extensive amounts of resumes daily.
- Conduct interstate phone interviews, registration, and onboarding to assist with open positions
- Create weekly rosters for clients ranging from 40-60 staff, considering leave requests, training, conflicts and WH&S.
- Implement strategies to ensure compliance targets are met within branch.
Real Estate Agent
Bathurst Real Estate
Bathurst , NSW
04.2020 - 02.2022
- Initiate negotiation processes, consulted with clients concerning market conditions, prices, mortgages and legal requirements, to ensure honest and fair dealings.
- Business development to ensure a constant flow of clientele was entering the business, resulting in an increased in business overall revenue.
- Conduct business development through various avenues including cold calls, cold and warm prospecting, networking and more.
- Develop positive relationships with lenders, home inspectors and legal experts.
- Provided clients with accurate values of their property.
- Deliver presentations to current and prospective clients, preparing notes and responses to questions to streamline meetings.
- Prepared legal documents for property sale and purchase.
- Administration work including collating and filing of documents, arrange meetings and training sessions.
- Accompanied prospective buyers to property inspections and provided accurate information about the property.
- Ensured regular contact with all past clients to continue their satisfaction with the services provided and assist with any future requirements.
- Ensured regular contact with all past clients to continue their satisfaction with the services provided and assist with any future requirements.
- Applied effective communication and interpersonal skills to provide the highest quality service to ensure understanding of the needs of both vendors and purchasers.
Education
Graduate Certificate - Human Resources
Torrens University Australia
Online12-2026
MBA -
Torrens University Australia
Online06-2026
Real Estate Licence -
Think Real Estate
Online04-2021
High School Diploma -
Denison College
Bathurst11-2018
Skills
- Human resources
- Recruitment strategies
- Client relationship management
- Employee training
- Workforce coordination
- Compliance documentation
- Contract negotiation
- Project management
Software Proficiencies
- MS Office Suite
- Google Applications
- Jobadder
- Netsuite
- Clockfast
- Broadbean
- Salesforce
- PeopleSoft
- Rex
- Seek Talent Search
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Senior Consultant
Workfast
03.2024 - Current
Senior Consultant
Adecco
06.2023 - 03.2024
Recruitment Consultant
Adecco
02.2022 - 06.2023
Real Estate Agent
Bathurst Real Estate
04.2020 - 02.2022
Graduate Certificate - Human Resources
Torrens University Australia
MBA -
Torrens University Australia
Real Estate Licence -
Think Real Estate
High School Diploma -
Denison College
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