Nicole Davis 3 The Glade, West Wickham BR4 9LH

07970 633062nic.davis1@btinternet.com http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/nicole-davis/12/810/2b3

PROFILE I am an energetic, hard working and self motivated employee who excels in a driven, hectic and lively work place. I have achieved much success over the years in both sales and non-sales roles and I thrive in a busy environment. I firmly believe my exceptional administration and recruitment skills make me the perfect candidate for a demanding post.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS Top Consultant for Brook Street in the UK having placed over 50 candidates since January 2015 April 2015 invoiced the highest value in 1 month in the history of Brook Street, Croydon Bromley Mytime had no database in place for their school bookings system, I taught myself access and

created a purpose built database system Increased take up of Lottery Funded Sports sessions by 50% by adopting a pro active approach to

schools. Growing a contract for the supply of temporary staff from zero to a 1.4 million turnover in 3 years.

KEY SKILLS Customer service and customer relations, internal & external Ability to work under pressure, prioritise and meet deadlines Excellent verbal and written communication skills Adaptable to work both autonomously and as part of a team Data input, collation and evaluation Recruitment and Selection Flexibility and adaptability to new and varied tasks Attention to detail Microsoft Office: Word (Ability with mail merge), Excel (Ability to use V Look Ups), PowerPoint, Outlook

and Access (Designed and built 3 bespoke database systems). Tempus Fugit, PC Hunter and Adapt, Navigator CRM, Team haven Web Portal

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCEBrook Street Employment Agency, Croydon June 2014 to presentPermanents Consultant – Working at speed recruiting across all office sectors for a client base spanning Croydon, Redhill and Crawley

Business development and meeting clients on their premises Growth and retention of clients by understanding their individual needs and requirements Interacting and liaising with clients directly, advising of current market conditions and influencing

decisions on who to interview Resourcing candidates via Advertising, Online search engines and Linked In Daily team meeting and working with colleagues to ensure all roles are resourced and a minimum of 4

candidates short listed Recruitment interviewing and assessing of candidates Checking, scanning and collating candidates “right to work” documents and applying for references Short listing and CV proof reading Scheduling interviews and providing details and web links as appropriate, applicant briefing in

preparation for interview Gaining feedback post interview from candidates and clients, and ensuring that candidates would accept

the role if an offer was made Negotiating between clients and candidates re employment offers Completion and gathering of compliance documents for government roles QWP (Quality at Work Programme) – nominated branch “Champion”, Selected member of the Navigator

Advisory Board (Group from across the UK chosen to make recommendations for the improvement of our in house database)

Daily use of in house database, updating and cleansing data, use of outlook, word and excel Weekly reporting of figures against KPI’s both own and branches in Managers absence

Mitchell Stephenson Field Marketing, Westerham November 2013 to June 2014

Account Executive – Primarily responsible for 2 Client accounts supplying 130 casual staff across 50 plus stores in the UK, however also project managing Ad-hoc short term client campaigns on an “as and when” basis

Regular client contact in respect of weekly campaigns, additional seasonal projects and in store trials Checking orders with the client on a daily basis, liaison between the client and merchandisers in respect

of order queries and order generation Importing and creating complex reporting procedures onto an Internet based Web Portal Extensive maintenance of Excel spreadsheets for the monitoring of both client requirements and

personnel data Working to pre agreed deadlines, filtering and analysing campaign results in order to provide relevant

and succinct information for clients to use in order to improve the sales of their particular product Production of detailed Power point presentations detailing the campaign results for clients Chasing, collating and reporting of weekly results for a major greetings card supplier and an up market

coffee machine manufacturer Managing a remote workforce of 130 Merchandisers across the UK and Ireland Placing job advertisements on internet job boards, subsequent recruitment of merchandisers &

distribution of employment packs A high volume of liaison with the remote workforce both on the telephone and via email Monthly mail out including mail merge, photocopying, updating of newsletter and printing Post, processing wage claims, invoicing and general office duties

Sports Development, Bromley Mytime, Partnerships Team December 2004 to November 2010

Placing of casual sports coaches into local primary schools on a term by term/hourly basis. Recruitment of sports coaches; placing of initial advert through to short listing, interviewing and selection. Line management and mentoring of coaches and arranging further training as required. Processing of timesheets, invoices, referencing, CRB checks, updating internal hand books and policy

documents. Database creation and management Liaison with schools to secure bookings and liaison with the school sports partnership to utilise their Big

Lottery Funding for sports provision in primary schools. Production and editing of term by term newsletters for marketing to coaches and schools Coordination of an annual coach conference Budget monitoring and production of spreadsheets, graphs and charts to demonstrate target

achievements Seconded to work on several other projects over the 6 year period which involved working with a variety

of teams both in house and out on site in the leisure centres Requested to design bespoke database systems for the Health division to enable them to monitor KPI’s

to meet stakeholder requirements All general office duties; email, post, correspondence, phones, photocopying, laminating etc Twice awarded Performance Related Pay bonuses

Sports leader Award Level 1 via Bromley Mytime September 2004 to October 2010National Association of Sports Development – Foundation Course March 2007

Cross Selection Recruitment Consultants, London EC2 July 1996 to December 1998

Business development and growth and retention of clients in order to achieve individual and company targets.

Working as a Senior Temporary Controller for a small privately owned consultancy specialising in placing senior secretarial staff to the financial industry.

Meet and greet, recruitment interviewing and assessing of candidates Writing advertising copy and monitoring advertising budget Supply of more than 50 temporary staff per week. Managing and motivating temporary workforce Client presentations to blue chip organisations, client entertaining All admin related tasks, i.e. payroll, invoices, CV proofing, telephone liaison

Joslin Rowe Recruitment Consultants, London EC2 November 1995 to June 1996

Working as a senior consultant placing permanent secretarial staff in the insurance industry. All duties as above, excluding payroll administration. Business Development with Blue Chip finance organisations throughout the City of London in order to

meet personal and branch revenue targets. I left this company after a brief time as I was Head Hunted to work for Cross Selection.

Next Employment, London W1 August 1994 to October 1995

Business Development with large and small organisations throughout the West End of London in order to meet personal and branch revenue targets.

Working as a Temporary Controller for a privately owned West End consultancy All duties as above plus training and supervision of a junior temporary controller Running a desk in excess of 100 temporary staff per week

Brook Street Plc, various London March 1987 to August 1994 Working as a Client Service Executive during the final 2 years of employment I was running 90% of the

contracted client accounts for the supply of temporary staff for Brook Street within central London Sourcing candidates via 8 supply branches Re negotiating terms for the renewal of contracts Supplied in excess of 120 staff per week Initiated all systems for contracts and planned all advertising and budgets. Previously worked my way up from a junior Permanent Consultant, to Temporary Controller, Contract

Coordinator and finally Client Service Executive.

EDUCATION & TRAINING St John’s RC Comprehensive School, Kent GCE/CSE’s including English Language, English Literature, History & Math’s

Bromley College of Technology1989 – Certificate in Recruitment Practice (A level equivalent)

OTHER

2012 - Completed the 14 month project management and extension of my family home which involved managing a 6 figure budget and coordinating purchases and trades people to ensure deadlines were met.

2010- I spent 8 months prior to this as a met police puppy walker; this experience required an enormous amount of patience and discipline

INTERESTS: Interior design, upholstery, keeping fit References available on request