The Manchester Metropolitan University

Early career development lead  at Deloitte

An experienced senior manager in early career talent management, learning and employee experience, with deep expertise across professional and legal services.  Early in career experience includes programme design for both graduates, school leavers and apprentices, onboarding, professional qualifications and learning.  I am passionate about working with organisations to ensure  that opportunity is available to all and that every young person is able to achieve their career goals.

Self-employed

Senior Interim Professional in Early Career Talent

Responsible for EMEA early career development, resourcing and employer branding.
Led implementation of the SQE with the university of Law 
Led on transformation of employee experience for trainees
Developed new employee brand for future talent for the German practice

White & Case LLP

Interim Head of Early Career Talent EMEA 

Skills: early career development · learning

Deloitte

Head of Early Career Talent and Professional Education 

Led transformation of a global early career strategy for graduate and apprenticeship talent  to support development of emerging talent across divisions and functions
Designed new global graduate finance programme aligned to ICAS  to deliver exceptional finance talent 
Enabled understanding of response to Apprenticeship levy through design and delivery of stakeholder workshops and development of apprenticeship strategy 
Transformed emerging talent assessment process to deliver the best most diverse entry level talent group wide

Smiths Group plc

Early in career talent consultant 

I work with organisations to transform, develop and implement talent acquisition and  inclusive recruitment diversity solutions with deep expertise around emerging talent solutions across professional and financial services

Projects have included:

- Working with Aequalis strategic apprenticeships, a partnership with Havas People,  to create an end to end consultant-led solution to the changes that are happening in the early careers recruitment and development market specifically around the Apprenticeship Levy

-Advising Nottx, a start-up digital talent sourcing platform. Nottx integrates blind hiring and people analytics to enable large enterprises to eliminate bias in the talent acquisition process and accelerate workforce diversity 

-working with AMS talent solutions to develop inclusive early career talent strategies for financial and professional services clients

Working with organisations to design and deliver early career talent strategies

Emerging Talent Consultant 

Head of Student Recruitment for KPMG responsible for attraction and selection of 1200+ entry level talent into KPMG's  Intern, Graduate and School Leaver Programmes. 
Managed a team of 35 responsible for selection and campus outreach and intern programme management. 
Transformation of the student recruitment process including implementation of a new first year and school leaver programme KPMG 360. 
Lead for Diversity in student recruitment - increased number of females joining the business at entry level, implemented blind recruitment and worked closely with SMF and Up Reach to increase social mobility at entry level hiring. 
Outsourced the assessment process to a managed service model - delivering cost and efficiency savings. 
Developed new campus outreach strategy to enable KPMG to recruit the best most diverse talent at graduate level.

KPMG

Head of Student Recruitment

Lead consultant for Hays Talent Solutions and Penna providing operational excellence and early in career attraction and assessment solutions to Santander to transform the graduate, intern and apprenticeship talent acquisition experience

Santander Bank, N.A.

Interim early in career client services manager 

Consultant and Interim Manager with organisations in graduate and school leaver recruitment, development and talent management. I enable organisations to transform, develop and implement their emerging talent strategies including attraction, selection and assessment, programme management and business engagement. 

I am passionate about ensuring equal access to graduate and school leaver opportunities and working with individuals, schools and organisations to increase student employability and drive social mobility.

Advisor and Board Member Class Careers connecting School Leavers to Employers

Graduate Recruitment, attraction, recruitment, talent and development specialist

Consultant and Interim Manager

Responsible for future talent strategy across Ernst and Young's service lines. This includes branding; attraction; business engagement;programme development and management; Summer internships; scholarship programme; leadership academy; school leaver programme and EY degree

Development of attraction and selection strategy for the  EY school leaver programme 

Development of new future talent attraction strategy to positon EY as employer of choice amongst the big 4

Development of a talent spotting approach for campus recruitment 

Managing a team of 10 to deliver on campus activity including an innovative milkround event "EY Live" at 18 universities - this event attracted over 2000 students in a one month period 

Re- structuring of future talent programmes to deliver market leading programmes i.e Leadership academy; insight days; summer internship

Develop and execute social enterprise training and coaching with  the University of Warwick Student Union  which enables students to receive seed funding and coaching in setting up a social enterprise. 

Development of diversity strategy for future talent; including interventions across race; gender and social mobility. 

Partnering with univeristies to assist them in understanding the employability agenda

Achieved a new highest ranking for EY in the Times top 100 High Flyers ranking 2012, moving from 10 to 8 and increased EYs ranking against competitors at all Russell Group universities.

Interim Senior Manager campus attraction and undergraduate programmes

Graduate recruiter responsible for the recruitment of graduates across EMEA. This included managing the end to end resourcing process for interns; spring programme and analyst hires into the equities business.

Credit Suisse

Interim Graduate Recruiter Equities

Consulting project to develop and recommend a Europe and CIS graudate leadership programme This includes scoping attraction and selection of high potential recruits into this pogrammme.

AES Electric ltd

Interim Graduate Pipeline Consultant

Head of graduate and early years resourcing for Engineering, science and business roles in the UK. Responsible for a team of six, recruiting 250 graduates and interns per annum. Responsible for the end to end graduate resourcing process across 17 different disciplines. Responsible for managing relationship with outsourced service provider to deliver on application systems and screening of applications.

Head of Graduate Resourcing

Associate providing outsourced graduate solutions including screening ;graduate interviewing, assessment centre support and pipeline management for graduate and MBA resourcing at Merrill Lynch and Nomura

Graduate Solutions

Associate Campus Recruitment Consultant

Associate gradaute resourcing providing outsourced graduate solutions; including screening; telephone interviewing and faciliating assessment centres for broad range of clients across wide range of sectors including manufacturing and finance and banking services

Euro RSCG Riley

Graduate Resourcing Associate

Head of European Campus resourcing managing all graduate and MBA resourcing for Citi Group investment banking. Responsible for marketing, campus relations and assessment.

Citi

VP Head  of Campus Resourcing EMEA

Set-up and led the graduate recruitment function. Managed firm's trainees seat rotations  and qualification process. Developed  talent management process for 3-4 year qualified lawyers. involved in Partnership assessment and development.

Karen Paginton