University of Hertfordshire

Now recruiting the next generation of Engineering Leaders

Over the past couple of years, I have been inundated with requests urging us to assist former hiring managers and leaders in securing top-tier candidates akin to the calibre we recruited while working in-house."

They were frustrated as their current recruiters and agencies were just not delivering the quality of candidates they wanted to hire.

💡 (Lightbulb moment), we can help, we can build a company that finds the top 1% of exceptional talent, as we know who and where this talent sits and fits.

Quantum Tree Search

Founder

Blockchain Infrastructure for the Decentralised Web

From the Substrate blockchain framework to Polkadot, the sharded protocol enabling blockchains to operate seamlessly together at scale, Parity builds the foundation of Web 3.0.

Parity Technologies

Principal Technical Recruiter

The Amazon Alexa team focuses on bringing user-delighting, voice-activated experiences to Amazon customers. The Alexa team first began with the development of Amazon Echo, a new category of device designed entirely around your voice. It's always ready, connected, and fast — just ask for information, music, news, weather, and more. Echo begins working as soon as it detects the wake word. 

But the team of speech scientists, voice designers, developers, and more didn’t stop there. The Echo family of devices has grown to include Echo Dot and Amazon Tap, and Alexa is now available on Fire tablets and Amazon Fire TV. The Alexa Voice Service is bringing Alexa to other connected products, and the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) allows third-party developers to easily build and add their own skills to Alexa, like ordering an Uber or making a Capital One credit card payment.

We are currently located in Seattle, Boston, Sunnyvale, Irvine, Poland, Germany, the UK, Italy, and Luxembourg, and continue to grow rapidly. We are pioneers working to build the best solutions to unique problems. Come join us.

Amazon

Senior Engineering Leadership Recruiter - 

What We Do in Technology

Our innovation redefines the way our clients can work with us in the future, and even steers the shape of technology across other industries. With an $8 billion investment in technology last year alone, we have the scope to influence what happens in the intellectual incubators of Silicon Valley, to work hand-in-hand with emergent products and define tomorrow's technological experience.

Shaping the future of business

Our teams are responsible for designing, developing and supporting applications and projects that change the face of banking and technology. Our breakthroughs have made the firm quicker, more global and more profitable. Our sound partnership with the business means that J.P. Morgan Technology offers the best of all worlds - it's like being part of a software house, with the benefit of seeing your work in use in real business situations.

We are embarking on a transformational journey to reinvent our entire Technology platform. With 8% of our revenue every year invested in technology, the importance of our work is championed at the highest echelon of our business. J.P. Morgan's leadership are enthusiastic about welcoming the brightest new talent to join the firm, inviting them to challenge the status quo, to reinvent our way of working, and to become leaders themselves. There's a firm-wide belief that the Technology team will shape the future of our business.

The people who make it happen

For people who are passionate about the interaction between business and technology, who want to work in the best of both worlds, we offer some of the most challenging and rewarding roles in a truly global team. We have 4,500 people employed in technology-related roles across Europe and even more around the globe, adding up to a group of colleagues who form a technology company in their own right.

J.P. Morgan

VP - Technology Recruitment

Solarflare is the pioneer in high-performance, low-latency 10GbE and 40GbE server I/O solutions. We're changing the way operating systems, applications and the hardware interact to allow computer networks to be faster, more responsive and more reliable. Our architectural approach combines hardware and software to deliver high-performance adapter products and application-acceleration middleware for superior performance in a wide range of applications, including financial services, high-performance computing (HPC), cloud computing, storage and virtualised data centres.

Standalone role providing full life-cycle (360) recruitment for internal hiring

Solarflare Communications

Interim Resourcing Manager -

Currently working on a number of transformation programs, helping organisations through major change, currently hiring "Cloud Strategists" + "Programme Directors/Managers" + Hosting and "Data Centre" experts.

KEY TECHNOLOGIES: 
2G/3G/4G (GSM/GPRS/UMTS/CDMA/W-CDMA/HSDPA/WiMAX/LTE/VoLTE) Secure Comms (TETRA) Small Cells (Femto/Pico/Nano/Metro Cells) In-Building Services (DAS/Enterprise Small Cells/Public Access Small Cells).

RAN/RF Planning /Optimisation, Transmission/Capacity Planning (Microwave/Point-to-Point/Point-to-Multi-Point/Satellite Backhaul) IP/Core Network Design, BSS/OSS

C/C++/RT Embedded SW Development/Platform Development/Python/Unix/Solaris/Linux/RTOS/Device Driver/Kernel Development

SaaS/IaaS/NaaS/PaaS/Hosting/Visualisation/Virtualisation/DataCentre optimisation/G-Cloud/CDN

Impleo Professional Services

Interim Head of Talent Acquisition

ARM Holdings is the world's leading semiconductor intellectual property (IP) supplier and as such is at the heart of the development of digital electronic products.

Duties:Management of the European Recruitment Team

Responsible and currently hiring for:

           -  Compiler recruitment - GNU GCC Toolchain, LLVM + others.
           -  "Internet of Things" - IoT
   

ARM - 10th most innovative company in the world in Forbes - No 1 in Europe

ARM Holdings Plc - Semiconductors

Senior Talent Acquisition Manager - EMEA

Responsible for global R&D recruitment

Projects:
China recruitment ramp-up, hiring 600+ engineers, managers and local leadership within 7 months.
- Raising the talent bar, building competence and capability
- Architect of talent attraction strategy, 
- Created sourcing methodologies,
- Built business model to size team 
- Developed Asia region CVP & EVP.  
- Architect and drove new selection process.
- Trained hiring managers, technical interviewers into new selection methodology and process.
- Trained technical interviewers and hiring managers in best practice for technical interviewing
- Reduced interview to offer ratio from 10:1 to 4:1

Nokia

Global Sourcing & Talent Acquisition Manager – Research & Development

Permanently employed as a “Global Talent Scout” to talent map internal and external talent, identifying critical skills and competencies, source and hire for Microsoft’s largest European Development Centre.

• Responsible for talent sourcing strategy, execution and delivering candidates globally for Microsoft Business System (NAV, Dynamics ERP, CRM products)
• Sourced and hired candidates from Intern/Graduates to Senior Management (GM, VP).
• Built Competitive Intelligence database.
• Developed external talent map and built talent pipeline, scoped internal talent mapping.
• Owner of graduate and intern hiring.
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Microsoft

Global Talent Scout - Senior Management & Technical Excellence

Redmond Global Core Tech Sourcing Team 
Assigned to the Global Core Tech Sourcing Team based in Microsoft HQ in Redmond USA, Hiring from countries including : EMEA region, all CIS states, Australia, Asia, South America
 - Responsible for sourcing and technical interviewing of candidates globally, including direct head-hunting, advanced web sourcing techniques, social media sourcing, “out of the box” sourcing methods.
- Achieved 2:1 interview to offer ratio, against 4:1 Microsoft benchmark.
- Sourced, technically interviewed, arranged and project managed full week assessment centres for all global major development centres around the world.

Teams recruited for include: Search (Bing), Windows, Office, Server and Tools, Visual Studio, Dynamics, Music wave, Xbox, MS Research.

Global Talent Scout

Headhunting management consultants, London, Cambridge, Paris, Singapore and Washington DC.

AnalysysMason

Global Recruitment Manager

Part-time recruitment, providing direct headhunting.

WS Atkins plc

Recruitment Advisor

Numerous Interim Recruitment Management & Recruitment Director roles, including clients: Siemens, IBM, HP, MOD, RAF, European Space Agency.

The Recruitment Clinic

Managing Consultant

Triad Group plc (UK)

Recruitment Manager

Cable & Wireless purchased Digital Island $340m, drove harmonisation and TUPE all Digital Island employees to C & W.

Lead C & W recruiting function overseeing Accenture recruitment outsourcing.

Cable & Wireless

Acting Head of Recruitment - Cable & Wireless Global

Responsible for all of Digital Islands hiring and HR outside USA for Digital Island, countries UK, France, Spain, Sweden, Belgium, Holland, Israel, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo.

Digital Island, a Cable & Wireless Company

HR & Recruitment Manager

Nortel Networks

Strategic and executive headhunter, grew from zero to £1,000,000 turnover within 12 months, EBITDA 36%

Q.S. Europe

Managing Director - Owner

Employee number 2, Started and grew this recruitment company from zero to £30,000,000 in 3 years, floated on the London Stock Exchange

Mark Dawkins