Kathryn Moss

A target-driven Associate Recruitment Manager with excellent time management and organisational abilities, a passion for developing interpersonal skills and an outgoing personality. Has experience in mentoring teams, managing an end-to-end recruitment cycle, and data handling in a fast-paced working environment. Aiming to find an exciting opportunity within Human Resources that will enable me to enhance my skills and grow within an organisation, whilst studying towards the CIPD.

Robertson Bell Ltd May 2019 – Present

Associate Manager Apr 2023 – Present 

• Mentoring a team of up to two Trainee Recruitment Consultants, including onboarding, conducting 1-1s and holding performance review meetings.
• Conducting gap analysis on existing training manuals and constantly developing targeted training sessions to address such gaps or changes within market trends.
• Hosting interviews for prospective hires and preparing rolling forecasts on team performance for Senior Management.

Recruitment Consultant May 2019 – Jun 2021

• Managing the full recruitment cycle from beginning to end for permanent finance roles in the UK and International charity sectors. 
• Developing expertise of market rates and conditions within the sector to provide consultative service to clients and candidates.
• Conducting in-depth consultations with clients to understand their job requirements and advise on a suitable, tailor-made recruitment strategy. 
• Leading engaging training sessions, both virtually and face-to-face, to onboard new starters or upskill existing employees.
• Identifying and interviewing prospective candidates both over the phone and face-to-face before introducing them to clients, with reference to specific vacancies. 
• Undertaking business development to seek new job vacancies, acquire an understanding of current and potential clients and their recruitment needs.
• Writing and posting vacancy adverts across various job boards and other online platforms. 
• Managing both the salary and fee negotiation process. 

• Redesigned elements of the existing training manual to better facilitate the delivery of online training sessions in the post-COVID era.
• Successfully delivering on-the-desk training to new starters, providing 1-1 support as required, before starting to officially mentor one staff member in October 2022.
• Played a key role in the delivery of an organisation-wide marketing project, with the aim of enhancing company reach on LinkedIn.
• Leading pitches and consultancy meetings with Executive level stakeholders and receiving complements for the value of my market expertise. 

Binh Minh Educational Development Centre, Hanoi Aug 2018 – Jan 2019

ESL Teacher

• Teaching English to eight classes of over 50 students per day in a range of primary schools of different backgrounds across the city of Hanoi.
• Resource preparation, lesson planning and adaptation of such plans according to strengths and weaknesses of the various classes; developing a flexible working style.
• Anticipating and mitigating difficulties to ensure classroom time is spent efficiently.
• Developing new communication methods to overcome the language barrier.

Company Re-engager

• Working within the admin team to correspond with organisational associates and reengage them to ensure maximum reach. 
• Project managing the reengagement team to improve team and individual role efficiency.
• Implementing new procedures to ensure that the team functioned more effectively. 

Mike Whatman Consulting, May 2023

High Performance Leadership Programme

TEFL: 120 Hour online course, Jul 2018

Newcastle University, Sept 2015 – Jul 2018

BA (Hons) Geography, 1st Class

• Studied a broad range of modules, highlights including: Gender and Generation, Development and Globalisation, Historical Perspectives on Race and Cities of the Global South.
• Undertook a careers development module, involving a 6-month placement in the admin team of a charity, enhancing my organisational, leadership and decision-making techniques.

A level Geography (A), Maths (A), Spanish (B), History AS (B)

GCSE  Additional science (A*), English Literature (A), English Language (A), Geography (A*), History (A*), Maths (A*), Music (B), Single Science (A), Spanish (A*)