Peter Ward's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

📖 Summary

A motivated, adaptable and responsible graduate building a career in recruitment, with a focus on top quality Customer Service and cutting-edge Recruitment Marketing. Utilising my organisational, leadership, self-motivation and communication skills, as well as a strong ability to work under pressure, I have a clear, creative mind with a practical approach to problem solving and a drive to see things through to completion. I enjoy working as a part of a team or using my own initiative. Overall I am a reliable, trustworthy, hardworking person who is eager to learn. In my spare time I am a multiple award-nominated amateur actor, singer and director, having earned national recognition for my work in both musical theatre and plays.Internal Recruiter and Marketing Executive @ Clearvision is a ground breaking software development company, specialising in Agile working and collaborative tooling and processes. As world leading Atlassian Experts, the Clearvision team provides some of the biggest enterprise businesses around the world with professional services centred around the Atlassian stack, Git, and Open Source tools, including training, support, hosting, consultancy and procured Atlassian licensing. In 2014 Clearvision launched Spectrum, a flexible collaborative solution designed to make tools, teams and projects work better. Spectrum brings together best practice workflows and best of breed software, whether it’s commercial or Open Source, regardless of vendor, into one centralised, scalable platform. The Clearvision mission is to bring about a more efficient, collaborative and cost-effective software development industry – and most importantly, to show companies how they can save time and money without having to compromise on quality. Following a short stint assisting both the recruitment and marketing departments I was rapidly promoted to a full Internal Recruitment role within Clearvision, with responsibility for the following four areas: - 360 Recruitment (handling up to 5 roles at any one time) - Recruitment marketing (finding innovative new approaches for advertising roles) - Employer branding (growing Clearvision's brand as a great place to work) - Cheervision (increasing employee and applicant satisfaction) From February 2015 to Present (11 months) Southampton, United KingdomActor @ A character and comic actor, with experience in the following disciplines: • Straight • Comic • Shakespeare • Musical Theatre • TV & Film • Cabaret • Accents From September 2009 to Present (6 years 4 months) Resourcing and Marketing Associate @ The Chilworth Partnership (and its sister company Venture Recruitment Partners) is a privately-owned bespoke recruitment company based in Southampton, filling finance roles within the £50K to £120K salary range. As Resourcing & Marketing Associate, I was tasked with liaising with outsourced marketing companies to ensure we had an effective marketing presence, and with procuring and harnessing the highest level of talent possible. - Headhunting suitable candidates on LinkedIn and Reed, pre-screening candidates, scheduling meetings, interviews and telephone conversations for the consultant - Providing the client with project updates, and attending client meetings to support the consultant in winning new business, present shortlists and receive interview feedback - Phoning 50 candidates per week - Implementing and maintaining processes to ensure that records were managed, cleansed and kept up to date in a uniform and consistent way, across written documentation and online databases - Keeping social media feeds regularly updated, including LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Google+ - Writing monthly market updates - Providing competitor analysis through web research and monitoring of job boards - Assisting in organising quarterly marketing events in conjunction with the rest of the team - Researching different and new methods of effective marketing to ensure the continued development of the Chilworth Partnership’s brands From September 2013 to January 2015 (1 year 5 months) Southampton, United KingdomStudent Ambassador @ Student Ambassadors are trained by the Recruitment and Outreach Team at the University of Southampton to lead and support delivery of a variety of on and off campus events which involved working with young people from aged 10-18 years old and were designed to raise aspirations and awareness of higher education, whilst encouraging students to consider applying to study at the University of Southampton. All Student Ambassadors attend training events, designed to provide an introduction to working with young people, child protection and presentation skills. Becoming a student ambassador was very rewarding – it not only developed my communication, leadership and teamwork skills, it also gave me the opportunity to work in a variety of settings, including; taster days, HE/careers fairs, open days and campus tours. From July 2010 to August 2013 (3 years 2 months) Southampton, United KingdomCompany Director and Trustee @ In the 2012 University of Southampton Students’ Union elections, 4135 of my peers voted to elect me to the position of Student Trustee and Company Director of SUSU, in which role I represented the student body on Trustee Board, and was then selected by my fellow Trustees to sit on Staffing Sub-Committee as a Board representative. The Trustee roles at SUSU are voluntary, unpaid positions but the officers in these roles are entrusted with overall legal and financial responsibility for the work that SUSU undertakes. They focus on the strategic direction of SUSU, ensuring that the Union creates and implements strategies that meet its objectives. As part of the role, I was called upon (and trained) to give my input into the running of multi-million pound organisation as a business. Also, as a representative of Staffing Sub-Committee to the Trustee Board I was required to have knowledge of recruitment procedures and employment standards within and external to the organisation, gaining and providing insight into the staffing needs of the Students’ Union, and generating and approving multiple staffing policies to foster a greater culture of individuality and creativity within the staff side, and from there the membership. • Responsible for ensuring that SUSU is administered in accordance with its Constitution, it’s associated Standing Orders and by-laws, and all current law as it relates to the Students’ Union • Safeguard the good name, culture and ethos of SUSU • Focus on SUSU’s strategic direction, ensuring that the Union creates and implements strategies that meet its objectives on every campus of the University • Ensure that all property and investments of the Union are prudently and efficiently administered • Ensuring its financial stability, through setting internal budgets and management goals, whilst setting targets and evaluating performance against these agreed targets • Protect and manage SUSU’s property and to ensure the proper investment of its funds From July 2012 to June 2013 (1 year) Southampton, United KingdomProject Manager: JBTSE IPT @ Defence Equipment and Support, Joint Battlefield Training, Simulation and Synthetic Environments Integrated Project Team. Overseeing the initial set up and further development of training and simulation systems for the Armed Forces, especially the Army. Responsible for the maintenance and support of VBS2 through the procurement and maintenance of the UK's Enterprise Licence and associated Gold Support. From January 2009 to August 2009 (8 months) Bristol, United KingdomBachelor of Science (BSc), Acoustics and Music, 2:1 @ University of Southampton From 2011 to 2013 Diploma of Higher Education, Aeronautics and Astronautics @ University of Southampton From 2009 to 2011 A Level (3x A's), A - Mathematics, A - Chemistry, A - Physics @ Durham Johnston Comprehensive School From 2001 to 2008 AS Level (BBD), B - Critical Thinking, B - Performing Arts, D - Further Mathematics (self-taught) @ Durham Johnston Comprehensive School From 2006 to 2007 GCSE, 6x A* (Including Maths, Science and English), 3x A and 1x B [10 in total] @ Durham Johnston Comprehensive School From 2004 to 2006 Peter Ward is skilled in: Social Networking, Leadership, Teamwork, Marketing, Training, Research, Performing Arts, Recruiting, Human Resources, Management, Singing, Acting, Character Actor, Networking, Social Media