Fiona Biggins, Career and Youth Coach
Fiona is a qualified coactive Career Coach, and Youth Coach with 10 years commercial experience gained in the recruitment field. Her background is working mainly in the investment-banking sector, (on-site at Deutsche Bank) and in the management consultancy sector (on-site at Deloitte). She has a strong track record in all aspects of the recruitment cycle including: business development, direct candidate sourcing, stakeholder management, supplier management and assessment centre design & management.
Fiona also has a real passion for working with young people, seeing them gain confidence and direction in their lives. She has been a vvolunteer mentor for the City University undergraduate mentoring scheme. And more recently has volunteered to work for the Step 4Ward Mentoring Programme run by the Barnet Education Business Partnership www.barnetebp.org as a mentor to a year 11 student at East Barnet school. She is currently a volunteer Youth Educator for youth charity Envision http://www.envision.org.uk/ working in schools and colleges.Employment
Mindbench Nov 07 to Jun 09
Mindbench is a specialist recruitment company in the Management Consulting sector- Providing recruitment services to clients within the management consultancy sector and developing relationships with existing and new clients globally.
- Head hunting and coaching senior level candidates through the recruitment process.
- Training and Development Coordinator for internal training of consultants
Alexander Mann Solutions (on site at Deloitte) Jul 06 to Aug 2007
Principal Recruitment Specialist Deloitte (outsourced to AMS)
- Management of the complex relationship between the key stakeholders in the recruitment process at Deloitte the recruiting managers, the central firm (the budget holders) and AMS (my direct employer and the process manager
- Service delivery for all 3 stakeholders and for management of conflicting priorities between stakeholders i.e. time versus cost versus delivery method
- Preparation of business cases for new hire approvals based on information from the line of business
- Delivering the desired resource mix consists of direct recruitment targeted at 35% agency, 29% direct, 22% referral and 15% internal.
- Constructing and negotiating vendor agreements (set up tiered PSL)
- Preparation and sign-off of job specifications and the drafting and sign off of job offers
- Interviewing candidates using competency based questions
- Managing, motivating and monitoring supplier relationships
- Facilitating at Deloitte recruitment events and strategy group assessment centres
- Producing timely and accurate reporting of activity within the respective business areas
- Re-writing the on-line adverts for the strategy roles on the Deloitte website to promote advertising effectiveness
- Running internal team workshops to demonstrate how NLP techniques can help with important stakeholder meetings.
Hays Plc Jun 99 to April 06
Hays Resource Management - London Aug 04 to April 06
Recruitment Manager - based on-site at Deutsche Bank
- Managing the temporary recruitment process for the following specified areas: secretarial & administration, marketing & events, HR, research & BIS, presentations & DTP positions.
- Short listing of CVs to send to line managers, arranging interviews and communicating feedback.
- Managing the screening and offer process according to DB policy.
- Organising agency forums for difficult to recruit for positions.
- Managing a pool of DB experienced temps, ensuring these candidates are kept in continuous assignments at DB
- Adhering strictly to DB policies and procedures, escalating issues to management when necessary.
- Running new starter inductions.
- Dealing with and resolving payroll and systems problems.
- Facilitating the “on boarding” of direct candidates, including references and credit checks.
Hays Banking Secretarial Jun 99 to Aug 04
Recruitment consultant promoted to Business Manager/Team Manager
Travelling Apr 98 to May 99
First Point Ltd – Contractor to Energis (Telecoms), Reading Jan 97 to Apr 98
Static Control Components, Reading Jul 96 to Dec 96
Education
- The Coaches Training Institute, San Rafael, CA Oct 08 to April 2009
- Certification Program towards ICF accreditation
- The Coaches Training Institute, London Mar 08 to Jul 08
- Intermediate Coach Training Program, 116 coaching hours
- PPD Learning May 06 to Jul 06
- Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner Certificate
- Contemporary College of Therapeutic Sciences Oct 04 to Dec 05
- NCFE Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Skills and Theory, Integrative
- Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy
- John Moores University, Liverpool Sept 92 to Jun 96
- International Business Studies with French - BA (Hons) Class 2:1