Audrey Bevan

Experience

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  Hays

  May 2008 - Jan 2009

  Recruitment Consultant

  Sectors exposed to: Operational Risk and Credit Risk in Investment Banks

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  Saxoncourt International

  Mar 2009 - Sept 2010

  Recruitment Manager

  Managing a team of 3Responsible for the whole recruitment function worldwide.Financial responsibility: drafting and managing budgetRecruitment Advisor (March 2009 – Sept 2009)Providing general HR advice to teachers and their managers in ItalyIssuing contracts of employmentManaging grievances and disciplinary proceduresRecruitment of all teachers in EMEA and South America

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  UK Power Networks

  Oct 2010 - Feb 2013

  Talent Acquisition Partner

  Managing the recruitment of Interns, Graduates and Apprentices. All these talent programmes were focussed on electrical engineers.Developing and implementing a new on campus brand strategy. Designing and implementing assessment centres and wider selection methods for training programmes. Designing and implementing our social media strategy on Facebook to start with and widening it to Linkedin.Managing the UK Border Agency process internallyMaking a proposal, implementing and managing our new internships and industrial placementsAd hoc recruitment campaigns Show less

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  British Council

  Feb 2013 - Dec 2021

  • Lead the East Asia HR Advisory Services department, with overall responsibility for payroll, full employment life cycle (joiners, movers, leavers), statutory reporting, employee relations cases, policy development, OD, change management and all HR advisory activities.• Lead and project manage all Advisory Services initiatives ensuring alignment with business strategy. This includes engaging with stakeholders, mitigating risks/gaps, and aligning stakeholder requirements with the intended change to ensure adoption.• Lead a team of over 50 people across 14 geographies in East Asia.• Partner with all business departments to co-develop an appropriate people strategy that will realise business objectives.• Lead the implementation of global initiatives, policies and processes in East Asia. Providing insights on regional and country practices to global leadership to ensure global initiatives succeed. Maintaining global standards and localising as appropriate (based on local laws, language, culture, practices).• Engage the business at all levels to coach them through the adoption of new tech platforms. • Coach business leaders through complex people management situations and advise them on the human impact of large-scale decisions. Key Achievements:• Undertook an audit of all HR Services activities performed locally across East Asia, aimed at focusing the team on value-add activities. Successfully reduced HR headcount by 20% and freed up an additional 10% of capacity for remaining staff. • Implemented the global HR programme for East Asia, which rolled out an HR Information System (HRIS) and moved HR queries to a Shared Service Centre.• Reviewed all contract templates and terms and conditions across all staff groups and all countries.• Guide the business in adapting to COVID19 in how they manage their staff remotely and look after their wellbeing. • Delivered the methodology to implement a Global Transformation Programme in East Asia Show less • Led the East Asia Resourcing department to provide both operational recruitment delivery and a Centre of Expertise service (expert advise and delivery of frameworks and methodologies), across East Asia• Partnered with business leadership teams and HRBPs in East Asia to provide proactive resourcing solutions aligned with their business strategies. • Drove the team to provide a customer-centric service, across all functions and countries, creating solutions with the business whilst remaining compliant with global processes and policies. • Ensured that the core values of fairness, transparency and diversity were central to all recruitment activities. • Led on all senior hires in the region (across all contract types).• Provided input and roll out to global teams on new policies and initiatives. Shared East Asia initiatives with global teams for wider roll out, where appropriate. • Supported other regional recruitment leads and mentored them to achieve results in their regions/ teams, particularly in Africa and South America.Achievements:• Overhauled the recruitment process to improve the quality of service and provide global consistency of approach. Transformed the recruitment team from administrative support to recruitment professionals. • The team handled over 1000 vacancies in 2018, including niche roles and high volume exercises. This included the recruitment of 100 Examiners (a niche skillset) in China over the course of 6 months. • Designed assessment tools in line with strategic agendas, particularly in cases of restructures, which has now been adopted globally for restructuring exercises. • Created an approach to high volume recruitment from attraction (through targeted marketing campaigns, referrals etc.), to efficient selection and talent pipelining. The key objectives of speed, cost efficiency and low time requirement from the business were met. This approach has now been rolled out globally. Show less • Led on hires on UK contracts (expatriates and UK based) for English & Exams, Arts and Digital, from attraction to on-boarding.• Designed and delivered all Intern and Graduate recruitment activities. • Gained visibility of recruitment activities in region (particularly East Asia and MENA) for teaching to enable a more strategic conversation with the English leadership team in the UK.• Advised HR colleagues and hiring managers globally on recruitment approaches, policies and solutions. • Led on the review of attraction channels across all recruitment activities to reduce cost to hire and improve our reach of key talent audiences. Achievements:• Designed and delivered a redeployment campaign for middle managers, globally, from attraction to appointments. Led on the first direct sourcing initiatives for middle manager posts globally. These posts had always been filled internally. In 2014, 30% of posts went to external candidates. • Designed and delivered a best practice attraction and selection approach to global graduate and intern recruitment, with diversity at its core. As a result, all graduate posts were filled, including some in difficult countries such as Pakistan and Libya. Half the internship recruits were disabled. Reduced the cost per hire by 25% by negotiating with providers and targeting high impact, low cost solutions. • This led to no recruitment agency spend in English & Exams and Arts in 2013-2014. Show less

  • Head of HR Advisory Services, East Asia

    Jan 2019 - Dec 2021

  • Head of Resourcing, East Asia

    Nov 2015 - Dec 2018

  • Global Recruitment Manager

    Feb 2013 - Nov 2015
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  Accent HR

  Dec 2021 - now

  Chief Executive Officer

  Accent HR provides consulting and training services to community organisations, NGOs and corporations on the topics of cultural intelligence, HR, mental health and suicide prevention. Suicide Programs is part of Accent HR and its programs are accredited by Suicide Prevention Australia. More specifically we focus on: • Building organisations capability in suicide prevention, mental health and cultural intelligence.• Developing and delivering training programs that save lives in communities and corporations. • Enabling organisations to leverage their competitive advantage and allow their employees to thrive, by adapting their HR practices to their cultural background. • Developing clients’ cultural intelligence to drive change and support business growth. Show less