Libby Ragan

Experience

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  PeopleCo

  Sept 2003 - Sept 2004

  Resourcer

  PeopleCo is a specialist recruiter of IT staff to niche markets: Testing, SAP / ERP, Public Sector, Systems Development and Support. My role as a recruitment resourcer involved the matching of candidate skill sets to role profiles through different methods, I would undertake the initial telephone screening of the candidates before presenting the consultants with a short list of candidates that I felt would be well suited to the role.

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  People First Group

  Sept 2004 - Jan 2005

  Recruitment Consultant

  My role as a Recruitment Consultant involved both the attraction of new business and the management and development of existing accounts. My role covered the appointments of both permanent and temporary staff into high profile clients predominantly across the Yorkshire region. I established and maintained good candidate and client contacts in the local area and used traditional recruitment methods to source candidates and fill positions.

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  KTD Associates

  Jan 2005 - Nov 2008

  Headhunter/Senior Researcher

  Working across all industry sectors and managing assignments from proposal stage to completion. I gained an in-depth understanding and knowledge of many industry sectors and recruited a number of individuals at salary levels ranging from £22K to £350K. The majority of my accounts were "trade" accounts (i.e. the Headhunter was my client) I provided the Headhunters with the candidates that they required through research and networking methodologies. My role covered all aspects of the research for recruitment process from the initial compilation of a target list of companies i.e. where will we find the candidate that we arelooking for?, the identification of potential candidates and the approach of these potential candidates to interview co-ordination, offer and eventual placement of the candidate - maintaining direct contact with both candidate and client throughout the whole process. As well as working with the "trade/headhunter" clients my specialist industry became Engineering Consultancies where I worked directly with the resourcing teams within major high profile consultancies on an international basis- again, providing them with the full recruitment process from start to end placement. Show less

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  Write Research Company

  Jan 2009 - May 2016

  As Delivery Director and as a seasoned research and Client Services professional I was responsible for coordinating the delivery of services into all WRC clients. Playing a critical role in creating long-term healthy client relationships. The key responsibility of my role was to include governance across all areas of WRC services including resource planning, capability development, change management, continual service development and customer satisfaction as well as playing a key role in ensuring the highest level of operational service delivery. Write Research helps clients make better informed people decisions, based on real time insight from research.We do this through three core service lines:1. Talent Search - we used research to help you hire the best talent into an immediate need; at a reduced cost and time to hire.2. Talent Pipelining – we used research to help you build pools of the best talent to meet your short, medium or long term talent needs, helping to break the cycle of reactive recruiting.3. Talent Insight – we used research to help you build a real-time picture of the external market so you can make better informed decisions. Show less As Talent and Operations Manager, I had overall responsibility for WRC team recruitment in accordance with the business plan. Including sourcing, interviewing, assessing, inducting and mentoring of new hires whilst also ensuring that existing talent was developed, maintained and retained. Alongside this I was responsible for defining, driving and implementing the employee engagement strategy, the management of operations and facilities across WRC sites and supporting people managers assisting in the escalation of HR, resource planning, facilities and office management queries. Show less Delivering a highly significant cost reduction in their client’s resourcing and recruitment budgets. Offering Executive Research, Business Intelligence, Market mapping etc. Our fees simply could not be matched by Search and Recruitment consultancies. We charged a competitive daily rate for research that was based around fluid and proactive methodologies with no placement fee. Our depth of experience and knowledge enabled our research methodologies to deliver across a number of diverse sectors. Specialist industry sectors included Financial Services, Oil and Gas, FMCG, Pharma etc.Research for recruitment is an innovative and cost effective way to discover key individuals with specific skills, who may not be very visible in the marketplace and not on the lookout for a change in opportunity. This flexible and proven approach can provide distinct competitive advantage to organisations that are competing for the best available talent.We had an impressive, high profile client base due to our proven success - the aim of the business was to take out the expensive middleman and go straight to the research expert! Show less

  • Delivery / Talent & Operations Director

    Oct 2015 - May 2016

  • Talent & Operations Manager

    Mar 2014 - May 2016

  • Research Partner/Lead Research Partner

    Jan 2009 - Feb 2014
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  Ragan Howard Ltd

  May 2016 - now

  Director

  t: 01423 610881m: 07837 049444e: libby@raganhoward.comwww.raganhoward.com @raganhowardUKRagan Howard is a Talent Research and Recruitment Consultancy, we work with organisations of all shapes and sizes (both "trade" and "direct" clients) to address their talent challenges; helping them to break the reactive recruitment culture, addressing ways of securing the best talent in the marketplace.Consultancy services are offered on a day rate basis to assist businesses with all talent related project requirements, whether that be research for recruitment purposes, rolling out a new employee review system composing of KPI’s, reviews, personal development plans etc. planning a talent strategy, as well as running internal and external recruitment campaigns, designing and facilitating the appropriate assessment method for both internal and external candidates. Ragan Howard work closely with clients to find the correct solution for their business, primarily in the form of research for recruitment stretching across all sectors and disciplines and across a range of companies from “one man/woman bands”, SME’s, multi national corporate blue chips (and everything in between!). We offer solutions to support your in house talent / research function, providing an ongoing support and either a short term or long term release to the common bottleneck that can restrict many teams in delivering to their optimum. Research for recruitment; target listing, candidate identification and approaching undertaken across all industry sectors locally, nationally and globally. Understanding existing talent – establishing “what good looks like” and working with employers, and potential “talent fits” to optimise performance all round. Show less