rentalcars.com is the world’s largest online car rental reservation agency - arranging over 6 million rentals a year in more than 38000 locations worldwide. As a part of Priceline Group we are a member of the world’s leading and most valuable travel group. Other group companies include: Booking.com the world's leading online hotel reservations agency, Priceline.com, Agoda, Kayak and OpenTable. The Priceline Group is a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: PCLN) and was ranked in Fortune's 7 fastest growing technology companies in 2014 as well as being one of Fortun’es most admired technology companies. To help grow our business we have a number of exciting opportunities in Manchester, which are listed below. For more information email JonathanWells@rentalcars.com or visit our careers site at careers.rentalcars.com Snr Software Engineers, multiple roles Software Engineers, multiple roles Grad Software Engineers Snr Business Analyst Brand Analyst Commercial Analyst (loyalty) Java Web Developers, multiple roles IOS Developer Jnr Software Engineers Infrastructure Engineer, Linux Database Engineers/DBAs, MySQL Snr/Testers UX Designers Product Owners

Lead Talent Acquisition Specialist @ A solution focused talent acquisition specialist. Working closely with stakeholders to drive forward the recruitment of IT, digital and commercial staff for rentalcars,com, with a focus on direct hire. Highly adept at direct sourcing across The UK and Europe utilising a broad range of techniques and tools. These include X-Ray search, Boolean logic, Tangent resourcing, Open Source search, Linked In, Twitter, Google+, referrals and the production of engaging and well targeted advertising. Good sales skills and experience of delivering target driven recruitment projects within short time scales as well as longer term initiatives including building talent pools. Highlights 100 direct hires in just over 2 yrs, mainly across technology. 30 direct Java hires 7 Mobile Developers, IOS & Android. Recruiting a number of senior level strategic hires for the business through search. From June 2013 to Present (2 years 7 months) Manchester, United KingdomInterim Internal IT Recruiter @ Amor Group is Scotland’s largest independent business technology solutions company, providing business technology solutions to the energy, transport and public sectors. Please see below for overview of work and impact during this interim assignment. www.amorgroup.com From April 2013 to May 2013 (2 months) Interim In House Resourcing Specialist @ Trader Media Group / Auto Trader is one of The UK’s largest specialist multimedia groups. The brand is building a competitive position across all effective channels including online, mobile and magazine. Autotrader.co.uk, owned by Trader Media Group, has enjoyed consistently strong year-on-year growth, hitting an all-time high of 10.8 million unique users in March 2011 and experiencing over one billion page impressions – 16 times the volume of any competitor. I was taken on by Trader Media on a 6 month contract to recruit mainly technology and digital staff for their offices in Newton, Chester and London focusing on direct candidate generation and reducing agency usage. Please see recommendations below. From September 2012 to March 2013 (7 months) Resourcing Specialist & Director @ Technical Resourcing using a number of different tools and methods including traditional search and selection, advertising, database search, networking, social media etc . Recruiting developers, testers, support professionals, managers etc for some of The UK's leading digital and technology businesses. Typical technologies including Java, Linux, .NET, Agile, Mobile. From July 2007 to September 2012 (5 years 3 months) Consultant @ Consultancy expertise to Opus From July 2007 to September 2012 (5 years 3 months) IT/Technology Recruiter @ Full lifecycle IT Recruitment. Built preferred supplier relationships with companies including Nokia UK Ltd, Bloomberg, Euronext.LIFFE and Fidelity. All of whom I recruited technology staff for with considerable success. I also created and ran a number of high profile recruitment campaigns for Nokia UK introducing a significant number of software engineers, project managers, team leaders, testers and other technology professionals into the business.. From October 1995 to July 2007 (11 years 10 months)

BEng, Chemical Engineering, Desmond @ University of Leeds From 1991 to 1994 High School, A-Levels, Physics B, Chemistry B, Maths C @ The Ridge College From 1989 to 1991 High School, GCSE, 5 A's 3B's @ Marple Hall High School From 1984 to 1989 Jonathan Wells is skilled in: Technical Recruiting, Building Relationships, IT Recruitment, Internet Recruiting, Screening Resumes, Screening, Talent Acquisition, Sourcing, Executive Search, Recruitment Advertising, Recruiting, Talent Management, Collaboration, Teamwork, Stakeholder Management, Human Resources, Networking, Graduate Recruitment, Management