Experienced EMEA technology recruitment professional. Talent Acquisition, Talent Attraction and Regional Sourcing strategist who understands and can articulate technology's place within the business strategy. Determination on building solid business relationships with clients, adding value to their business and providing an effective and efficient service delivery through social recruiting, direct headhunting and networking. Pride myself on having an extremely ethical approach to the recruitment process with the ability to talk on a technical level as well as having an excellent knowledge of recruitment processes. I'm hiring now, please get in touch. russell_ekins@dell.com

EMEA Talent Search Consultant ♦ Headhunter ♦ Executive Recruiter @ For 30 years Dell has enabled countries, communities, customers and people globally to use technology, giving them the power to do more. As part of Dell's Talent Acquisition organisation across EMEA, the Talent Search Team are experienced recruiters working in over 25 countries throughout the region. We are responsible for headhunting top talent, continuing Dell’s transformation into an end to end solutions provider. Specialties: In-House Talent Acquisition ♦ Talent Attraction Strategies ♦ Technical Talent Sourcing ♦ Sourcing Strategies ♦ Internet Sourcing ♦ Recruiting Strategy ♦ Volume Recruiting ♦ Niche Recruiting ♦ Recruitment Training ♦ Recruiter ♦ Recruitment Metrics Analysis ♦ Talent Analytics ♦ Online Recruitment ♦ Technical Recruiter ♦ Headhunter ♦ Executive Recruiter ♦ Boolean Search Logic ♦ X-Ray Talent Sourcing ♦ Social Media Sourcing... basically anything to do with hiring the best talent. Thinking of applying to Dell? You can reach me directly on russell_ekins@dell.com From July 2015 to Present (6 months) Delivery Manager @ TRG was founded in May 2005 as a technology recruitment group specialising in the provision of highly skilled Contract and Permanent IT Development Professionals. TRG helps organisations build and deliver their IT Development projects whether they are internal or client focused. TRG resource all permanent or contract roles for the building and deploying of new, upgraded or maintained applications, software, systems and websites. Areas of focus: TRG | Development & QA This team deals only with the hiring of Developers and Testers, across development environments such as .NET, Java, C++, PHP, other Open Source tools plus all front end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML and CSS. TRG | Delivery & Implementation As with any team that builds software, websites or applications, there needs to be a team to deliver it. At TRG, our Delivery & Implementation team deals only with the hiring of people that ensure the development projects you build get delivered, whether that be internally or to your customers. Programme, Project and Delivery Managers, Architects, Analysts and Implementation Consultants. From April 2012 to July 2015 (3 years 4 months) London, United KingdomPermanent Database & Business Intelligence Specialist Consultant @ Recruiting for permanent Database and Business Intelligence specialists. From July 2009 to April 2012 (2 years 10 months) London, United KingdomSenior Recruitment Consultant @ Recruiting IT staff into all sectors for a niche start up consultancy. New business focused. From March 2009 to July 2009 (5 months) Recruitment Executive @ Specialising in recruiting IT staff into all sectors. New business focused. Built a strong client list. Agency Of The Year 2008 From February 2008 to March 2009 (1 year 2 months) Procurement Manager @ Negotiated with companies to get best rates. Responsible for ordering, deal with clients, invoices. Strategic planning to help the company work more fluently From 1998 to 2007 (9 years)

Russell Ekins is skilled in: Branding, Employer Branding, Recruiting, Technical Recruiting, Strategic Recruitment Planning, IT Recruitment, Talent Acquisition, Permanent Placement, Executive Search, Sourcing, Resourcing Strategy, Management, Recruitment Advertising, Leadership, Project Management