Tom Dawson's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

📖 Summary

At ASK Italian we're different. Completely different. That's why we choose people to join us who share our cuore (heart) and spirito (soul). We look for people like you. People who care as passionately as we do about creating amazing dishes, from the freshest food, and serving it to our customers with genuine style. People who have plenty of drive, personalita (personality), ambition and potential. If you've got all that, we'll give you an amazing Italian Education and support you through an award winning career development programme called The ASK Italian Journey. These will help you fulfil your potential and make your career your own. I am keen to network with General Managers, Assistant Managers and Chef's of all level's. To get an idea of all the live vacancies with ASK Italian please have a look at our careers site: http://www.askitalian.co.uk/join-us If you would like any help or advice in getting into the Hospitality industry then please have a look at the following link: http://goo.gl/iCBsGyResourcing & Talent Manager @ From June 2015 to Present (6 months) Head Office, LondonResourcing Manager @ As Resourcing Manager for both the North & South Regions, I develop, implement and manage an effective external resourcing strategy which attracts high calibre and high potential individuals at all levels within ASK Italian. I build awareness of the employer brand externally to establish ASK Italian as a great place to work whilst driving innovative attraction solutions to build our external pipeline and supports our internal succession. Evolving our selection practices and materials to ensure that they always support us in finding the very best people, in our own unique way. I also look to reduce cost per hire and time to hire to minimum levels, as well as the 'normal' bits, like budget management and KPI reporting From May 2014 to June 2015 (1 year 2 months) Head Office, London, United KingdomRecruitment Officer for London & South Region @ I work as part of a team responsible for coordinating recruitment, selection and induction activities at New Look. My role is to promote and drive our direct sourcing strategy across the following areas: Area Managers; Regional Visual Managers; Store Managers; Deputy / Assistant Managers and Supervisors I manage the end to end recruitment process, whilst building and maintaining effective relationships with line managers at all levels as well as external suppliers. A key part of my role is to scope, define and manage successful, cost effective candidate attraction activities. This involves continual pipelining and talent mapping, working with line managers to support their medium term resourcing strategies. I also actively assist managers with interviewing and other selection processes, which includes holding monthly assessment centres for London and the South regions From January 2013 to April 2014 (1 year 4 months) Head Office London, United KingdomProduct Manager @ Maximising store performance by ensuring company visual guidelines are in place and making effective commercial decisions in a Flagship £12 million turnover store Conducting daily front to back floor walks whilst paying special attention to best sellers/volume/fashion lines. Planning, implementing and organising floor layout during sale periods and new season Retaining a strong visual and commercial eye in order to maximize the business with use of company reports on a daily basis Assisting in new store refits and openings Sales Manager February 2012 – July 2012 (6 months) Marble Arch Driving and maximising sales in a Flagship £12million turnover store on London’s Oxford Street Successfully managing, training and developing a team of 50 whilst ensuring key service areas are maintained throughout the day Responsible for recruiting and inducting new team members and inspiring them to achieve greater results Conducting regular floor walk with Area Managers, Directors and Commercial teams From July 2012 to January 2013 (7 months) BluewaterTalent Acquisition Specialist @ Managing the candidate short listing and identifying processes within the Digital, New Media, Marketing and IT sectors Regularly liaising with clients and carrying out visits in order to fully understand and drill down on specific job criteria Building and expanding Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter profiles/groups/pages to build quality candidate talent pools and increasing brand awareness Introduced RSS feeds in order to contain interest with followers Worked on high response of candidate applications for up to 35 campaigns per week Experienced in sourcing/head hunting passive candidates from a variety of channels with the use of Boolean searching Built a thorough understanding of all job boards, knowing where to advertise roles across a variety of industry sectors. Specialties: Digital Project Managers, Digital Account Managers, PHP / ASP Developers, UI Developers, Mobile Applications (iPhone/ iPad), Front End Web Developers / Designers, Content Managers, Marketing Managers From May 2011 to November 2011 (7 months) Tonbridge, United KingdomConcession Manager @ Responsible for driving contribution, profit and overall performance of the concession. Conducting regular visits with Area Managers, Head Office and Company Directors. Devised a successful business strategy for the opening of the new concession. Managing and supporting the region in Area Managers absence. Regarded as a Training Store for new Managers. Brainstormed marketing methods in the local area to increase brand awareness. Used commercial awareness to influence sales and profit in a new concession. Pro-actively used Twitter to market new promotions to the local area. Recruitment, development and training of staff members. Creatively maintaining store appearance and standards on a daily/weekly basis. Acted as a ‘Trouble Shooter’ to concessions in the region with regards to merchandising, training and operational support. From November 2008 to January 2011 (2 years 3 months) Recruitment Consultant - Ended in Redundancy @ Initially recruited to set up a new IT desk for MiddletonMurray for both contract and perm roles in UK and Europe. Focus towards clients in the Energy, New Media and Manufacturing sectors. Speciality skill sets: ASP ; C# ; PHP ; Java Development ; Project / Programme Managers as well as a focus on 2nd / 3rd line Support From August 2008 to October 2008 (3 months) Sidcup, LondonRecruitment Consultant @ A 360 recruitment role fully responsible for identifying new Finance opportunities for Finance Directors, Financial Controllers, Qualified and Part Qualified Accountants within the Kent area. Worked closely with clients in the Energy, Media, Insurance, Retail and Manufacturing industries. Successfully developed client relationships through regular contact, face-to-face meetings and providing a high quality recruitment service Managing the client and candidates recruitment process from initial search to offer stage Focussed on the importance of service delivery and client relationship management Pro-actively set up regular Recruitment Evenings for both clients and candidates in order to build relationships further Successfully generated 42k GP within my second Quarter ; 27k within my third Quarter Specialties: Finance Managers, Qualified / Part Qualified Accountants (ACCA / CIMA), Financial Controllers / Directors From November 2007 to August 2008 (10 months) Recruitment Consultant @ Responsible for the delivery of ideal candidates with the right attributes to fulfil several of Europe’s biggest clients in Investment Banking/Finance, Insurance, Oil/Gas, Telecommunications, Outsourcing, Media and Retail sectors based in the UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Switzerland. Developed effective relationships with prospective and existing candidates and clients. Demonstrated effective sales ability to negotiate and close deals. Managed time in order to meet demanding deadlines of 7 consultants. Negotiation of rates with candidates to ensure clients budgetary requirements are met. Interviewing, training and developing of new resourcers to the team Placement of between 10-15 candidates per quarter into the European market Specialties: IT Programme & Project Managers (Prince2, MSP), IT Architects (TOGAF), 1st - 3rd line Infrastructure Engineers (MSCE & MCPs), Development (.NET, JAVA, SharePoint), Service Delivery (ITIL) From March 2006 to November 2007 (1 year 9 months) London, United KingdomDeputy Brand Manager @ Responsible for Profit and Branch contribution of a Flagship brand in Bluewater (£3.5m T/O) Management of 30+ members of staff on Topman and 55+ members of staff when holding site - responsible for their development and any disciplinary action Liaised directly with Branch Merchandising influencing the stock package to maximise sales and increase profit. Examined store KPI’s and influenced them to a greater standard. Responsible for collating and forwarding the Brand Trade Report to Arcadia Company Directors - including commercial information on competition/stock/improvements/POS and markdowns From March 2002 to March 2006 (4 years 1 month) Bluewater - KentKings School Rochester From 1991 to 2001 Tom Dawson is skilled in: Talent Acquisition, Talent Selection, Talent Management, Candidate Screening, Managerial, Direct Sourcing, Candidate Assessment, Recruitment Advertising, Recruitment/Retention, Sourcing, Retail Management, Retail, Technical Recruiting, Contract Recruitment, Retail Sales, Online Retail, Product Management, Screening Resumes, Human Resources, Sales, Time Management, Hiring, Team Leadership, CRM, Building Relationships, Graduate Recruitment, Candidate Generation, Search, Team Management, Merchandising, Employee Training, Training, Interviews, Performance Management, Executive Search, Project Planning, Negotiation, Employer Branding, Applicant Tracking..., Assessment Center, Marketing, Store Management, Recruiting, Management, Succession Planning, Business Strategy, Visual Merchandising, Employee Relations, Permanent Placement, Marketing Management