James is a hands-on Talent Acquisition Leader with over 18-years of strategic and operational leadership experience in internal and external talent acquisition. While TA leadership has been a constant throughout, this capability has been augmented with a hands-on talent for executive search. This has enabled James to provide a robust understanding of strategic, operational, and tactical requirements across all aspects of talent acquisition and commercial leadership.
James is an individual who is recognized as having the ability to create innovative talent acquisition strategies aligned to organizations’ commercial goals. He retains the specific experience of enabling start-up / scale-up organizations to implement and transition TA functions to achieve growth targets and has been responsible for creating and implementing the TA strategy for fast scaling tech businesses and corporate institutions, enabling 100%+ YOY growth. James has also been directly responsible for acquiring senior leaders from Director to Board levels. In essence, his career has been focused on optimizing and transforming the talent acquisition capability of organizations through enabling talent acquisition functions to operate to their maximum potential.
James has an exciting and usable blueprint for Talent Acquisition to get the best people into your business. There is no quick fix; it takes time, relationship building, and strategy.
James shares it all here.
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