Robinder Gill
Graduate, Undergraduate & Apprentice Recruitment Talent Acquisition
Key Topics to be covered:
Graduate employment schemes and Jaguar Land Rover Assessment Centres
Personal Profile:
Robinder Gill has worked in various human resources roles within the automotive engineering & manufacturing sector since graduating seventeen years ago – first at Ford Motor Company and then at Jaguar Land Rover.
His roles ranged from employee relations and policy & planning to salaried HR, but for the last six years Rob has been responsible for the company’s graduate & undergraduate recruitment and, also for the last three years, apprentice recruitment from the school leaver market.
Jaguar Land Rover has recruited well over 1,500 graduates in the last five years and around 600 apprentices.
Since starting in his current graduate recruitment role, Rob has been fully immersed in it, playing an active role in recruiter sector focus group meetings and attending graduate & student market update events.
https://www.jaguar.co.uk/index.html
Melissa Hughes
Senior Recruitment Advisor
Key Topics to be covered:
Graduate and Placement Opportunities at Matalan
Personal Profile:
As a member of the Recruitment Team at Matalan for over 4 years, Melissa has experience of recruiting employees for both Retail and Head Office. Since joining the Head Office team in June 2012, she has recruited at graduate level and has built and maintained good working relationships with a number of local universities, keeping them up to date with the latest vacancies. Melissa and the team regularly attend graduate fairs and events, presenting to students of all levels across a varied number of disciplines.
Charles Hardy
Education Engagement Lead
Key Topics to be covered:
Identity, Network and Knowledge - The 3 Pillars of Success for optimising your presence on LinkedIn
Personal Profile:
Charles heads up LinkedIn's work with Higher Education, working with Universities and Education bodies to help improve student engagement and employability. Through his career spanning IBM, TMP Worldwide and now LinkedIn, Charles has focused on leveraging technology to improve (and in some cases revolutionise) recruitment. Charles has worked with many well-known UK, Europe and global organisations to improve brand engagement, candidate experience and recruitment process efficiency.
See Charles's LinkedIn profile = https://linkedin.com/in/charleshardy
https://university.linkedin.com/
Liz Bell Community Affairs Officer
Robyn Owen Graduate HR Project Development Officer
Key Topics covered:
Induction video of who we are
What we do
Graduate Scheme
Hear from one our current graduates and her experiences
Personal Profile:
Liz has worked for the company for over three years and has a wide range of experience working within local communities. Liz is responsible for our award winning employee volunteering programme across the A.F.Blakemore estate and has developed a work experience programme for young people and also launched A.F.Blakemore’s first Graduate Programme in 2015.
Robyn started with the business on the first cohort of Graduates to be taken on by A.F.Blakemore. Robyn studied law and business at Liverpool University and is based in the Human Resources department, working in the areas of operational HR, Shared Services, Learning & Development,Corporate Affairs and Health, Safety and Wellbeing
Kelly Yewer
Team Leader
Key Topics to be covered:
The Benefits of working abroad for a student or graduate
The many transferable skills learnt at Summer Camp
Overview of Programs offered at USA Summer Camp
Personal Profile:
USA Summer Camp is a work and travel provider for young people. It is our job to offer exclusive worldwide work opportunities. We make sure that each applicant receives help and assistance throughout the entire process, from the start of their application, all through their work placement until they return home. We also arrange visas, documentation and can assist with flights and accommodation. We believe that everyone deserves to travel and to improve their skills before going into the working world.
Andrew Bargery
PwC (Price Water Coopers) Campus and Schools Engagement Leader
Key Topics covered:
An overview of the programmes that we offer to students and the key skills we look for
Personal Profile:
I’ve worked as part of the UK Student Recruitment Team at PwC since 2002 covering various roles but currently leading the team on campus and schools engagement, which includes setting the university and schools strategy, overseeing sponsorship, managing the national budget and designing and delivering our on-campus activities.
Tel: 01902 321022
NASES Office: University of Wolverhampton
Careers, Enterprise and The Workplace, Wulfruna Street, WV1 1LY