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Talent Works International set to help raise funds for local school - (07/09/2011 03:58 PM)

Supporting our local community is an activity we take great pride in at Talent Works International. We feel it’s important to not only give something back to the community that supports our business but also help in the development of our future society.

Every year we choose a local charity to support and this year we are delighted to announce that we have selected Sywell Church of England School.

Sywell Church of England (Voluntary Aided) Primary School recently had a much-needed classroom refurbishment and a new school hall built. The Peterborough Diocese funded 90% of this refurbishment however; as Sywell is a Church of England Primary School the governors are responsible for raising the remaining 10%. In this instance, the amount of £71,000.00 has to be found by the governors. Since May 2010 the school has raised a staggering £27,000.00 through approaching charitable trusts, donations from parents, fetes, discos and sponsored events. A further £44,000.00 is still yet to be raised.

A number of exciting projects organised by the school’s Parent Teacher and Friends Association (PTFA), are planned and as part of the fundraising we are currently organising a charity auction, of which all proceeds will be donated to Sywell Primary School. The money raised will be used to enrich the children’s development and educational needs in addition to help reduce the outstanding £44,000.00.

The auction will take place in Northampton’s Black Bottom Club, also known as the BBC on Thursday 17th November 2011 from 7:30pm onwards. To date, we have some fantastic auction items including:

* An early edition of Darwin’s famous book ‘On the Origin of Species’ with a handwritten message from Sir David Attenborough

* Use of TWI's Manchester United Box at Old Trafford

* Signed memorabilia from the Saints and Cobblers

* A clay pigeon shooting lesson

* Helicopter flight

With the help of our local community and also clients, we plan to add to this exciting list in the coming months.

If would be interested in contributing to the auction, attending, or even donating to this worthy cause, please contact us via 01327 320 980 or info@mytalentworks.co.uk

Topping up the talent pool - (15/07/2011 10:37 AM)

Hunting down future talent is not easy, especially when they are not even looking to change roles. However, TWI took on PepsiCo’s tough challenge

The Challenge

It’s tough finding the top talent in the FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) sector. Despite the apparent high number of jobseekers in the market. PepsiCo UK was finding that within the soft drinks sector it was hard to find the talent it needed.

Rick Kershaw joined PepsiCo three years ago as head of resourcing, PepsiCo UK & Ireland, with the aim of transforming the company’s talent acquisition process. “At that time we were 90-95% reliant on third-party recruiters,” he explained. “In fact, in the team we had very high-calibre HR generalists but there were no dedicated recruiters. Apart from a few internal referrals, we needed to change to a more direct sourcing approach.” The primary concern, however, he told Recruiter, was to find the best available talent in the market; cost was secondary. Kershaw also wanted to look at attracting passive talent to the business through a more proactive direct sourcing methodology. But with just himself and his new hire, Katie McNab, a specialist recruiter hired as talent acquisition manager, they needed a partner, “an external resource arm to provide the right level of capability that we didn’t have internally”, he explained.

The challenge for this partner was to really understand PepsiCo’s business “the agencies we work with really understand our culture” and to extend the candidate reach deeper into the passive market. At around this time, Neil Purcell, founder and director of talent acquisition and global resourcing specialist Talent Works International (TWI), had made an approach to PepsiCo’s HR department. Kershaw liked what he heard and decided to offer TWI the challenge.

The Solution......

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Original article:

The Recruiter, 2011, Topping up the talent pool [Article] 13th July 2011, available at:http://tinyurl.com/5u9xn6x

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