catherine scott

* Ensure effective and profitable operation of International Branch activities * Staff supervision and training * Weekly/monthly reporting * Budget management and achievement of budgeted objectives * Tender submissions and contract negotiations * Business development for Branch * Ensuring continued provision of services to clients * Maintenance of Company internal systems and policy reviews * Maintenance of branch QA system * Increase current and new client business and margins on an ongoing basis * Liaise on a daily basis with clients/candidates in relation to current requirement requirements * Sanction recruitment advertising * assist with overall continuous improvement of international recruitment section.

* Ensure effective and profitable operation of International Branch activities * Staff supervision and training * Weekly/monthly reporting * Budget management and achievement of budgeted objectives * Tender submissions and contract negotiations * Business development for Branch * Ensuring continued provision of services to clients * Maintenance of Company internal systems and policy reviews * Maintenance of branch QA system * Increase current and new client business and margins on an ongoing basis * Liaise on a daily basis with clients/candidates in relation to current requirement requirements * Sanction recruitment advertising * assist with overall continuous improvement of international recruitment section.

* Responsibilities: Recruitment and selection * Training and Staff Development * Monitoring overall Training Budget * Development of Annual Training Plan * Preparing statistical reports on a monthly basis for absence, etc * Manpower planning * Co-ordinating pension documentation * Advising Line Management on Company policy as required * Assisting HR Manager with ER issues as required * Policy development * Maintaining various Human Resources computerised systems/data bases * Counselling * Health and Safety * Maintaining ISRS (International Safety Rating System) Element 10 and participating in audits for same as required by DNV on an annual basis * Salary administration and maintenance and monitoring of Annual Salary Plan * Liaise with Company Solicitor in connection with employment law and litigation matters * Facilitate Change Management Process * Participate in Aberdeen Employee Relations Group Meetings on a bi-monthly basis.

* Responsibilities – Staff supervision * Recruitment and selection * Training and development * Co-ordination of training administration * Policy and procedural development * Preparation of monthly reports for senior management * Maintenance of computerised personnel records * Advise line management and staff on Company policy as required.

* Responsibilities: Responsible for providing a complete administrative/general support to the location Personnel Manager * Preparing internal/external recruitment advertisements * Monitoring response, fees, etc for same * Arrange and conduct interviews, including graduate selection interviews * Test secretarial/clerical job applicants * Prepare/issue offers of employment * Liaise with job centres/agencies etc * Conduct all induction training for new starts, process salary information, etc * Process/monitor all training admin for in-house/external training courses * Prepare training programmes for staff and organise in-house training sessions * Maintain/update personnel records on PC * Conduct general counselling and exit interviews for staff * Provide maternity information/counselling for female staff, monitor receipt of forms etc * Prepare and issue monthly attendance analysis report * Advise line management/staff on Company Policy as/when required * Totally responsible for the running of my location department in the absence of my manager.

* Responsibilities: Preparing and placing press advertisements for various secretarial/admin positions * Monitoring fees for same, vetting, pre-selecting and answering correspondence for same, arranging interviews and interviewing/testing secretarial and clerical job applicants for competency in accordance with Client specifications * Preparing CVs to be sent out to companies for job applicants for both existing and prospective Clients * Visiting companies on spec in order to gain prospective clients * Telesales, preparing newsletters/news sheets to be sent out on spec to companies to gain prospective clients * Supervising clerical staff within office * Developing a procedures manual within agency including Code of Practice, etc, in accordance with relevant statutory legislation.

* Meeting facilitation * Training and Development * Coaching and Mentoring * Business Management System Design, Development and Implementation * Process Re-engineering * Process Mapping * Change Management * Policy and Procedural Development and Roll-out * Problem Solving. Simultaneously delivering to completion various demanding projects both in the USA and UK for Conoco in a timely and efficient manner.

Subjects studied: Context of Personnel Management, Skills of Management, Personnel Management in Practice, Training and Development, Industrial Relations, Employee Benefits, Recruitment and Selection, Economics, Statistics, Finance and Accounting. Dissertation - Stress in the Offshore Industry passed with Distinction.

Subjects studied: English, Audio Typing, Typing, Shorthand, Computing, Office Practice – Passed with distinctions. RSA Stage II Typing RSA Stage II Shorthand Higher Certificate in Secretarial Studies