Curriculum Vitae - Tim Marston

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Profile Summary

I am an experienced senior recruiter with a strong history of success in finding talented people for IT organisations, across all business functions. I have experience of team leadership and mentoring junior colleagues, as well as a proven capacity for driving process improvement and innovation. I have particularly strong experience of developing, implementing and managing competency-based selection systems.

Education & Professional Training

2009 – 2011 (expected) University of Surrey
MSc in Human Resource Management (CIPD-accredited)

2008 DDI
Targeted Selection Certified Administrator (Targeted Selection is a competency-based selection process)

1998 – 2001 Oxford University (St. John’s College)
MA (Oxon.) in Archaeology & Anthropology

Published Articles

I have had several articles published by the US-based ERE.net portal for Talent Acquisition professionals. A listing of these articles can be found at: http://www.ere.net/author/timothymarston/

Career History

January 2008 - Present
Senior Recruiter, Red Hat Inc.

Red Hat are the world’s largest Open Source software company, through their Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss products.

I was initially recruited to Red Hat to manage their recruitment in the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia. Within 6 months, my role extended to dotted-line responsibility for EMEA recruitment as a whole. Beyond EMEA, I have responsibility for bringing our recruitment in Australia under control, and have recently been given the lead role in recruitment for several US departments.

I currently mentor recruiters in the UK, Czech Republic and the Peoples Republic of China. I also lead a global Talent Acquisition project for overhauling our interview and selection system, and am the domain expert on behavioural interviewing within the department.

Day-to-day activities cover everything from strategic process development to pro-active candidate resourcing. I am also the only individual within the global recruitment organisation that is qualified to train staff on the adopted Red Hat selection process, Targeted Selection (a competency-based system). This has given me the opportunity to regularly run training courses for up to 20 individuals at a time from across the business.

My work in EMEA recruitment has included successful direct searches for 4 director-level positions, as well as a wide range of roles at manager level and below. Business areas within this coverage have included Engineering, Professional Services, Support, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance & HR.

Highlights
- Delivered outstanding cost savings, directly over $600k in last full financial year
- Delivered business case to executive team, winning backing for the expansion of the in-house recruitment team in EMEA
- Conceived and implemented a Red Hat alumni network Generation Red Hat
- Mentor several recruiters in different countries and regions
- Delivered formal internal training courses to managers and staff at Red Hat


January 2004 - December 2007
Principal Consultant, Hurst (UK) Ltd.

Hurst are a boutique IT recruitment firm, established in 2003.

I joined Hurst, a young IT recruitment consultancy, to help the company grow the range and diversity of their client accounts. Over the following three years, I evolved my role to become the leading consultant within the firm, responsible for more sales than any other individual. My day-to-day responsibilities included maintaining and enhancing client relationships, interviewing candidates and establishing new client relationships. I also sourced candidates myself directly, in coordination with the work being undertaken by the resource team that worked for me.

Key to my success was my close involvement in the agile (Extreme Programming/SCRUM etc.) software development community, establishing Hurst’s speciality in this area of development process. By attending user groups, sponsoring events and other similar efforts, we became the most recognised name in recruitment to agile software teams in the UK.

My work covered assignments at all levels of seniority, although increasingly I worked on fulfilling more senior positions, whilst delegating junior vacancies to my team.

Highlights
- Personally billing over £220k for the 06/07 financial year.
- Invitation on to the organising committee for the agile community XPDay conference
- Successfully presented several major PSL (preferred supplier list) bids
- Built a resourcing team to work underneath me.