Bernadette Bracken

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EMEA Talent Acquisition Partner
PayPal is the safer, easier way to pay and get paid online. The service allows users to pay with flexibility, including through account balances, credit cards, bank accounts or buyer credit, without sharing financial information.

PayPal has quickly become a global leader in online payment solutions with more than 100 million active accounts worldwide. Available in 190 markets and 25 currencies around the globe, PayPal enables global ecommerce by making payments possible across different locations, currencies, and languages.

EMEA Talent Acquisition Partner
• Responsible for managing and leading the end to end Talent Acquisition process for Customer Solutions, Financial Services, Risk, HR and Merchant Integration at PayPal.
• Partnering with hiring managers to source top talent
• Liaising with global headcount Manager’s and capacity planning to plan for current and future Talent needs.
• Communicate with Talent Acquisition team mates regarding agreed timelines for current and future requisitions.
• Liaise with Training function to communicate new hire class details and numbers to organise relevant Induction dates
• Responsible for managing the end to end internal recruitment process.
• Utilizing and developing innovative sourcing strategies to attract high quality applications from a wide range of sources – both locally and internationally where required.
• Analyze trends, results and effectiveness of recruiting sourcing strategies and recommend areas for change/improvement
Project work:
• Global MyHR Transformation: Leading Talent Acquisition process for Sourcing and Hiring Talent for the EMEA MyHR Organisation
• Emerging markets: Solely responsible for partnering with Hiring Managers to source and hire Isreal Team Mates
• Internal recruitment process: Management of internal Talent Acquisition process for PayPal across all business organisations.
• On-going Recruitment Projects and initiatives including Process Improvement, Referral scheme etc

• Training, Development and Motivation of four specialised Recruitment consultants
• Rollout and administering weekly / monthly K.P.I meetings
• Assessing Consultants activities through performance appraisals and informal one to one’s
• • Liaising with accounts department to produce weekly timesheets and payroll for indirect employees
• Overview of annual leave / absence management
• Producing weekly reports for Senior Management
• Recruitment, Interview and Selection of candidates across all levels
• Carrying out Psychometric testing where deemed appropriate by client
• Reference checking
• Recruitment Advertising – Liaison/Negotiation with Job boards and media
• Marketing of company to prospective Clients and Candidates.

Employed as a Senior Recruitment Consultant in the Retail Fashion Space.
Specialising in Fashion Recruitment for the Irish Market. Focused on recruiting professional, dynamic and creative managers for the fashion industry.

My clients include: Top High Street fashion retailers, Luxury fashion retailers and large volume, fast paced Department stores.

I base my success in Recruitment on listening and really focusing on my candidates and clients needs.

I communicate honestly and directly with my candidates on the needs and requirements of my clients. This is focused on through-out the recuitment process so that both my clients and candidates are 100% satified that they have recieved an excellent professional service.