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BGA is delighted to announce a series of exclusive workshops for BGA members focused on improving employability and optimising your job search process, to be delivered in July 2021.
Each session will focus on different aspects of employability improvement, including a panel discussion. BGA members that attend all four sessions will go in the draw to win a consultation careers package with CVIA, worth £300. All sessions are delivered free of charge.
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Alistair Morris
Head of Sales & Partnerships
The CV & Interview Advisors
Alistair is a former business owner and senior person within the recruitment and career development sector, who has spent the last 10 years helping professionals and executives to move forwards in their career.
Alistair’s role within The CV & Interview Advisors is threefold: to deliver the company’s leading-edge content through presentations to often global audiences; to act as their lead CV and LinkedIn profile appraiser – he has reviewed over 40,000 CVs for individuals across all sectors; and to manage relationships with the company’s wide variety of partners, which include leading institutes, associations, job boards and recruitment businesses.
His experience includes several years in the corporate world, primarily in a variety of sales and operations roles; several years working within the executive search industry, both permanent and contract sectors; and several years working for The CV & Interview Advisors as a Coach and Presenter.
Alistair is passionate about providing individuals with valuable insight into how their critical Personal Branding tools – primarily their CV and LinkedIn profile – can be improved to drive more interviews, for better jobs, at a higher salary.
David Woods-Hale
Director of Marketing and Communications
AMBA & BGA
Director of Marketing and Communications, AMBA & BGA
David is Director of Marketing and Communications at AMBA & BGA and is responsible for the management of its magazines Ambition and Business Impact, as well as devising and executing AMBA & BGA’s global communications strategy, and overseeing its research and insight centres.
Prior to joining AMBA in 2016, David held a variety of roles in journalism, publishing, and marketing, with his most recent role prior to joining AMBA & BGA being Creative Director of the marketing agency Humm Media, representing clients including The Dorchester Collection of hotels.
He was Editorial Director for the US and UK at the international books, journals, and magazine publisher LID Publishing (now LID Business Media), during which time, the company launched more than 20 top 20 best-selling business books, including Not Knowing which was named management book of the year by The British Library and The Chartered Management Institute. In 2013, David was invited to launch and edit an international business journal for Duke University (US).
David has written for publications including PRWeek, Money Marketing, HR Magazine, The Guardian, Corporate Adviser, Management Today, The Economist, The BookSeller and The Independent as well working on TV productions including Don’t Blame Facebook.
In 2012, he was a finalist for Business Journalist of the Year (DLA Piper Media Awards), and won Career Development Journalist of the Year and HR Journalist of the Year (Willis Towers Watson Media Awards).
He has an MA in History and Divinity from The University of Aberdeen and a further Post-Graduate Diploma in Publishing and Journalism from The Robert Gordon University.
Ryan Cottell
Head of Customer Success
Abintegro – the Career Development platform
Ryan is the Head of Customer Success Manager at Abintegro and is focused on supporting project launches, driving user engagement across all Abintegro customers and ensuring that maximum value is being received. He is also involved in the production of promotional and training material for use by Abintegro clients.
Rachael Frear
Membership Manager
AMBA & BGA
Rachael is the Membership Manager for the Business Graduates Association (BGA) at AMBA & BGA.
Rachael joined the organisation in 2019 and is responsible for overseeing BGA’s student and graduate membership proposition, as well as supporting BGA’s member, validated, and accredited institutions in maximising the services available to them through their BGA relationship.
Rachael is a New Zealand national, educated at the University of Otago. she holds a bachelor of commerce in marketing and BSc in physiology.
Richard Schofield
Managing Director, Client Services, AMS
Richard Schofield joined AMS in 2011, currently serving as Managing Director of Client Services in the UK&I region where he is responsible for supporting outstanding partnerships with blue-chip clients in meeting their strategic business objectives, through building first class talent solutions. In prior AMS roles, he spent his first five years developing and growing the organisation’s strategic workforce planning consulting practice, then moved into a Client Services Director for the organisations Retail Banking and Financial Services sector.
Richard has a degree in international business and finance. Passionate about the talent acquisition and management industry, he regularly shares his expert insight, experience and knowledge at a number of leading industry conferences and seminars. Richard has worked in a variety of industries and has more than 20 years’ experience in both senior planning and resourcing roles, providing him extensive knowledge across the talent spectrum.
Richard’s early career in retail sparked an interest in understanding the impact that planning and resource management had on the ability of a business to achieve its strategic goals.
Amneek Kaur, Manager,
Corporate Strategy & Development, ASDA
Amneek Kaur is an ex-PwC Consultant with five years’ experience in process improvement, digital transformation, business process reviews and client management. She has designed standard operating procedures, evaluated controls to identify risks and process gaps and deployed proactive risk monitoring cloud-based solutions for Asia Pacific clients.
She pursued 18-month full-time MBA at Alliance Manchester Business School with a strong focus on strategy and consulting. During this time, she had opportunities to work on challenging projects and formulate highly calibrated and data-driven business strategies for clients across the retail, financial services, and manufacturing sectors.
Graduating from the MBA in summer 2020, she joined ASDA, one of the UK’s leading supermarket chains, as a Corporate Strategy Manger. Her role is twofold – to act as internal consultant and solve key strategic business questions and share recommendations with executives; and to evaluate the long-term strategic direction of ASDA.
