Krishna Patel

Naseba Communications - July 2009 - Present

Global Head of Talent Management

Naseba is a business information company that produces, promotes and hosts B2B events across 26 industries on 5 continents, with a focus on re-education, networking and most importantly, deal-making opportunities. Naseba offers clients business information and deal-flow generation across business platforms designed to maximise ROI. Naseba has 6 offices globally and has played host to more than 52, 000 delegates.

Role and Responsibilities:
• Use my previous experience to build a new HR department - focusing on recruitment (globally), training, staff welfare, retention and business growth
• Re designed and implemented a global hiring and recruitment process
• Redesigned all recruitment and training collaterals
• Using my previous recruitment skills to headhunt and recruit the best staff
• Helped develop a structure to use social media for recruitment
• Implemented staff reviews and retention strategy globally (this was previously not in place)
• Trained and managed a team of HR and recruitment managers.
• Helped to redesign our sales training
• Trained and developed sales staff globally - most of which bought in business of over $400, 000 in their first year with the company

RTS is an established business since 2000 providing software process management solutions to UK Rail and Road Industry blue chip based clients. RTS software applications comprise a number of key individual modules which integrate together to form three main streams of process management.

The company enjoys a differentiated market position, excellent high level engagement with its clients and have products and services installed where they are critical to its clients operations.

Intego was the executive search arm of RTS - they focused on IT and transportation industry’s globally.



Roles and Responsibilities

• Re educate myself and my team in the transportation and IT industry
• I ran a team of 5 consultants, each of which focused on their own industry vertical.
• Recruit, train and develop new consultants
• Oversee the onsite recruitment and strategy for RTS
• Built a new contracts division from scratch
• Build and develop new business via the telephone and face to face meetings
• Recruit in my industry verticals - this included - headhunting, networking and completing various search assignments.

Senior Contracts Consultant

Impact delivers specialist IT recruitment agency services. We focus our attention on specialist IT sectors and have established a wealth of knowledge and elite candidates within these fields. We offer a consultancy based recruitment service and, because we are able to deliver results, we work with many of our clients on an exclusive basis. When it comes to our candidates, we take a personal approach. We know our IT candidates in great detail and gain a real understanding of who they are and what they can do.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Given the opportunity to grow a contracts team from scratch
• Developed and trained consultants in executive search and contract recruitment
• Recruit internally for the contracts division
• Developed all my business via the phone
• Closed the largest contracts deal to date - 19, 000 GBP - the previous record was held by the company Directors

Trainee Recruitment Consultant
Premier Group is one of the UK’s leading technology agencies, offering high quality recruitment services to the whole of the UK and continental Europe.
We focus on delivering a comprehensive recruitment solution across the IT, Engineering and Sales sectors, keeping the entire process of hiring staff as smooth and efficient as possible.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Complete the full training program - 80% and above to pass
• Develop new business via telephone and face to face meetings
• Learnt to close business very quickly - my fastest placement being 40 minutes
• Work with my team to ensure we were number 1 within the group
• Constantly researching to ensure I was on top my market
• Work to targets and tight deadlines