Here we all are...along with some interesting and not so interesting facts about us!  We aim to change this information regularly, so be sure to keep coming back and checking.

chairman

linda@lta-recruitment.co.uk

0161 794 8667

linda taylor chairman
  • Started business in Jan '87 (from home); offering temp, typing & training services
  • In March '93 moved into High Street premises in Swinton [with just 15 temps]
  • Career change ['83-86] - IT Training & Support Exec with National IT Organisation
  • Previously in secretary/PA roles (typing 92wpm; shorthand 130wpm - in 1976!!)
  • Linda focuses on marketing/PR/business development; industry/competitor trends
  • Member of Institute of Direct Marketing - adept communicator, copy writer
  • Interviewing skills; confidence building/counselling skills; troubleshooting expert

AND....

  • Coaches in CV prep/interview skills and [really usefully] remembers how to use Wordstar, WordPerfect for DOS and Multimate. An eternal optimist who loves: teamwork & creativity and loathes: trivia & miserliness

kate taylor shaw managing director

managing director

kate@lta-recruitment.co.uk

0161 794 8667

  • Kate joined in March '93 on first day in our original business premises
  • Promoted to Managing Partner of the business in 1996
  • Previous 'temping' experience; excellent MS Office, internet and IT skills
  • Accomplished interviewer with astute screening and 'placing' skills
  • Trained and guided team of consultants over a period of 10 years
  • Monitors performance, analyses statistics - has terrific business ideas!
  • Totally focussed on customer service; accomplished communicator, excellent listener and problem solver

And……

  • Kate is Linda's daughter! Team builder, mentor, forward thinker, straight talker; psychic tendencies - premonitions DO come true.
 

branch manager

jo@lta-recruitment.co.uk

0161 794 8667

joanne kearns swinton branch manager
  • Joined linda taylor associates in Feb 1995 (from college)
  • Branch Manager - Swinton Branch (appointed June 05)
  • Experienced interviewer with excellent interpersonal and telephone skills
  • Candidate placer - temporary and permanent positions
  • Excellent user of MS Office/internet with fast, accurate keyboard skills
  • Extensive customer service, negotiating and persuasion talents
  • Efficient and reliable with an amazing memory and brilliant organisational skills

And …

  • Fantastic all-rounder - can do every other job in our company:- reception/accounts/handyman.
    Jo fixes everything for us!!


tracey henry financial controller

financial controller

tracey@lta-recruitment.co.uk

0161 794 8667

  • Financial Controller - started in October '93 as p/t accounts administrator
  • 19 years experience of Accounts Administration within various commercial sectors including L'Oreal (Vichy)
  • Tracey is an expert user of Sage software - both payroll and accounts
  • Controls banking, VAT/Inland Revenue reporting and Working Time Regulations
  • Fully conversant with recruitment industry regulations and legal requirements
  • Produces monthly financial information, analyses results and monitors customer and candidate activities

And …

  • Great organiser, extremely tidy, loves football - qualified referee!; a little prone to malapropism!
 

recruitment consultant

anne@lta-recruitment.co.uk

0161 794 8667

anne blackburn recruitment consultant
  • Joined in 1998, now Senior Recruitment Consultant and Temporaries' Controller
  • Previous employment: Administrator within the Media industry and Negotiator for Property Service Company
  • Anne is an astute interviewer, researcher and candidate 'placer',
  • Outstanding IT skills, superior MS Office user and Technical Support adviser
  • Responsible for updating and maintaining linda taylor associates website
  • Copy writer and negotiator for the company's weekly recruitment advertising

And …

  • Highly skilled at un-jamming printers and photocopiers; shredder extraordinaire and mobile phone whiz. Has some issues with personal space, ie; don't go in it.
   
jackie o'sullivan recruitment consultant

recruitment consultant

jackie@lta-recruitment.co.uk

0161 794 8667

  • Joined as Recruitment Consultant in March 01, now Senior
  • concentrating on Permanent opportunities
  • Recruitment career began in 1986 - 7 years with a City Centre consultancy
  • Membership Sales Consultant within leisure industry for next 8 years
  • Jackie has extensive sales experience gained in diverse industries
  • Excels at interviewing, matching and placing candidates in the right job
  • Dazzling telephone skills; an articulate communicator at every level

And …

  • Our best 'mimic'; a little accident prone (computers a speciality); and DON'T ask Jackie for travel directions.




recruitment consultant

alison@lta-recruitment.co.uk

01204 395566

 

alison wilson recruitment consultant
  • Senior Recruitment Consultant with strong background in commercial recruitment
  • Recruitment experience within the Financial Services field
  • Varied 'hands-on' financial services and insurance company experience
  • An experienced administrator with effective organisational skills.
  • Excellent communicator both internally and externally
  • Methodical approach with a keen eye for detail

And …

  • Efficient and hardworking (can even ignore a noisy office); doesn't get hangovers - we hate her for that!! Don't mention: Her tonsils - they're having a 'coming out' party!!
 
june harris secretary/pa

secretary / pa

june@lta-recruitment.co.uk

0161 794 8667

 

  • June is Linda's PA and the Swinton Team Secretary
  • Joined the company in May 2000 - formerly a customer!
  • Previously - HR Secretary/Administrator for Blue Chip Organisation
  • Fully conversant with MS Office/Internet/email/our internal database
  • Linda's right hand for marketing, PR, media & promotional activities
  • Excellent organisational and outstanding administrative skills
  • Good communicator (internally and externally); enviable telephone skills

And…

  • Company photographer; skilled negotiator; social secretary; party animal.
 

receptionist / administrator

nicola@lta-recruitment.co.uk

0161 794 8667

nicola wilcox learndirect tutor / administrator
  • Learndirect tutor, advisor and facilitator; reception and telephone all-rounder
  • Nicola joined us in June '99 initially as part-time payroll clerk
  • Previous experience within customer services, personnel and retail sectors
  • Provides empathetic support to Learndirect students (particularly our 'silver surfers')
  • Invigilator/support for ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence) qualification
  • Organised and methodical, manages mailroom and stationery needs

And …

  • Self-appointed entertainments manager; expert photocopier of body parts; resident beauty expert; makeovers a speciality.

jan roche accounts administrator

accounts administrator

jan@lta-recruitment.co.uk

0161 794 8667

  • Joined us from local Estate Agents in June 2001 as Accounts Administrator
  • 15 years experience of sales and purchase ledger, 10 years in computer industry
  • Controls our payroll (with a weekly run for around 150 temps that's no mean feat)
  • Jan handles credit control [firmly but gently] and deals with any financial issues on behalf of our temporary workforce
  • Good IT skills, particularly Sage and Excel - talented spreadsheet designer
  • Organised and industrious, she just keeps taking on more work (and she's ours!)

And....

  • Qualified first aider; terrific tea maker; superb spider remover; Linda and Jan have been friends for 30 years (that would be since primary school, obviously!!
 

administrator

debra@lta-recruitment.co.uk

01204 395566

 

debra simpson administrator
  • Branch Secretary/Administrator and Learndirect tutor
  • 10 years secretarial/administrative experience [3 years in recruitment]
  • Organised and methodical with exceptional attention to detail
  • Excellent administrator with superb IT skills
  • Good people skills, patient, understanding and articulate
  • Quite simply, the mainstay of our office

And …

  • Current World Champ in office tidying; hates clutter; she's not the ideal "text buddy" though - takes days to reply!!
 

  
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