Judges

Former Managing Director and Chairman of Barkers in Scotland . Was responsible for taking the Scottish business from zero to the No 1 market leading , award winning agency .

Moved upstairs to Chairman in 2004 and left the company at the end of 2006 .

Alan heads up Blackad Ltd – a specialist web copywriting consultancy. Blackad’s clients include Vodafone, Tesco Direct, Standard Life, AXA and RBS Group.

Shona’s career to date has been with several of the top agencies in Scotland, specialising in recruitment advertising for both public and private sector clients. Now working client side as Recruitment Campaign Manager for Standard Life she is involved in developing direct hire strategies and promoting the organisation’s employer brand.

Anne- Marie is the Organisational Development Manager for Falkirk Council. Anne-Marie has management responsibility for a number of HR functions including recruitment advertising for the Council as a whole

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Neil Harding

With a career spanning 14 years, Pascal Holt has worked for some of the UK’s top recruitment advertising agencies and has notched up over 50 national creative awards along the way. In 2007 Pascal decided to go it alone and launched BRANDSavvy Limited, a branding agency specialising in building big brands with small budgets.

Jim has been a main board member of Euro RSCG Riley for 5 years and his experience includes running the network of regional agencies. He has significant expertise across the breadth of recruitment marketing communications and has recently led award-winning innovations in the digital world and across the social web. Jim recently took responsibility for the education marketing offer across a number of Euro RSCG companies and is settling into the MD role at Euro RSCG Heist. He continues to maintain a strong interest in the evolving recruitment market.

An interesting, warm, friendly, knowledgeable and insightful character who has got nine years experience of building and running her own businesses, plus five years of building other people’s. Building teams, developing business, opening offices and juggling the demands of staff, clients, marketing, IT, sales, administration, finance, light bulb-changing etc. were once Rebecca’s daily activities.

Now, Rebecca is an exceptionally effective coach, mentor and trainer to management and executive teams/individuals.

Prior to that, Rebecca worked her way very rapidly with an international recruitment company.

Before that, Rebecca ran the recruitment campaign for British Rail in York to recruit over 30 design engineers and then became their Communications Manager.

Rebecca received her education at York University and Altrincham Grammar School for Girls.


How can she help us?

Having studied NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) since 2006, Rebecca is now a fully qualified Master Practitioner. After dispensing of her businesses, she now focuses entirely on coaching, training and mentoring managers, senior managers and executives.

Put simply, Rebecca opens minds so that people and teams can excel.

Rebecca changes people’s perception of their current reality and thus changes their behaviours, attitudes and abilities so that they can achieve much, much more than they ever thought they could.


What Are The Results?

Rebecca’s clients have commented on how much more focused they are, how much more motivated they are, how much more relaxed they are and how much easier they find it to achieve their goals or simply manage their daily work life. Communication improves and productivity increases and so do profits as a result.


Who are Rebecca’s Clients?

Large law firms, the NHS, entrepreneurial businesses, a boutique hotel chain, manufacturing, construction, retail, property, recruitment, charities, investment management and various service sector industries.