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Pat B.

Recruitment Marketing Advisor

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Top advice

"Your wellbeing is more important than your job."

Career path

University of Nottingham

Zoology

From Aug 2009 to Jun 2014

HMRC

Recruitment Marketing Advisor

From Feb 2020 to Present

HMRC

Recruiter

From Apr 2017 to Jan 2020

Salt

Recruitment Consultant

From Nov 2015 to Apr 2017

Hyper Recruitment Solutions

Recruitment Consultant

From Jul 2014 to Nov 2015

About Pat B.

Key experience

I went straight from searching for jobs, into helping people get jobs.

I studied zoology at university, then my first job was working in a recruitment agency, mostly recruiting scientists for the pharmaceutical industry. The company was owned by a former winner of BBC's The Apprentice. After 1 year I wanted to work in a larger company, and to help recruit a wider range of jobs. So I moved to a tech recruitment company, focus on software developers, business analysts and architects. A former colleague of mine joined HMRC's recruitment team, so I applied to join him. I was still recruiting for tech people, but only for HMRC rather than different clients. 2 years later I moved to HMRC's recruitment marketing team, to gain wider recruitment experience.

Current position

Recruitment Marketing Advisor

I help promote HMRC as an employer of choice, creating content to show people why they might like to work here.

Main motivation

Knowing that the people I recruit directly help the public.

Everyone who works for HMRC contributes to making sure that the right amount of tax is collected. This allows the UK to fund public services such as healthcare, education, emergency services and roads.

Top advice

Your wellbeing is more important than your job.

Your job is a way of making money to do things that you want to do with your life. But there are plenty of jobs out there that can also make you happy.