Thomas Preece
Talent Acquisition Specialist at Independent Talent Acquisition Specialist
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Preece is a results-driven Talent Acquisition Specialist with 13 years of experience building high-impact teams across sectors from his base in Birmingham. After earning an MBA from London Business School, he has combined strategic recruitment methodologies with data-driven sourcing to deliver tailored hiring solutions for clients and internal stakeholders. He further honed executive sourcing skills at Egon Zehnder before launching his independent practice in 2023, focusing on candidate experience and organizational alignment. Comfortable with advanced recruitment tools and analytics, he translates market insights into actionable hiring strategies that reduce time-to-hire and improve quality of hire. An unusual blend for a recruiter, he has hands-on technical contribution experience—enhancing DuckDuckGo Instant Answers integrations—which gives him extra fluency when engaging technical talent. He is passionate about connecting ambitious professionals with roles that enable mutual growth and measurable business impact.
13 years of coding experience
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at London Business School
Github Skills (9)
apim10
javascript10
api10
perl10
instantsearch9
questions-and-answers9
duckduckgo9
json9
handlebars4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice
Apr 2013 - Aug 2013
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on JavaScript (JSON) APIs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on enhancing the game information functionality within the DuckDuckGo Instant Answers. Their commits involved modifying Perl and JavaScript code to integrate game data from external APIs like thefreegamesdb and thegamesdb. The changes include adjusting API URLs, modifying text display, updating content cutoff limits, and adapting the display format to improve user experience. Furthermore, the user addressed description and domain issues.
apijsjavascriptduckduckgoinstant-answers
thomaspreece/PHPCheckMate
Feb 2015 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 pushes in 7 years 7 months
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