Tom Waddell
Freelance Recruitment & Talent Acquisition Consultant at Tom Waddell Consultancy
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Waddell is a freelance Recruitment & Talent Acquisition Consultant with four decades of cross-sector experience and a decade focused on hands-on recruitment leadership and turnaround projects. He builds and embeds high-performing recruitment teams, optimises ATS and workflows, and delivers everything from high-volume hires to specialist clinical and executive appointments. Recent work includes leading redundancy and employability programmes, rebuilding in-house recruitment functions for local government, and delivering 60+ hires in six months for a care group while owning DBS and safer recruitment compliance. Known for cutting time-to-hire and agency spend, he combines commercial P&L discipline from senior roles with practical candidate coaching and employer-facing events that deliver immediate placements. Based in England, he often operates via retained partnerships (e.g., Rainbow HR) and brings a rare blend of public-sector programme delivery and private-sector growth experience.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) National Road Haulage Operations, Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) National Road Haulage Operations at Central College of CommerceCity and Guilds Electrical and Electronic Engineering, City and Guilds Electrical and Electronic Engineering at North Glasgow College (Springburn College of Engineering)Certificate, Certificate at Member of the Chartered Management Institute (MCMI) 2011
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Github Skills (74)
continuation10
structural-equality10
handlers10
immutable-collections10
functor10
monad-transformers10
polymorphism10
lazy-evaluation10
curry10
language-extensions10
semigroup10
language-ext10
declarative-programming10
monads10
csharp10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
twaddell/MessagePack.LanguageExt
Oct 2019 - Nov 2024
Support for LanguageExt types to MessagePack C#
Contributions:5 releases, 15 PRs, 19 pushes in 5 years 1 month
dotnetlanguageextmessagepackc-sharpcsharp
twaddell/Payment-providers
Jul 2017 - Aug 2019
Payment gateways for Tea Commerce
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
paymentspayment-gatewayscommerceadyenpayment-gateway
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