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Tell us about your career journey to date

I graduated in Marine Biology from Portsmouth University in 2021 in Biomedical Science. I saw the role on a graduate job board and was drawn to apply as I was interested in healthcare and the NHS.

I love what I do, more than I thought I might of, as you get to see and benefit from the results of your hard work.

What have you enjoyed in particular?

I enjoyed winning a team building trip away in Norway, which was absolutely stunning and lots of fun, being invited to Directors’ lunch for achieving the fast growth and the company day out at the polo.

Personally, I’ve enjoyed building and growing my desk and forging relationships with customers over the last 18 months. I love speaking regularly with my clients and candidates, checking in with them and seeing how I can best help them, now and in the months ahead.

Your favourite thing at Globe?

My favourite thing is my team, there isn’t a day that goes my when I don’t laugh.

How would you sum up working at Globe?

Appreciative of staff, solutions focused and everyone is hard working.

Dana works as a Recruitment Consultant in the Occupational Therapy Team, and is responsible for securing jobs for occupational therapists at NHS hospitals and private healthcare clients.

A day in the life of Dana

I live in South West London and work in the office in central London, near Chancery Lane, five days a week. For me, a typical day would be:

7:30am - Get up, have breakfast, get ready and leave for work

8:05am - Catch the tube towards central London and catch up on whatever I am reading (at the moment I’m halfway through Death and The Penguin by Andrey Kurkov)

8:40am - Get to the office early to have time to make a cup of tea and catch up with my team

9:00am – 1:30pm - Work in the office, doing tasks such as:

• Attending team meetings
• Meeting the locums I am helping find a placement
• Keeping in contact with clients to be updated on their staffing needs
• Contract management activities

1:30pm – 2:30pm - Grab lunch around Leather Lane market with my colleagues or my friends that work in nearby offices

2:30pm – 5:30pm - Go back to the office, and continue doing tasks like:

• Sourcing new potential Occupational Therapists and reaching out to them to extend my services to help them find new jobs and speak with my existing locums about new opportunities
• Checking in with the placed locums to make sure they are happy and help plan what is next in their career

5:30pm - Clock out and get the tube back to my local station

6:30pm - Arrive home and unwind by going to the gym or meeting my friends for dinner

Three key skills that I feel are at the root of my success are adaptability, being friendly and a strong team member. Recruitment is dynamic, so adaptability and agility are important. Every day I am speaking with clients and locums, building relationship to help understand their needs to enable successful placements. As a team we work closely together to achieve our collective goals, support each other and share achievements.