
Graduate recruiter awarded honorary fellowship
Paul Hanrahan, Talent Acquisition Manager for Enterprise Rent-A-Car, South Central and South Coast Region, has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Solent University today (Thursday 12 July)
Paul Hanrahan, Talent Acquisition Manager for Enterprise Rent-A-Car, South Central and South Coast Region, has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Solent University today (Thursday 12 July): "I feel honoured that the University values the work I do with them highly enough to recognise it in this way. My relationship with the university goes back over 20 years to when I was a student there myself; walking across the very same stage as those graduating today." Â
Paul graduated with a BA (Hons) Human Resource Management from Solent University in 1999 and joined Enterprise Rent-A-Car as a graduate management trainee the following spring. He worked his way up through the customer-facing operational side of the business and was successful as both an assistant manager and as a branch manager in a number of branches within the Dorset area. Â
After five and a half years, he made a sideways move into a more specialist role and joined the HR team based out of the regional head office in Winchester. Â
Since joining the HR team back in late 2005, he has spent time as an HR generalist and as a training and development specialist before moving into his current role of talent acquisition manager for the South Coast and Central region of the UK. Â
As the talent acquisition manager, Paul oversees the entire graduate recruitment and internship process, from attraction, through assessment and job offer to on-boarding and orientation. Â
Paul regularly delivers skills sessions, guest lectures and workshops to the students at Solent University. Â
"Without the academic learning and life experience that I received whilst studying at Solent, I would never have achieved the success that I have in my personal career and certainly wouldn’t be in a position to develop, coach and upskill others, as they begin their graduate careers or internships," Paul adds. Â
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