Viv is a director and a co-founder of Graduate Solutions Ltd. She has 12 years' experience within the investment banking industry. From 1997-2003 she headed up the campus recruitment function for Deutsche Bank (hiring some 800 graduates globally). Prior to this Viv ran campus recruitment for NatWest Markets, setting up their recruitment effort and building a team. She began her recruitment career at Swiss Bank (now UBS) in 1994.
Viv's particular expertise is in the design/set-up of campus recruitment programmes from scratch. She has an extensive network of contacts at banks and financial services organisations across the City and many in New York - and a wealth of knowledge of current campus recruitment practices globally. She set up and ran a recruitment initiative in India for Deutsche Bank, one of the first of its kind - and managed recruitment from 57 universities and business schools globally. She also has solid experience in the selection arena - designing competency frameworks, interview tools, assessment centres and delivering training to the business in best practice selection and marketing techniques (including diversity awareness).
She has a degree in Business Studies, a postgraduate diploma in Marketing and is Level A BPS accredited.
