Anna Odendal

HR Manager / Business Partner / Consultant
Cape Town, ZA

About

Extensive experience in Human Resources in a variety of industries (financial, retail, FMCG, public sector, construction, education, information & communications technology, mining & resources), in the following roles: • HR Consulting • HR Project Management • HR Business Partner / HR Manager • Talent Management • Management of Talent Acquisition and Selection Functions • Talent Acquisition and Leadership Assessments (using a variety of assessment tools from various test and assessment developers such as Bioss • The development of talent management capacity in organisations, covering the following areas: - Organisational structures and roles - Performance management - Reward systems - Talent reviews and succession planning - Talent acquisition and selection This involves the design and implementation of processes, policies and methodologies; implementation roll-out – change management and training; capacity building; and coaching. • Assessments - Recruitment and selection assessments (psychometric and behavioural / competency based assessments – simulations and assessment centres) - Leadership/executive assessments including development centres - Design of simulations and development centres

Work Experience

Regional and Divisional HR Manager / Assistant Manager: Succession Planning

Santambank
1984 - 1990
South Africa

Regional and Divisional HR Manager (responsible for three regions) Assistant Manager: Succession Planning at Santambank, now called Bankfin, part of the ABSA / Barclays Group

Group Staffing Manager

United Bank
1990 - 1991
South Africa

Group Staffing Manager at United Bank, now part of the ABSA / Barclays Group

Staffing Manager

Barclays Africa Group Limited (formerly ABSA Group Limited)
1991 - 1992
South Africa

Staffing Manager at South African subsidiary of Barclays Bank Plc., a financial services company

Senior Consultant: Strategic Staffing / Executive Development

Barclays Africa Group Limited (formerly ABSA Group Limited)
Feb 1992 - Sep 2000
South Africa

Senior Consultant at one of the largest financial services groups in South Africa

Managing Owner / Principal Consultant

Centre for Assessment and Development (CAD)
Mar 2005 - Present
South Africa

Managing Owner of CAD, an HR Consulting Business (sole proprietor trading as Centre for assessment and development)

Education

BA, Psychology and History

University of Stellenbosch
Present - 1981

BA Honours, Psychology

University of Stellenbosch
Present - 1982

Masters in Counselling Psychology

University of Johannesburg (UJ)
Present - 1985

Previously known as Rand Afrikaans University – RAU

Masters in Commerce (MCOM in Business Management) - equivalent to MBA

University of Johannesburg (UJ)
Present - 1993

Previously known as Rand Afrikaans University – RAU

Languages

English - Advanced

Skills

Recruitment / Human Resourcing

Sectors

Administration