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Our People

At HCMS, we pride ourselves on having a great team. Our consultants have extensive experience gained across many industries. Together, our expertise covers all major areas, including strategy development, business process improvement, technology implementation and more. Key members of our team are:

Our leaders are supported by experienced and energetic consultants who enjoy working in challenging and fast-paced business environments.

Trevor Vas - CEO & Principal Consultant

Trevor has extensive experience in the Recruitment, Information Technology and Finance industries. His ability to innovate within industries and move to the top of each field has been achieved by first setting a vision, and then delivering the vision with precision, energy, passion, creativity and most of all, persistence.

Trevor established Human Capital Management Solutions (HCMS) in 2000, Insidejob in 2005 and the Australasian Talent Conference (ATC) in 2007. HCMS realised a vision to create a unique and independent consulting business to revolutionise recruitment practices. Insidejob recruits corporate recruitment professionals and provides unique capability-based recruiter assessments and training programs. The ATC offers industry-leading thinking to assist HCMS and other organisations provide creative solutions.

Trevor is well on the way to achieving this vision having successfully sold and delivered major projects to corporations such as Qantas, Telstra, BHP Billiton, Coles Myer, Westpac, Suncorp, NZ Post, Air New Zealand, Vodafone and others. To date the ATC has held five successful conferences, with a following of over 1500 HR and Talent Executives in Australasia and we're delighted to be hosting an additional annual Social Media Conference.

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Horace Chai - Finance Director

Horace Chai is an accomplished professional and brings over 20 years financial experience. His skills cover project modeling, business analysis and financial management.

Before joining HCMS, Horace was the CEO of TCTC. This national consortium was formed to manage workforce redeployment for large companies undertaking major restructuring. Between 1997 and 2004, Horace and his team successfully transitioned over 14,500 redundant employees from Telstra. Before TCTC, Horace was the Chief Financial Officer of a national IT recruitment company. He is also an experienced auditor, having worked in both the UK and Australia.

Horace holds a Business Degree, majoring in accounting and is a fellow of CPA Australia. 

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Martin Warren - Principal Consultant

Martin leads our InsideJob division. He is an experienced recruitment consultant and a recognised trainer in the Recruitment Industry. Martin's training programs are in-demand across the Asia Pacific where he has trained recruitment teams in Australia, Singapore, Vietnam and New Zealand.

Martin provides tailored training courses to clients across many sectors including: Information Technology, Engineering, Mining & Resources, Energy, Telecommunications, Financial Services and Manufacturing.

Martin is known for his passion for recruitment and his ability to exceed expectations. He consistently builds trusted advisor relationships with clients and candidates.

Jenni Nelson - Principal Consultant

Jennifer is a senior recruitment professional having operated in the industry since 1989.  Her core focus has been in recruiting for the IT industry both within agency and corporate environments.  This includes establishing the internal IT recruitment function for Computershare, a global financial services organisation.

Jennifer is a strategic thinker with strong communication and relationship management skills.  She brings her extensive knowledge and experience to the Insidejob Corporate Recruitment Training program providing key learning's in the areas of job definition, candidate care, candidate sourcing strategies and screening for cultural fit.

Jennifer has a Bachelor of Arts with Honours (English Literature) from Monash University.

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David Als - Consultant

David has been working in recruitment for almost a decade, specialising in employer branding in both the undergraduate and experienced-hire space.

Moving to Australia from London in 2001 David worked for Shell as the Marketing Manager for Recruitment for which he received several accolades. He has also worked at Macquarie Group Limited managing their Graduate Recruitment Program, and consolidating their brand across the different business groups and global regions.

At HCMS David's key focus is to develop pipelines of current and future talent through various sourcing and segmenting techniques. He is extremely well versed in the application of innovative engagement methodologies to engage and enthuse potential candidates.

David has spoken at various conferences including the Marcus Evans War for Talent seminars, various Australian Association of Graduate Employers (AAGE) conferences and the Australasian Talent Conference.

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