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Global Talent Search Partner Via (Join Talent)
MicrosoftGlobal Talent Search Partner Via (Join Talent)
Aug. 2024 - May. 2025Responsible for candidate sourcing as part of a project to scale-up Software Development Centres in the East European region. Talent Identification: Sourcing Principal Software Engineers and Software Engineering Managers through job boards, social media platforms, and internal databases. Market Research: Analysing industry trends, competitor hiring practices, and talent availability to refine sourcing strategies. Resume Screening: Reviewing resumes and profiles to assess candidates’ skills, experience, and suitability for the role. Building Talent Pipelines: Maintaining a pool of pre-qualified candidates for hiring needs. Collaboration: Working closely with recruiters and hiring managers to understand job requirements and refine sourcing strategies.
Talent Search Partner
Join TalentTalent Search Partner
Aug. 2024 - May. 2025
 Technology & Digital Talent Acquisition Partner: South Africa – Africa Regions - International
Standard Bank Group Technology & Digital Talent Acquisition Partner: South Africa – Africa Regions - International
May. 2023Leading the Talent Acquisition strategy and process for the Technology & Digital portfolio in Corporate Investment Banking
Technical  Recruiter - EMEA Emerging Markets
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Technical Recruiter - EMEA Emerging Markets
Dec. 2021 - Oct. 2022Recruiting tech, consulting and sales talent for AWS’ emerging markets including Europe, Dubai and South Africa. Responsibilities: • Partner with hiring managers to understand hiring needs, build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches and manage candidate and hiring manager expectations. • Build and maintain a network of candidates through pro-active research and on-going relationship management • Candidate talent search and engagement, as well as drive talent acquisition process improvement and strategy development • Recommend strategies related to recruitment of talent that will contribute to the long-range growth of departments headcount. • Participate in special projects, events and recruiting initiatives to attract and source talent. • Uses external talent pipeline and trend data to have productive discussions about sourcing opportunities and hiring process improvements Notable contributions/ Achievements: • July 2022 Recruiter Champion – Recognised for providing an excellent candidate experience
Group IT Recruiter - Johannesburg and San Francisco
Universal Healthcare (Pty) Ltd.Group IT Recruiter - Johannesburg and San Francisco
Sep. 2018 - Nov. 2021Johannesburg Area, South AfricaRecruitment of tech and healthcare professionals across 2 subsidiaries, the PMO, and a specialist new product development team. Talent Acquisition for the South African office, and the international office in San Francisco which functions as a health-tech start up • Conduct talent attraction and acquisition functions including: advertising, networking and headhunting • Identify qualified candidates through various sourcing channels and talent pools • Maintain relationships with line management, serve as a source of the recruitment strategy, advice and consultation for open vacancies • Develop and update job descriptions alongside Line Managers • Maintain up-to-date recruitment plan in order to prioritize staffing needs. Collaborate with Line Managers to identify future hiring needs • Manage the end to end recruitment process from requisition request through to placement Notable contributions/ Achievements: • Reduced the use of recruitment agencies to less than 30% for IT recruitment in the 2019 and 2020 financial year • Led the enhancement of the company’s current career page, which saw an exponential increase in applications and growth in the talent pool for recurring vacancies. Managed the initial design of the new career page as part of an initiative to overhaul the company website. • Developed reports to map-out the success of the different recruitment channels, and breakdown the cost of recruitment between agency hires and the channels used internally. • Implemented standardized technical assessments for IT roles
Project Resource Manager
GoldenRule (Pty) LtdProject Resource Manager
Jun. 2016 - Sep. 2018Johannesburg Area, South AfricaGolden Rule offers labor brokering, bulk & managed recruitment services for IT resources. My role involved providing candidates according to client requirements. Notable Placements:  Head of Architecture  Azure Cloud Specialist  Business Architect, Digital Architect Achievements  Won consultant of the month 3 months in a row  Highest billing for a single placement: R312 624  Highest billing for multiple placements in a single month: R562 608
Recruitment Consultant - IT
Intuate GroupRecruitment Consultant - IT
Jun. 2014 - May. 2016Johannesburg Area, South AfricaIntuate is a technology company in the contact center and cloud computing sector. The company also has a recruitment division as a separate business unit. My role as a recruitment consultant involved doing both internal and external recruitment. Focus areas include Project Management, Business Analysis and Software Development
Recruitment consultant
Communicate PersonnelRecruitment consultant
Nov. 2013 - May. 2014
Sales Executive
Ndlela technonogiesSales Executive
Mar. 2013 - Oct. 2013Pretoria Area, South Africa
Sales Support and Analyst
Hewlett-PackardSales Support and Analyst
Jan. 2011 - Feb. 2013Johannesburg Area, South Africa

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