May 2022 – Apr 2023 · 11 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

• Series A > Series B
• Built a Talent function from scratch, fundamentally achieving a specific goal across a specific timeframe. Initially reporting to the Head of People and then the VP of Operations who relied on me to deliver the following:
• Increasingly specialised candidates
• Enhanced automation
• Relevant and accurate reporting
• Minimal reliance on agency support
• Great candidate experience
• Balancing finding the right candidate, in the right timeframe with the right value-add to the business
• Experience:
• Hired 30+ for Hofy across Tech/IT, Product, Design and other hard to fill roles (Perm and Contract)
• Managed and led the entire recruitment lifecycle for all hires; Role benchmarking to handling offer calls/negotiations and sending out offers
• Engaged weekly with various stakeholders (Team Leads, Managers, HoD's and VPs/Directors) to discuss updates/feedback and methods to improve hiring efficiencies (data-driven reporting)
• Coaching on the importance of EVP and supported Employer Branding
• Ownership of Talent Tech stack
• Notable achievements:
• Led D&I initiatives that impacted metrics across Engineering and Product teams
• Tech Stack: Greenhouse, TeamTailor, HiBob, Notion, Slack, G-Suite, Codility

Dec 2021 – May 2022 · 5 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

• Series A
• Reporting to the CEO, I was tasked with the following:
• Build, run and scale the Talent function at Percent API
• Wrote and presented business cases for all Talent processes to Exec Leadership for sign-off
• Led a team of 2; Allocated responsibilities, set metrics and conducted weekly training
• Engaged weekly with various stakeholders (CEO, COO, Engineering Manager, Head of Architecture and Team Leads) to review and improve Talent function as a whole
• Automation, reporting and analytics, team performance and training, candidate experience and
• interview process
• Planned and led initiatives that contributed positively towards Percents employer brand (eg: Glassdoor reviews and actions)
• Conducted interviews for Senior/Exec level positions (screening, offer negotiations)
• Tech Stack: TeamTailor, Notion, Slack, G-Suite

Sep 2021 – May 2022 · 8 mos · United Kingdom · Remote

• I was placed with various clients as a part of their internal team:
• Percent API: Talent Acquisition Lead
• Talenthouse: Talent Acquisition Lead
• Spryker Systems: Senior Sourcing Specialist
• Visional Global: Senior Sourcing Specialist
• SeedLegals: Senior Sourcing Specialist

Sep 2021 – Dec 2021 · 3 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

• Reporting to the Managing Director and Head of HR, I joined to maintain and scale the current Talent function throughout a high-growth period; working across Tech, Product, Design and Exec roles
• Led the recruitment function, a team of 2 and conducted interviews for Senior and Exec level roles
• Weekly reporting on team performance (data-driven reporting), hiring targets and process efficiencies/improvements
• Tech stack: Workable, Notion, Slack, GSuite

Sep 2020 – Aug 2021 · 11 mos · Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

• Talent Advisors are the vanguard’s of OfferZen’s user experience, I help guide hundreds of people in the Tech community across South Africa to reach their career goals.
• Given the nuance of the role, it is constantly morphing and changing to meet the needs of our users as well as challenges of a company scaling at an accelerated pace.
• Responsibilities:
• Salaries, Market Insights, and Quality Control:
• I analyse and interpret market data alongside my industry experience to advise the tech community in deciding on a salary to expect on OfferZen. Moreover, I work closely with hundreds of users to write and compile carefully considered high-quality profiles, ready to be displayed on our live candidate list on a weekly basis. As a Talent Advisor, our team maintains OfferZen’s quality standards, ensuring candidates verify their skills and are accurately represented.
• Coaching and Service:
• I’m available to communicate with users, guiding them through their OfferZen experience. This includes assisting with company fact-finding/info gathering on hiring insights as well as sharing personalised advice on offers, counter-offers, interviews, contract advice and tips for confidence boosting.
• Furthermore, I provide interview preparation advice ranging from tailoring responses to interview messages, communication etiquette as well as advising on contract/labour market legalities.
• Talent Team culture:
• As mentioned before, the role is still quite nascent. Being the only role in South Africa at this time, I contribute tremendously to the ideological and systems development of the role. Designing and compiling work on interviews, culture and the curated copy/communication for users - rooted in user research.

Sep 2018 – Sep 2020 · 2 yrs · Cape Town Area, South Africa

• IT | Finance | Commercial | Retail | Logistics | Digital | Tech
• Responsible for attracting clients as well as candidates and matching these candidates to
• temporary or permanent positions with client companies.
• Approach new clients; work with new and existing client companies and building relationships in order to gain a better understanding of their recruitment needs and
• requirements.
• Attract candidates by drafting and advertising job descriptions on a range of media, as well
• as by networking, headhunting and through referrals.
• Screen candidates, interview them, do background checks and finally match them to their
• clients.
• Provide a vital link between clients and candidates providing advice to both clients and
• candidates on salary levels, training requirements and career opportunities.

Jan 2015 – Aug 2018 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Cape Town Area, South Africa · On-site

• Full recruitment cycle for countries in the Middle East (United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia)