Gerard Noakes

Recruiter

Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan11 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

9 years of 360 recruitment experience
Expert in hiring for technical roles
Strong stakeholder engagement skills

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Technical Recruiter specializing in Cloud Computing and E-commerce industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (oci)RecruitingTechnical RecruitingPeople Management

Other Skills

Business DevelopmentChange ManagementCoachingConsultingData AnalysisEvent ManagementEvent PlanningForeign LanguagesFull-life Cycle RecruitingGlobal Talent AcquisitionJapanesePublic SpeakingReport WritingResearchSocial Media

About

Thanks for stopping by! I'm Gerard and I hire technical people for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure here in Tokyo. Previously at Mercari and Indeed. I have 9 years of 360 recruitment experience and pride myself with providing candidates and hiring stakeholders with the best possible experience as a talent partner (take a look at my recommendations to see more!) I have hired from junior to VP level, bringing engineering talent to Tokyo from far-flung corners of the globe as well as sourcing in the local market and have experience leading a team of APAC recruiters across Tokyo and Singapore in the past. As a candidate, even if you aren't considering a change in positions right now, feel free to ping me, I would love to chat. If you are looking to expand your recruitment capabilities and feel like I could be a good fit to help do that, reach out too! I love working with business leaders to craft recruitment strategies to identify and hire talented people. 日本語でも大丈夫です！

Experience

Oracle japan 日本オラクル

Principal Talent Advisor

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Tokyo, Japan · Hybrid

Leading recruitment for a range of key Oracle Cloud projects across the APAC region including the Japanese Sovereign Cloud, Singaporean government cloud and more.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)RecruitingStakeholder Engagement

Mercari, inc.

Senior Technical Recruiter

Jun 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos · Tokyo, Japan · Hybrid

Helped finding awesome people for the continued expansion of Japan's first Unicorn.
Delivered key hires from IC1 up to Senior Director level in areas including:
Platform engineering e.g. observability, SRE, database teams and more
Front End engineering
Product and Platform Engineering management
QA engineering - manual and automation testing

Technical RecruitingConsultingPeople Management

Indeed.com

4 roles

Team Lead - Software Engineering Recruitment

Promoted

Apr 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

Led a team of amazing recruiters across Tokyo and Singapore, hiring software engineers of different shapes and sizes for awesome product teams. Double hatted as player/manager, carrying 50% IC target while trying to grow as a manager and help my team deliver without worrying about unnecessary things.

People ManagementTechnical Recruiting

Senior Technical Recruiter

Jan 2022 – Mar 2022 · 2 mos

Technical Recruiter II

Jan 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

Technical Recruiter

Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr

Morgan mckinley

Recruitment Consultant

Aug 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Tokyo, Japan

Here I specialised in software development and application support roles across various industries including financial services, fintech, and technology firms.
As part of the IT team at Morgan McKinley, worked to build long-lasting relationships with clients and candidates alike in the Tokyo area across a range of specialisations including development and infrastructure, as well as IT management.
Achievements:
2017 - 106% of target billings, no.2 in IT team in Tokyo
2018 - Q3 IT team top biller

Japan exchange and teaching program(me) (jet)

ALT

Jul 2012 – Jul 2016 · 4 yrs · Hakusan-shi, Ishikawa-ken, Japan

Selected to participate as the only non-Japanese English teacher at two public junior high schools as a member of one of Japan’s largest cultural exchange programs (JET), run by three Japanese government ministries.
Coached 1st place student to the Ishikawa prefectural speech contest who then went on to the all Japan English speech contest finals.
Organised and executed 24 social events in 2 years, with an average attendance of 60 people.
Helped raise over 100,000JPY in funds for a number of charities across Japan.