Oluwatosin Anifowose

Co-Founder

Munich, Bavaria, Germany8 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Experienced Technical Recruiter with a data-driven approach.
  • Founder of the Dear Candidate initiative empowering job seekers.
  • Proven track record in managing talent acquisition processes.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Technical Recruiter with expertise in talent acquisition and project management across various industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical RecruitingTalent ManagementBusiness OwnershipManagement

Other Skills

Stakeholder ManagementData AnalysisEarly Stage VenturesNon-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)RecruitingFeedbackData VisualizationMicrosoft ExcelStatistical Data AnalysisProject ManagementAgile MethodologiesHuman ResourcesResearchScrumLean Six Sigma

About

Order Dear Candidate (Navigating the highs and the lows of the Job search Journey) here: Amazon: https://a.co/d/07WH5hLt (Paperback and kindle) Selar: https://selar.com/5xel25o660 (Reach out directly to discuss sponsorship and bulk orders) About Me With years of experience in talent acquisition and operations/project management, I am a data-driven and candidate-centric Technical Recruiter at Amazon, supporting the EU region. I hold a PSM1 certification from Scrum.org and have skills in problem-solving, human resources, and team leadership. I am also passionate about empowering people through knowledge, which is why I created and host the Dear Candidate initiative, a podcast and website that provides job seekers with insights, tips, and strategies for career success. I believe in continuous improvement and seek opportunities to solve problems and add value. You can follow me on TikTok @dear.candidate and check out my website www.dearcandidate.org. Peace and God's speed ✌️

Experience

8 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Amazon

3 roles

Technical Talent Acqusition

Promoted

Sep 2025Present · 8 mos

  • Have you ever ordered a product from Amazon and been amazed at how fast you receive it? Every day, Amazon engineers are relentlessly working to decrease the time between clicking and delivery for our customers. The Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) organization owns all of the software and infrastructure that powers Amazon’s world-class fulfillment centers, including the fundamental data and services that drive our catalog and inventory systems. AFT builds and operates the software, hardware, and processes that run the global network of fulfillment centers. These systems underlie everything we do – tens of millions of items in the catalog, hundreds of millions of items of inventory, and billions of transactions each year!
Technical RecruitingStakeholder ManagementTalent ManagementData Analysis

Technical and Non-Technical Talent Acquisition (EMEA)

Feb 2025Aug 2025 · 6 mos

  • Operations Technology Solutions (OTS), an organization within Amazon designed to deliver IT support in person or remotely to employees working in Amazon's operations, such as those in Fulfillment Centers (FCs) and other sites involved in shipping packages to customers. OTS is made up of various teams, including the centralized Service Desk that provides remote IT support, as well as other teams like Local IT, Command Center, Infrastructure Engineering, and more. The mission of OTS is to position the organization as a talent destination for customer-obsessed innovators to reinvent technology at groundbreaking speed and scale to enable Amazon's partners and customers.

Technical Talent Acquisition

Jul 2022Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Supporting as primary recruiting point of contact for the delivery of all EMEA based hiring for 3 major business lanes within the Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics organisation. The Business lanes; World Wide Design Engineering, Maintenance and Sustainable Packaging and Amazon Mechatronics.

Dear candidate

Founder

Jan 2021Present · 5 yrs 4 mos · Munich, Bavaria, Germany

  • Educating and demystifying the job search journey for job seekers and creating an avenue for knowledge sharing.
Business OwnershipEarly Stage VenturesNon-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)Management

Delivery hero

2 roles

Technical Talent Acqusition (Senior Recruiter, Berlin Germany)

Promoted

Jul 2020Jun 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Internal Designation: Senior Technical Recruiter
  • Delivery Hero is building the next-generation global on-demand delivery platform. We have grown rapidly from inception in 2011 to become the world's largest food-ordering network and we’re now innovating and creating new verticals such as groceries, pharmacies, flowers, and other convenience articles in multiple markets.

Technical Talent Acqusition (Specialist Recruiter, Berlin Germany)

Aug 2019Jul 2020 · 11 mos

  • Internal Designation: Specialist,Technical Recruiter
  • Accomplishments
  • Supported 4 major engineering teams and served as the only recruiter for one of the business-critical engineering teams in the company.
  • Helped one of the teams hit their hiring OKR by over 100% within my first 3 months of joining the team by helping to overhaul the entire team recruitment process.
  • Efficiently and single-handedly supported about 15 major stakeholders and co-facilitated 5 sessions of internal training for new tech interviewers company-wide.
  • Created a documentation process for my internal team in confluence to solve one of the team's pain points. About 80% of the team were appreciative of this initiative. (% was implicitly deduced from the opinions that were expressed in the presentation meeting).
  • Proactively re-worded some of our rejection emails to positively improve the candidate experience and offered the templates to the team in charge of this process. 100% of the tech recruiters utilized this template to reject candidates after the tech stages. (% was deduced from the feedback of the team).

Talent.io

Technical Talent Acquisition (Recruiter, Germany wide)

Jul 2018Jul 2019 · 1 yr · Berlin Metropolitan Area

  • Accomplishments
  • Onboarded 556 high fit candidates to the platform, this was achieved through active sourcing (on Linkedin majorly) and the organic pipeline.
  • These 556 high fit candidates were approached by companies on the platform which aggregated the sum of accepted Job requests to 896.
  • About 37 of these resulted in deals (deals here mean an offer was extended and it was accepted by the candidate).
  • Successfully managed the candidate review process to ensure that all candidates presented by the recruitment team on the platform were done timely and according to the standard that had been put in place.
  • My Hire portfolio included but were not limited to CTO's, Software Engineers (all job families/tech stack), Product managers, Agile coaches, Data scientists & machine learning engineers and UI/UX designers.
  • Co-organised a tech workshop with 'Women who code Berlin' on behalf of the company.
  • talent.io is the 1st European selective recruitment platform for software engineers. It is the simplest and fastest way to find great jobs with innovative companies.

Bookingkit

2 roles

Technical Intern (Manual QA Tester / Product management support)

May 2018Jun 2018 · 1 mo · Berlin Area, Germany

  • QA ( Frontend Manual tester).
  • Mobile App Project management.
  • Proofreading and text corrections.
  • Preparing and writing of release notes (at the end of each release cycle).
  • Exchanging of correspondence with the translation company (to clarify the contextual meanings of strings).

Operations Intern ( Salesforce)

Apr 2018Apr 2018 · 0 mo · Berlin Area, Germany

  • Salesforce Administration ( Reports and dashboard creations e.t.c).

Wintershall - shaping the future

Geoscience Intern (Summer internship)

Aug 2015Sep 2015 · 1 mo · Greater Kassel Area

  • Geoscience Intern in the New Exploration Opportunities (New Business Ventures) Department.

Stellarvera development company limited

Project and Operations Executive

Sep 2013Sep 2014 · 1 yr · Ibadan, Nigeria

  • Internal Designation: Executive Assistant to the CEO
  • Responsible for Project/Operations Management, HR & Recruitment related topics.
  • Accomplishments
  • Supported a wide range of real estate projects, the biggest of which was the Ventura mall project. The Ventura Mall is a family entertainment centre that was valued at 23million euros, it consists of 4 floors and a fully fitted games arcade with sophisticated games brought in from outside of Nigeria.
  • Responsible for about 65% of the overall set-up and completion of the games
  • arcade.
  • Recruited and trained a team of 5 personnel who were responsible for the day to day running of the games arcade.
  • Closely worked with the CEO and other c-level executives to execute projects.
  • Responsible for all other executive duties related to smooth running and operations
  • of the company.

School for startups ltd.

2 roles

Project Assistant

Nov 2012Jun 2013 · 7 mos · Park view estate, Ikoyi Lagos

Project Support (Data Entry)

Jul 2012Aug 2012 · 1 mo · Park view Ikoyi Lagos.

Etteh aro and partners

Project Assistant -Geoscience

Jun 2009Sep 2009 · 3 mos · Ibadan, Oyo state.

Education

ESMT Berlin

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Sep 2023Sep 2025

University of Bremen

Master's degree — Marine Geoscience

Jan 2014Jan 2017

University of Ibadan

Bachelor of Science (BSc) — Geology/Earth Science

Jan 2006Jan 2010

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