Part time contractual senior recruiter
EXP Global
Total years of experience :25 years, 7 Months
Receiving and analysing resumes in line with open requirements. Inviting pre-selected candidates for phone interview. Interviewing and producing interview overview for hrbp & hiring managers/associates. Scheduling interviews for candidates with hiring managers/associates
Projects covered: Engineering projects of all kind - Mining, Structure, Industrial, Mechanical, Telecommunication, Civil, Electricity, Railroads, Environment, Energy, etc.
Level of candidates: Internships, juniors, intermediates, seniors, directors, Associates
Screen resumes, screen phone or face to face interview the candidates, plan skills interview for contract positions.
Once decided to go ahead for employment, make the verbal offer and manage the contract production according to agreed conditions.
When required, advise HR team of the visa need for new contract employees.
Positions covered: IT professional for some Montreal open positions as well as other Canadian locations when needed.
Candidates interviewed are coming from all over the world.
Level of resources: intermediate to senior level.
Being part of a start-up recruitment division for the Engineering world - Post jobs on company website and networking sites, search candidates via different networking tools and received resumes from candidates, phone screening interviews, in person interviews, preparing resumes to be presented to clients, following up with candidates and clients.
Business development and maintaining client relation, clarifying the client’s need to understand properly the need itself, the role that the new employee will play, the type of projects he/she will be involved in, understanding the company as much as possible to be a good company representative towards the candidates.
Sometimes, also, being proactive and presenting speculative candidacies to clients as the profile might be of interests for actual or near future needs.
Capgemini, Human Resources (07-2013-YTD)
Montreal, Quebec
Supervising Associate - Lead Recruiter - Montreal
Post jobs on Taleo, screen resumes, screen phone or face to face interview the candidates, plan skills interview, behavioural interview and closing interview.
Once decided to go ahead for employment, get senior management approval to hire, make the verbal offer and manage the offshore process team to get the electronic offer to candidate.
Advise project, on boarding and IT team of new joiner and start date.
When required, advise the Visa request team of the visa need for new employees.
Positions covered : IT professional for some Montreal open positions as well as pan-Canadian position.
Candidates interviewed are coming from all over the world.
Level of resources: intermediate to senior level.
Manage agencies contact and uses
CIMA+, Human Resources (09/2011 - YTD)
Montreal, Quebec
Senior Advisor Talent Acquisition
Job postings on company's site and job boards
Receiving and analysing resumes in line with open requirements. Inviting pre-selected candidates for face to face or phone/skype/videoconference interview. Interviewing and producing interview overview for hiring managers/associates. Scheduling interviews for candidates with hiring managers/associates
Counselling hiring managers/associates on salary to offer to maintain equity among teams.
Making verbal offers to candidates, negotiate conditions, start date, etc.
Principal contact for all agencies and head hunters
Projects covered: Engineering projects of all kind - Mining, Structure, Industrial, Mechanical, Telecommunication, Civil, Electricity, Railroads, Environment, Energy, etc.
Level of candidates: Internships, juniors, intermediates, seniors, directors, Associates
Self employed (Client: Rolls-Royce Canada), Human Resources (04/2011 - 09/2011)
Lachine, Quebec
Senior Recruiter
Post jobs on Taleo, screen resumes, screen phone interview the candidates, plan skills interview, behavioural interview and closing interview.
Once decided to go ahead for employment, get senior management approval to hire, make the verbal offer and manage the nearshore process team to get the electronic offer to candidate.
Advise shop floor team, of onboarding and HR IT team of new joiner and start date.
When required, advise the Visa request team of the visa need for new employees.
Positions covered: Inspectors, Fitters, Polishers, Schedulers, Welders, Processors and all other types of manual needed individuals as well as all other administrations and senior non-unionised resources
Level of resources: junior to senior level.
Manage agencies contact and uses
Self employed (Client: Accenture), Human Resources (05/2010 - 04/2011)
Montreal, Quebec
Senior Recruiter
Post jobs on Taleo, screen resumes, screen phone interview the candidates, plan skills interview, behavioural interview and closing interview.
Once decided to go ahead for employment, get senior management approval to hire, make the verbal offer and manage the offshore process team to get the electronic offer to candidate.
Advise project, on boarding and IT team of new joiner and start date.
When required, advise the Visa request team of the visa need for new employees.
Positions covered: IT professional for some Montreal open positions as well as pan-Canadian position.
Candidates interviewed are coming from all over the world.
Level of resources: intermediate to senior level.
Manage agencies contact and uses
Self employed (Client: TELUS Healthcare & Finance solutions), Human Resources (12/2007 - 31/12/2009)
Longueuil, Quebec
Senior Recruiter
Responsible for the recruitment of all the resources in Longueuil, Ottawa, Vancouver, Hamilton and aprox. 50% in Toronto and Calgary
Screen resumes, forward to managers, phone interview the candidates identified by managers, do first face to face interviews with candidates on managers requests, manage face to face interviews between candidates & managers.
Positions covered: Health care IT systems resources, Administrative, Sales, Marketing, IT Technical & development resources from intermediate to senior level
Managed all the agencies contact and uses
Close to 60 open positions at any given time
Sama-Dubai, Human Resources (06/2007 - 10/2007)
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Senior HR Manager
Sama-Dubai is the international real estate development arm or Dubai Holding.
Hired as a consultant to enlarge the human resources team to face a planned growth of 300% (going from 500 to 1 500 employees) in 12 months.
Responsible for staffing the real estate projects at the very top management positions. Senior developers, financial analysts, CFO, etc from all over the world for the Morocco, Turkey, China, Australia, Vietnam and one project in Dubai itself
Got the compensation and benefit team to produce salary scales for Morocco, Turkey, China, Australia and Vietnam.
Manage visits of candidates from the world in Dubai for final interviews. Organised their schedule for the stay duration and entertained them after hours (dinners, visits icon attractions, etc)
Dealt with international agencies as well as local ones. Went to approximately 45 down to 8 and made them agreed on standard terms (average 18%, max to 20% for very senior position)
Self employed (Client: Emertech), Human Resources (09/2005 - 05/2007)
Brossard, Quebec
Recruitment consultant
Was working two days per week
Help top management finding proper resources for their clients requests for permanent or contractual resources.
Sourced, screened, interviewed, presented candidates to management and clients.
Self employed (Client TELUS Heathcare & Finance Solutions), Human Resources (01/2006 - 05/2007)
Longueuil, Quebec
Senior Recruiter
Was working 3 days a week
Doing as indicated previously for the 12/2007 to 12/2009 description
Nexio Technologies, Human Resources (06/2004 - 09/2005)
Montreal, Quebec
Director (Recruitment & Deployment)
Nexio Technologies offers consultancy services in IT for local and USA based clients
Responsible for sourcing individuals for Nexio permanent positions as well as consultants in accordance with specific clients needs.
Nexio Technologies, Human Resources (03/2004 - 06/2004) - International assignment
Algiers, Algiers Algeria
Chief of Recruitment
Acted as a Recruitment Specialist for a Mobile Phone start-up company (Watanyia - Kuwait; Nedjma - Algeria)
Recruited an international recruiting team of 8.
Recruited local junior recruiters as well as admin support staff (12 people)
Managed the team.
Managed people from different cultures and religions
Managed all problematic relating to employees, logistics and localisations.
Put process in place. Got management on board with it.
Acted as contact with Algerian Ministry of Labour.
Acted as Human Resources Director when needed
Identified and coached my replacement during last month
Participated and oversaw in the recruitment of 465 individuals at all level and in all business sphere of the company
Nexio Technologies, Human Resources (09/2003 - 03/2004)
Montreal, Quebec
Director (Recruitment & Deployment)
Please refer to the period of 06/2004 to 09/2005
Ciment St-Laurent, Human Resources (06/2003 - 09/2003)
Boucherville, Quebec
Recruitment consultant
Ciment St-Laurent (division of Holcin International) - Cement & concrete company
Hired for a peak in recruitment during summer. Covered all types of needs for every level of position but mostly for cement truck drivers.
Other types of filled positions: laboratory assistant, environment technicians, different civil engineers, sites supervisors, directors, managers, data entry clerks, etc.
Groupe Télé-Resources, IT (01/2003 - 03/2003)
Montreal, Quebec
Consultant
Hired to produce a viability study of opening a new recruitment division for IT specific needs
Tangeante Informatique, Recruitment Agency (09/2001 - 11/2002)
Montreal, Quebec
Senior Recruiter & Account representative
Business development
Client needs gathering and understanding
Posting job descriptions, reviewing resumes, interviewing candidates, presenting candidates to clients, managing interviews, offers and start date as well as duration for permanent needs as well as contractual ones
Standard Life, Insurance company (05/2001 - 09/2001)
Montreal, Quebec
IT HR Manager
Managed the needs of consultation (new needs, renewals and termination)
LGS (IBM division), Consultation services (05/1998-05/2001)
Montreal, Quebec
Senior recruiter and resources deployment specialist
Oversaw the recruitment and deployment of resources for the technical team
Went from 35 employees in the team to 125 within 6 months.
Managed the basic HR needs of the team and became the pivot individual for training, vacation and problems for employees
DBA, Recruitment Agency (03/1995-05/1998)
Montreal, Quebec
From junior to senior recruiter
Recruitment of IT professionals from intermediate to senior for permanent or contractual position for a wide variety of clients and business types
CN Rail, Information Technologies (01/1989 - 01/1995)
Montreal, Quebec
DBA - Sr Analyst/Programmer - IT trainer - Training Consultant
Algeria United Arab Emirates Canada (Current)
University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières (1988) Bachelor of Technology, Science