Darryl Devar

Talent Acquition Senior Manager
Lead and trained 2 recruiters and 2 admin staff.
Achieve quarterly workforce planning targets
Weekly meetings with business and C suite management
Dashboards and reports.
Sourcing and headhunting using LinkedIn recruiter
Implement and update ATS system

• Building a future workforce across UAE, KSA and Qatar, which includes Talent Acquisition for Technology and Operations,
• Leading full recruitment cycle while liaising with C-Level stakeholders to hire Junior to Senior level positions.
• Specialized in all areas of end-to-end recruitment within Technology including but not limited to: Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Robotics, Software Engineer, Technology Sales
• Mergers and Acquisitions - Talent Acquisition
• Demand, Opportunities and pipeline or resources
• Managing candidate experience for significant sized business units and for managing relationships with those stakeholders - Maintaining and improving the NPS score for the financial year.
• Collating market research and providing insight to the business on talent pool sizing, competitor movements and the Accenture Employee Value Proposition, using LinkedIn Insights and Gartner information.
• Responsible for developing the strategic approach to support all Recruitment and HR initiatives required by the business, establish critical components and timeline, ensuring scope is clearly defined and expectations are articulated to all team members and key stakeholders involved.
• Optimizing Workday and CRM tool Beamery to provide reports and dashboards.
• Participating in projects and/or initiatives within or outside the team.
• Run C-Level (MD) weekly reviews for Technology Recruitment and Security capabilities.

• Responsible for the Talent Acquisition for the following areas: Liquid Studio (Future Technology & Innovation), IES (Intelligent Engineering Services) comprising of Test Automation, AI & Automation Engineering, Data, Cloud Migration & Modernization, Enterprise Transformation (Agile, DevOps), Architecture, Custom App Engineering, Java, Intelligent Tech Partner & Practices (AWS, IBM Cloud &Watson, Google Cloud), Emerging and Growth (Blockchain & IOT), Project Services (Scrum Master)

Expanded talent acquisition in Singapore, UK, and South Africa, enhancing recruitment reach. Produced reports for Business Units, such as GSS, Khumba, Anglo Platinum, Anglo Coal, DeBeers for strategic decision making support. Organised Career Assistant Workshops at Anglo Mines for community development.
• Led team of four Talent Acquisition Proactive Sourcing Consultants in delivering resourcing services across Anglo American EMEA, aiming to significantly reduce or eliminate recruitment agency expenditures.
• Collaborated with Group process owners and BU resourcing and talent managers to develop proactive talent acquisition strategy.
• Ensured high-quality service delivery, meeting all SLAs for Talent Acquisition team, demonstrating efective team management and operational excellence.
• Participated in safety audits, inspections, and observations, addressing issues to reinforce safety leadership within team.
• Provided leadership and development for team performance in alignment with the Groups policies and systems, fostering culture of continuous improvement and professional growth.
• Adopted Agile Methodology to enhance operational eficiency, transitioning from traditional whiteboards to digital Trello boards for project and task management.
• Managed projects focused on Talent Pools, Diversity & Inclusion, including initiatives for Disability, Alumni Talent, and addressing Scarce and Critical Skills, demonstrating commitment to comprehensive talent management.
• Facilitated Competency-Based Interviewing Training for Managers and HR Business Partners across diferent Business Units, enhancing interviewing skills and recruitment practices.

Emphasised revenue generation, eficiency improvements, and cost control in alignment with ADvTECH business model, demonstrating balanced approach to management. Executed brand marketing and sales strategies to enhance brand visibility and market penetration, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
• Led team of six recruiters, taking charge of meeting annual branch target, showcasing leadership and strategic goal setting.
• Maintained activity standards to exceed projected targets and foster target growth, emphasising results driven approach.
• Drove recruitment business on daily, weekly, and monthly basis toward achieving and surpassing projected targets, showcasing commitment to excellence.
• Collaborated closely with training/HR department to focus on staf development and performance enhancement, underlining importance of team growth and improvement.

Responsible for all recruiting and staffing programs as well as activities related to the attraction, selection,
hiring and on-boarding of talent into IQ Group as well as partnering with IQ Group managers to help build a
workforce with those critical skills needed to move the business forward
Responsible for ensuring talent processes comply with appropriate business controls or initiating/maintaining
immigration statuses
Serving as a team lead in providing work direction, and also guiding key stakeholders on various processes
and acting as a point of escalation for Recruitment
Applying social networking technology to help people stay connected with the organization
Running creative campaigns for recruitment and the organization as a whole, working together with the
marketing and human resources team
Implementation of an e-recruit system as well as implement change within the team
Ensuring that desired business results are clearly and precisely prioritized, that the necessary organization
capabilities are powerfully conceptualized and operationalized, and that the appropriate recruitment
practices, processes, structures, and procedures are aligned to create and sustain the identified
organizational capabilities
Implementation of new E-recruit system
Recruitment Innovation Drive
Recruitment Drive - Increased Company size from 300 IQers - December 2013 - 508 IQers December

Responsible for all recruiting and staffing programs as well as activities related to the attraction,
selection, hiring and on-boarding of talent into IBM as well as partnering with IBM managers to help build
a workforce with those critical skills needed to move the business forward
Responsible for ensuring talent processes comply with appropriate business controls or
initiating/maintaining immigration statuses
Serving as a team lead in providing work direction, and also guiding key stakeholders on various
processes and acting as a point of escalation for Recruitment
Recruitment Partner to STG and GTS Business Units
Destination Africa and Internal Talent Recruiter for MEA (Middle East Africa), for the following,
programmes: Blue Talent Cloud and Opportunity Growth Market Unit (OGMU)
Project ICE - Virtual Career Fair
The IBM Career Exploration...Make a Difference !!, a virtual university recruitment sourcing and
branding campaign, launched on SEPT 11, 2013 for university students across SA and English speaking
IBM focus countries of Africa

Management Consulting
Relationship Management of clients:
o Nedbank
o SARS
o ABSA Bank
o Standard Bank
o Bankserv
Project Management of all client requests for resources
Recruitment of all IT positions
Response Handling,
Responsible for implementing and planning the Recruitment Processes and Response Handling Processes