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Cork Metropolitan Area

• Lead and mentor a team of 4 Talent Acquisition Specialists, facilitating their achievement of both quantitative and qualitative targets through structured weekly one-to-ones, daily stand-ups, and on-going support with any challenges they encounter in day-to-day tasks. • Design and implement scalable recruitment processes that aligns talent acquisition strategies with the company’s business objectives.• Spearhead a comprehensive digitalization & change management strategy to move current talent acquisition process from manual updates (excel trackers) to a scalable and automated process in the selected ATS (Zoho Recruit), providing training and ongoing support to team members.• Foster a culture of data-driven decision-making within talent acquisition, leveraging advanced data analysis in Excel and Zoho Analytics to deliver actionable insights.• Successfully filled a critical internal role to lead the Digital Transformation strategy across the company, reducing the position’s 11-month vacancy to 7 weeks,At SimoTech our mission is to continuously act as a trusted service provider of Manufacturing Automation and IT Solutions to the global Life Sciences industry. We will deliver our services with the highest quality and integrity in the best interests of our clients. We understand the critical life changing importance of our clients' products to the patients they serve

Ireland

• End-to-end recruiting support of multiple software engineering teams (Python AI, Mobile Engineering, Graduate Engineering) across Klarna’s EMEA offices.• Identified by Global Head of Recruiting to lead the recruitment of a high visibility AI engineering function that reports directly to the CEO. This was the first AI engineering function in Klarna and I was responsible for setting up the recruitment process from the ground up, calibrating interviewers, getting buy-in from stakeholders as well as updating them on progress-to-goal. Exceeded hiring targets for H2 by achieving 150% of goal.• Supported Mobile hiring before being moved to Python AI, here I supported a team with multiple positions open for 4+ months. Focused on delivery while also removing bottlenecks in the process using data. This accelerated time-to-hire and all positions were filled within 6 weeks.• Strong negotiation and closing skills currently maintaining a 100% Offer Acceptance Rate across all pipelines I supported.

Cork, County Cork, Ireland

*Reverted back to IC focus following the initial round of redundancies*• Recruiting point-of-contact for R&D Display Engineering org which was an acquisition into Meta. Provided end-to-end 360 recruitment support for this org while overseeing delivery and support provided by the rest of the recruitment team (team size 4)• Developed greenfield recruiting processes from the ground up for this org, supporting everything from interviewer training, defining recruiting processes and best practices, sourcing strategies through to creating offer approval processes etc• Scaled from an org of 18 people at the time of the acquisition, based in one site(Cork), up to a business unit of 120+ employees across numerous sites (Cork, Plymouth, Grenoble, Berlin and the US)• Streamlined and increased hiring velocity from 6-9 new hires per annum to a mature pipeline, hiring 25-33 new employees per annum• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Program Manager for EMEA AR/VR Recruitment Team. Promoted diversity throughout all the steps of the recruitment process. Supported other recruiters to ensure they were promoting diversity in their pipelines while also demoing diversity sourcing tools and techniques to upskill recruiters• Specialist in global talent sourcing techniques for very challenging technical roles (E.G. Research Scientist Managers, Process Engineering Managers, III-V and GaN Research Scientists, Hardware Engineers, Process Engineers, Modeling Experts) utilising sourcing techniques such as Linkedin talent mapping, ResearchRabbit, X-Ray Boolean, Entelo, Google Scholar, ResearchGate etc.• Exceptional closing skills and maintained a 88.5% offer acceptance percentage throughout my tenure with Meta• Keen advocate for utilising and analysing data to identify bottlenecks and challenges in the process. Confident presenting data to influence change on the processes to senior management on both the recruiting-side and the business-side up to VP/Director level

Cork, County Cork, Ireland

• Lead a team of 11 recruiters/sourcers, based across Cork/Dublin/London & Tel Aviv, to achieve their objectives and hiring targets. The team was responsible for Hardware & Leadership hiring across AR/VR offices throughout EMEA with a hiring demand of around 55-65 hires per annum.• Support the team with weekly 1:1s, identify and alleviate roadblocks to hiring as well as strategize on qualitative goals for ICs.• Utilise recruiting data such as passthrough rates, time-to-hire as well as funnel metrics to understand team performance and make necessary adjustments to ensure team meets hiring goals. • Goal setting with the team inclusive of qualitative and quantitative goals, factored IC’s level, interests, strengths, growth areas as well as business needs. • Actively participate in global recruiting leadership strategy meetings and lead specific aspects (e.g. improving offer acceptance rates across the International Team from 68% H1,2022 to 90% in H2,2022)• Onboarding plans and goal setting for new members joining the team.• Recruitment-for-recruitment interviewing to grow the team. • Empathetic leadership skills navigating the challenges of layoffs while prioritising team wellbeing.

Cork City, Ireland

• Same details as above

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

• Initially joined as a Contingent Worker in July 2016 on an 11 month contract through PRO Unlimited. • Converted to a permanent position in December 2016 due to strong performance.• End-to-end recruitment support of Network Engineering Organisation supporting roles such as Network Automation Engineers, Network Development Engineers, Technical Program Managers, Network Procurement Specialists, Datacentre Engineers.• Focused on DEI and hired first gender diverse candidates into this organisation.• Designed and developed branding initiatives to help promote the teams to external candidates this included supporting and hosting a Networking Hack-a-thon.

Dublin

• Grew the Software Engineering and Software Quality Assurance Desk through business development and working closely with key clients ensuring their needs were met with well-matched candidates.• Consistently over-achieved my monthly and quarterly targets.Interviewed and hired a recruitment sourcer to join my team to ensure delivery into all current roles due to volume of work.• Trained the sourcer in best practice of how to become a full recruitment consultant, giving constant direction and support.• Guided the sourcer through promotion and ensured that they continued to receive the necessary support for continued growth.

Mbs Management And Marketing, Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics

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