Elza Dos Santos Email & Phone Number

Houston, TX, US

Lead Recruiting Consultation meetings with Hiring Managers to ensure understanding of roles, expectation management and process understanding. Provide market intelligence to adapt sourcing and recruiting strategies as needed. Source and manage candidates. Conduct phone screens. Extend and negotiate offers of employment.

• Provide consulting, sourcing and recruiting services for clients in various industries such as biotechnology, pharma, e-commerce, telecommunication, financial services, non-profit, and language and localization services.
• Provide insight on sourcing and recruitment for internal and external roles.
• Source, video interview and submit candidates, including those exiting career breaks of at least two years.
• Coach candidates on résumé development and interviewing skills.Career coaching to entry- through management-level clients in various industries.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

• Provide recruitment consulting services in Spanish and in Portuguese to Corbion’s plants in Mexico and in Brazil that entailed elevating the role of recruiting as a strategic partner for the business, establishing.
• Achieved an overall time-to-fill improvement of 24%.
• Created and utilized analytics to identify, explain and address recruiting and selection practices challenges.
• Led Hiring Managers to quicker decision times in advancing candidates from one step to another in the selection process and advised them on decision-making regard finalist candidates.
• Created training content, and customized and administered existing semi-annual recruitment process, candidate selection and interview training that resulted in markedly improvement compliance with the recruitment.
• Trained local HR teams on Boolean search and use of LinkedIn to proactively reach out to potential candidates.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

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Los Angeles, CA, US

• I worked for Korn Ferry various times totaling over five years between Feb 2008 and April 2020, a full-time employee and as a contractor. During this experience I served clients in industries such as pharmaceutics.
• Led strategic recruitment meetings/intake calls to ensure successful information exchange and process understanding.
• Sourced and managed candidates.
• Conducted phone screens and behavioral interviews.
• Gathered and analyzed market intelligence to detect successful trends and address areas for improvement.
• Extended and negotiated offers of employment.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Client in biotechnology; CMO/CRO
• Achieved a fill rate 40% above that established.
• Assisted the Project Manager with RPO launch in Brazil.
• Led two Sourcers.Client in chemicals manufacturing
• Led a Sourcer in challenging, niche searches.
• Increased efficiency and effectiveness of the recruiting process by completely redesigning it.

Houston, Texas, US

• Developed and implemented the company’s first recruiting strategy as well as candidate sourcing venues and pipeline for in-person, over-the-phone and video remote freelance interpreters.
• Sourced, interviewed and advised on building and hiring decisions of internal talent acquisition team.
• Directed Talent Acquisition Specialists daily workflow.
• Streamlined workflow for recruiting request and new talent communication.

Houston, Texas, US

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• Consulting, research and recruiting services.
• Provided career coaching services in an effective and efficient manner aiming at a successful end to job search or career decision.
• Issues covered included as career planning, résumé writing, research, marketing tools, networking, interviewing and negotiation.
• Advised clients of current HR and recruiting trends to improve their search and networking techniques, and interview performance.
• Reviewed résumés.
• Taught Portuguese to professionals and their families.

Cary, North Carolina, US

• Received distinctive award from management.
• Recruited for clinical and nonclinical roles in Arizona, California and New Mexico at the clerk, supervisory, managerial and director levels for Preferred Healthcare (hospital and home healthcare).
• Provided recruiting and recruiting consulting services.

London, GB

• Worked at Talent Reservoir, a Maxwell Drummond company
• Baker Hughes (oil & gas): sourced and screened candidates for a diversity campaign to fill contributor, manager and director-level roles, mostly professional engineers, in the operations management, operations support.
• Assisted in other projects as needed to source and recruit for the roles listed below:o Director, manager and specialist-level roles in global mobilityo Manager and specialist-level roles in expatriate employment tax.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• PwC Canada (professional services)o Responsible for 40% of placements.o Recruited seasoned associates, managers and directors in major capital projects, SAP PM and Workplace Management Systems.o Led two Sourcers.
• BNY Mellon (banking and financial services)o Gathered valuable market intelligence that was used to re-direct the strategic recruiting efforts.o Developed SME-level skills and was selected as the team trainer for the.
• LIDL: recruited civil engineers, project managers and administrative among other roles. Some roles also required fluent German speaking, reading and writing skills.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Otsuka Pharmaceutical (pharmaceutics and medical device commercialization)o Dramatically increased candidate submission quality feedback received from Recruiters by establishing a standardized communication process.o.
• PwC Canada (professional services): sourced seasoned professionals in major capital projects, SAP PM and Workplace Management Systems.

Saint Louis, MO, US

• Managed a multi-cultural caseload by providing effective career development and job search consulting to outplacement candidates.
• Rate of clients engaging in program after contact: 17.65 per cent above company-established rate.
• Service evaluations completed: 11.25% above company established target and 10.47% above group average.
• Customer satisfaction index: 9.5 per cent above company-established target and 3.05 per cent above the group average.
• Candidate involvement in company-sponsored transition-related activities: 21.33 per cent above group average.
• Clients served worked in the telecommunications, oil & gas/ energy, government, insurance and construction industries in roles which included project management, sales management, human resources management, project.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• General Millso Recruited for leadership and management roles in manufacturing, quality and health & safety.o Successfully re-consulted Hiring Managers at one of the locations regarding the type of experience required.
• Devon Energyo Presented one single candidate for an accounting management role, who was offered the job on the same day, the very first offer of the RPO.o Almost immediately after this RPO started, Hurricane Ike’s.
• Becton Dickinson: sourced résumés and profiles for seasoned professionals in product design, development and manufacturing; and marketing and sales.
• ConocoPhillips: research project to compile a list of universities that offered PhD programs in chemical engineering as well as the alumni association contacts for those universities who were closer to the pulse of.
• Northrop Grumman: researched this client’s direct competitors. Sourced seasoned professionals with security clearance and experience in transportation equipment design, development and manufacturing.
• Walmarto Received management special recognition for performance in this research project.o Researched retail candidate sourcing venues, niche job boards and groups.o Sourced candidates with substantial department.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Client-facing full-cycle recruitment for assigned requisitions in the light industrial, legal, government, banking and cosmetics industries.Advised clients regarding their job requisitions to ensure legal compliance.

Houston, TX, US

• Client-facing recruiter managing up to 25 job postings for roles across blue- and white-collar functions in a variety of industries.
• Ranked #1 recruiter in a regional team of 11 for consistently achieving a job posting fill rate above the organization’s established Exceed standard.
• After only three months, became the recruiter for new hires to job shadow.
• Received a perfect score of 10 in customer service and service offering knowledge when secret-shopped.
• Implemented initiatives which assisted team to achieve established placement goals. The team subsequently became an example for the other teams and new hires.
• Corporate recruiting.

Houston, TX, US

• Client-facing recruiter targeting job postings that matched walk-in English, Portuguese and Spanish-speaking population.
• Sourcing and recruiting successes recognized by contractor representing employers and subsequently accepted a position at that firm.

Houston, TX, US

• Assessed and improved English, Portuguese and Spanish-speaking candidate job readiness and referred them to appropriate job postings.
• Successfully developed an in-house job order advertising system to increase fill-rate.
• Assisted in job fair activities such as advertising, referral, attendance assurance, debriefing and hire confirmation.

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