Francois Colas (He/Him) Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Founder and managing director at Bilingual Squad Recruiting where our focus is your business and your success. We offer permanent, contract and temporary opportunities.

Mississauga, Ontario, CA

• Identify and execute a variety of traditional and creative sourcing strategies to attract and develop a pipeline of talented candidates for both regulated and unregulated health care professional and administrative roles
• Participate in proactive health and safety activities while performing all duties
• Participate in ongoing internal and/or external continuing education activities
• Monitor retention of new hires and understand reasons for turnover in order to incorporate this into the recruitment strategy
• Lead, coach, mentor and champion a team of two talent acquisition specialists on high volume hiring targets
• Create and execute plans to improve the interview, selection, and onboarding process through using technology and best practices

Seattle, WA, US

• Manage the full cycle recruiting process across multiple functional groups, including director level and other key positions
• Handle 25 to 30 requisitions simultaneously
• Ensure that the hiring process complies with Starbucks’ policies and procedures as well as with employment laws and regulations
• Work with Human Resources’ Business Partners and multiple-functional hiring team leaders to understand strategic business objectives and organizational design while developing strategies to meet current and future.
• Consult with hiring managers on best practices for candidate attraction and interview processes, current and future openings, talent planning and the future direction of the team
• Lead, coach, mentor and champion a team of three talent acquisition specialist to deliver on high volume hiring targets, career development opportunities

Toronto, ON, CA

• Develop effective relationships with the Human Resources’ Business Partners, hiring managers and business leaders
• Establish credibility for the recruitment function and ensure ongoing satisfaction with the services provided
• Partner with the sourcing team and be responsible for managing critical recruiting assignments, creating and executing a search strategy with accountabilities for full lifecycle recruitment
• Handle 20 to 25 requisitions simultaneously
• Support a talent mindset in hiring managers and business leaders
• Monitor industry trends to identify new channels and approaches to source and recruit

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Manage in-depth needs identification with hiring managers
• Develop relationships with internal and external clients
• Actively source through networking and pipelining across North America
• Hire managers and HR business partners
• Responsible for all aspects of recruiting including writing job descriptions, posting roles online, screening resumes, conducting telephone and in-person interviews, completing background and reference checks and.
• Full-cycle recruitment of all levels for management, IT & Engineering, accounting, administration, sales and human resources

Mississauga, ON, CA

• Actively campaign target accounts with heavy outside sales (70% of the time)
• Continue to develop client relationships through on-site visits with tier 1 corporate national accounts and government accounts
• Develop a database for new clients
• Work the bilingual job market for positions such as customer service, light industrial, administration, inside and outside sales, call center managers, collectors, human resources, bilingual HRIS specialists
• Hire for short- and long-term unionized and non-unionized contracts for the provincial government
• Continuously develop applicant base through recruiting, reactivating and referrals

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Prospect via cold-calling and heavy outside sales (70% of the time)
• Grow and build new client database of tier 1 organizations
• Maintain and manage existing and new accounts
• Recruit and hire top talent for acquired clients
• Organize head-hunting campaigns to attract new candidates
• Network with various organizations and within existing accounts to generate new business opportunities