GRACE KINYANJUI
Nairobi
Summary
A global recruitment professional with 8+ years of professional experience in recruitment within both in-house and agency recruitment. Experienced in developing and executing sourcing strategies and collaborating with hiring managers and agencies to deliver the right talent. Adept in full-cycle recruitment and delivering challenging recruitment projects in a timely, collaborative and seamless manner. Excellent at mapping talent, building pipelines, and supporting hiring managers to make hires that match the most thorough standards anywhere globally.
Passionate about about building high functioning teams and providing a great experience for candidates and successful placements hiring managers.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Recruiter
Azenia (Equity Group)
05.2021 - Current
- Selected, implemented, and now maintaining recruiting systems such as Greenhouse to accurately provide transparency into the recruitment funnel.
- Developing and implementing sourcing and recruiting strategies that have resulted in 400+ hires, and a pipeline of 15,000+ candidates for 50+ technical roles within 2 years.
- Built a network of top talent across 18 countries in Africa, Europe, and Asia to scale a funnel of qualified candidates by managing different sources of hire for quick match and placement.
- Improved selection ratio from 50% to 80% by tweaking technical tests in collaboration with candidates and hiring managers.
- Employing active sourcing through platforms such as LinkedIn, use of boolean searches, leveraging networks, referrals & direct applications.
- Coordinating with team leaders to forecast hiring needs and department goals.
- Proactively building a talent database of 150+ candidates reducing time-to-hire from 60 to 45 days.
- Collaborate with the HR team to participate in onboarding activities for new hires.
- Save hiring managers time to fill roles by use of appropriate hiring channels such as managed talent partners, proactively sourcing for upcoming roles, aligning early on role requirements, and interview process, etc.
- Obsessing about the candidate journey – from role attraction to placement conversion and ensuring excellent candidate experience in the process.
- Cultivating an in-depth understanding of industry trends and hiring desires that inform productive hiring.
Global Recruiter (Contract)
Andela
10.2020 - 04.2021
- Strategically utilizing developer communities in local and international tech ecosystems, LinkedIn, online research, events, social media, Github, Quora, etc. to engage potential candidates.
- Complied with service level metrics to achieve an offer and acceptance rate of 95%, and candidate retention rate of 100% during tenure.
- Increased pass-through rate by engaging candidates throughout the interview process, offering guidance, answering questions, anticipating blockers, and decreasing fall-through rate.
- Thoroughly evaluating candidates to check qualifications against job requirements.
- Build job descriptions to attract top talent globally with a focus on EMEA
- Manage recruiting process and act as candidate advocate during screening, job acceptance, and assignment term.
- Work directly with various teams to develop recruiting and staffing strategies in order to exceed the expectations of top clients.
- Contract negotiation and assisting candidates with the online onboarding process.
- Collaborating with various departments (marketing, HR, legal), and managers throughout the recruitment process
- Building pipelines of senior candidates for the Enterprise/corporate division as well as proactively building a Talent pool of 1000+ in-demand engineers.
Technical Recruitment Lead
Upline Tech Recruiting
06.2020 - 10.2020
- Develop sustainable talent acquisition and hiring plans and strategies for 10+ multiple clients.
- Ensuring contract-based recruiters and/or partner agencies are managing milestones and recruitment metrics.
- Negotiating competitive rates with clients, partner agencies, and suppliers.
- Engaging candidates to keep them informed, interested, and excited about job opportunities and achieve an offer acceptance rate of 98%.
- Providing innovative, scalable recruitment tools for reporting, candidate and stakeholder management
- Partner with client's hiring managers to develop detailed role requirements, select quality candidates, and make successful hires.
- Reporting on weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual recruitment metrics.
Technical Recruiter (Fulltime)
Andela
01.2019 - 06.2020
- Sourced and built pipelines of best active and passive tech talent in the African market for US-based companies in highly competitive markets and convert them into hires.
- Complied with service level metrics to achieve an offer and acceptance rate of 95%, and candidate retention rate of 100% during tenure.
- Mapped out individual markets and gather intelligence around specific talent pools, using that knowledge to identify top talent.
- Coordinated end-to-end interview processes between interviewers and candidates across multiple countries and timezones
- Administered senior, mid, and junior level assessment tests such as 'Hackerrank' and 'Qualified' to candidates and reviewed their results to determine their fit for tech roles.
- Strategically utilizing developer communities in local and international tech ecosystems, LinkedIn, online research, events, social media, Github, Quora, etc. to engage potential candidates
- Project lead for interview rubric creation for emerging technologies resulting in a fully functional selection process.
- Coordinated and communicated with internal stakeholders to guarantee headcount is filled on time, and through the most equitable and objective processes possible
- Partnered with hiring managers, account managers, and clients to fulfill requisitions for technical roles and advise best ways to fill those needs
- Proactively guided and trained internal stakeholders (interviewers, hiring managers, and department leads) towards best hiring practices quarterly.
- Provided timely feedback and managed expectations of stakeholders to ensure great candidate experience and hiring manager satisfaction
- Maintained positive relationships with candidates in ways that could yield referrals that could become potential hires
Talent Recruiter and Career Strategist
JstWork
09.2017 - 12.2018
- Selected and interviewed 150+ candidates to evaluate technical knowledge and skills against job requirements.
- Collaborated in developing hiring and recruitment strategies.
- Candidate mapping, sourcing, and pipelining for 10+ different roles.
- Drafted job descriptions and company profiles for recruitment purposes
- Organizing and participating in outreach drives from professional groups, universities, rotary clubs among others to boost our training pipeline .
- Monitored social media and online sources for industry trends.
- Maintained in-depth understanding of Banking, Finance & Insurance hiring trends.
- Drafted and posted job descriptions and job vacancies on different channels to attract talent.
- Collaborated with job boards to boost sourcing efforts
- Advised clients on talent acquisition strategy and worked closely with hiring managers to fill requisitions.
- Training
General Manager
East Africa School of Management EASM COLLEGE
12.2014 - 03.2017
- EASM is a mid-level privately owned college offering professional training for National examination boards.
- Planning, coordinating, staffing, organizing, decision making, and supervising daily operations for 45+ employees
- Provided leadership to inspire high academic standards, debt reduction, and profit targets
- Released 50% of top performers recognized and published nationally every semester
- In charge of supervision of overall cross-functional operations while advising and keeping executive directors abreast with organizational changes
- Represented college to business stakeholders eg government, students, staff, parents, examination bodies, suppliers, etc
- Overall implementation of the board's strategic plan across 3 college branches with 300+ students.
- Increased monthly staff retention rate by 30% after implementing new training programs.
- Implemented revenue collection strategies that successfully eliminated 30% in debt within 1 year.
Human Resource Manager
East Africa School Of Management (EASM College)
09.2013 - 12.2016
- Managing all HR affairs for 40+ employees in terms of recruitment, selection, leave, separation, staff development, conflict management, drafting and issuing contracts, statutory deductions, and payroll preparation, among others
- Developed HR policies to guide interaction between staff, and company as per Kenyan Employment Act.
- Spearheaded strategy and implementation of end-to-end recruitment cycle for both technical and non-technical roles in collaboration with department leads.
Talent Aquisition Associate & Executive Assistant
Wealth And Capital Management Ltd
03.2013 - 09.2013
- Oversaw all HR needs for 50 employees operation across 3 locations
- Managed administrative functions, including complex calendar management with focus on proper allocation of executive availability
- Contributed to smooth business operations by planning and organizing meetings and conferences, including conference calls
Education
BSc. International Business Management: International Business Management -
Africa Nazarene University
Kenya2013
Advanced Certificate in Business Management - Business Administration And Management
Kenya Institute of Management
Kenya 2009
Skills
- Create and implement recruitment and sourcing strategy
- sourcing expert through boolean, natural language search, LinkedIn, social media, referrals etc
- Stakeholder management (line managers, CIOs, recruitment agencies, managed talent partners, HR, clients etc)
- Successfully hiring for senior, complex and difficult-to-hire-for roles
- Closing candidates and facilitating complex compensation packages
- Hands-on experience with recruiting tools and systems(Greenhouse, codility, hackerrank etc)
- Excellent candidate engagement
- Diversity hires while advocating for equity and inclusion in hiring process
- Interviewing ( Structured, competency based, behavioral based etc)
- Remote working and collaborating across timezones globally
Timeline
Senior Recruiter
Azenia (Equity Group)
05.2021 - Current
Global Recruiter (Contract)
Andela
10.2020 - 04.2021
Technical Recruitment Lead
Upline Tech Recruiting
06.2020 - 10.2020
Technical Recruiter (Fulltime)
Andela
01.2019 - 06.2020
Talent Recruiter and Career Strategist
JstWork
09.2017 - 12.2018
General Manager
East Africa School of Management EASM COLLEGE
12.2014 - 03.2017
Human Resource Manager
East Africa School Of Management (EASM College)
09.2013 - 12.2016
Talent Aquisition Associate & Executive Assistant
Wealth And Capital Management Ltd
03.2013 - 09.2013
BSc. International Business Management: International Business Management -
Africa Nazarene University
Advanced Certificate in Business Management - Business Administration And Management
Kenya Institute of Management
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