Carlo Boamah

I am currently working as a Talent Acquisition Specialist recruiting within Technology and Product from the London office. I am responsible for managing the end to end process for candidates working alongside hiring managers to understand individual vacancies and filling positions delivering a great candidate experience. Some of my responsibilities included:

• Develop and implement highly effective strategies to source, recruit and hire qualified candidates in some of our office locations in London, Bristol, Amsterdam, Enschede & Berlin.
• Handle multiple job requisitions simultaneously, by managing an effective and streamlined interview process, from candidate sourcing, interviewing, salary negotiations and closing of candidates.
• Proactively source top Tech and Product talents using tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter & other job boards
• Develop and implement new recruitment processes/projects
• Maintaining professional and courteous communication with candidates to manage each step in the hiring process and foster long-term relationships
• Coach and train hiring managers as required to ensure they are capable and competent to assess candidates.
• Work with the wider People team to ensure a smooth-running induction process, including return of new starter paperwork.

I was hired as a Talent Acquisition Specialist to support the Talent Lead with all stages of the recruiting life cycle to ensure a great candidate and hiring manager experience. I learned how to manage communication with all stakeholders, candidates, hiring managers and partner agencies regarding interview scheduling. I also helped with building a candidate pipeline through direct sourcing of candidates using Linkedin and various mediums including job boards.

More of my responsibilities included:

• Taking full lifecycle ownership for attracting and hiring high-quality talent within the Technology, Design, Delivery, Product, Client & Operations department.
• Engaging with external talent to build long and short term pipelines
• Sourcing and headhunting candidates from LinkedIn and other job boards
• Advertising job on various recruitment platforms and responding to candidates
• Partnering with hiring managers and the resource manager to assess their talent requirements and needs
• Setting up interviews and booking meeting rooms
• Screen CVs and prospects, qualify, interview and manage candidates throughout the interview process from telephone interview to final offer

Aquent / Vitamin T Specialises in placing carefully screened design, development and marketing candidates across the world into freelance, contract and permanent positions. We work with a wide variety of clients ranging from the FTSE 100 to SME's, startups and agencies.

I came on-board as a tech resourcer working for the MSP team sourcing for candidates for our clients with over 500 headcount. I was mainly tasked with populating our database with great talent as well as sourcing for the positions I was recruiting for. After proving successful as a resourcer, I was promoted to Agent and had a few more responsibilities and workload from other parts of the business too.

Roles I Sourced and recruited for:

Frontend Developers, Backend Developers, iOS & Android Developers, Tech Leads, Desktop, Support Engineers, Digital & Security Architects, Digital Analysts, BI Developers, QA Analysts, DevOps Engineers & more

My responsibilities included:

• Source creative candidates using our database, job boards, phone calls, networking events and social media and build strong relationships with them
• Writing up job specs to attract talent
• Coordinating and arranging interviews with hiring managers and candidates
• Conduct initial telephone screenings/face to face/Skype interviews with candidates to understand their skills, motivators and requirements
• Sending out interview confirmations and feedback to applicants
• Profile candidates for the rest of the delivery team and our clients
• Help coordinate interviews between candidates and clients
• Preparing and formatting CV’s before sending them to clients
• Boolean searching on LinkedIn and job boards such as Jobsite, CW Jobs, CV Library, Total Jobs etc.

Previous employment history available on request