Joe Shadenburg

• Built robust talent pipeline with focus on direct sourcing, mainly for our enterprise sales team, pre-sales team and engineering function across UK, EMEA and US.
• Worked closely with hiring managers to prepare outlined roles to launch recruitment process.
• Tracked long-term metrics to measure recruitment process, monitoring quality of hires, time to hire and cost.
• Customised Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to effectively capture and analyse data to fuel improvements in recruitment process.
• Identified skills and knowledge gaps, organising succession planning to meet organisational needs.
• Recommended possible improvements to recruitment process, helping to reduce applicant drop-off rate.
• Reduced agency spend by 100%

• My main hiring focus was to build out our tech and sales teams
• Daily updates and guidance to the founders, and later VPs on all things Talent and recruitment
• Full responsibility for employer branding
• Responsible for fostering healthy employee culture that empowers everyone
• Partnering with senior leadership team to align talent strategy with business objectives and drive culture of performance and engagement
• Key markets are Spain, UK, Belgium, UAE, Kenya and Malaysia
• Implemented new MSA, reduced number of suppliers, rates and usage
• Full redesign and implementation of onboarding process in Workday for all 6 counties
• Align everyone to the Zapp vision and focus on overall/crucial objectives
• Company scaled to over 3,500 employees in 3 countries (UK, NL, FR) in first 12 months •
• Helped with system selection and implementation HR (Bamboo to HiBob) and recruitment (Breezy to Workable)
• Externally trained D&I Champion (Marshall) •
• Established active connections to the University of Cambridge employment team resulting in dozens of hires so far

I was hired by Made Tech account and a team of 6 Talent Partners to implement the strategy and delivery across the business with a target of 80+ hires over 12 months across 4 regions (Bristol, London, Manchester and Newcastle) with in various Government and NHS clients.

Our main focus and 90% of the hiring is within the software engineering space from junior engineers to principal technologists. I personally have full responsibility for being the number 1 point of contact for all senior stakeholders and the HR team to deliver the above in a set time scale.

Currently working onsite as Talent Acquisition Lead at Madetech.com – Made Tech are a Consultancy supporting UK Central Government, Local Government and Healthcare across the UK.

• Managing Full-Stack Engineering pipeline end to end
• Reduced external agency spend by 100% by bringing all hiring in house
• Identified new automation tools to help drive hiring efficiencies, resulting in improved time to hire (currently 2 weeks from entry to pipeline to offer)
• Re-evaluated skills within existing team and devised workforce plan to meet growth plans
• Identified opportunities to improve existing hiring processes i.e. reducing stages in process, change order and adapting to COVID-19 to contain more culture content and change up the style of peer interviews.
• Established updated recruitment framework, scorecard, structure – resulted in scalable process and succession planning to free up interviews time
• Increased ATS usage (Recruitee) to ensure more self-sufficiency across the company, also reduced duplicative processes of updating in Slack/Email as well as Recruitee
• Revised all job listings to ensure alignment to tone of voice, content was representative of inclusive company and updated content to ensure consistency across Glassdoor, LinkedIn, Website, AngelList, Hackernews, Stackoverflow, Github etc.
• Helped build out proactive diversity initiatives including regular postings in Ada List, more active in the local community, leveraging existing women in tech groups and pro-noun sourcing of passive candidates.
• Successfully delivered an academy programme, where we hired 12 new people to join a really exciting 3 month opportunity and hopefully qualify into a full time position as a junior engineer with Made Tech.

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• Helped lead the People function and nurtured global talent during a period of rapid growth and change within the business.
• Responsible for over 180 hires globally. Hired best in class talent for engineering, product, design, marketing, data science, sales, customer success and operations.
• Partnered closely with department heads to create engaging, seamless and successful talent acquisition strategies and processes.
• Helped launched offices in Singapore, Barcelona and hired remote workers across Europe.