Justin Chambers

• Return to Meta for hiring Gen SWE, Mobile, ML, Front End (IC4-7)
• Currently 119% to goal for H1 2025
• Responsible for helping redistribute internal staff impacted by layoffs.

Personio is a Unicorn start up.

• Responsible for SWE hiring in London, Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam and Barcelona - L5-L7 levels.

Meta is a global tech company with 3 billion users across its product range; Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Occulus

• Mentor to 5 Recruiters – distributed globally
• End-to-End recruitment for Engineering across EMEA & APAC (Software Eng and Machine Learning - Junior IC’s up to Senior/Chief Engineers and Engineering Managers)
• Scaling global teams in hyper-growth
• Diversity Change Champion – driving team top of funnel performance with weekly sourcing sessions
• Data Driven Decision making
• Hosting Global Sourcathon’s for 100’s of sourcers/recruiters
• Working with Events team (Black Tech Fest)
• Guiding Senior Stakeholders and providing insight and stories from data
• Leading global programmes with senior stakeholders
• Subject Matter Expert - Programme Owner EMEA & APAC – Design Webinars Programme to help candidates with interview process
• Trained Engineers and other recruiters for the weekly webinar
• Programme Owner EMEA & APAC – Feedback-on-Feedback
• Programme to help scale Engineer interview pool and make sure the bar is consistent
• Programme Owner – Offer Declines – Deep Dive
• Candidate Review Club Facilitator
• Programme to help Recruiters with negotiating bottom of funnel
• Continuous Process Improvement for funnel
• Internal Interviewer for Recruiters – R4R hiring

Achievements

• Promotion at META
• Top 7% performer globally (Greatly Exceeds at Performance)

Thales is a global high technology leader investing in digital and “deep tech” innovations – connectivity, big data, artificial intelligence, Cybersecurity and quantum technology. It operates in 80 countries with 75,000 employees.

• UK Owner of all Technical Recruitment – driving strategy and defining talent plans. Req Based recruitment strategy.
• End-to-end recruitment for Engineering (Junior IC’s up to Senior Engineers)
• European Programme Owner – aligning Tech Recruiters for best practice.
• POC for all Hiring Managers
• Neurodiversity Programme Owner – Programme to amend funnel/interview process.
• Stakeholder Management across 5 different Business Units
• Vendor Management for contingent recruitment
• Market Mapping for new Business Units in new geographies
• Challenge and influence the business to ensure that the right hiring decisions are made
• Delivering proactive resourcing services that match resource supply with business demand ensuring we have the right people, in the right place, at the right time.
• Proactively working to develop talent pools and pipelines across niche skill sets such as cyber security
• Work closely with the sift team in India to develop sourcing strategies for critical roles
• Evolving our attraction strategies to demonstrate our employer brand in the market by running specialist events e.g. hackathons, crack the code and speaker led events
• Providing weekly data and insights to the different Thales Software Business Units
• Early Careers Facilitator

Achievements

• European alignment on best practice – 5% reduction in time to hire.
• Neurodiversity programme
• 80% Self sourced hiring.

Serocor run a RPO for Lockheed Martin UK. They manage all of the UK Talent Acquisition for IT and Engineering resources, for Permanent, Contract and Graduate recruitment. This is a vast programme that has been in its current guise for 10 years.

• Coordinated delivery of contracted solutions at program level and in full accordance with outlined cost, scheduling and quality terms.
• Running managed advertising campaigns to attract resources
• Sourcing high volume (several hundred per year) permanent, contract and FTC technical resources to Lockheed Martin
• Delivering end-to-end talent cycle in a fast paced, complex environment
• Liaising with hiring managers to plan demand
• Talent and Succession Planning cycle working with the Departmental head
• Provide advice on recruitment strategies, procedures, legislation and market conditions
• Devise and action sourcing strategies to include direct sourcing and third party supply.
• Brand Management - running national career roadshows
• Line Managing 4 sourcers
• Vendor Management - India