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Sanjay Chavda

Romford,United Kingdom

Summary

Accomplished talent acquisition specialist with expertise in developing strategic recruitment solutions and enhancing internal candidate resourcing. Proven track record in workforce planning, market mapping, and succession planning to maximise internal talent and reduce hiring costs. Skilled in diversity, equality, and inclusion recruitment, employer branding, and data-driven decision-making. Adept at building professional networks and business links across healthcare, social care, NHS, education, and construction sectors. Committed to driving strategic market growth through innovative interviewing techniques and effective stakeholder management.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work history

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Prime College
London
2023.08 - 2026.01
  • Designed and implemented full-cycle Talent Acquisition plans for Prime College and academic/non-academic hires. Managed the complete recruitment lifecycle for high-volume recruitment campaigns, business partnerships with corporate sponsors and local authorities to drive referrals and lead generation. Attraction strategies targeting growth of internal workforces, inclusive interviewing and candidate experience.
  • Oversee talent acquisition solutions, organisation growth, lead generation.
  • Communication and relationship management with hiring managers and HR.
  • Accredited and vocational qualification. Offering training in leadership and management.
  • Student recruitment for university/grow internal teams.
  • Stakeholder management
  • Collaboration with hiring managers-building trust and long-standing relationships.
  • Experience and knowledge on applicant tracking systems ATS.
  • Building pipelines.
  • Learning and Development.
  • Working with job boards and job platforms, understanding key words for vacancies.
  • Interviewing, compliance and onboarding.
  • Identify new market opportunities and areas of growth.
  • Strong sales skills, including negotiation, closing deals and relationship building.
  • Building and maintaining, strong business links, turning into professional business network.
  • HR duties.

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Brook Street – Manpower Group
London
2022.02 - 2023.07

(Healthcare-Social Care) Specialist Lead across supported living, care homes, nursing homes, children’s services (OFSTED) and adult services (CQC). Led end-to-end talent acquisition strategy, candidate experience. Managing hiring across multiple service lines and internal divisions. Recruited healthcare professionals, support workers to care managers using direct sourcing and referrals. Identified new business channels and secured care contracts via stakeholder management, collaborating with hiring managers, succession planning, networking and targeted outreach. Developed internal talent pools and succession plans aligned to future service needs. Collaborated with operations and regional leads to define job specs and competency frameworks. Delivered measurable improvements in time-to-hire and candidate engagement.

  • Candidate experience through end-to-end recruitment.
  • Candidate engagement
  • Collaboration with hiring managers.
  • Placements of registered managers, care home managers, deputy managers, team leaders and support staff
  • Stakeholder management
  • Employer branding
  • Learning & Development
  • Monitoring competitor analysis

Talent Acquisition Solutions

Allied & Clinical
London
2015.10 - 2022.02
  • Talent Acquisition operations for wide region – Sourcing Talent for organisational delivery for performance. Talent & recruitment across NHS clinical staffing.
  • Providing Talent solutions, staff in NHS Hospitals, NHS Facilities, NHS Care Homes / Education Facilities.
  • 360 recruitment/ onboarding/compliance, building pipelines, working with ATS systems, business development.
  • Stakeholder management/Account management.
  • Screen CVs thoroughly to shortlist appropriate candidates, based on professional credentials. Manage interview via virtually or face to face to recognise matched qualities before processing them through interviews stages, involving hiring manager or key interview panel.
  • Conducted in-depth interviews with candidates, assessing competencies for specific roles and organisations.

Recruitment Specialist

Mr Craftsman
London
2007.02 - 2015.09
  • Providing Talent solutions for London shops and workshops outside London. Target/budget achievements.
  • Key administrator in the development of annual business plan, forecast, and budgets to achieve both short and long terms goals.
  • Candidates end to end recruitment.
  • Stakeholder management.
  • Compliance and onboarding.
  • Planning promotions, advertising, and marketing to increase business opportunities.

Recruitment Specialist

Timpson
London
1993.01
  • Recruitment solutions, interviewing
  • Creating job post
  • Compliance and onboarding.
  • Line managed teams of high-performing staff, implementing coaching and development programmes to empower employees.

Education

GCSE -

Langdon Secondary School
London

NVQ Level 1 - C.P.V.E Business Course

Stratford College
London

BTEC National Diploma - Business and Finance

Stratford College
London

CIPD LEVEL 3 -

Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
London
2026

Skills

  • Talent Acquisition strategy & solutions Working with HR and hiring managers
  • Internal candidate resourcing, collaborating with human resources team to identify, assess, and place existing employees in new roles or promotions within the company, this process helps maximise internal talent, reduce hiring costs, and improve employee retention
  • Talent pipeline & succession planning
  • Creating job descriptions and person specifications for recruitment and hiring managers through job analysis
  • Strategic & innovative interviewing skills
  • Volume & specialist hiring (perm/temp/contract)
  • Account management
  • Strategic market growth & opportunity identification
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Workforce planning & market mapping
  • Applicant tracking systems ATS in multiple platforms
  • Diversity, Equality & Inclusion (DEI) recruitment
  • Build employer branding
  • Business development & account expansion
  • Data & metrics: time-to-hire, quality-of-hire, cost-per-Hire
  • Team leadership, mentoring & KPI management
  • Negotiation & relationship management
  • Cross-departmental co-ordination & resource management
  • Professional network building & business link development
  • Recruitment, Talent Acquisition solutions, building teams, business development: healthcare, Social Care, NHS, Education & Construction
  • CRM & ATS software platforms
  • Data-driven decision-making
  • Building pipelines
  • Communication & negotiation
  • Leadership & team mentoring & development
  • Solution based strategic thinking
  • Labour market knowledge
  • Job advertising creativeness
  • Headhunting techniques
  • HR metrics understanding
  • Employer value proposition creation
  • Talent market insight

References

Reference on Request.

Affiliations

  • Reading, cooking, cheesecake professional, i have always been a person who likes to learn, through reading, research, social media, speaking to people.

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Prime College
2023.08 - 2026.01

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Brook Street – Manpower Group
2022.02 - 2023.07

Talent Acquisition Solutions

Allied & Clinical
2015.10 - 2022.02

Recruitment Specialist

Mr Craftsman
2007.02 - 2015.09

Recruitment Specialist

Timpson
1993.01

NVQ Level 1 - C.P.V.E Business Course

Stratford College

BTEC National Diploma - Business and Finance

Stratford College

GCSE -

Langdon Secondary School

CIPD LEVEL 3 -

Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
Sanjay Chavda