Choice Dappa

DAPPA CHOICE KALANNE Talent Acquisition|| Virtual Assistant || Talent Management || People Operations- (- Choice Dappa Professional Summary Results-driven HR professional with 4+ years of experience in recruitment, talent acquisition, and people operations across sectors such as FMCG, Logistics & Supply Chain, and Fintech. Known for developing and executing strategic HR initiatives that drive organizational growth, improve employee engagement, and boost talent retention. Skilled in end-to-end recruitment, candidate experience management, and onboarding processes, with a strong focus on aligning talent with business needs. In addition to my HR expertise, I bring valuable Virtual Assistant skills including calendar and email management, travel coordination, online research, document preparation, and general administrative support. I’m highly organized, tech-savvy, and experienced in using productivity tools to streamline tasks and enhance remote collaboration. My dual capabilities in HR and virtual assistance make me a versatile professional committed to delivering efficient and people-centered solutions. Skills Soft Skills — Project & Time Management| Communication & Collaboration| Administrative Support| Calendar & Email Management| Travel Coordination & Online Research| Confidentiality & Discretion| Client & Stakeholder Relationship Management| Talent Acquisition & HR Operations| Employee Relations & People Management| Tech-Savviness & Problem Solving| Technical Skill — Google Workspace| Microsoft Office |Slack, Zoom, Teams, Trello, Asana, ClickUp, Calendly, Zapier| Canva, |LinkedIn Recruiter, Zoho Recruit, SmartRecruiters, Boolean Search, Google X-ray, Reddit|HRIS Systems. Work Experience Recruitment Specialist Feb 2025 – Present BridgeGap Consults Limited Establish and maintain strong relationships with clients, understanding their specific hiring needs and business goals. Provide expert advice and guidance on recruitment strategies, policies, and procedures. Analyze client needs and develop tailored recruitment strategies to attract and hire top talent. Create and manage job postings and advertisements. Utilize various sourcing methods (e.g., online platforms, social media, databases) to identify potential candidates. Review and screen resumes and applications, identifying qualified candidates. Conduct interviews with potential candidates, evaluating their skills and qualifications. Manage the candidate pipeline, providing regular updates to clients and candidates. Assist with the onboarding process, ensuring a smooth transition for new hires. Provide ongoing support to clients on HR-related matters. • • • • • • • • • • Virtual Assistant Sep 2024 – Present Freelance Schedule and coordinate meetings, appointments, and reminders to support efficient calendar management. Manage email correspondence, prioritized messages, and responded to client and team inquiries promptly. Arrange travel logistics including flights, accommodations, and itineraries for smooth and stress-free trips. • • • Conduct online research to gather data, insights, and materials needed for business operations and decision-making. Prepare and format documents, presentations, reports, and spreadsheets for internal and external use. Organize digital files and maintain structured databases for quick access and secure information management. Support recruitment efforts by screening resumes, scheduling interviews, and communicating with candidates. Utilize productivity tools such as Trello, Asana, Slack, and Google Workspace to track tasks and collaborate with teams. Perform data entry tasks and complete online forms to ensure accuracy and consistency across systems. • • • • • • Talent Acquisition Specialist Mar 2024 – Nov 2024 Hiremote Africa Source and attract candidates using various channels, including databases, social media platforms, professional networks, industry events, and job fairs. Design and implement overall recruiting strategy, including assessing recruitment needs, forecasting future hiring requirements, and creating a recruitment roadmap aligned with business goals. Incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) objectives into recruitment strategies and establish KPIs to measure effectiveness. Oversee recruitment, onboarding, and talent management processes, ensuring standardized onboarding procedures and alignment with company culture and objectives. Manage talent pipelining by identifying critical roles, developing succession planning, and building relationships with potential candidates through networking and social media. Develop and implement employee engagement programs to enhance retention and maintain a strong talent pool for current and future needs. Manage end-to-end recruitment processes by tracking key metrics such as time-to-fill, quality of hire, and candidate experience. Continuously refine the recruitment process based on feedback and results, maintaining a database of candidate information for future reference. Implement reliable selection methods, including structured interviews, competency-based questions, and technical assessments. Utilize applicant tracking systems (ATS) to manage candidate information and interview schedules, ensuring collaboration with team members to gather diverse perspectives on candidates. • • • • • • • • • • Talent Acquisition Specialist Alerzo Limited Dec 2021 – Dec 2023 Achievements: Assisted the talent acquisition team to scale up the company's staff strength. Improved the company's automated processes by introducing seamless apps and software to manage the busy recruitment schedule utilizing tools such as Workday, Slack, MS Teams, Lever ATS, Greenhouse, Recruit'em, and many more. Improved the core HR practices, and managed stakeholders' and line managers' communication to improve strategic hiring and workforce planning. Actively built the company’s employer brand in the Technology industry including policy-making, research, planning, budgeting, reporting, and business performance improvement. Developed better recruitment strategies to attract the best candidates and ensure a seamless recruitment process saving the company's recruitment cost of involving third-party agencies in recruitment. Supported the implementation of retention strategies to reduce attrition rate.(Motivating employees to work,organising TGIFs,Therapy sessions for staff,Health checks,IWD,IMD,Opinion Banks,Initiatives Banks, Analysing the exit interview data for process improvements) Developed a proactive and innovative approach to Employee Engagement to ensure our people are listened to, and understood and solutions are focused to simultaneously evolve our employee experience and culture. • • • • • • • Monitor the current systems and strategies to uncover inefficiencies and suggest ways to improve while bringing fresh new ideas for improvements in capacity building. (Project EFI(a top-down Job Analysis,Competency Framework, Job Grading, Managed internal equity amongst employees, Templates revamping,) • Responsibilities: Managed the end to end recruitment process for tech talents across the organization to include:Products, Engineering, technology sales and marketing teams. Conduct thorough candidate assessments to evaluate technical skills, cultural fit, and potential for longterm success. Build a robust talent pipeline for current and future hiring needs. Proactively identify skill gaps and devise strategies to address them. Design and implement recognition and rewards programs to motivate and incentivize technical talent. Conduct comprehensive analyses of technical and soft skill requirements across the organization. Network with potential hires through professional groups on social media and during events. Collaborate with hiring managers to set qualification criteria for future employees. Oversee the seamless onboarding process for new technical hires. Ensure that new employees are integrated into the company culture and understand their roles and responsibilities. Track hiring metrics including time-to-hire, time-to-fill, and source of hire. Maintain a database of potential candidates for future job openings. Formulating detailed job descriptions and posting them. Conduct phone calls or meetings to create a shortlist of qualified candidates. Interviewing candidates on the shortlist and maintaining a database of employees for future vacancies.Efficiently fill vacant positions and ensure alignment with approved manning levels • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Human Resources Business Partner Alerzo Limited Dec 2020 – Dec 2021 Responsibilities: Responsible for the company's growth, development, and success by maintaining performance output from employees, ensuring a good working environment, listening, and maintaining quality relationships among the employees. Served as the first-level responder to inquiries from employees in the HR email mailbox. Instrumental in the upgrade of talent management platform; organized training to expand hiring managers’ awareness of the tool for talent acquisition. Actively involved in the learning and development training organized for the newly hired staff as well as the constant training for the old staff for their performance output improvement and self-development. Receiving and coordinating requests for leave, resignation, salary increment, and other absences for proper documentation and reference. Delivering daily reports on staff performances and issuing queries to disobedient or warring staff for proper conduct and a good representation of the company. Actively involved in payroll, compensation, and benefits for employees, considering the deductions included. Identify training needs for employees in various business units across locations. Develop and tailor strategies that build morale, improve workplace relationships, and boost productivity & retention. Maintaining an effective level of business literacy to understand the current & future needs of Alerzo to provide proactive support & services aligned to those needs. Identify business issues & suggests creative solutions. • • • • • • • • • • • Human Resources Executive Ashbeck Technology Mar 2018 – Mar 2019 Responsibilities: Supported the end-to-end recruitment process, including job profiling, sourcing, interviewing, and onboarding. Analyzed workforce data and metrics to identify trends and recommend proactive solutions for talent management. Managed employee relations, including conflict resolution, disciplinary actions, and performance improvement plans Assisted with developing an HSC plan that complies with company policy and procedures as well as client requirements. Provide timely HR operational support for other HR Business Partners across designated warehouse locations. Provide accurate records of exiting employees to the Comp. & Benefits team. • • • • • • Certificates ALX VA Program| ALX Africa – MasterCard Foundation Virtual Assistant Mastery Program- Millionaire Squad National Drug And Law Enforcement Agency( NDLEA) Health, safety and environment (HSE) HR Launchpad Bootcamp Certificate of National Service (NYSC) Professional in Human Resources International(in view) HRCI Education B.Sc. Applied and Environmental Biology Rivers State University References Available on request 2013 – 2017