Waithera Irungu | Freelancer Resume

Waithera Irungu- - An experienced recruiter connecting talent with dream careers. Specializing in identifying top talent, building relationships, and delivering exceptional recruitment solutions. Let's connect and achieve your hiring goals. WORK EXPERIENCE (Jan 2022 - Present) LTVplus Global Talent Acquisition Specialist • Managing end-to-end recruitment efforts to meet the growing needs of LTVplus • Full-cycle recruitment activities from sourcing to selection while collaborating with hiring managers to understand best-fit talent and devising effective evaluation methods and assessment tools to enhance the hiring quality. • Strategic partnering with business leaders to advise and execute best practices for acquiring talent. This includes screening and behavioral interviewing, negotiations, compensation, and closing strategies to ensure timely recruitment milestones are met. • Stakeholder management and engagement, timely updates to hiring managers, colleagues, and other relevant stakeholders throughout the recruitment and selection process. • Identifying the best channels for advertising job opportunities, including professional associations, other niche job boards, social media outlets, and recruitment events to ensure a wider reach. https://www.ltvplus.com/ (Mar 2021 - Present) Freelance Recruitment Freelance Recruiter • Full-cycle recruitment for various organizations • Building talent pipelines needed for business growth, succession planning, and replacement hires. • Conduct in-depth consultation meetings with hiring managers to appropriately align candidate sourcing activities with the role requirements. • Headhunting different profiles and creating a database. • Creating unique ways to source candidates directly, including the more traditional avenue such as LinkedIn, job boards, internal and external networks. • Ensuring candidates receive a highly positive experience through the entire recruitment process. • Recruitment marketing (Jul 2021 - Jan 2022) M-Kopa Recruitment Assistant - Maternity Reliever • End-to-end recruitment services https://m-kopa.com/ (Mar 2020 - Feb 2021) Arifu Talent Assistant • Supporting the implementation of talent management, recruitment, and retention strategies; • Supporting in creation and implementation of policies; • Supporting in the coordination of all external recruitment; • Identifying and managing scope, constraints, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and deadlines; documenting risk mitigation plans. • Relationship management with various institutional partners contacts, including academic universities, industry hubs, and other networks where we would source talent; • Actively collaborate with the internal teams to identify new talent needs and strengthen our internal talent. Reason for leaving: Lay off due to Covid19 https://www.arifu.com/ (Nov 2018 - Mar 2020) Oloika Engineering Works HR/Admin/OperationsManager This is a family business that I assisted in the daily operations like paying workers, purchasing supplies, and receiving payments from customers. (Apr 2017 - Oct 2019) Wadi Degla Investment Kenya Limited Human Resources Generalist • Coordinate recruitment and selection processes from end to end; • Learning and Development; • Processing of payroll and necessary deductions; • Generation and Implementation of company policies; • Managing the staff leave schedules and processing leave applications; • Managing the company medical scheme; Key Achievements: • Employee of the month after 3 months of joining the company. • Recruited the sales team that in turn brought in new members to the club. Reason for leaving: Left voluntarily to take charge of the family business because my parent was unwell. (Sep 2016 - Mar 2017) Cedar Africa Group Human Resources Consultant • Providing support in the Executive Search Selection process and end-to-end recruitment activities; • Providing administrative support in training including following up with clients on enrolment for training; • Writing reports on recruitment and training including supporting other consulting reports as necessary; • Managing the recruitment database and ensuring that all candidate information is updated, organized, and easily accessible; • Support in follow-up with clients on ongoing consulting projects as required from time to time. Key Achievement: Recruitment of senior and middle management for our clients (Jun 2015 - Sep 2016) CDL Human Resources Officer/Supervisor • Manage outsourced employees for 3 of the CDL clients- GTELKenya, Supersport & Copycat. • Prepare the payroll on behalf of the client and process the same using the MemorySoftpayroll system; • Carry out interviews on-site and hire new staff on behalf of the client; • Prepare contracts for new staff. • Conduct recruitment, induction, and the entire selection to the separation process; • Preparing periodic monthly reports; • Organizing staff training by conducting training needs assessments; • Performance & Leave management; • Compensation and Benefits Management Key Achievements: • Single-handedly set up the Human Resource Department for GTeLKenya which was new in the Kenyan market. • Formulated policies and procedures, balanced scorecards, and job descriptions for all the staff. Preferred Personnel Africa Ltd Human Resources Assistant • Drafting of employment contracts for outsourced staff; • Assist in running PayplusPayroll System • Handling administration that comes with outsourced contractors; • Recruiting - placing adverts, long listing, shortlisting, interviewing & headhunting • Organizing training for entry-level staff; • Drafting of recruitment and outsourcing proposals for clients; Key Achievements: Recruiting senior executives through headhunting on LinkedIn. (Sep 2014 - Mar 2015) EDUCATION College of Human Resources Management Higher Diploma in Human Resources Management (Jan 2014 - Dec 2014) College of Human Resources Management Certificate in Counseling (Jun 2014 - Dec 2014) (Jan 2008 - Jun 2012) Strathmore University Bachelor of Commerce REFERENCES Lilian Mburu Direct Manager -- Caroline Mbugua Direct Manager -- Milcah Mei Ramirez Direct Manager --SKILLS Global Talent Acquisition Global Sourcing Technical Recruitment CERTIFICATIONS Associate IHRM Member Institute of HRM (Mar 2017)