Maria Pardo

Recruitment

• End-to-end recruitment process for Canada, United States and Europe.
• Meeting with managers to discuss vacancies, applicant qualifications, and characteristics of top candidates.
• Conducting phone interviews to assess applicant's relevant knowledge, skills, experience and aptitudes.
• Research and share Market intel adjusting recruitment strategies accordingly.

Recruitment Management

• Manage recruitment team, train and mentor new hires. Supervise a team of 5 senior recruiters and 2 administrators while still recruiting for the hard-to-fill roles myself.
• Collaborate with internal teams to continuously improve recruitment processes and execute as efficiently as possible.
• Stakeholder Management. Manage strategic partnership initiatives to drive measurable outcomes and deeper relationships with cross-functional teams.
• Identify opportunities to use technology and automation to enhance communication between teams and achieve business success through process enhancements.
• Account project management. Prepare and present reports on the status of projects and initiatives led by me on continuous improvements, operational excellence and internal audits.

• End-to-end recruitment process for active roles to be filled. The process includes from new vacancy briefing with HM to on-boarding of hired candidate.
• Proactive talent pool building and candidate engagement.
• Owner of recruitment process improvements. (Appointed Operational Excellence leader)
• Responsible for providing market intelligence analysis on each role and continuously improving their sourcing strategies as well as drafting the most gender-neutral, compelling advertisements and job postings that ensure maximum visibility and candidate attraction.
• Responsible for managing relationships and continuous communication with our stakeholders (hiring managers appointed for each vacancy and their hrbps).
• Head of team training (training new hires of the team, coaching and mentoring junior recruiters)
• Responsible for setting up the entire recruitment process handbook (recruitment flow, trackers, charts, drafting templates, systems training, etc).
• Forecasting: Attend weekly meetings with our client to understand HR future needs.
• Ensuring optimal recruitment service delivery that results in positive candidate and manager recruitment satisfaction surveys.
• Agency management

• Building the entire Latam recruitment process from scratch.
• Implement best practices and continuous improvements.
• Responsible for coaching, mentoring and supervising 10 direct reports (Senior recruiters).

• Headhunting executive level positions nationwide for the US and Latam regions. All sorts of profiles among all type of industries.
• End-to-end recruitment process.
• Managing a team of sourcers in India.

• Lead the proactive recruitment of professionals in Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Food solutions, R&D, Finance, HR and IT for Unilever US and Latam. Internal talent mapping, as well as external talent hunting.
• Before the actual need arises, my team and I recruit passive candidates (creating internal talent pools for every profile in the company), in doing so, I make sure the team and myself meet our SLAs and improve candidate and client satisfaction while reducing our timelines to fill vacancies in half.
• Responsible for monitoring and ensuring every deadline is met by the team. Responsible for the team's ultimate delivery.
• Provide coaching and training to my team members. Responsible for every team member's individual development.
• Manage projects from their conceptions to their presentation and posterior implementation.
• Member of the Global Excellence Group representing my region: Responsible for suggesting continuous improvement items for every HR process.
• Provide training in systems such as Taleo, LinkedIn Recruiter, Social media, sourcing in job boards, specialized sites and universities.
• Deliver continuous reports to the client on HR processes.
• Forecasting: Attend weekly meetings with our client to understand HR future needs.
• Brand awareness initiatives: Social media awareness, career events, google hangouts, candidate campaigns to keep our talent pools engaged in the company.

• Responsible for the identification, assessment, and development of external candidate pools for client vacancies utilizing various resource tools, sourcing strategies, and techniques.
• Develop and implement defined recruitment strategies.
• Assist in the coordination and implementation of strategies to develop applicant pools. Utilize multiple sources of information to maintain and adjust strategy as necessary.
• Proactively search for qualified candidates.
• Use research and search skills to identify prospects and maintain appropriate contact information.
• Ensure a clear understanding of the positions we are recruiting for and understand the selection criteria to be applied.
• Proactively identify new resources applicable to different industries.
• Provide continuous feedback.
• Generate ideas and share information to facilitate an effective search process.
• Utilize required systems to track candidates, workflow, sourcing data, and screening information. Responsible for documenting, tracking, and maintaining applicant records and status of engagements in the applicant tracking system.
• Source and screen different candidates simultaneously for several positions for companies in the US and Canada.