Zachariah Baljeu

Full-cycle embedded recruiting for client accounts

Tasks:

• Active sourcing on LinkedIn, Xing, X-Ray search, PeopleGPT
• Developing interview & feedback training for HM-enablement
• Screening applications, managing pipelines, interviewing candidates
• Scheduling & coordinating interviews
• Sparring with hiring managers on hiring-process, salary benchmarking (Glassdoor, Horsefly, Hays Salary Checker) & candidate market insights
• KPIs: Weekly Sourcing KPIs, LI Response Rate, Conversion Rate (Screening to HM), Hires per Month, Time-to-hire, Funnel Volume, Feedback time

Full-cycle responsibility:

Finance:

• Financial Controller
• Head of Treasury & Structured Finance
• HR Controller
• Senior Accountant
• Structured Finance Manager
• Senior Controller
• Treasury Manager

Tech

• Senior Data Scientist
• Working Student Backend Software Development

BI

• Senior Analytics Engineer

Product

• Technical Product Lead

Customer Service

• Vendor Operations Manager

Commercial:

• Account Executive
• SDR

Roles supported:

• Engineering Manager, Senior Software Engineer, Lead Analytics Engineer, P&O Partner

Highlights:

• Built a scheduling & coordination system to streamline internal pipeline management
• Built KPI-tracking & sourcing library
• Developed a quantitative candidate experience survey to assess interviewer performance and candidate experience
• Drove new sourcing tool implementation topic (Talentwunder & Indeed) - presented use cases to leadership.
• Drove automation tool implementation for interviewing (AI-assisted note-taking)
• Filled a critical business role (Senior Accountant) in a difficult candidate market, with full-cycle responsibility
• Proactive business lead generation for Chapter 2's Managing Partner

Clients supported:

• Ratepay GmbH (Financial Services; White Label)

• Sourced, screened, and interviewed candidates for Siemens Germany's portfolio of businesses
• Consulted business partners and hiring managers on optimal sourcing processes and candidate journey, as well as respective candidate markets per requisition via candidate mapping
• Collaborated with TA Partners to define sought-after candidate profiles and optimise candidate experience
• Supported confidential leadership searches and candidate mapping
• Shadowed and trained recruiters to improve their active sourcing skills
• Built and consolidated an in-house sourcing function in Office 365. Achieved over €1.3m cost reduction for TA Germany over 3-year period
• Built internal search string library, results tracking and internal capacity monitoring, contributing to overall knowledge management
• Grew sourcing team to 6 FTEs, achieving over 100 sourcing hires in 14 months
• Referral Contact: Manuela Stoeckl - Team Lead Talent Acquisition (current)

• Built diverse talent pipelines for tech & non-tech roles, screened applications, pitched roles for portfolio ventures
• Stakeholder management and first point-of-contact for C-level and IC-level profiles, promoting positive candidate experience
• Developed and maintained data repositories on Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, and Excel Sheets to support talent strategy
• Referral Contact: Katharina Horst, Senior Talent Architect (previous)

Value chain research & KPI-driven recruiting for consulting, corporate and private equity clients on strategy and due diligence projects

• Facilitated hundreds of strategic consultations across various industries for private equity, corporate, and consulting clients
• Grew company's BCG Nordic account and generated over €40k revenue in under a month
• Referral contact: Olena Didenko-Weber - Principal (previous)