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Walters Owan Manyo

White Plains,MD

Summary

Source and recruit talent nationwide. Seasoned senior recruiter with significant experience in full life cycle recruiting for numerous industries. Familiarity with diverse sourcing strategies, candidate evaluation, and stakeholder management. Notable strengths include strategic planning, relationship building, and talent acquisition. Previous work has consistently resulted in improved efficiency in hiring processes, ensuring quality hires within set deadlines.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
4
4
Certification

Work History

Senior Recruiter

Keany Produce & Gourmet
Landover, Maryland
10.2024 - Current
  • Develop and Implement Recruitment Strategies: Design and execute effective recruitment strategies to attract high-quality candidates. Utilize various sourcing methods, including job boards, social media, and professional networks.
  • Manage Recruitment Process: Oversee the entire recruitment lifecycle from job posting to onboarding.
  • Ensure a positive candidate experience throughout the hiring process.
  • Develop job descriptions and specifications in collaboration with department managers.
  • Recruit Talent: Source, interview, and present candidates whose values are in line with the organizations overall goals and needs to management.
  • Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop the recruitment team. Monitor team performance and provide feedback and training as needed.
  • Collaboration and Communication: Partner with department heads to understand staffing needs.
  • Develop workforce plans. Communicate regularly with hiring managers to provide updates on recruitment progress.
  • Metrics and Reporting: Track and analyze recruitment metrics to assess effectiveness and areas for improvement. Prepare regular reports on recruitment activities and outcomes.
  • Compliance and Best Practices: Ensure compliance with all relevant employment laws and regulations. Stay updated on industry trends and best practices in recruitment.

Executive Recruiter

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
Washington, DC
11.2022 - 10.2024
  • Responsible to execute full-cycle recruitment including identifying, sourcing, and engaging both passive and active candidates through creative and innovative recruitment tactics.
  • Gather, prepare, interpret and analyze a variety of employment data relating to advertising effectiveness, turnover, minority employment, recruiting campaigns and related items as required.
  • Plan and conduct college or advanced degree recruiting programs and internships.
  • Actively manage Key Performance Indicators by developing and analyzing key metrics to ensure the goals are met and/or exceeded.
  • Deliver high-quality service to internal customers by matching employee skills with customer needs.
  • Develop and create new job postings that clearly outline the needs of the jobs being filled and generate interest and applications from qualified recruits.
  • Build and maintain a network of potential candidates through ongoing relationship management and demonstrate the ability to anticipate the hiring manager's preferences.
  • Leverage social media and job posting boards to highlight the company and attract the right talent.
  • Develop, streamline, and roll out processes for end-to-end candidate experience including sourcing, screening, interviewing, selection, and onboarding.
  • Responsible to follow up with any related clerical aspects of recruiting to ensure requisitions are completed efficiently and are authorized.
  • Maintain requisition and hiring statistics for preparation of weekly reports on candidate hiring cycle and recruiting-related activities.
  • Continually recruit candidates for potential positions by identifying key skills and capabilities that meet the company's contract requirements.

Senior Recruiter (Nationwide)

Medly
Brooklyn, New York
05.2021 - 09.2022
  • Manage full-cycle recruitment for specific caseloads and internal accounts within Medly's Rx team.
  • Use a variety of sourcing techniques, such as Boolean searches, to target top quality candidates on a variety of platforms (i.e. Indeed, LinkedIn, etc.).
  • Regularly meet with your internal customers to ensure consistent alignment and understanding of their needs, requirements, and the best way to manage them.
  • Research new roles and competitor offerings to help create effective and attractive job ads and proposed compensation bands in close collaboration with internal customers.
  • Partner deeply with internal customers (hiring managers) to talk them through difficult hiring decisions and advise them on their needs and which candidates will meet them.
  • Predict and proactively suggest staffing and hiring solutions to recruiting challenges, including changes to job descriptions, duties, and/or compensation bands that are not meeting hiring manager needs.
  • Project manage multiple recruiting projects and workflows while maintaining accountability for the accuracy of recruiting dashboards.
  • Negotiate job offers with candidates in a way that leverages strategy and a fundamental understanding of candidate and business needs.
  • Consult with and advise hiring teams on best practices, including interviewing and talent selection practices, how to ensure candidate experiences are positive, and how to ensure that we are respecting all federal, state and local laws and regulations.
  • Guide new hires through the onboarding process as needed, and follow-up with them after they've had a chance to acclimate to Medly in order to ensure that they're feeling welcomed and included.

Recruiter

Freshly
Savage, Maryland
02.2019 - 05.2021
  • Actively source and engage active and passive talent by leveraging referrals, leads, technology, external recruiting partners, events, and more.
  • Conduct pre-screening interviews of applicants (walk-in's and online) for both salaried and hourly positions.
  • Develop strong relationships and partner with hiring manager.
  • Develop a pool of qualified candidates utilizing various sources.
  • Lead the creation of a recruiting and interviewing plan for each open position.
  • Work with the team brainstorming on how to further develop and foster recruiting best practices.
  • Track and report key metrics designed to measure and predict staffing activity.
  • Coordinate a high volume of phone and onsite interviews, organize travel arrangements for candidates, reserve conference rooms, and provide confirmations for the candidate.
  • Greet and facilitate a high volume of walk-in candidates.
  • Deliver a high level of communication between recruiters, hiring managers, candidates, and other stakeholders.
  • Maintain and update all recruiting data including calendars, Excel Sheets etc.
  • Be responsible for the candidate interview experience from first contact through the interview process.
  • Maintain accurate reporting within our internal tools and ATS (we use Workday).
  • Act as the liaison between hiring managers, candidates and recruiters.
  • Contribute to projects that positively impact the recruiting team.

Recruiter/Onsite coordinator

AtWork Personnel Services
Jessup, Maryland
02.2016 - 02.2019
  • Hire employees and process hiring-related paperwork.
  • Prepare or maintain employment records related to events such as hiring, termination, leaves, transfers, or promotions, using human resources management system software.
  • Inform job applicants of details such as duties and responsibilities, compensation, benefits, schedules, working conditions, or promotion opportunities.
  • Interpret and explain human resources policies, procedures, laws, standards, or regulations.
  • Address employee relations issues, such as harassment allegations, work complaints, or other employee concerns.
  • Maintain current knowledge of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and affirmative action guidelines and laws, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
  • Schedule or conduct new employee orientations.
  • Maintain and update human resources documents, such as organizational charts, employee handbooks or directories, or performance evaluation forms.
  • Select qualified job applicants or refer them to managers, making hiring recommendations when appropriate.
  • Review employment applications and job orders to match applicants with job requirements.
  • Perform searches for qualified job candidates, using sources such as computer databases, networking, Internet recruiting resources, media advertisements, job fairs, recruiting firms, or employee referrals.
  • Interview job applicants to obtain information on work history, training, education, or job skills.

Supply Chain Supervisor

Wazfal Shopping ltd
10.2013 - 11.2015
  • Managed relationship with logistic service providers and warehousing management.
  • Supported external partnerships with vendors, contractors and consultants.
  • Minimized vehicle downtime and units out of service.
  • Facilitated project meetings with clear responsibilities and timelines.
  • Participated in corporate wide logistics strategy development.
  • Optimized customer service and working capital requirements.
  • Ensured Warehouse personnel maintained housekeeping and organization throughout warehouse.
  • Local and international sourcing of suppliers and placement of goods orders.
  • Train employees on customer service and ensure effective customer service in the store.
  • Control goods reception and storage in the warehouse.
  • Ensure effective customer order processing from order reception to sorting picking, packing, creating shipping document and order delivery in order to meet datelines and ensure customer satisfaction.
  • Set safety standards and ensure employee adherence to all safety standards.
  • Ensure customer satisfaction by providing quality product and assisting customers about product information in order to gain customer loyalty.
  • Control employee log book and sent information to payroll.

Data Processing Specialist

Data Management Consultants
11.2009 - 01.2013
  • Performed computer system operations including order entry, billing, crediting and updating medical records.
  • Analyzed data and information for quality, consistency and accuracy.
  • Copied, scanned and faxed documents using appropriate equipment.
  • Verified outdated data and made any necessary changes to records.
  • Prepared source data for computer entry by compiling and sorting information.
  • Transferred data from hard copy to digital database.
  • Provided assistance with purchasing data maintenance.
  • Kept record of inventory in accurate and efficient manner on daily basis.
  • Created forms and documents to support inventory control and property transfers.
  • Maintained effective communication and coordination with area supervisors, production operators and maintenance technicians.
  • Notify supervisor or computer maintenance technicians of equipment malfunctions.
  • Control worker exit and entry time at work for over 800 workers.
  • Input workers daily earnings in to the computer and run payroll for monthly payouts.
  • Conduct monthly inventory stock count of drugs in the pharmacy.
  • Write weekly, monthly and quarterly report to responsible authorities.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Environmental Sciences

University of Buea

Skills

  • Applicant tracking system
  • Staffing analysis
  • Talent acquisition
  • Interviewing techniques
  • Effective communication
  • Negotiation skills
  • Applicant assessment
  • Social media recruiting
  • Boolean search
  • Verbal and written communication
  • Compensation negotiation
  • Recruitment marketing
  • Confidentiality handling
  • LinkedIn sourcing
  • Recruitment strategy development
  • Recruiting software experience
  • Strategic sourcing
  • Hiring metrics analysis
  • Full cycle recruiting
  • Cross-functional teamwork
  • Employment law
  • Process improvement
  • Salary and benefits negotiations
  • Excel spreadsheets
  • Networking events
  • Client relationship management
  • Recruitment process improvement
  • Job posting optimization
  • Job fairs planning
  • Recruitment strategy

Certification

  • Certified Technical Recruiter,
  • Professional Recruiter Certification
  • Certified Diversity and Inclusion Recruiter
  • Certified Social Media Recruiter
  • Certified Military and veteran Recruiter

Timeline

Senior Recruiter

Keany Produce & Gourmet
10.2024 - Current

Executive Recruiter

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
11.2022 - 10.2024

Senior Recruiter (Nationwide)

Medly
05.2021 - 09.2022

Recruiter

Freshly
02.2019 - 05.2021

Recruiter/Onsite coordinator

AtWork Personnel Services
02.2016 - 02.2019

Supply Chain Supervisor

Wazfal Shopping ltd
10.2013 - 11.2015

Data Processing Specialist

Data Management Consultants
11.2009 - 01.2013

Bachelor of Science - Environmental Sciences

University of Buea
Walters Owan Manyo