LUKE ADAMS
Talent Associate
Kraaifontein
Summary
I am the solution for all your talent needs. An extremely motivated person who would like to pursue a career in talent management. I have experience in providing fantastic support to my TA team where I am the TA top performer for the year of 2024 at Valuations Australia and Harvest and 2025 at Kupa Global. I have exceeded all client and employer expectations, providing great turnaround times for hires in high pressure environments at Kupa Global. I have successfully restructured the technical team at Valuations Australia and Harvest and due to this the companies website and complex application was able to be completed through top tier placements. I am a loyal worker who is interested in building a relationship with a corporate company where I am able to attain an opportunity but also to contribute to the company's growth.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
2022
2022
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Talent Associate
Kupa Global
03.2025 - Current
- Established strong relationships with key stakeholders, facilitating effective communication across departments and teams.
- Optimized departmental processes with the implementation of innovative strategies, resulting in improved efficiency and reduced costs.
- Managed the entire recruitment process from inception, developing job description and posting on necessary job boards to resourcing, screening, shortlisting, interviewing and assessing. Assisting in preparation for final interviews, onboarding and offboarding.
- Put together a recruitment training program.
- Assisted in recruitment SOP's, created the entire resourcing SOP including POPI and GDPR regulations.
- Headhunting top tier talent for technical roles such as Machine Learning/AI engineers, software developers and immersing myself within the global tech community.
- Utilizing different social media channels to engage with tech talent such as stack overflow, Github, Webinars, WhatsApp Communities, LinkedIn Groups, Facebook groups and many more.
- Creating pipelines of top talent within Africa.
- Providing some of the quickest turn-around time on hard-to-fill tech roles.
- Researching the influence of AI within recruitment and establishing different prompts that can shorten time spent on recruitment admin tasks.
- Managing the full function of the ATS.
- Providing recruitment reports to clients on Fridays.
- Building relationships with key stakeholders and keeping them informed throughout the process.
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
Valuations Australia Group, Harvest and Zenith Clinics
01.2024 - Current
- Resourcing and recruiting for multiple industries such as network developers and senior software developers, CTO’s, management roles such as procurement managers and supply chain management, social media managers and campaign managers, sales managers, and many more.
- Competent with editing and updating contracts, creating and sending offer letters.
- Assisting in the ongoing activity of contributing to the management of the recruitment process by tracking roles and providing process management, daily check in’s and updates on role trackers.
- We also make use of Jira to track the performance of our recruitment team by listing our tasks with the time completed to track role turnaround times and which stages of the process we are struggling with most and strengthen those weaknesses.
- Creating job descriptions and managing full Indeed and Seek company profile, updating about company details and branding on job board platforms.
- Ensuring that before any resourcing is done that all the necessary information required is provided such as expected start dates, budget for the role as well as priority of the hire and required competencies.
- Making use of Zoho Recruitment Platform as our ATS. Tracking applicant status throughout the hiring process for jobs on Indeed and Seek.
- Resourcing on multiple platforms such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Behance, Upwork, indeed resume search, CV library and many more.
- Managing the full employee life cycle.
- Shortlisting and selection are completed after detailed screenings and interviews Boolean searching for resourcing allows me to find the ideal candidates quickly and sending connect messages and InMail’s to all suitable candidates.
- Running campaigns through Wiza and swordfish connected to LinkedIn Recruiter projects to gain mobile numbers and email addresses of potential candidates.
- I currently manage the resourcing and recruitment of approximately 5 to 7 roles at a time across different levels (senior and junior staff) and different industries namely, technology, creative, senior corporate, sales, medical.
- I negotiate salaries for roles in different currencies and markets across the world.
- Building and maintaining a network with people who work in fields which the company regularly hires.
- This allows me to be proactive in my role if ever another role becomes available there’s a 90% chance, I already have a connection with someone in the field or related field.
- I am always flexible in my approach to ensure I always meet and exceed expectations.
- If I am in a high-pressure situation whereby candidates need to start ASAP! I would ensure I explore all possible avenues, such as working effectively to save time by responding to candidates after hours via email as this saves time for the next day’s responses and I have found that when doing this candidates move through TA hiring stages a lot quicker.
- Always open to learning new approaches, strategies and platforms in the TA space, upskilling myself by means of short courses and continued learning in the workplace.
Co-Founder and Talent Acquisition Specialist
TAlligence Recruitment Partners
10.2024 - 02.2025
- Company Overview: TAlligence Recruitment Partners is a recruitment agency providing accurate and quick results. Utilizing state-of-the-art technology and processes we shorten the turn-around times of roles to ensure your company never misses a beat and keeps thriving. We decrease the amount you spend on roles by charging a lower than usual rate of 12% and providing you with quick results within 3 - 5 days we will present a shortlist of candidates to clients.
- Marketing and Sales
- Contract negotiation
- Recruitment management and 360 Recruitment
- Business Development
- Operational needs / Platform accounts
- Brand Development
- TAlligence Recruitment Partners is a recruitment agency providing accurate and quick results. Utilizing state-of-the-art technology and processes we shorten the turn-around times of roles to ensure your company never misses a beat and keeps thriving. We decrease the amount you spend on roles by charging a lower than usual rate of 12% and providing you with quick results within 3 - 5 days we will present a shortlist of candidates to clients.
Co-Founder
TAlligence
10.2024 - 02.2025
- Auditing companies recruitment processes
- Running implementation of processes
- Identifying pain points and improving processes.
- Shortening timelines if necessary, decreasing budgets without having to sacrifice quality of talent applying.
Recruitment and Bookings coordinator
Nursing Personnel
06.2023 - 01.2024
- Exceptional telephone etiquette.
- Responding to mails at a rapid pace.
- Assisting potential candidates such as health care assistants, care support workers, registered nurses and registered mental health nurses.
- The first point of contact with candidates required the following. Assessing candidates’ healthcare knowledge and experience.
- It is essential to know what band candidates are. What pay rate they are looking for and where they would like to work in the United Kingdom.
- Offering the highest rate which is in the area the candidate would like to work in and ensuring there are shifts in the area before offering the rates.
- Erecting an accurate recruitment pipeline.
- Organise and upload each nurses documents accordingly onto an HR database.
- Ensure CV’s are compliant with company regulations.
- Convert all documents to pdf and make sure that documents are straight and cropped before uploading documents.
- Attain document from candidate such as passport, id proof, drivers license, training certificates, DBS - criminal record check, NI number or NI proof, reference checks, Immunisations - vaccines, proof of address check, right to work checks for those candidates who are not originally from Great Britain.
- I check and verify all documents to ensure the documents can be used and are not expired or counterfeit.
- It is imperative that I know the area geographically and which hospitals belongs to which trusts and which hospitals have shifts and which types of nurses they require.
- Sending all documents to the trust the candidate would like to work in and ensuring they get approved by the trust before they start working with the agency.
- 360 recruitment, assisting candidates from their registration until they are fully compliant and approved in a trust.
- Lastly booking them into shifts and keeping them compliant.
Resource and Recruitment Coordinator
ITARMI
10.2022 - 01.2023
- Being responsible for ensuring engineers globally are onboarded successfully, attended necessary training, provided all necessary documents and completed registration on ITARMI platform with personal details.
- I used LinkedIn as my base for resourcing new engineers in different countries this allowed for mass recruitment.
- The section of my role which had some sales included in it is negotiating travel cost with engineers and checking that the cost correlates with the distance travelled and adding markup.
- Additionally, I also aided NCR corporation with regards to providing engineer details and travel cost and hourly or fixed cost for a particular task.
- I ensure the job is added onto the platform and all data correlates with what is required.
- I also ensure that all tasks which are opened and completed are closed and ready for billing.
- Responsible for resourcing it engineers for much larger tasks such as projects across the world such as Brazil, France, Chile and United Kingdom.
- Duties include filing all engineers documents, using a job tracker on excel to keep my work organized as I deal with great amounts of tasks to be resource, filled and billed.
- If the customer has a bad experience with one of our engineers provided and escalates the matter I am then responsible for opening an investigation and ensuring the engineer provides a full report of the events on site I would also then provide the customer with a copy of the report provided by the engineer.
- Once I have settled the matter with both the customer and engineer I would then take the necessary action when knowing which parties were at fault and then close the investigation.
- This role required the following skills, attention to detail at a fast pace, organized individual, well-spoken, quick thinking for communicating with people of all languages, mass resourcing skills, negotiating skills, keeping track of mails and messages by responding to requests from customer or NCR corporation and executing tasks and providing necessary assistance.
- Last but not least building relationships with engineers as well as the clients.
Education
BA - Psychology, Linguistics, Sociology
HR Management Certificate - undefined
Skills
Effective planning and organizational skills
Resourcing on multiple platforms
Creating job descriptions
Creating Talent SOP's
Advertising jobs on job boards
Screening and Interviewing
Shortlisting and Selection
Negotiating Salaries
Onboarding/Offboarding
MS Office
Exceptional with Excel
Fast learner
Motivated to succeed
Excellent interpersonal skills
Attention to detail
Attributes
- Honest
- Loyal and trustworthy
- Assertive
- Good work ethic
- Willingness to learn
- Flexible and understanding
- Hardworking
Awards
- TA Top Performer, 2024, Harvest, Valuations Australia and Zenith Clinics
- Recruitment Consultant Top Performer, 2024, Nursing Personnel
Timeline
Talent Associate - Kupa Global
03.2025 - Current
Co-Founder and Talent Acquisition Specialist - TAlligence Recruitment Partners
10.2024 - 02.2025
Co-Founder - TAlligence
10.2024 - 02.2025
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist - Valuations Australia Group, Harvest and Zenith Clinics
01.2024 - Current
Recruitment and Bookings coordinator - Nursing Personnel
06.2023 - 01.2024
Resource and Recruitment Coordinator - ITARMI
10.2022 - 01.2023
University of Cape Town - HR Management Certificate,
University of The Western Cape - BA, Psychology, Linguistics, Sociology