Abbas Khan

An ambitious and creative inhouse recruiter with 8 years recruitment experience working in various sectors such as Banking, Software Houses, Retail and Wealth Management.

○ Responsible for the full lifecycle of the recruitment process from gathering requirements, candidate sourcing, screen calls, interview booking, offers, onboarding and stakeholder management

○ On average, responsible for 10-15 different roles at a time

○ Hired multiple roles for Junior, Mid, Senior, VP, and Director levels across a variety of technologies such as Java, React, AWS, Kafka, Python, iOS, Android, Security, DevOps, Product and many more.

○ Using different sourcing methods such as Linkedin, Job Boards, x-ray searching, Boolean Searching,

Headhunting, referrals, events

○ Consistently reviewing our compensation packages and reviewing them against market trends

○ Set up and involved in many events such as Women in Silicon Roundabout, Cloud ExPo

○ Advocate for Diversity hiring

○ Weekly/Daily Sync ups with stakeholders to catch up on recruitment needs, market updates and process feedback

○ Extensive use of Linkedin, cord, hired, Workable, internal advertising. Currently involved in onboarding more resources with the wider team

○ Processing candidates, offers and admin via Workable as our ATS

○ Onboarded Hackerank as a coding tool for interviews

○ Revamped the interview process to make sure it was more streamlined and smooth

○ Effective use of data to help identify different flaws in the recruitment process

○ Work closely with the Chase recruitment and engineering team to help with integration

Achievements

○ Helped grow the business by 150 people in 2022

○ Decreased the time to hire from 37 days to 10 days

○ Narrowed the interview process from 5 stages to 3

○ Successfully helped manage and set up our Cloud ExPo stand where we attracted a vast number of customer and candidates

○ Reduced agency costs by 95% saving approx. £2m by hiring an internal recruitment team

○ Increased hire success rate from 57% to 80%

○ Made solely responsible to drive and lead the recruitment process for Nutmeg

A level in Maths and Business