Karen Dudek
Atwell,Australia
Summary
Passion for connecting top talent with meaningful career opportunities, along with ensuring a positive candidate and Hiring manager experience.
Professional talent acquisition expert with strong focus on results and commitment to high standards. Known for effectively sourcing and recruiting high-quality candidates while fostering collaborative and adaptable team environment. Reliable and flexible, consistently meeting evolving needs of organization. Proficient in candidate assessment, relationship building, and strategic planning.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
TALENT ACQUISITION ADVISOR
YMCA WA
02.2024 - Current
- Reduced time to hire by 60% in a high turn over industry.
- Fully staffed a remote WA Early learning service, which saw a massive downturn in agency spend by 80%
- Instrumental in setting up and implementing a centralised recruitment process to enhance the Hiring manager and Candidate experience
- Collaborated with hiring managers across Early Learning and OSHC services to forecast hiring needs and deliver strategic recruitment plans.
- Manage full-cycle recruitment for roles ranging from entry-level to senior leadership.
- Instrumental in setting up and implementing a centralised recruitment process to enhance the Hiring manager and Candidate experience
- Identifying process gaps and process improvements
- Implement sourcing strategies using Seek Talent Search, and internal databases.
- Collaborate with Talent Acquisition team to ensure alignment with broader talent strategies
- Diversity & Inclusion Hiring
- Supported high-volume recruitment across multiple business units.
- Initial screening, coordinating interviews, Pre-employment checks and preparation of employment related paperwork.
- Maintained accurate records in ATS
TALENT ACQUISITION SPECIALIST
SHIRE OF SERPENTINE JARRAHDALE
10.2023 - 01.2024
- 3 mth contract to support the HR team
- Local government – recruiting across both Blue and white collar roles
- Supporting the successful execution of the recruitment process
- Phone screening, interviewing alongside panel members
- Pre-employment checks and preparation of employment related paperwork.
- Collaborating with hiring managers to understand their requirements.
- Support recruitment systems & tools to facilitate effective recruitment processes and sound decision making.
TALENT ACQUISITION SPECIALIST
COMPASS GROUP
10.2023 - 10.2024
- High Volume recruitment
- Advertising through to offer
- Pre-employment checks and preparation of employment related paperwork.
- Collaborating with hiring managers to understand their requirements.
- Support recruitment systems & tools to facilitate effective recruitment processes and sound decision making.
- Phone screening, interviewing.
Education
Echuca Technical College
Echuca, VICSkills
- Recruitment Tools: Seek Talent Search
- Social Media & Branding: Glassdoor
- Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS): BRS, Page up
- Passion for exceptional Customer service
- End to End recruitment
- Relationship Building
- Interviewing & Assessment
- Onboarding & Candidate Experience
- Highly organized
- ATS & HRIS Systems (Big Red Sky)
- Relocation assistance
- Candidate assessment
- Job posting optimization
- Remote hiring
- Recruitment marketing
- Diversity and inclusion initiatives
- Onboarding support
- Collaborative hiring
- Interview coordination
- Onboarding processes
- Candidate sourcing
- Building partnerships
Certification
WWCC
Timeline
TALENT ACQUISITION ADVISOR
YMCA WA
02.2024 - Current
TALENT ACQUISITION SPECIALIST
SHIRE OF SERPENTINE JARRAHDALE
10.2023 - 01.2024
TALENT ACQUISITION SPECIALIST
COMPASS GROUP
10.2023 - 10.2024
Echuca Technical College