Prashilta Amilthan

Leading temporary and permanent recruitment strategy for Aurecon's NSW/ACT region across Land and Water, Project Services and Enterprise service groups.

My role requires me to deliver both high volume and executive search level recruitment. The roles I recruit include and are not limited to:

• Technical Directors
• Senior, Principal and Lead Engineers (Water Specialist)
• Project Engineers
• Surveyors
• Enterprise - Digital, Finance and Legal

My role requires me to:

• Build strong, credible relationships with senior leadership, hiring managers, critical stakeholders and partners across the business and to operate as a trusted advisor and talent subject matter expert
• Develop and execute creative sourcing strategies with hiring managers, employees, and the wider People Team.
• Drive the full recruitment lifecycle using Workday Recruiting, LinkedIn Recruiter, LinkedIn Insights, Broadbean, and Seek.
• Lead/participate in recurring recruitment update meetings with hiring managers on a weekly and Monthly basis. Communicating Strategy, reporting and results to Practice Leads and Service Group Leads (Leadership Teams)
• Driving a number of new Diversity initiatives across the practice and region.

Driving strategic people initiatives across diversity and inclusion, EVP/PVP and best practice recruitment.

Some Projects and initiatives include:

• Workday Recruiting Reimagined
• Aurecon Benefits
• Hot Jobs
• Shared Services - Process Improvement
• Recruitment Strategy
• Engineering & FB Mums
• WIDAC Engagement
• NAWIC Engagement
• FutureNet
• Addressing Diversity in Water (International Women's Day)
• Bulk Background Check
• Business Case Review
• Grad Events with universities

Recent Achievements in my end to end role include:

• Growing Land and Water Practice by 16% and achieving a competitively low Attrition for the practice.
• Diversity Hire - Achieving 45% diversity in FY23 Hires.
• Recognition for driving Workday Recruiting Re-Imagined Project.
• Significantly reducing Agency Spend for the Practice

Korn Ferry is a global organisational consulting firm, synchronising strategy, and talent to drive superior performance for their clients. Korn Ferry is an RPO provider to NBNCO – an Australian government-owned corporation tasked to design, build, and operate Australia's National Broadband Network as a Monopoly wholesale broadband provider.

As a Recruitment Business Partner and Senior Talent Acquisition Professional in the team, I supported our Customer Products and Marketing (CPM), Corporate, Regional Development and Engagement (RDE), Chief Data Office (CDO), Technical, Transformation and Projects (Field Services & Grad) Teams with Strategic and Senior / Executive hires as weall as Volume Recruitment.

I was accountable for facilitating the end-to-end recruitment process by implementing strategic sourcing strategies, providing key insights and quality candidates across a wide range of business units.

Day to Day:

• Partnered with hiring managers to run deep dive analysis on recruitment requirements to provide a proactive solution to their hiring needs.
• Proactively manage end to end recruitment lifecycle i.e. Job brief to Onboarding
• Advertising roles through various job boards including Workday Internal, nbn Career's website and LinkedIn.
• CV screening high volume candidate applications
• Screening and delivering strong proactive candidate pipelines along with recommendations and a strong shortlisting experience.
• Conducting indirect candidate sourcing, sourcing channel optimisation and proactive development of talent pools.
• Designing and facilitating recruitment events for volume intakes i.e., Field Services and Grad Recruitment.
• Presenting LinkedIn and industry insights to educate and consult hiring managers.
• Facilitating and working with background check and reference check providers to ensure they are cleared, and exemptions are sought where required.
• Training new starters
• Acting as a mentor to sourcing consultants across other Korn Ferry Accounts.

Key Achievements

• Received Recruiter of the Year Award 2021 across Korn Ferry ANZ RPO
• Employee of the month across August 2021 – November 2021
• My Career Week 2019 – educating and uplifting nbn employees with relation to their Resumes and CV's, interviewing etc.
• Graduate Program – Virtual Assessment Centre 2020 (Volume Intake)
• Sourcing Manual Training guide
• Training and Developing new starters – Taking the lead in putting together the recruitment guide for new starters and rolling it out.
• Field Services Assessment Centre (Volume Intake)
• Management of Organisations Restructure (Volume Intake)

Established in 2010, CGC Recruitment is a privately owned recruitment company specialising in the Construction and Engineering sectors.

Specialist Divisions are Architecture, Building, Consulting, HSEQ, Infrastructure, MEP, NSW Government and Rail.

My role involved developing a market presence in Enterprise roles across the Design and construction industry for CGC.

Industry Specific:

• Using BCI (construction specific) to research/map market and understand current construction projects
• Active participation in networking events including Women in Construction and Design, SEEK, LinkedIn Events and More.

Achievements:

• Successfully negotiated and agreed Professional Services Agreements
• Currently Account Manager to service Tier 1 Contractors including and not limited to John Holland, CPB and more
• Consistent and high billings
• Recording in Top 5 Billing Agent in the company across 2x offices for EOFY competing with experienced (Senior and Principle) Consultants with over 8 years industry experience

I was brought on to manage Temporary and

Permanent Business Support Recruitment in a end to end 360 Recruitment Role.

Easy A is an innovative end to end digital learning provider that thinks well outside the norm. They specialise in mastering client's business needs and ensuring the delivery of digital learning solutions that meet the desired outcomes.

My role with Easy A involved partnering with hiring managers to provide top talent to the creative and development teams who worked to design to create attractive, quality, learning products. My specialist area included Learning and Development, Change and Project Management and Enterprise Roles.

As the Administration Manager, I was responsible for Account Management of new Cleaning Contracts, Marketing, and overall management of the NSW Team. Day to day, I was involved in client management, working on tender submissions, quality and compliance, and more.