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Kenneth Vega Murillo
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist & Sourcing Specialist
Alajuela,CR
Summary
Strategic and results-driven Senior Global Talent Acquisition Professional & Headhunter with 9+ years of experience and a proven track record in both high-stakes agency environments and world-class corporate teams. I specialize in securing top-tier talent across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC for Fortune 500 industry leaders, including Microsoft, IBM, Intel, and Amazon. Expert in full-cycle recruitment, niche technical scaling for companies like Sysdig and Neverfail, and executive search for global firms such as JLL, Cognizant, and Korn Ferry. As a bilingual professional with a background in Psychology, I leverage deep behavioral insights and advanced data-driven sourcing to act as a trusted advisor to global hiring teams and C-level stakeholders
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
2
2
Languages
Work History
Talent Acquisition Specialist - Americas Sesonal
Microsoft
10.2025 - Current
- Specializing in full-cycle recruitment for specialized engineering departments (Experiences + Devices and C+AI).
- Expert in identifying and engaging talent for niche technical roles including Identity, 1ES, and Digital Transformation.
- Skilled in driving recruitment strategy and partnering with hiring managers to scale global technical teams.
Talent Acquisition Specialist
JLL
02.2025 - 12.2025
- Drive full-cycle talent acquisition across the U.S. market, navigating complex talent landscapes and delivering results at scale.
- Attract top-tier talent for leading clients including AT&T, Meijer, PNC, Capital One, U.S. Bank, BMO Harris Bank, and various shared accounts.
- Manage entire recruitment lifecycle from requisition through post-offer candidate engagement.
- Develop and implement innovative sourcing strategies using platforms like Indeed, LinkedIn Recruiter, hireEZ, and HireScore.
- Build robust nationwide talent pipelines through proactive sourcing.
- Serve as trusted advisor to stakeholders and hiring managers on talent availability, compensation trends, and market dynamics.
- Ensure meticulous record-keeping in the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and recruitment trackers.
- Optimize processes through data-driven insights.
- Monitor and adapt recruitment strategies to address bottlenecks.
- Provide creative solutions to account-specific challenges.
- Maintain smooth communication to ensure successful placements across diverse client portfolio.
Talent Acquisition Sourcing Specialist- Americas (Temporary)
Solventum
07.2024 - 02.2025
- Business Alignment: Responsible for sourcing in the Corporate, Dental, and Purification sectors.
- Sourced countries: Canada, United States, Mexico, Costa Rica.
- Source candidates in the Corporate, Dental, and Purification sectors.
- Collaborate with recruiters and hiring managers to understand talent needs and develop tailored sourcing strategies.
- Utilize multi-channel sourcing (social media, networking sites, job boards, employee referrals) to find qualified candidates.
- Apply advanced Boolean search techniques and tools like LinkedIn Recruiter and Indeed to engage passive candidates.
- Build and maintain a strong talent pipeline to meet current and future hiring demands.
- Conduct initial screening assessments to evaluate qualifications, skills, and cultural fit.
- Track and report on sourcing metrics to assess strategy effectiveness and identify improvement areas.
Corporate Recruiter
Liberty Costa Rica
09.2023 - 03.2024
- Sourced countries: Costa Rica, Panama.
- End to end recruitment.
- Led strategic recruitment initiatives to identify and attract top-tier talent, driving organizational success.
- Collaborated with hiring managers to define staffing needs and develop tailored recruitment strategies.
- Conducted thorough candidate assessments, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and culture.
- Directed candidate evaluations including screenings, interviews, and reference checks to ensure optimal fit.
- Created and maintained job descriptions to align with company requirements and industry standards.
Global Executive Recruitment Senior Sourcing Specialist (Temporary)
Cognizant
01.2023 - 06.2023
- Sourced countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, India.
- Utilize social networks and online portfolios to identify potential candidates and build talent pipelines.
- Form partnerships and foster relationships with candidates, Executive Recruiters, and C-level hiring managers to support recruitment efforts.
- Support the Global Executive Recruitment Team by leading research initiatives, including Talent Analytics, Market Analysis, Competitor Mapping, and Talent Availability.
- Leverage data analysis tools to collect, analyze, and interpret data, generating actionable insights for talent acquisition strategies.
- Identify and build talent pipelines using internal and external resources, while uncovering hiring trends and market insights.
- Stay current on Talent Acquisition trends and best practices in research and data analytics.
Global Senior IT Recruiter
Sysdig
06.2022 - 01.2023
- Sourced Countries: United States, Costa Rica.
- Lead daily recruiting operations, including stand-up meetings, metrics/analytics reporting, candidate workflow, and pipeline management.
- Oversee sourcing, interviewing, and job description creation, while working closely with the executive team and managing accounts/vendors.
- Manage ATS/CRM systems and provide mentorship to the recruiting team to achieve recruitment goals.
- Implement recruiting strategies, including crafting marketing messages and executing targeted roll-out plans.
- Guide candidates through all recruitment stages, from phone screening to interviews, assessments, offers, background checks, and onboarding.
- Coordinate equipment purchase and delivery for new hires to ensure a smooth onboarding process.
Senior IT International Recruiter
Neverfail
12.2020 - 06.2022
- Sourced Countries: United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Peru, Costa Rica, Argentina.
- Create and update job descriptions, source candidates via online platforms (LinkedIn, social media), and engage universities for talent.
- Screen resumes and conduct phone/video interviews, assessing candidates' English proficiency using the BELT formula.
- Advertise job openings on company websites, job boards, and social media; provide shortlists to managers across multiple countries.
- Manage job offers and answer questions about compensation, benefits, and company policies.
- Monitor key HR metrics (time-to-fill, time-to-hire, source of hire) and collaborate with managers on future hiring needs.
- Facilitate onboarding for new hires, including IT setup and background checks, and support payroll/contract processes.
- Establish relationships with colleges and manage recruitment efforts with the IT department for onboarding/offboarding.
Client Facing Recruiter
Korn Ferry
12.2019 - 06.2020
- Sourced Countries: Costa Rica.
- Conduct briefing meetings with Staffing Consultants, Hiring Managers, and compensation teams for new requisitions.
- Post job listings on job boards, social media, and career sites.
- Use Boolean search to source active and passive candidates.
- Build talent pipelines for future openings.
- Pre-screen and interview candidates, providing feedback to Hiring Managers.
- Maintain communication with candidates throughout the process.
- Follow up on interview results, offers, and background checks.
- Implement new recruiting technologies, including ATS and screening tools.
- Extend offers, negotiate salaries, and coordinate onboarding.
Senior IT Recruiter
ROCHE
09.2019 - 06.2020
US College Temporal Talent Advisor - Recruiter & Sourcer
Intel Corporation
09.2018 - 07.2019
- Consult with business group customers to deeply understand business strategies and talent acquisition needs.
- Participate in engagement meeting with Hiring Managers.
- Create and post requisitions for internal and external candidates.
- Use labor market data and knowledge of talent pools to develop sourcing plans and strategies.
- Conduct Research, Sourcing, Interviewing, Negotiation and Closing of qualified candidates with offers and star onboarding process.
- Participate in College recruitment (College Graduates, Technical Graduates, Interns and Experienced candidates).
- Proactively conduct research and investigate new ideas to create innovative sourcing strategies.
- Strong focus on sourcing passive candidates through networking, phone screening, and complex internet searches, research, and invites to apply.
- Partner with other recruiters to generate ideas, leverage resources, and share information that facilitates an effective search process with high level of diversity.
- Screen candidates and create offers.
- Negotiating with Hiring Managers (relocation options, hiring bonus, start day, stock purchase plan, and benefits)
- Source active candidates from on-line databases, contact lists, internal databases, and employee referrals.
- Act as a search expert for a functional area(s) by understanding functional hiring needs, position specifications, and search requirements.
- Partner with recruiters to generate ideas, leverage resources, and share information that facilitates an effective search process.
- Screen candidates, create offers, negotiating with Hiring Managers.
- IT, Technology and Administrative knowledge for recruiting.
Talent Acquisition Specialist
IBM
01.2018 - 08.2018
- Assist with steps on how to apply for a position on the careers website.
- Schedule interviews and coordinate logistics (calendar invitations, Job description, Resume, Interview Guide and Agenda,)
- Send candidate interview confirmation communication (Agenda. JD, location map, travel information and travel expenses form)
- Perform Quality Check to ensure Global Offer Worksheet
- Create Offer Letter and Employment Contract for US and OUS.
- Prepare Onboarding Packet and notify candidate with details
- Run background check
- Follow up with hiring process questions.
- Work with hiring managers to ensure proper customer service is being delivered.
- Set up and calculate referral bonuses for internal employees.
- Act as the company gatekeeper.
- Create / reset customer passwords for client s careers website.
- Advise on company information.
- Compile reports on overall customer satisfaction.
- Perform other miscellaneous duties as required by management
- USA training
- I also had the traveling opportunity to the USA to be trained, meet the client, set up expectations, get to know the team closely and have a bigger vision about the recruitment process for Canada and United States
Sr. HR Analyst (Temporary Position)
British American Tobacco
09.2017 - 02.2018
- Providing advice, consultation and information to management and employees regarding organizational structures, appropriate staffing patterns, classification, compensation, and related personnel rules, policies and procedures
- Position classification and compensation analysis on SAP
- Demonstrating continuous efforts to improve processes on SAP, increase data integrity, and providing quality customer service to our business partners
- Maintain process documentation for HR processes & tasks
- Work with HR data owners to fix data issues or to re-assign responsibilities
- Broad technical appreciation - including ALL key SAP functionality and technology
- Use SAP with several infotypes to order HR info provided
- Using SAP to classify job grades, job leves, promotions, (assignee in & out)
Senior HR Assistant
Amazon
01.2016 - 12.2016
- Assist associates with payment issues such as missing punches, garnishment orders, leave of absences, bereavement.
- Create tickets in reference manager approval, vacation request. Internal transfer, schedule change.
- Explain policies about the company, guide the associate with their regulation, metrics, states laws, insurance, deductions.
- Send emails with their password reset, create logins, employment verification letter, third party contacts.
- Submit and track associates travel time for them to get it code on their timecard and get paid properly.
- Help candidates by explaining the recruitment process, sites available, work requirements, and guide them through with recruitment team and orientation procedure.
- Contact local HR with termination letters, verification letters, complains, and other requests.
- Assist associates with wok related issues, provide a quick and save solution by contacting the Ethics team.
Education
Estudiante Psicología - Psicología
Universidad Hispanoamericana (CR)
01-2027
Associate of Science - English
UTN
05.2001 -
Skills
AI for Recruiting
Software
Talent Insights
Greenhouse
Eightfoldai
HiredScore
HiredScore
Glassdoor
Indeed
Certification
Recruiter Sourcer Specialist
Timeline
Talent Acquisition Specialist - Americas Sesonal
Microsoft
10.2025 - Current
Talent Acquisition Specialist
JLL
02.2025 - 12.2025
Talent Acquisition Sourcing Specialist- Americas (Temporary)
Solventum
07.2024 - 02.2025
Corporate Recruiter
Liberty Costa Rica
09.2023 - 03.2024
Global Executive Recruitment Senior Sourcing Specialist (Temporary)
Cognizant
01.2023 - 06.2023
Global Senior IT Recruiter
Sysdig
06.2022 - 01.2023
Senior IT International Recruiter
Neverfail
12.2020 - 06.2022
Client Facing Recruiter
Korn Ferry
12.2019 - 06.2020
Senior IT Recruiter
ROCHE
09.2019 - 06.2020
US College Temporal Talent Advisor - Recruiter & Sourcer
Intel Corporation
09.2018 - 07.2019
Talent Acquisition Specialist
IBM
01.2018 - 08.2018
Sr. HR Analyst (Temporary Position)
British American Tobacco
09.2017 - 02.2018
Senior HR Assistant
Amazon
01.2016 - 12.2016
Associate of Science - English
UTN
05.2001 -
Estudiante Psicología - Psicología
Universidad Hispanoamericana (CR)