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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
Generative AI for HR
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Screening resumes
Recruitment
Candidate sourcing
Recruitment planning
Talent management
Social media recruiting
Candidate pipeline management
Applicant tracking systems
Salary and benefits negotiations
Boolean search proficiency
Onboarding processes
Global recruitment
Recruitment marketing
Data-driven decision making
Passive candidate engagement
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)