Yesenia Aguilar Valverde
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Costa Rica
Summary
Senior Talent Acquisition professional working in remote environments leading and executing end-to-end recruiting strategies. Proven record in global recruitment, remote team collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and talent management and development. Experienced leading and executing recruiting strategies in Americas, EMEA and APAC regions.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
Work History
Senior Talent Partner
Storyblok
- Lead the end-to-end hiring process resulting in the successful recruitment of 34 candidates in one year across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions, meeting hiring targets and timelines.
- Created and implemented three new recruitment strategies, resulting in increased candidate diversity, employeer branding, increase on talent pipeline and reduction in time to hire.
- Implemented multicultural recruitment strategies that directly contributed to expand talent pipeline globally.
- Provided strategic talent acquisition guidance to 8 hiring managers, resulting in improved recruitment efficiency and stakehoder satisfaction.
- Talent Mapping in the Americas to develop hiring opportunities in the region.
- Led the mid-year and year-end performance review process for over 200 employees, ensuring fair and comprehensive evaluations, and facilitating constructive feedback for professional development.
- Developed feedback processes and 1:1 strategies for People Managers, alongside tracking templates. Crafted performance review conversations and managing difficult conversations guides leading to enhanced employee engagement and developmental progress.
- Created a CollabCentral an internal projects repository aimed at enhancing team collaboration and skill development by providing transparent access to ongoing projects, detailed skill requirements, and encouraging proactive participation, to improve internal projects visibility to foster skill development, and promoted open communication and teamwork across departments.
Talent Acquisition Specialist - Contractor
Kinsta
- Lead the end-to-end hiring process, resulting in the successful recruitment of 12 Support Engineers across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions during my three months contract meeting critical staffing needs.
- Created a brand awareness project in LATAM, leveraging innovative marketing strategies and targeted campaigns to increase market visibility.
- Implemented process improvements to enhance candidate relationship management, resulting in increased candidate engagement, improved KPIs metrics ensuring positive impact on recruitment effectiveness.
Lead Recruiter
Mckinsey & Company
03.2015 - 01.2021
- Lead a diverse recruiting team comprising interns, source recruiters, and recruiting administrators fostering professional growth across the team.
- Lead the end-to-end hiring process across various levels, locations, and industries, resulting in successful recruitment of over 150 candidates in five years. This included roles in research, consulting, operations and technology sectors.
- Excelled in stakeholder management, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to provide talent pool insights and implement hiring best practices.
- Developed engaging strategies and strategic relations to attract top talent for one of McKinsey's fastest-growing areas contributing to The Firm's success in hiring and retaining top talent.
- Maintained exceptional candidate relationship management throughout the recruitment process, resulting in higher percentage of positive candidate feedback and offer acceptance rates.
- Conducted candidate interviews, including screening, informational, behavioral-based, competency-based, and case interviews.
- Initiated and managed branding initiatives, including the creation of the McKinsey Costa Rica Facebook page, resulting in over 6000 followers as of 2023.
- Developed diversity attraction initiatives such as women's attraction program, resulting in attracting over 250 female candidates increasing diversity within the candidate pool and improved gender representation.
- Lead the talent acquisition strategy for the the successful establishment of a new McKinsey consulting office in Panama, overseeing all aspects of the talent acquisition. This involved developed and implemented a comprehensive global candidate talent attraction strategy, cultivation of regional relationships to support talent attraction efforts and enhance McKinsey's presence in key markets.
- Managed executive-level hiring for a high-profile McKinsey client project, from client consultations to candidate selection, resulting in the successful placement of top-tier talent meeting strategic objectives.
- Created and executed the strategic recruitment for a large-scale client project, leading the interview process and team for 175+ candidates, resulting in hiring 30 professionals within 2 months, meeting client expectations.
Recruiting Specialist
IBM Business Services
03.2010 - 01.2015
- Developed sourcing strategies for all-level roles
- Led strategy development for high-volume recruitment in customer service and technical support roles.
- Sourcing of potential candidates through LinkedIn, recruiting tools, and social networking as well as internal recruiting
- Responsible for pre-screening resumes and orienting candidates in their assignments and responsibilities
- Prepared and extended offers and contracts to selected candidates
- Posted job openings, processed applications, verified employment separation, contracts, and compensation in compliance with organization policies, contracts, laws, and agreements
- Organized external recruitment activities (job fairs, company presentations, etc.)
- Responsible for managing purchase orders related to job fairs and other recruiting strategies and initiatives
- Managed Student Internship hires, rehires, and conversion of contractors to regular employees
- Responsible for keeping all recruiting process documentation and performing monthly audits as required.
Employee Services Representative
IBM Business Services
11.2009 - 03.2010
- Working in the global EE service center
- Responsible for delivering training for employee benefits and compensation topics for Puerto Rico and USA employees
- Deployment of information/training/best practices
- Implemented and deliver new training material
- Responsible for monitoring calls and emails for employee benefits and compensation
- USA calls and email translation/evaluation/analysis
- USA and Puerto Rico quality assurance review side-by-side/remote monitoring and feedback.
Education
Yellow Belt Certification -
More Stream University
Business Administration with an emphasis on Human Resources - undefined
In progress
Skills
Talent Recruitment
Strategic Planning
Leadership
Proficient in Zavvy, Juno, Lever, Greenhouse, SmartRecruiters, LinkedIn Recruiter, BambooHR, Notion, Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), Zoom, Google Meet, Slack
Tools Skills
- Zavvy
- Juno
- Lever
- Greenhouse
- SmartRecruiters
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- BambooHR
- Notion
- Google Workspace (formerly G Suite)
- Zoom
- Google Meet
- Slack
Personal Information
ID Number: 113130648
Timeline
Lead Recruiter
Mckinsey & Company
03.2015 - 01.2021
Recruiting Specialist
IBM Business Services
03.2010 - 01.2015
Employee Services Representative
IBM Business Services
11.2009 - 03.2010
Senior Talent Partner
Storyblok
Talent Acquisition Specialist - Contractor
Kinsta
Yellow Belt Certification -
More Stream University
Business Administration with an emphasis on Human Resources - undefined
In progress