Top Talent like Gladys are on Pangea
Pangea, a YC company, connects companies with fractional talent. Fractional hiring allows companies to move faster and work with more specialized talent, while giving talent more flexibility and independence. If you are talent open to fractional work, apply here. If you’re a company looking for high-quality fractional talent, learn more here.Gladys Mugweru
Recruiting
Process Improvement
Social Media
Recruiting professional with experience hiring in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Recruiting professional with experience hiring in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Work History
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Talent Consultant
Shortlist ProfessionalSuccessfully sourced and recruited over 100 skilled candidates across multiple countries, including Nigeria, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Kenya, and Madagascar, and placed them in various roles within Tech, Finance, Human Resources, Operations, Sales, Customer Service, Engineering, Supply Chain and Logistics, as well as Research. Providing expert guidance to clients on a range of recruitment-related matters. This includes advising on candidate profiles, job market trends, salary expectations, best hiring practices, conducting assessments, and carrying out interviews to identify top talent. Overseeing Shortlist's social media channels and leveraging them to promote job opportunities across multiple geographic regions, generating an average of 10,000 impressions per post, helping to increase brand awareness and attract a large pool of qualified candidates. Establishing and maintaining partnerships with local organisations, professional associations, and career offices in universities to identify and engage with top talent and leveraging these relationships, to place candidates into various roles. Collecting, analysing, and reporting recruitment metrics such as clicks per application and applications submitted, to measure the effectiveness of our recruitment strategies to identify areas for improvement and optimise our recruitment processes to achieve better results and improve time-to-hire. Conceptualised and developed the Shortlist Ambassador program, an innovative initiative aimed at improving our sourcing strategies and increasing our brand awareness, which will allow us to engage with a network of passive and potential candidates in various geographies. Led the recruitment process for two new internal recruiters and managed to onboard and train them within the required 3-week timeframe.K
Field Resourcer
Kaya TalentMay 2021 - Feb 2022 • 10 mosSuccessfully identified and recruited highly qualified candidates for various roles, including entry to mid-level management, remote functions in Africa (Kenya, Senegal, Rwanda, and Tanzania), blue-collar positions in the manufacturing industry, and data analysts and developers, among other roles, with various employer partners. Additionally, managed high-volume recruitment drives, filling more than 60 positions across eight different roles. Managed candidates through the recruiting pipeline, averaging roles being filled within two months. This was achieved by liaising with the Principal Consultant and multiple hiring managers in industries such as Manufacturing, Public Relations, Fintech, Microfinance as well as FMCG to ensure a smooth outsourced process Conducted fieldwork for the hiring of entry-level roles and blue-collar positions for more than 4 roles that had more than 20 open positions Created and managed Kaya Talent social media accounts for the posting of job positions, and sourcing channels and built a brand identity with the Kaya Talent Facebook page reaching 57,100 impressions in four months Built relationships with stakeholders who supplemented internal efforts in finding suitable candidates such as university career offices (for their current students and alums) and industry experts for open positionsEducation
U
USIU-Africa
Bachelor's degree, PsychologyJan 2019 - Sep 2022U
USIU-Africa
Master's degree, MBAJan 2023 - PresentHow Pangea Works
Effortlessly discover top talent
We’ve distilled the candidate search from endless hours down to just a few minutes. Using Pangea’s AI-powered search tools, you can find top fractional talent able to take on your next project. Our system looks at your company’s niche and your needs to find the perfect match faster than any traditional hiring platform.Start working with talent today
The top talent on Pangea is ready to get started with you right now. You can message or hire a candidate right from their profile page and start assigning work as soon as they respond. And the best part? Pangea’s fractional contract structure lets you start small and ramp up as your needs change, keeping your costs manageable and your team’s capabliities flexible.Track work and invoices in one place
Assign tasks, track progress, and complete invoices all on Pangea. We’ve combined every part of the hiring process into one platform to eliminate the miscommunication that’s unavoidable on other freelance platforms. We even send out 1099s to your contractors at the end of the year!Talk with a Talent Expert
Members of our team are available to help you speed through the hiring process.
Available NowBook a Call
Recruiting professional with experience hiring in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Recruiting professional with experience hiring in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Talk with a Talent Expert
Members of our team are available to help you speed through the hiring process.Available NowBook a Call
Top Talent like Gladys are on Pangea
Pangea, a YC company, connects companies with fractional talent. Fractional hiring allows companies to move faster and work with more specialized talent, while giving talent more flexibility and independence. If you are talent open to fractional work, apply here. If you’re a company looking for high-quality fractional talent, learn more here.Gladys Mugweru
Recruiting
Process Improvement
Social Media
Work History
S
Talent Consultant
Shortlist ProfessionalSuccessfully sourced and recruited over 100 skilled candidates across multiple countries, including Nigeria, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Kenya, and Madagascar, and placed them in various roles within Tech, Finance, Human Resources, Operations, Sales, Customer Service, Engineering, Supply Chain and Logistics, as well as Research. Providing expert guidance to clients on a range of recruitment-related matters. This includes advising on candidate profiles, job market trends, salary expectations, best hiring practices, conducting assessments, and carrying out interviews to identify top talent. Overseeing Shortlist's social media channels and leveraging them to promote job opportunities across multiple geographic regions, generating an average of 10,000 impressions per post, helping to increase brand awareness and attract a large pool of qualified candidates. Establishing and maintaining partnerships with local organisations, professional associations, and career offices in universities to identify and engage with top talent and leveraging these relationships, to place candidates into various roles. Collecting, analysing, and reporting recruitment metrics such as clicks per application and applications submitted, to measure the effectiveness of our recruitment strategies to identify areas for improvement and optimise our recruitment processes to achieve better results and improve time-to-hire. Conceptualised and developed the Shortlist Ambassador program, an innovative initiative aimed at improving our sourcing strategies and increasing our brand awareness, which will allow us to engage with a network of passive and potential candidates in various geographies. Led the recruitment process for two new internal recruiters and managed to onboard and train them within the required 3-week timeframe.K
Field Resourcer
Kaya TalentMay 2021 - Feb 2022 • 10 mosSuccessfully identified and recruited highly qualified candidates for various roles, including entry to mid-level management, remote functions in Africa (Kenya, Senegal, Rwanda, and Tanzania), blue-collar positions in the manufacturing industry, and data analysts and developers, among other roles, with various employer partners. Additionally, managed high-volume recruitment drives, filling more than 60 positions across eight different roles. Managed candidates through the recruiting pipeline, averaging roles being filled within two months. This was achieved by liaising with the Principal Consultant and multiple hiring managers in industries such as Manufacturing, Public Relations, Fintech, Microfinance as well as FMCG to ensure a smooth outsourced process Conducted fieldwork for the hiring of entry-level roles and blue-collar positions for more than 4 roles that had more than 20 open positions Created and managed Kaya Talent social media accounts for the posting of job positions, and sourcing channels and built a brand identity with the Kaya Talent Facebook page reaching 57,100 impressions in four months Built relationships with stakeholders who supplemented internal efforts in finding suitable candidates such as university career offices (for their current students and alums) and industry experts for open positionsEducation
U
USIU-Africa
Bachelor's degree, PsychologyJan 2019 - Sep 2022U
USIU-Africa
Master's degree, MBAJan 2023 - PresentHow Pangea Works
Effortlessly discover top talent
We’ve distilled the candidate search from endless hours down to just a few minutes. Using Pangea’s AI-powered search tools, you can find top fractional talent able to take on your next project. Our system looks at your company’s niche and your needs to find the perfect match faster than any traditional hiring platform.Start working with talent today
The top talent on Pangea is ready to get started with you right now. You can message or hire a candidate right from their profile page and start assigning work as soon as they respond. And the best part? Pangea’s fractional contract structure lets you start small and ramp up as your needs change, keeping your costs manageable and your team’s capabliities flexible.Track work and invoices in one place
Assign tasks, track progress, and complete invoices all on Pangea. We’ve combined every part of the hiring process into one platform to eliminate the miscommunication that’s unavoidable on other freelance platforms. We even send out 1099s to your contractors at the end of the year!Talk with a Talent Expert
Members of our team are available to help you speed through the hiring process.Available NowBook a Call
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