Hans Dhillon

· Recruited for diverse technical and engineering roles including AI/ML Engineers, DevOps, Java/Web Developers, Network/Security Engineers, and Business Analysts.

· Sourced and presented top-tier candidates for public companies, startups, and enterprises across Canada and the U.S.

· Built pipelines, conducted screening/interviews, and collaborated with hiring managers for both permanent and contract roles.

· Specialized in senior-level hiring across verticals within the IT and software industry.

• Company Overview: Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) is a worldwide provider and global leader of network security appliances and a market leader in Network Security (FW/NGFW/UTM) (http://www.fortinet.com/)
• Built and Led a Team of 12-24 Team members covering R&D, Support, G&A recruitment for Canada and US locations including Burnaby and Sunnyvale (HQ)
• Manage the recruitment workflow and process working in collaboration with VP of HR Directors, Senior Executives, VPs, HR Coordinators, HR Business Partners, Recruiters and Hiring Managers
• Working with the Team, built up Burnaby Teams from 500 to 1600+ employees helping grow the R&D and Support teams.
• My team carried high volume of workloads ranging from 200 to 400 positions at times and filling anywhere between 200 and 900 positions ranging between different years leading the TA team
• Work on the complete recruitment lifecycle, starting from identifying the need to add new headcounts or replacement needs, gathering the requirements with the help of hiring managers, sending the request for approvals to management teams to add new requisitions, manage postings, identifying new hires, requesting the approvals to hire and further do the closing
• Set up recruitment goals to meet the MBOs for team members and maintain the stats and metrics
• Maintain and send reporting on recruitment including weekly stats, biweekly updates for Senior executives including global VP of HR, CTO and HR Leads.
• Talent Acquisition team covered diverse skillsets hiring including Embedded Software Developers, Web Developers, DevOps Engineers, Cloud Engineers, Java Developers, Release QA Engineers, Software Dev QA, AV Analysts, Hardware Engineers, Firmware Engineers, IT Engineers (Windows/Linux), Information Security, Security Systems Engineers, Product Security, Technical Support and more
• Trained Recruiters, HR Coordinator and HR Generalist on the hiring process, recruiting tools, internal systems and approval processes
• Introduced and implemented Hackerrank as the technical testing portal globally. Represented Canada HR implementing ORC (Oracle Recruiting Cloud) as the new ATS. Helped onboard and train HireEZ as the sourcing tool and later helped integrate with ORC. Worked on designing and implementing the internal mantis based tool to help recruiting and hiring manager source and shortlist candidates
• Lead and Participate in the New grad hiring initiatives attending University job fairs in Canada and US
• Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) is a worldwide provider and global leader of network security appliances and a market leader in Network Security (FW/NGFW/UTM) (http://www.fortinet.com/)

• Company Overview: Modis is a global provider of IT staffing services and the second largest in North America. Modis connects the very best IT professionals to great opportunities at leading companies and is a trusted and popular partner of the biggest brands in North America.
• Supporting and promoting business growth by providing assistance to the business development activities of the company through the management and recruitment of IT candidates.
• Search and identify by using online recruiting sources (internet, internal systems) to identify and recruit the best candidates using the internet job boards such as Monster, Workopolis, bullhorn, LinkedIn, Internal website, Cosmos, referral programs, networking, and popular social media.
• Successfully sourced and built teams for clients such as Telus, Nokia, Microsoft, Ericsson, Hydro, Accenture, CHC, BCAA, Syscon, Incomm and other well known clients.
• Sources candidates for a wide array of skillsets including Software Developers (.Net/C#), Java Developers, Project Managers, System Administrators (Windows/Linux), Network Engineers/Analysts, Business Analysts, Desktop Support, Web Developers etc.
• Successfully placed candidates not only in Vancouver but other cities in Western Canada as well including Calgary, Edmonton and Regina.
• Interview and review technical skills and evaluate non-technical skills through behavioral interviewing and conduct references as required according to company procedures.
• Develop applicant resource base through pre-screening, maintaining current applicants, updating resumes, database files according to the company procedures in internal databases.
• Development of recruitment network and leads through existing connections and Linkedin.
• Create and foster strong working relationships with internal resources and account managers and professional organizations to attract and recruit the best candidates.
• Responsible for mentoring and training of new Recruiters and existing recruitment team.
• Trained recruitment team how to utilize database, network, online tools and resources such as Linkedin, Monster, Indeed, bullhornreach, postings etc to find suitable talent in the job market.
• Modis is a global provider of IT staffing services and the second largest in North America. Modis connects the very best IT professionals to great opportunities at leading companies and is a trusted and popular partner of the biggest brands in North America.

• Led a team of 4 recruiters as a Senior Technical Recruiter. Assisted the team members in finding resources, completing the necessary documentation and following up with their cases.
• Involved in the recruitment of IT Consultants on rare to find skillsets for Contractual and permanent jobs.
• Successfully achieved recruitment goals for 3 consecutive quarters in the last 2 years.
• Achieved the consistency award for confirming back to back placements for four consecutive months.
• Involved in providing recruitment support for staffing requirements, identifying, screening, interviewing and evaluating candidates for open positions. Provided overview information to candidates on job requirements, description and location.
• Interacted with Sales managers to understand the Client requirements and sourcing resumes with minimum lead time.
• Responsible for technology sourcing and recruiting consultants through networking, internet postings, cold calling, referrals, recruiter groups, personal database, and inhouse database AtoZ.
• Recruitment procedures followed on basis of w2, 1099, Corp-to-Corp for U.S. Green Card holders and Citizens, Canadian Citizens and consultants sourced from preferred Vendors.