Hans Dhillon

• Hiring for technical and engineering roles, across diverse industry verticals including Technology, Healthcare, HR, Finance.
• Recruiting and representing Top-tier candidates for public & private industry including startups and enterprises across Canada and the U.S. for a broad range of skillsets for ex- AI/ML Engineers, DevOps, Construction Managers, Estimators, Business Analysts, Project Managers, Clinical Specialists, Software Engineers, Network/Security Engineers
• Built pipelines, conducted screenings/interviews, and collaborated with Client managers for both Full Time and contract roles.

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, R&D VPs, HR Coordinators, HR Business Partners, Recruiters and Hiring Managers
• Working with the team, built up Burnaby teams from 500 to over 1,600 employees, helping to grow the R&D and support teams.
• My team carried a high volume of workloads, ranging from 200 to 400 positions at times, and filling anywhere between 200 and 900 positions while scaling up teams for growth
• Work on the complete recruitment lifecycle, starting from identifying the need to add new headcounts or replacement needs, gathering requirements with the help of hiring managers, sending the request for approvals to management teams to add new requisitions, managing postings, identifying new hires, requesting the approvals to hire, and further closing.
• Setup recruitment goals for team members, evaluate recruiter performance, maintaining stats and performance metrics.
• Maintain and send reporting on recruitment, including weekly stats and biweekly updates for senior executives, including the global VP of HR, CTO, hiring leaders.
• The Talent Acquisition team covered diverse skill sets in 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 coordinators, and HR generalists on the hiring process, recruiting tools, internal systems, and approval processes.
• Introduced and implemented HackerRank as the technical testing portal globally.
• Represented Canada HR in implementing ORC (Oracle Recruiting Cloud) as the new ATS.
• Helped onboard and train HireEZ as the sourcing tool, and later helped integrate it with ORC.
• Worked on designing and implementing the internal Mantis-based tool to help recruiting and hiring managers source and shortlist candidates.
• Lead and manage the new grad hiring program and initiatives, attending university job fairs in Canada and the US.

• 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 also in other cities in Western Canada, 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.
• 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.