Allan Anctil

Technical Recruiter leading the team in international hiring of software and infrastructure related roles.

We operate the world's most collaborative projects (including Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and various other projects that are part of our multilingual, free-content Wikimedia family). We provide free, tirelessly curated educational content to people across the world and have consistently ranked as one of the most beloved, valued and top-trafficked global websites. Honored to help this disruptive, authentic and people-first organization share our mission and initiatives with the best talent *everywhere* as we continue to expand our efforts to equally serve all parts of the world.

• Led the team in total hires, technical hires, time to hire, and retention rate in all 5 years with the organization.
• Focused hiring on technical roles hiring everything including the former CTO, software engineers, infrastructure engineers, SRE's, and an array of marketing and legal roles.
• Coached and mentored 3 more junior recruiters through the beginning of the career and closely brought one recruiter from hire to Senior level in 3 years.
• Coached hiring managers through hiring processes and through best practices utilizing my 10 years of experience.
• Utilized different ATS's and helped lead the implementation and teaching of Greenhouse to other recruiters in my first year.
• Focused on international and D&I specific hiring leading the team in both categories in each year I was in the organization.

• Joined Beamery recruitment team on a part-time basis to supplement Technical Recruitment efforts following recent funding round
• Championed full cycle placement of hard to find niche positions including SecOps Lead, DevOps Lead, GoLang Developer, Email Deliverability Manager, and Recruiter
• Coached and assisted mentoring existing recruiting team
• Provided high-quality representation via conferences, meetup events, and digital communication as a face of Beamery in recruitment
• Completed the recruitment process with viable candidates with 100% offer acceptance rate.

• Co-Founder and Tech Recruitment Lead at Atlas One, a boutique recruitment partner
• Founded and drove the recruitment framework from scratch for a recruitment team of 10 recruiters
• Continued own recruitment making an average of 2.5 placements monthly in Development / Design / Marketing / Infrastructure roles
• Coached and mentored junior recruiters through challenges and career development goals and checkpoints
• Responsible for full life-cycle recruitment while also handling account management and mentorship
• Managed high volume req loads of 10+ open positions
• Sourced and contacted candidates, screened incoming applications, and attended events and conferences to find the best candidates for the positions.

• Joined recruiting team on 6-month contract to augment hiring push
• Led the entire 20-person recruiting team in both total fills and time to fill
• Hired 37 candidates in total through 6 months of contract duration
• Handled full life cycle recruiting of software development, engineering management, and DevOps roles
• Managed high volume req loads of 20-25 open positions
• Championed all international recruiting efforts for Barcelona office which grew from 21 employees to 36 under my focus
• Sourced and contacted candidates, screened incoming applications, and attended events and conferences to find best candidates for the positions
• Utilized relationships built with candidates to see an offer acceptance rate of 94%.

• Took short term contract to augment staffing for final months of quarter 4
• Filled 17 product development positions with software developers, engineering managers, and DevOps candidates
• Handled high volume req loads of 15-20 open requisitions at any one time
• Researched and recommended new sources for candidate recruiting
• Sourced and contacted candidates, reviewed incoming resumes, and attended networking events to determine best available candidates for consideration
• Understood candidate needs through the process leading to a close rate of 90%.

• Ran full life cycle of recruitment of engineering development, design, and management positions
• Filled 19 positions with candidates with varying software development languages and levels of experience
• Developed creative recruiting strategies that met anticipated staffing needs
• Succesfully juggled req loads of 20-25 openings at a time
• Closed candidates after interview process - Negotiated salary and relocation options.

• Led Nike focused technical recruiting team of 4 members
• Managed full cycle recruiting process for 16 hires
• Sourced qualified candidates via LinkedIn, Google searches, job boards, career fairs, social networks, blogs, referrals, and networking
• Collaborated with interviewers, hiring managers and the staffing team to match candidate's background with requirements and business objectives
• Managed the offer, negotiation, closing, and administrative components.

• Identified potential prospects and decision makers and gathered prospect intelligence through personal relationships, and social/business networking channels
• Segmented, organized, and prioritized candidates according to the degree of alignment with position requirements
• Determined candidate's compensation expectations to maximize the probability of meeting the needs of both the candidate and client
• Actively sourced candidates - Utilizing Boolean strings to search online job boards and Kforce database for ideal candidates
• Prepared candidates for interviews - Coaching on what to expect and best interview practices
• Placed candidates at Nike, HP, Microsoft, Columbia Sportswear, and Apple.

• Acted as liaison between clients and localization teams, gathering glossary terms, and interacting with clarification source for translators
• Focused sales on scheduling and executing face to face meetings with clients in large accounts such as Nike and Adidas
• Managed large accounts as Nike Lease Agreements and Bank of America Home Loans.