Lagos State, Nigeria
I'm making a career shift to become a Software Developer out of necessity; driven by an intrinsic desire to build an extremely resourceful product. The fusion of HR with software development is bound to create a unique niche. That's why I decided to dive into tech, particularly backend development, to develop a solution that can ease the burden. My goal with my first project is to create a tool that simplifies the recruitment process, helping both recruiters and applicants achieve better results with less effort. Recruiter + Developer = ?
· Use AI tools to design, build, and improve the Priority Talent job board, accelerating product development and reducing manual effort. · Developed system architecture, user flows, and product workflows for StartupHR products, ensuring scalability and a seamless user experience. · Led early-stage user acquisition efforts for Priority Talent, successfully driving over 100 waitlist sign-ups ahead of launch. · Conduct product validation activities and gathered user feedback to refine product features and improve adoption. · Built internal automations to streamline operational processes and improve team productivity. Worked closely with business, HR, operations, and technical stakeholders to align product development with organizational objectives
• Fostering the spirit of intrinsic collaboration for HR members to express themselves confidently and safely. • Promoting transparency in professional barriers - creating informed decisions, public feedback, and outcome-driven conversations. • delivering a weekly HR industry newsletter to 700+ professionals, curating relevant news, insights, and resources, and achieving 50%+ average open rates. • Growing a centralized HR database to 3,000+ documents, including templates, policies, labour laws, and compliance resources, in equivalent HR value. • Design anonymous feedback and request systems, allowing HR professionals to safely surface sensitive workplace issues, ideas, and support needs without fear of exposure. • Facilitate practical sessions on AI and automation for HR, helping professionals streamline workflows, reduce manual effort, and adopt modern, tech-enabled HR practices
● Own full-lifecycle recruiting for clients across tech, operational, and technical roles sourcing, screening, interviewing, and closing consistently concluding hiring cycles within a one-week timeframe. ● Serve as a thought partner to hiring managers on talent-pool depth, sourcing and advertising strategy, and interview plans for new and recurring openings, giving pushback on timelines and level of hire where needed. ● Built and deployed an AI-powered CV screening tool (Shortlistr, shortlistr.co) that ranks candidates against job descriptions, cutting review time on large candidate pools and improving shortlisting accuracy. ● Monitor recruiting metrics across the full funnel from sourcing to close and continuously adjust sourcing and outreach strategy based on the data. ● Creatively source and engage talent through LinkedIn Sales Navigator and exclusive professional communities across Slack, WhatsApp, and Telegram spanning tech, finance, and medical sectors. ● Maintain a robust, pre-vetted talent pool, proactively re-engaging high-performing candidates with relevant openings to shorten future cycles. ● Built and improved recruiting processes end to end, automating interview scheduling, invites, updates, and reminders through Google Forms, Sheets, and Zapier and trained HR teams to adopt them.
• Designed and implemented automated HR workflows to streamline employee onboarding, document management, and internal HR requests. • Collaborated with leadership and operational teams to digitize HR processes, improving efficiency across recruitment, onboarding, and employee administration. • Competed the ISO 27001 & 22301 Audit, which was utilized to create a comprehensive analysis of the current HR processes and procedures with an emphasis on improving organizational efficiency. • Managed payroll functions for 103 employees across multiple locations as well as benefits administration for medical/dental/life insurance plans. • Lead the development of a new HR strategy to retain employee motivation and increase performance, resulting in an increase in employee engagement and build employee retention. • Reviewed previous employee handbook, added new policies and improvements that was approved by management and ensured new policies and procedures were being followed. • Developed new employee onboarding materials including training manuals, policies, etc., as well as assisted with other projects such as exit interviews when needed.
• Managed the recruitment and hiring of over 97 employees across departments, including Finance, Sales & Marketing, Product Management, and Customer Support. • Developed a Task Tracker to monitor company & staff operations. • Created and organized Company’s Employee Information database with Google Form & Sheets for 54 Staff. Also created and maintained a database of qualified candidates for open positions, resulting in an average fill rate of 95% • Physically onboarding new hires through providing information about benefits and company policies as well as assisting in setting up their computers/email accounts etc. • Provided support to current employees by responding to requests and inquiries such as Resources, Leave, Loan Applications, Redeployment, Promotion etc. • Implemented an employee training incentive program on Excel.