Sefa Geyik

Senior Recruiter EMEA at Microsoft

Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye

About

Please check out our current vacancies: http://careers.microsoft.com/ Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That’s what inspires us, drives our work and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. At Microsoft we also work to empower our employees so they can achieve more. We believe we should each find meaning in our work and we ensure employees have the freedom and the reach to help make a difference in the world. We know where we’re going as a company and how we’ll get there. We are committed to reinvent productivity and business processes, build the intelligent cloud platform and create more personal computing. These three goals are interconnected, they’re bold—and they’re why we are always looking to bring even more brilliant and creative people to our team.

Experience

  • Microsoft (10 yrs 7 mos)
    • Senior Recruiter
      Dec 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

      • Driving talent acquisition activities within the EU region, with a focus on Engineering. • Leading end-to-end mass recruitment projects within hardware engineering • Contributing to GTA excellence projects to improve tools and processes utilized within the organization • Partnering with multiple internal stakeholders to ensure a seamless process • Partnering with C&B to ensure the offline salary structures within the DC space remain competent • Stretch assignment – HR Consulting: - Led the employee engagement activities - Facilitated the end of year rewards discussions within a number of subsidiaries in CEMA - Acted as the HR partner in the notification processes of a number of employees - Maintained the relationship between the labor lawyer and the subsidiary - Managed a project within the D&I space to hire 12 disabled interns to the subsidiary

    • Recruiter
      Dec 2015 - Dec 2019 · 4 yrs 1 mo

      • Driving talent acquisition activities within the MEA region, with a focus on Microsoft Professional Services • Managing and influencing the end-to-end recruitment process with key stakeholders, partnering closely with Hiring Managers and HR to prioritize hiring needs • Reviewing applications and running referral campaigns to generate quality candidates • Partnering with the Talent Sourcing organization to reach external top talent • Sourcing candidates through Linkedin and other online tools • Maintaining regular communications with the hiring managers to ensure a smooth recruitment process • Providing online, structured reporting to hiring managers and to other stakeholders when necessary • Conducting the screening interviews with the selected candidates, using tailored screening questions for each role • Preparing offers for the selected candidates • Participating in projects and initiatives to improve the recruitment process • Sharing best practices with the rest of the team to increase team success, occasionally delivering trainings - Awards: • IMEA Team Award (FY16 Q4) • IMEA Award on “Customer Obsessed” (FY17 Q2)

  • Talent Acquisition Specialist at SAP
    Feb 2013 - May 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    • Driving recruitment activities within the market unit and within other market units when necessary • Liaising with the hiring managers to determine the recruitment needs • Conducting the first interviews with the selected candidates • Assessing the candidates’ relevant skills and expertise with multiple tools • Orchestrating the organization of further interviews with the candidates when necessary • Preparing offers and contracts for the selected candidates • Maintaining the hires within the internal system • Driving various on-campus activities • Providing articles regarding recruitment activities to be published on the global company portal • Providing annual and quarterly recruitment reports • Introducing new recruitment guidelines to the company to ensure compliance

  • IT Recruitment Consultant at K2 Partnering Solutions
    May 2012 - Jan 2013 · 9 mos

    • Identification of top experts both within the in-house database and externally. Developing a target group of excellent IT candidates and manage the relationship with them • Liaise and build relationships with business contacts who could be client or candidates or both. • Take detailed references on top candidates to generate information about them and about client organizations. • Gathering in-depth information from exit interviews with candidates to improve future service levels and create sales opportunities • Organize regular consultant evenings for candidates to further build rapport • Capture relevant market information from consultants • Establish what skills are currently required in the marketplace, both now and in future • Strengthen relationships with existing consultants to help identify other consultants who would like to work for us

  • Researcher at Adecco
    May 2011 - May 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Carrying out search & selection projects for clients • Overall project and client management of different assignments in different industries and management levels, • Conducting industry and candidate research, • Arranging interviews for the senior consultants and clients • Administrating the database management for the related assignments, • Updating candidate and client related information in the database • Following up on client, candidate and competition related news • Preparing well written/quality documents; Target Company List, Long List, Short List, Convert, etc. • Name and head hunting, fully covering all initial screening questions • Conducting reference check interviews

  • Human Resources Trainee at Inteltek
    Nov 2010 - May 2011 · 7 mos

    Assisting in all HR functions, including recruitment, performance management, managing annual leaves, personnel affairs...