About Ted Meulenkamp

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I'm an experienced recruitment manager with strong experience in building a team and process from the ground. Managing a pan-european team and drive them through stormy weather in difficult markets. I have recruited everything from base level to Vice President level.

Responsible for hands-on recruitment in Europe
Recruitment Process Optimization
Campus recruitment strategies
Recruitment Metrics

 

 

 

 

EXECUTIVE RECRUITER (contract)

May 2009 - current

- full cycle recruiter for senior positions across Europe
- provide sourcing support to recruitment team
- responsible for establishing "graduate program"
- act as consultant to bring an already excellent recruitment team to the next level.

Great company, great products and ever greater people. Exciting to work in the ecommerce business and learning a lot about the business model and the way they become profitable. I recruit for Director level with experience in paid search (SEM), SEO, email marketing, analytics and much more

 

 

 

STAFFING MANAGER EUROPE / GLOBAL STAFFING LEAD GIO

April 2006 - May 2009

- Managed 3 recruiters and RPO 
- Global Lead Lean recruitment process project (2008)
- Global Lead Recruiter Development Program (2007)
- Global Lead Quality of Candidates (2009)
- Develop Competency Model (2009)
- Regional Lead for ATS optimization (2008 ongoing)
- Responsible for European campus recruitment program
- Leading international Executive Searches in-house and external
- Develop Preferred Vendor Management program
- Building internal sourcing capabilities (project “may the source be with you”)

Great company with a great history (founded by Hewlett and Packard) and I was working with some awesome recruiters and senior recruitment leaders. I've learned a lot about working on a global level in a high-tech environment with demanding internal customers. I think my greatest achievement (IMHO) was turning around a reactive "post and pray" recruitment organization to a trusted, streamlined, proactive sourcing machine. As a result our TAT's and agency usage went down while hiring manager satisfaction went up from 5.8 to 7.8 in 2 years time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

RECRUITMENT MANAGER EUROPE

April 2004 - April 2006

Responsible for European Recruitment for ACS. One of the largest outsourcing companies for ITO, HRO and F&A. 

- shared service center in Barcelona, Spain - 465 annually 
- shared service center in Krakow, Poland - involved in labor pool assessment and ramp up of the site.
- personally hired 125 senior managers in 2 years for projects and corporate
- design and implementation of EMEA recruitment process 
- development recruitment bonus based on quality hires
- development and implementation of recruitment metrics
- managing a team of 4 recruiters

Very steep learning curve as I was one of the first people in at a European level. Here I had to build a recruitment team for both the service centers of Finance Outsourcing and HR Outsourcing and recruiting the corporate structure across Europe. My greatest accomplishment was to build a solid process, strong recruitment capabilities, accurate reporting tools and managing very demanding businesses and managers in a 24/7 changing environment

Huge workload and huge fun factor - it was hard to leave my great team behind but Agilent offered more international exposure and more global projects.

 

 

 

CONSULTANT

April 2002 - April 2004

Consultant recruitment for medium sized companies. Working the desk, cold calling and selling recruitment services. Great methodology to get to understand a client's business models. Not so great in their sourcing strategy but we got the job done. Focussed on international companies without HR department. 

 

Really want to learn more about my experience? It goes back to 1996 in Recruitment. Click below to see my VisualCV