Lara R. Mugnaioni (nee Giuricich)

Mobile: +27-83-703-****

E-mail address: adj7sl@r.postjobfree.com

Languages

Home: English, Italian Other: Afrikaans, Dutch (Conversational), Spanish (Conversational)

I am a 360 Degree Global Talent Acquisition specialist. I hold a B.Com (Legal) & Postgraduate Diploma in Management graduate coupled with an excellent track record in Talent Acquisition. I have recruited for the likes of Gijima, Nedbank, WesBank, Barclays Africa Group Ltd, Ericsson & IQ Business. Amongst others, I have gained significant global Talent Acquisition experience and training at Ericsson where I recruited in the IT and Telecoms space throughout the Middle East and Africa, as well as for head office in Sweden. I have however operated across industries, areas of specialisation, from Junior up to Executive level, and in the Permanent, Contract and Temporary Employee spaces.

My Hobbies and Interests include Travel, Dancing, Singing, Gym, Fashion, Current Affairs, Socialising, Corporate Social Responsibility

My LinkedIn Profile is https://www.linkedin.com/in/lara-mugnaioni-giuricich-50492369.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

Passed the Association of Personnel Services Organisation (APSO) Affiliate Accreditation Exam 1998

EDUCATION

Wits Business School

Postgraduate Diploma in Management (Business Administration) 1996

University of the Witwatersrand

Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com Legal) 1994

Wendywood High School

Matriculated with University Exemption and B aggregate pass, Transvaal Education Department 1991

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ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

University

Awarded the University of the Witwatersrand Academic Merit Entrance Award 1992

Other

Received the Academic Top 20 badge the majority of terms in High School 1987 - 1991

Awarded the Magno Animo Award for ‘Service above Self’ 1991

Vice President of the Wendywood Interact Club 1990

Re-awarded the Magno Animo Award 1991

Elected High School Prefect 1991

A Short-term Rotary Exchange Student in Spain 1991 / 1992

Social Officer of the Wits Italian Students Society (CSI) Committee 1994

Semi-Finalist for the APSO Personnel Consultant of the Year Award 1998

Top Consultant at Impact Human Resources for two months 2000 & 2001

Social Officer for the External Recruitment Division at Gijima 2009 & 2010

Received Team Award for Excellence at Nedbank Corporate Transactional Banking 2011

CLARKHOUSE HUMAN CAPITAL August 2020 – December 2020

Position: Senior Recruitment Consultant (Contract position)

Responsibilities include:

Full 360 degree Recruitment of permanent and contract of IT staff for Clients up to Executive level

Full screening, interviewing, background checks, presenting of CVs, scheduling interviews, extending offers and post-offer support for Candidates

Full business development to build relationships with existing Clients and source new business

Building a Brand as an IT, Digital, Data and Telecoms Talent Acquisition Specialist on Social Media

Attended daily Team Stand Up Meetings

Attended Webinars of relevance and interest

Administration on the Placement Partner System

Reason for leaving: Contract completed

PARACON August 2019 – April 2020

Position: Recruitment Consultant (Contract position)

Responsibilities include:

Full recruitment of permanent and contract of IT staff for Clients up to Senior level

Sourcing, screening, shortlisting, interviewing, background checks and scheduling Client Interviews of Candidate for the Account Managers that I supported, namely the Account Managers for the Nedbank, FNB, WesBank and RMB Accounts

Assisted to source Candidates for roles held by other Account Managers

Attended bi-weekly Team Stand Up Meetings

Keeping information on the Adapt Database current

Reason for leaving: Contract completed

THE AURUM INSTITUTE July 2018 – December 2018

Position: HR Consultant (Performance Management and Talent Sourcing) (Contract position)

Responsibilities include:

Role profiling which involved rewriting and updating of more or less 400 Role Profiles over 6 months

Attended Meetings with Hiring Managers to ascertain the updated requirements of the Roles

Assisted with the Recruitment Team with recruitment where needed

Reason for leaving: Contract completed

IQ BUSINESS GROUP July 2017 – January 2018

Position: Senior Recruitment Specialist: Contracting and Temporary Positions (Contract position)

Responsibilities include:

Recruiting of Management Consultants and Contractors up to Executive level, predominantly in the Financial Services sector for IQ’s 17 core roles

Administration on IQ’s E-recruit system

Attending bi-weekly team stand-up meetings

Interviewing of candidate’s in line with IQ’s recruitment policies and procedures

Extending of offers to successful candidates

Dealing with Preferred Suppliers (Recruitment Agencies) in sourcing suitable staff & conducting briefing sessions for Agencies for new vacancies that become available

Presentation of the Interviewing section of the TechnIQes presentation which the team put together

Attending Communities of Interest, Communities of Practice and Master Classes offered at IQ

Networking

Direct sourcing of suitable candidates via a number of recruitment channels

Reason for leaving: Contract completed

ERICSSON March 2017 – July 2017

Position: Talent Acquisition Generalist (Contract position)

Responsibilities include:

General Talent Acquisition responsibilities for the different business areas of Ericsson for the Sub Saharan Africa region (RSSA)

Sourcing suitable candidates for open job requisitions up to Executive level

Screening of CVs for open job requisitions

Working on the Avature pipelining system doing a clean-up of the system

Obtaining references on shortlisted candidates

Running salary benchmarks on the SAP salary benchmarking tool for candidates being made offers

Preparing of Offer letters and Contracts of Employment

Submitting of hiring e-forms for candidates successfully placed

Regular administration and logging activities on the ITM system

Attended weekly sourcing meetings with our sourcing specialists in Manila regarding the sourcing function

Completed various training for both Ericsson and Pontoon Solutions

Completed the Social Talent training towards the Black Belt Sourcing Ninja Certification and to complete the exam now

Updating of Hires Report

Working on job requisitions for Sweden

Reason for leaving: Contract completed

ERICSSON Sept 2016 – February 2017

Position: Talent Acquisition Specialist (Contract position)

Responsibilities included:

Talent Acquisition for the different business areas of Ericsson for the Sub Saharan Africa region (RSSA)

Sourcing suitable candidates for open job requisitions up to Executivve level

Screening of CVs for open job requisitions

Referrals of suitable CVs to the Hiring Manager

Regularly liaising with the Hiring Managers on their open job requisitions

Obtaining references on shortlisted candidates

Running salary benchmarks on the SAP salary benchmarking tool for candidates being made offers and making recommendations on the amount to be offered

Preparing of Offer letters and Contracts of Employment

Presenting offers to the successful candidates

Submitting of hiring e-forms for candidates successfully placed

Handing over of new joiner packs to incumbent doing the on-boarding

Making sure everything is in order for the new joiners to start

Regular administration and logging activities on the ITM system

Attended regular one-to-one meetings

Attended weekly sourcing meetings with our sourcing specialists in Manila to discuss job requisitions being sourced for and candidates sourced

Updating of the RPO Recruitment Report

Completed various training for both Ericsson and Pontoon Solutions

Did the Social Talent training towards the Black Belt Sourcing Ninja certification

Reason for leaving: Change in role

BARCLAYS AFRICA GROUP LTD RESOURCING July 2016 – Sept 2016

Position: Resourcing Specialist (Contract position)

Responsibilities included:

Full end-to-end resourcing for the Credit Risk portfolio of Barclays Africa Group Ltd

Dealing with Preferred Suppliers (Recruitment Agencies) in sourcing suitable staff & conducting briefing sessions for Agencies for new vacancies that were available

Attended training on the Taleo system

Reason for leaving: Contract completed

NEDBANK CIB TRANSACTIONAL SERVICES August 2015 – February 2016

Position: HR Contractor (Contract position)

Responsibilities included:

Assisting the HR Managers with any tasks they need assistance with

Preparing and submitting Weekly Vacancy Update Report and HR Audit Tracking Report to the Head of HR

Obtaining references and requesting PIMS checks

Scheduling of Psychometric Assessments

Updating, preparing, creating of and filing in Staff Files for HR Audit purposes

Went on SAP HCM Alignment Session training

Liaising with Line Managers regarding Recruitment and other HR issues that may arise

Dealing with Preferred Suppliers (Recruitment Agencies) in sourcing suitable staff & conducting briefing sessions for Agencies for new vacancies that were available

Administration of New Starters, Internal Transfers, Contractors and Terminations

Business areas involved in of CIB – Business and Cash Solutions, Global, International Financial Institutions, Rest of Africa, Electronic Banking and Payments, Transactional Information Solutions and Project Management Office

Any other ad hoc duties that the Head of HR and HR Managers required me to assist with

Reason for leaving: Contract completed

Maternity October 2013 – August 2015

SET RECRUITMENT CONSULTANTS (PTY) LTD July 2013 – September 2013

Position Held: Senior IT Consultant: Professional Services

Responsibilities included:

Recruiting IT staff for the Professional Services team

Interviewing applicants for suitable vacancies

Conducting references and MIE checks

Building relationships with clients

Searching for suitable candidates

Working on the Stoneware SQL database

Reason for leaving: Took a break for maternity

WESBANK HUMAN RESOURCES August 2012 – March 2013

Position Held: Recruiter – Head Office (Contract position)

Responsibilities included:

Recruiting Credit, Finance, Risk and IT staff up to Executive level for Head Office

Interviewing applicants for suitable vacancies

Making sure relevant reference and Kroll MIE checks on shortlisted candidates are done

Preparing of offers for successful applicants

Spreadsheets and reports relating to the recruitment function in Head Office

Dealing with Preferred Suppliers (Recruitment Agencies) in sourcing suitable staff & conducting briefing sessions for Agencies for new vacancies that become available

Advising Line Managers in Business on recruitment issues

Managing the entire recruitment function for Head Office positions

Attending relevant training

Co-ordinating and assisting with the Disability Learnership project

Obtaining sign-off on all Head Office vacancies and appointments, both contract and permanent vacancies

Reason for leaving: Contract completed

NEDBANK CORPORATE (TRANSACTIONAL BANKING HUMAN RESOURCES) April 2010 – July 2012

Position Held: Resourcing / Recruitment Specialist (Contract position)

Responsibilities included:

Recruiting staff across the board for Transactional Banking including a Head of Electronic Banking, Business Analysts, Product Development Managers, Business Solutions Managers, Electronic Banking Consultants, a Trade Channel Manager, a Personal Assistant and a Test Manager

Recruited in the Africa Card, Business & Cash Solutions, Electronic Banking, Global Trade, International Financial Institutions and Transactional Accounts Packaging and Pricing spaces

Interviewing applicants

Feedback sessions on Psychometric assessments for potential employees

Preparing of offers for successful applicants

Spreadsheets and statistics relating to the Recruitment function in Transactional Banking

Dealing with Preferred Suppliers (Recruitment Agencies) in sourcing suitable staff

Recruited across the board and spectrum of Transactional banking including Business & Cash Solutions, Global, International Financial Institutions, Electronic Banking and Payments, Africa Card and Transactional Product Packaging and Pricing

Reason for leaving: Contract completed

GIJIMA Nov 2007 – April 2010

Position Held: Senior Recruitment Specialist

Responsibilities included:

Search and selection, screening as well as placement of IT staff at all levels including interviewing, referencing and ITC checking applicants together with marketing and relationship building with clients

Searching from the GijimaAST Applicant Database and using CareerJunction, CareerWeb and P-Net to source permanent and contract IT staff for major clients of GijimaAST

Mentoring of the Junior Resourcing Specialist in our team

Co-ordinating the FIFA Confederations Cup and 2010 Soccer World Cup Project where GijimaAST if one of the 9 Preferred Suppliers of staff

Assisted with the Bid to tender to be a Preferred Supplier of the FIFA Confederations Cup and 2010 Soccer World Cup

Reason for leaving: Recession, restructuring and possible job losses; Gijima lost one of their largest Clients and Contract

CONSULTING WORK

SAP South Africa (Pty) Ltd October 2007

Position Held: HR & Recruitment Administrator

Reason for leaving: Temporary assigment completed

Peresys (Pty) Ltd June 2007 to August 2007

Position Held: Recruitment Specialist

Responsibilities included:

Handled the full recruitment function for all the Business Units of Peresys

Dealing with recruitment agencies with regards to sourcing staff for Peresys

Registering of Peresys with various job sites to source staff

Registering of Peresys with Kroll MIE in order to do credit and criminal checks

Drew up an Application Form to give candidates to complete

Liaising with the different Business Owners to ascertain specific recruitment requirements for each Business Unit and to discuss job specifications

Updating of technical tests for different Business Units by having one-on-one meetings with the Business Owners

Screening of CVs

Headhunting staff for Peresys

Conducting face-to-face and videoconference interviews to assess culture fit with Peresys

Administering of technical tests to candidates

Reference, ITC and criminal checks on candidates

Keeping recruitment spreadsheets and information up to date

Making sure that Job opportunities at Peresys are up to date on the Peresys website and Intranet

Assisting with getting workstations, access cards and the like ready for new employees starting with Peresys

Introducing new employees to other employees at Peresys and showing them the offices

Updated the induction presentation and assisted with the organization of induction for new employees

Building up a database of candidates for future job opportunities at Peresys

Reason for leaving: Contract completed

COMPUWAYS IT CONSULTING, SEARCH & TRAINING April 2006 –May 2007

Position Held: Senior Recruiter

Responsibilities included:

Search and selection as well as placement of IT staff at all levels including interviewing, referencing and ITC checking applicants together with marketing and relationship building with clients

Reason for leaving: Resigned – Was moved to a commission only basis (from a Basic salary and commission) and contract basis (from bring permanent); was not financially viable

CONSULTING WORK March 2006

Bombela Consortium JV

(Contracted by One World Human Capital)

Position: Recruitment Consultant for Gautrain Project

Responsibilities included:

Recruitment of Quantity Surveyors, PAs, Administrative and HR staff

Reason for leaving: Temporary assignment completed

TOWER GROUP (PTY) LTD July 2005 – February 2006

Position: Consultant – IT & Senior Financial Staffing

Responsibilities included:

Targeted and competency-based search of the full spectrum of IT and Senior financial staff and placement with clients in a temporary, contract or permanent capacity

Referencing, qualification and ITC checking of applicants

Administrative work which needs to be done in the normal course of the job

Visiting client and soliciting of new business

Actively marketing my services and well as the services of the Tower Group to potential clients

Daily and weekly statistics, job lists and production schedules for evaluation of performance purposes

Ongoing training by the Training Manager in Recruitment disciplines and on the various Employment Laws which are currently in place

Reason for leaving: Resigned - Change in Portfolio

CONSULTING WORK

Compuways IT Consulting, Search and Training 24 January 2005 – June 2005

Position Held: Personnel Consultant

Responsibilities included:

Search and selection as well as placement of IT staff at all levels including interviewing, referencing and ITC checking applicants together with marketing and relationship building with clients

Reason for leaving: Offered a permanent position at the Tower Group; job stability

Spencer Stuart October 2004 – December 2004

Position Held: Research Associate

Responsibilities included:

Researching of industries and potential candidates (high-flyers) for executive level search assignments which includes third-party sourcing, approaching of prospects, referencing and assisting with candidate assessment

Underwent training on the Quest NT system form head office in London through net meeting training sessions

Reason for leaving: Contract completed

MTN October 2003

Position Held: PA to the General Manage: Network Group

Reason for leaving: Temporary assignment completed

Agip Lubricants (Pty) Ltd November 2003 – May 2004

Position Held: Personal Assistant to Managing Director

Reason for leaving: Contract completed

Deloitte, Social Security NL & Otto Agency August 2002 – March 2003

Position Held: Financial Administrative Employee in Social Security and Welfare

Reason for leaving: Was a Contract / Project in the Netherlands and returned to South Africa

AD HOC TEMPORARY ASSIGNMENTS September 2001 – May 2002

IMPACT HUMAN RESOURCES February 2000 – August 2001

Position Held: Manager of the Temporary Division / HR Consultant

FCA ON ASSIGNMENT PERSONNEL February 1997 – September 1999

Position Held: Account Manager / Recruitment Consultant

MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint and Outlook

Internet

Winfax

Adapt

Maximiser

GWS 4 All

Quest NT

Compuways on-line system

Peresys website and intranet

Various Job Sites

SAP HCM

Gijima intranet

Rocket Recruitment

Nedbank intranet, HR, Booking systems and Job advertisement system

WesBank Intranet and JONTI system

Oracle R12 (Called Evolve at WesBank)

Stoneware SQL database

SAP HCM (Nedbank)

Taleo

Integrated Talent Management system (ITM)

Avature Pipelining system

IQ Business PNET E-recruit system

Skillsmap

Placement Partner

Nelene Sokay (Ex-HR Consultant of Nedbank Corporate Transactional Banking, now at KPMG) Tel: +27-83-667-**** / +27-82-716-****

Stephen Meintjes (Ex-General Manager at Nedbank Corporate Transactional Banking, now at Standard Bank) Tel: +27-11-636-**** / +27-82-901-****.

Anesa Dindar (Account Executive at WesBank)

Tel: +27-83-302-**** / +27-11-649-****

Leanne Smedmor (Recruitment Manager at IQ Business)

Tel: +27-84-602-**** / +27-11-259-****

Herman Kasselman (HR Executive at The Aurum Institute)

Tel: +27-78-475-**** / +27-10-590-****

Natasha Hill (Account Manager at Paracon)

Tel: +27-83-602-****

Kevin Rodgers (Recruitment Consultant Supervisor at Paracon)

Tel: +27-82-490-****

Others available on request

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