Recruitment Director
Harris
Ochoa
Talent Acquisition Leadership · Recruiting Operations & Innovation
Executive Summary
Building Teams That
Deliver Results
Recruitment Director with 15+ years of experience leading U.S.-aligned offshore recruiting (agency/staffing) and in-house talent acquisition in the Philippines within a staff leasing/BPO model.
Drive multi-client hiring at scale by building operating standards, KPI governance, and stakeholder interaction that improve speed, quality, and predictability, sustaining ~90–95% offer acceptance.
Blend hands-on recruiting depth with recruiting ops rigor and AI/no-code enablement to strengthen team efficiency, consistency, and decision-making.
"Driving multi-client hiring at scale through operating standards, KPI governance, and stakeholder interaction — sustaining ~90–95% offer acceptance."
Selected Highlights
Impact by the
Numbers
700–1,000
Hires Per Year
Across high-volume and professional roles; support client growth from 2–3 headcount to 20–50+ as hiring needs expand.
34
Team Members
Leading a TA organization (2 Recruitment Team Leads, 1 Sourcing Team Lead, 19 Recruiters, 12 Sourcing Associates) with execution standards, coaching, and performance management.
90–95%
Offer Acceptance
Sustain ~90–95% offer acceptance while improving time-to-fill for straightforward, high-volume roles (e.g., CSR/TSR) without compromising quality.
15+
Years of Experience
Provide salary benchmarking and role feasibility guidance; advise on requirement trade-offs when skills are uncommon in the Philippine market.
AI & No-Code
Innovation
Build and deploy AI/no-code enablement (benchmark repositories, standardized recruiter briefs, assessments) to improve efficiency, consistency, and execution quality.
Professional Experience
Career
Journey
Director of Recruiting
Own multi-client recruiting delivery and operating cadence, ensuring speed and quality from intake through offer acceptance.
Lead a 34-person TA organization delivering ~700–1,000 hires/year, driving consistent output through standards, QA, and performance coaching.
Sustain 90–95% offer acceptance by strengthening stakeholder interaction, candidate management, and offer alignment.
Turn hiring into a measurable system through KPI governance, pipeline discipline, and stakeholder interaction that reduce variability and fallouts.
Provide market intelligence that shapes decisions (salary ranges, supply insights, requirement redesign) and protects delivery timelines.
Build AI/no-code enablement that improves team efficiency, consistency, and execution quality.
Recruitment Manager
Managed end-to-end recruitment delivery for assigned roles and projects across customer support, technical support, finance, operations, engineering/design, and software development.
Supervised and coached recruiters and sourcers to improve screening quality, pipeline health, and stakeholder interaction throughout the hiring process.
Drove multi-channel sourcing execution (job boards, social, ATS database mining, referrals, Boolean/web search) to maintain steady candidate flow and coverage.
Partnered with hiring stakeholders to calibrate requirements, align interview flow, and resolve bottlenecks to reduce candidate drop-off.
Prepared hiring updates and reporting; supported feasibility discussions with market insights and compensation context when needed.
Technical Recruiter
Supported U.S. staffing delivery by sourcing and screening technical/professional candidates and calibrating requirements with account executives and hiring stakeholders; prepared submission-ready candidate profiles.
Managed requisitions in VMS tools (Beeline, IQN) and ATS platforms (Adapt, Taleo); coordinated interviews, compliance documentation, and onboarding handoffs.
Built pipelines via job boards, internal databases, networking sites, and targeted web/Boolean search; maintained accurate tracking and ATS hygiene.
Staffing Specialist Assistant
Sourced and pre-screened candidates across manufacturing, aerospace, telecoms, food & beverage, and government; maintained candidate tracking in ATS and Excel.
Coordinated staffing workflows, documentation, and reporting to support high-volume requisitions.
Earlier Experience
Recruitment Specialist, TRG (May 2010 – Aug 2010)
Freelance Project Manager/QA, LWS Media (Jun 2010 – Jul 2010)
Technical Support Representative, TeleTech (Jul 2009 – May 2010)
Core Competencies
Expertise &
Capabilities
Strategic Capabilities
Tools & Platforms
Education & Certifications
Continuous
Learning
BS, Management Information System
Ateneo de Manila University
2004 — 2009
Professional Certification
American Staffing Association — Corporate Recruiting Professional Certificate (Feb 2024)
AI & Technology
Career Essentials in Generative AI — Microsoft & LinkedIn (Aug 2023)
Generative AI in HR — LinkedIn Learning (2023–2024)
Generative AI, Recruiting, and Talent Acquisition — LinkedIn Learning (2023–2024)
Building GenAI Skills for Business Professionals — LinkedIn Learning (2023–2024)
Microsoft 365 Copilot — LinkedIn Learning (Mar 2024)
AI + Automation series — LinkedIn Learning (Feb 2024)
Analytics
Looker Studio for Beginners — LinkedIn Learning (Jan 2024)
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