Johannes Pelzer

Interim Recruiter

Grevenbroich, Germany

Experience

Jun 2022 - Dec 2023
1 year 7 months
Tübingen, Germany

Interim Recruiter

CureVac SE

  • Filling permanent and freelance positions
  • Managing end-to-end process with hiring managers and HR business partners from needs analysis to contract negotiation
  • Direct search, social media recruiting, advertising, active sourcing
  • Software: SAP SuccessFactors, LinkedIn Recruiter
  • Project languages: German, English
Dec 2021 - Apr 2023
1 year 5 months
Hamburg, Germany
Remote

Interim Recruiter

Goodgame Studios

  • Filling IT and finance positions as permanent and freelance roles with international candidates via remote recruiting
  • Managing end-to-end process with hiring managers from needs analysis to contract negotiation
  • Direct search, social media recruiting, advertising, active sourcing
  • Process consulting for the implementation of the new ATS Softgarden
  • Talent acquisition strategy for software development
  • Software: Lever ATS, Softgarden, LinkedIn Recruiter
  • Project languages: German, English
Aug 2021 - Nov 2021
4 months
Cologne, Germany

Interim Recruiter

Chronext

  • Filling 21 sales positions in newly opened lounges in France, the Netherlands, Austria, and Italy (project languages: English, German)
  • Independently managing process with hiring managers via the Personio ATS
  • Candidate sourcing via direct search (active sourcing), social media recruiting, advertising
  • Process consulting on international recruiting and employer branding
  • Software: Google Workspace, Personio ATS, Softgarden
  • Project languages: German, English
Jun 2021 - Present
4 years 2 months
Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Interim Recruiter and Recruiting Strategy Consultant

Malzers Backstuben

  • Analyzing and optimizing the existing recruiting strategy
  • Independently identifying, approaching, and recruiting candidates for key positions, active sourcing
  • Setting up social media campaigns for recruiting and employer branding
  • Establishing structures and processes for a sustainable, professional recruiting function
  • Coaching and training of existing and new employees
  • Software: Softgarden
  • Project language: German
Sep 2020 - Jun 2021
10 months
Künzelsau, Germany

Interim Team Lead Talent Acquisition and Senior Recruiter

Albert Berner Deutschland GmbH

  • Developing and implementing a strategy to attract and retain the personnel needed to meet growth targets, focusing on operational sales functions (multichannel sales)
  • Ensuring the filling of about 60 positions planned for fiscal year 20/21 by 31.03.2021; preparing a recruiting push for a planned growth project in the Rhine-Ruhr metro area
  • Professionalizing the entire recruiting process, especially direct approaches (active sourcing)
  • Defining the right target groups
  • Identifying and adjusting the right channels/forums
  • Defining, designing, and evolving the employer brand/EVP
  • Developing and implementing employer marketing strategies
  • Leading the recruiting team (2.8 permanent FTE + interim resource 4 days/week)
  • Achievements: filled 93 positions, increased quality of applications by 24%
  • Software: Umantis ATS, Wollmilchsau Jobspreader, MS Teams, Microsoft 365
  • Project languages: German, English
Jun 2020 - Present
5 years 2 months
Cologne, Germany

Recruiting Trainer and Consultant

Arbeitgebergold GmbH

  • Designing and delivering recruiting trainings for various clients with focus on active sourcing basics, employer branding, recruiting strategy development, interview techniques
  • Talent acquisition strategy consulting and workshops on behalf of clients
  • Project languages: German, English
Mar 2020 - Present
5 years 5 months
Cologne, Germany

Recruiting Coach and Career Consultant

Freelancer

  • Advising and developing recruiting strategies in workshop formats
  • Designing and delivering operational recruiting trainings
  • Mentoring in-house recruiting teams
  • Career and application trainings for individuals
  • Project languages: German, English
Jan 2019 - Present
6 years 7 months

Freelance Consultant, Coach and Trainer

Freelancer

  • Freelance consulting, coaching, and training on recruiting, employer marketing, active sourcing, employer branding, and outplacement
  • Career consulting, talent acquisition strategy
  • Interim recruiting, recruiting as a service
Mar 2016 - Mar 2020
4 years 1 month
Gummersbach, Germany

Head of Inhouse Recruiting

ABLE Management Services GmbH

  • Direct supervision of 27 employees in applicant management/secretariat, research/active sourcing, HR consulting, employer marketing/employer branding
  • Reporting to management since 02/2017
  • Filled 546 vacancies across Europe in 2017
  • Expanded the department and introduced a team lead structure (3 areas) plus a comprehensive career model
  • Project “New Applicant Management System for Internal Recruiting”
  • Project “Building the Internal HR Consulting Brand”
  • Designing an employee turnover survey
  • Introducing KPIs and a management dashboard for applicant management, sourcing, recruiting, employer branding
  • Project “Diagnostics for Sales Positions”
  • In close collaboration with marketing leadership: projects to enhance the employer brands (group-wide, brand-specific)
  • Talent acquisition strategy
May 2015 - Feb 2016
10 months
Gummersbach, Germany

Team Lead Internal Recruiting

ABLE Management Services GmbH

  • Direct supervision of 7 HR consultants
  • Acting department head
Oct 2012 - Apr 2015
2 years 7 months
Gummersbach, Germany

HR Officer Internal Recruiting & Employer Marketing

ABLE Management Services GmbH

  • Recruiting executives, junior managers, specialists, and administrative staff for national and international branches/headquarters; candidate research, recruitment, selection, conducting interviews
  • Designing and implementing (change management) a nationwide internal recruiting process for a subsidiary
  • Participating in recruiting fairs
  • Organizing and conducting assessment centers
  • Conducting benchmarks and recruiting statistics
  • Achievement: filled 103 inside sales positions across Europe in 2015 for subsidiaries (sales, recruiting, regional/branch management, purchasing, assistance)
Feb 2012 - Jul 2012
6 months
Düsseldorf, Germany

Recruitment Consultant Permanent

Robert Walters Germany GmbH

  • Team Finance/HR
Nov 2009 - Jan 2010
3 months
Cologne, Germany

Project Staff

Upo Recruiting

  • Book project in business administration “Personnel Management”
  • Recruiting support
Feb 2009 - Jan 2012
3 years
Düsseldorf, Germany

Recruiter and Mentor

Hays AG

  • Key account management for contracting and permanent placements
  • Recruiter in key account management; Hays AG is the leading provider of freelance IT experts in 28 countries with 6,800 employees according to the Lünendonk list (2015)
  • Candidate selection and recruitment, coordinating and leading in-person and phone interviews, compensation and contract negotiations, supporting highly qualified experts throughout project assignments
  • Successful placements at clients like IBM, Vodafone, Henkel, Deutsche Post, BWI, Schenker
  • Onboarding, mentoring, and training new employees, technical lead of a four-person recruiter team
  • Independently designing and delivering seminars
  • Consistently ranked among the top 3 recruiters in the Cologne/Düsseldorf area
  • Winner of the D-A-CH-wide MCR Award 2011
  • Generated a contribution margin of €667,000 in FY 2010/11
Jun 2008 - Dec 2009
1 year 7 months
Cologne, Germany

Junior HR Manager

Sara Lee H&BC

  • Human resources: employee support, development, and recruitment
Aug 2006 - Jan 2010
3 years 6 months
Germany

Trainer, Test Leader and Author

Freelancer

  • Instructor for Xpert Personal Business Skills at adult education centers
  • Seminar and test leader for GMAT/TOEIC at IIK Düsseldorf e.V.
  • Test leader for NEPS educational studies
  • Author for BEE Media, VNR AG, etc.
  • Developed and repeatedly conducted an assessment center with Dipl.-Psych. Peter Spahlinger, Cologne
Feb 2006 - May 2008
2 years 4 months
Bonn, Germany

Trainee

Deutsche Post World Net

  • Emerging talent development
Jun 2005 - Nov 2005
6 months
Bonn, Germany
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DB Direkt

  • Sales and business processes
Oct 2003 - Jan 2004
4 months
Japan

Internship Human Resources

Bayer Ltd.

  • Human resources
Jun 2002 - Mar 2008
5 years 10 months
Cologne, Germany

Sales Promotion Staff and Team Lead

Young Promotion GmbH

  • Retail sales promotion
  • Team leadership
  • Part-time
Mar 2001 - Sep 2001
7 months
Grevenbroich, Germany

Internship HR

Bauunternehmen Pick

  • Human resources

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Elementary

Education

Dec 2006 - Oct 2009

AKAD Stuttgart (Study Center Düsseldorf)

Master of Arts, focus on Human Resources Management · Business Administration · Düsseldorf, Germany · 2.1

Sep 2000 - Mar 2005

FU Hagen

Magister Artium, focus on Work and Organizational Psychology · Psychology and Sociology · Hagen, Germany · 1.9

Pascal-Gymnasium

Abitur · Grevenbroich, Germany · 2.1

Certifications & licenses

Certified Career Coach

v. Rundstedt

Licence to Lead

PROAKTIV-Akademie

Train the Trainer

DGSv, neues Lernen e.V. Köln

Xpert Personal Business Skills Master

VHS Düsseldorf

Exercise Instructor License