Simbi Sargant

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner | Tech & Digital Hiring

Salary / Daily rate

Bexleyheath, UK

Freelance

Skills

Talent AcquisitionSourcingRecruitment

Languages

English (Native)

About me

Intro

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner with 15+ years recruiting across tech, digital, and transformation roles in EMEA markets. Proven success filling high-volume technical and non-technical positions across Banking, NHS, Government, and Telco sectors—recently cleared a 30-role backlog a month ahead of schedule. Expert in stakeholder management, advanced sourcing techniques, and building robust talent pipelines that deliver immediate impact for critical hires.

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Work experience

Recruitment Account Manager/ Talent Acquisition Consultant - FTC

QUALSERV CONSULTING LIMITED

Sep 2022 - Sep 2025

3 years 1 month

Harrow, UK

– Led proactive sourcing across technical and non-technical roles, supporting high-volume hiring demands across global markets – Led end-to-end recruitment for a portfolio of clients within Banking, Telco, Public Transportation, Government, Local authority and NHS. – Filled technical and non-technical roles across contract, fixed term and permanent positions. – Partner closely with hiring managers and internal stakeholders to define role requirements, hiring strategy, and sourcing approach – Built and maintained strong talent pipelines for immediate and future hiring needs, reducing time-to-fill across critical roles – Conducted market mapping and talent research to identify and engage high-quality candidates within competitive talent pools – Utilised advanced sourcing techniques including LinkedIn Recruiter, AI, Boolean search, and referral networks to attract top talent – Delivered full end-to-end recruitment lifecycle including intaking, sourcing, screening, interview management, and offer negotiation – Acted as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, providing insights on talent availability, salary benchmarking, and hiring strategy – Ensured a consistent and high-quality candidate experience throughout the recruitment process – Primary point of contact for candidates and clients across the interview, offering and onboarding process, including retrieving references, ID verifications and security clearance where applicable.

Recruitment / Talent Acquisition Business Partner

GP Strategies Corporation

Mar 2022 - Jul 2022

5 months

Hoyland, Barnsley S74, UK

– Joined as part of a team of 2 to help reduce and stabilise their high volume internal, live and business critical global roles. – Worked autonomously on fast-paced and busy projects, I recruited for various technical and non-technical positions within the L&D space. – Initiated and conducted role briefings with Hiring Managers to establish role requirements and devise a resourcing plan. – Writing compelling job specifications to launch adverts on appropriate platforms (Linkedin Recruiter, Jobs boards, online forums etc.) – Strong experience sourcing high quality candidates using direct sourcing methods and tools (Candidate databases, Taleo, referrals, Headhunting, Linkedin Recruiter) – Experience placing candidates within their banking and insurance end clients. – Conducted competency-based video and call interviews via Microsoft Teams to qualify candidate suitability – Built strong candidate pipelines through building rapport, networking, referrals etc – Facilitated the best candidate experience throughout the process. – Offer/salary negotiations – Processed offers on ATS (Taleo) and requesting approval – Key Achievements: Filled the backlog of 30 roles a month earlier than projected

Client Delivery Specialist I Account Manager | Headhunter

Experis UK & IE

Jun 2010 - Feb 2017

6 years 9 months

London, UK

– Experis is a globally recognised professional talent company combining the experience and expertise from Elan, Jefferson Wells & Manpower Professional - www.experis.co.uk. – Experis is a dedicated business unit of ManpowerGroup – a world leader and pioneer in employment services for over 60 years. As a company, we service clients within Engineering, Finance and IT from offices worldwide, deploying in excess of 100,000 skilled professionals every day. – As a Client Delivery Specialist I provide tailored recruitment services to key clients cross-sector. This involves managing the entire recruitment process end-to-end, liaising with senior management, analysing requirements and building recruitment campaigns in order to source and provide high-value, cost-effective resources for the client. – Clients: Cisco, BP, QEDIS, GTA, GE Capital, TSol, Kaleidoscope – Roles Placed: Trainers, BI, Oracle, JAVA, PHP, Drupal, Digital Project Managers, Digital Producers, TV Producers, Testers, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Citrix, VMWare, Cisco, Avaya, Infrastructure technologies to name a few

Recruitment Consultant I Headhunter I Account Manager

Elan IT

Aug 2008 - Aug 2010

2 years 1 month

London, UK

– ELAN IT rebranded to Experis IT – Elan IT was the first recruitment company I joined after a lengthy and successful career in Property (letting, selling and surveying). – I joined Elan as a New Business Recruitment Consultant with a particular focus on permanent, senior appointments across Media, Insurance, Pharmaceutical, Software, Hardware, Banking and Investments sectors. During this role, I was able to develop my skills in the following areas: – Engaging with Clients, mapping out the market and building key relationships – Negotiating T&C's with Clients – Developing and executing direct sourcing/Candidate attraction strategies and recruitment campaigns to ensure the highest calibre and most suitable candidate for the clients needs. – Managing and executing candidate screening and assessment process using competency based questions and various other assessment technique – Candidate negotiating – Expectation management of both candidate and client – Some clients I worked with during this time: Infosys, Thomson Reuters, Wipro, BarCap, Capgemini, Dunhumby, CBS Interactive – Roles Placed: SAP (HR, ABAP, IS-Oil, FI, CO, Basis, BW, SD, MM), PeopleSoft, Hyperion, BI, Oracle, JAVA, PHP, Perl, Drupal, Digital Project Managers, Digital Producers, Ruby On Rails, Testing, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Infrastructure, cloud tecnologies to name a few


Education

University of Bedfordshire

BA Honours, Graphic Design

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