Busisiwe M.
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Notable Highlight
Filled 200+ developer and hard-to-fill technical roles across Africa, UK, and US—cut time-to-fill by 40% through strategic sourcing and market mapping.
Experience Summary
Seasoned talent acquisition professional with 7+ years of experience in full-cycle recruitment across Africa and international markets. Demonstrated expertise in strategic sourcing, recruitment analytics, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and global talent acquisition. Managed high-volume and executive-level hiring for health, development, and technology sectors, with strong capability in process optimization and stakeholder engagement.
Key Achievements
While at Mot., she expanded the organization's talent network by over 40% through targeted outreach and structured interview guides. She implemented structured onboarding processes that significantly improved retention rates during the critical first 90 days of employment. She automated candidate data tracking systems, reducing administrative workload by 20% and ensuring high data accuracy for leadership reporting.
Skills
Work Experience
Consultant Talent Acquisition Specialist
FTC · 2 May 2025 – 31 July 2025
- Lead end-to-end recruitment for global clients across industries, including technology, healthcare, and development sectors.
- Partner with senior leadership to define hiring needs and implement effective sourcing strategies for mid- to senior-level roles.
- Conduct market intelligence, salary benchmarking, and pipeline forecasting to drive proactive recruitment.
- Manage candidate engagement from sourcing to offer negotiation, ensuring a seamless and professional experience.
- Develop talent insights reports and recruitment dashboards to inform strategy and performance reviews.
- Built scalable global talent pipelines, reducing time-to-fill by 30%.
- Enhanced candidate experience scores through improved communication and structured feedback loops.
- Consulted on process redesign that increased sourcing efficiency and recruiter productivity by 25%.
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Mot. · Feb 2022 – 1 May 2025
- Manage high-volume and executive recruitment for health and development programmes across sub-Saharan Africa.
- Advise hiring managers on recruitment best practices and workforce planning.
- Oversee screening, competency-based interviewing, reference checks, and offer negotiations.
- Partner with the HR Director to strengthen diversity and inclusion strategies in hiring.
- Deliver quarterly recruitment analytics reports to leadership, tracking key KPIs including cost-per-hire and time-to-fill.
- Introduce structured interview guides that improved hiring consistency and quality-of-hire.
- Expand the organization's talent network by over 40% through targeted outreach campaigns.
- Design, maintain, and deliver the organisation's orientation and on-boarding processes, system and toolkit to ensure proper induction of new employees.
- Build capacity of line managers and HR Global Team members on m2m orientation and on-boarding principles and processes.
- Coordinate and facilitate the two-day orientation workshop for new employees at HO once a quarter, virtual and in-person.
- Coordinate and facilitate the quarterly virtual orientation session for all new m2m employees and develop materials for organisational use and dissemination.
- Maintain and develop the m2m virtual on-boarding portal.
- Conduct exit interviews, provide analysis of the data and recommendations to the organisation annually, and assist exiting employees with transitional coaching if required.
Talent Manager
PO · March 2016 – Jan 2022
- Support technical and non-technical recruitment for a rapidly scaling technology company.
- Coordinate interviews, onboarding, and compliance documentation for new hires.
- Maintain and update recruitment dashboards, ensuring data accuracy and timely reporting.
- Partner with team leads to forecast recruitment needs and streamline approval workflows.
- Implement structured onboarding processes that improved retention during the first 90 days.
- Automate candidate data tracking, cutting administrative workload by 20%.
Project Manager
RIH · Jan 2015 – Feb 2016
- Design and execute communication, selection and delivery of systems for the programme.
- Recruit entrepreneurs to join the programme.
- Liaise and negotiate with partners and service providers of the organization.
- Effectively and efficiently administer events and related information.
- Report accurately, create and file documents in accordance with regulatory and hub governance.
- Collaborate with the Head of SME Development and other SME development to evolve and grow the programme.
- Coach and mentor entrepreneurs.
- Recruit entrepreneurs for the Full Incubation Programme.
- Create training programmes.
Project Manager/Entrepreneur Coordinator
TRBCOE(U · Nov 2011 – Aug 2014
- Manage the screening, interviewing, and selecting of candidates.
- Liaise with front line services and training providers.
- Manage and execute training sessions.
- Handle entrepreneur queries and networking events.
- Facilitate the Nedbank-mandated specialized programmes.
- Recruit advanced entrepreneurs for extended programme follow up for success stories.
- Ensure communication of mission and implement events to encourage pipeline from communities.
- Externally coordinate entrepreneur intake, training, follow up and stakeholder relations.
- Oversee the CEO's office operations in relation to administration of the centre.
Executive Receptionist
Dis. · Jan 2009 – Oct 2011
Junior Recruiter and Receptionist
ZRA · Oct 2008 – Dec 2008
Junior Recruiter and Receptionist
AP · Jun 2007 – Jan 2008
Receptionist
ADC
Receptionist, Assistant to Artistic Director
(NP · January 2005 – May 2005