CAREER CATALYST - Excellence in Recruiting Operations and Efficiency - Eleni Velasquez-1
CAREER CATALYST - Excellence in Recruiting Operations and Efficiency - Eleni Velasquez

Eleni Velasquez
Campus Recruitment Lead
Arup

NOMINEE SPOTLIGHT

Eleni Velasquez is a Campus Recruitment Lead at Arup. In their role at Arup, Eleni is responsible for leading a team of coordinators and recruiters while developing and managing the college recruiting strategy to successfully hire ~400 intern and graduate requisitions with a focus on attracting diverse talent. Eleni has grown her career at Arup. Prior to leading the Campus Recruitment team, Eleni was a Talent Acquisition Coordinator and then a Campus Recruiter with Arup. Eleni is passionate about building a strategy focused on digitalization and accelerating recruiting to find the top talent with a focus on inclusive hiring.

Career Highlight

"Over the past year, I led a transformative strategy to enhance our recruiting operations focused on digitalization, attracting diverse talent, and accelerating recruiting efforts. I embedded pre-recorded video interviewing into our recruitment process, giving us the ability to engage more candidates in our interview process. Our outreach and events strategy focused on attracting diverse talent at the front end of our recruitment process by engaging with student organizations, minority-serving institutions, and attending national conferences focused on organizations aligned with Women, Black, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ groups. Finally, I ensured we stayed focused on accelerating our recruitment efforts by influencing our business to prioritize intern conversions, developing a new salary structure that was ensuring we were giving the most competitive offer packages to candidates, and getting the leadership support to have hiring managers prioritize recruitment during the Fall. These strategic improvements have resulted in a 75% increase of numbers of candidates invited into our interview process, a 62% intern conversion rate, 86% Graduate acceptance rate, and a 79% intern acceptance rate."

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