Kane Landers

Role Summary

As the Director of Talent at DSS, I drive strategic talent initiatives to acquire, develop, and retain top-tier talent. Specialising in end-to-end talent management, I excel in crafting innovative recruitment strategies, implementing robust onboarding programs, and working with internal teams to foster employee development. With a keen focus on performance management and succession planning, I ensure a high-performing and future-ready workforce.

Collaborating closely with leadership and our sales team, I align talent strategies with organisational goals and requirements to ensure the exceptional talent we acquire contributes to a positive, engaging work environment both internally and for our clients.

Accomplishments & Highlights:

• Established a comprehensive end-to-end recruitment process focused on reducing time-to-hire, submission turnaround, and candidate efficiency metrics.
• Trained and mentored all members of the team in adopting new sourcing, screening, evaluation and presentation techniques.
• Transitioned the team into operating verticals, to build towards specialisation and deep talent pools.
• Reduced time-to-hire from 90+ days, to < 30 days.
• Increased candidate efficiency from < 25% to 75% per requisition.
• Reduced time to submission from 30+ days to < 14 days, with recent activities being < 7 days.

Early on in my time with Provoke I took on a leadership role within a two person HR and Recruitment team (me in NZ, 1x US based recruiter). This led me to stepping outside of my comfort zone and ensuring our compliance with NZ Employment laws, and further being the local connector with our NZ-based employees - while also shaping the recruitment function within the business.

As the Acting Recruitment Manager I was tasked with leading dynamic talent acquisition strategies and driving team success by overseeing end-to-end recruitment processes. I achieved this by utilising innovative sourcing methods, enhancing employer branding, and optimising hiring practices.

Some of the key activities in this role were collaborating with stakeholders, executing workforce planning, elevating the organisation's talent pools by cultivating relationships, conducting interviews, and implementing data-driven decision-making - all with the goal of transforming challenges into opportunities, shaping a resilient and diverse workforce for sustainable growth.

Key Achievements:

• Lead the successful hiring of key roles within the business i.e. Team Leads, Managers, Chief of HR.
• Contributed to over 30 new hires into the business.
• Successfully led the implementation and initial configuration of BambooHR for Provoke.
• Built long lasting, trusted relationships with key stakeholders within Provoke i.e. COO, CEO, VP and SVPs

This was a solo operator role, initially looking after the entire recruitment function for the US and NZ based Provoke entities. About 2-months into my time with Provoke, we hired a US-based recruiter, and also leveraged some existing relationships in NZ for contract-recruiters.

This was a full end-to-end recruitment role from identifying needs and opportunities within the business to onboarding and supporting candidates, as well as guiding and advising stakeholders throughout the entire recruitment process.

My initial focus in this role was to build a strong relationship with key leadership figures within the business, and understand their current pain-points and future goals regarding recruitment into their teams. Using my experience I then built and executed a stringent recruitment process, prioritising immediate needs and core business goals.

Providing specialist Technology & Digital Recruitment services to New Zealand based employers, across both permanent and contract markets.

Providing specialist Technology & Digital Recruitment services to New Zealand based employers, across both permanent and contract markets.

• Assisted the Academic and Professional Staff in all areas of courses.
• Ensured all tutorial content reflected the Modern Marketing Environment.
• Developed Learning and Teaching Initiatives along side the Coordinator.
• Lead key Internal Events at the School level
  Created and Maintained internal marketing materials.
• Built and Maintained relationships with external clients as well as University level support services