Human Resources & Talent Acquisition Leader
Adanma Ivonye
Attracting & Retaining Talent • Building Great Teams • Creating Workplaces People Enjoy
About
A trusted advisor to leaders, from a national central bank to a fast-paced agency.
I'm a Human Resources and Talent Acquisition leader with 15+ years across HR business partnering, full-cycle recruitment, employee relations, talent management and employee experience.
I've worked in large-scale organizations — a 5,000-employee national central bank — and in fast-paced agency environments, partnering with leaders to hire well and keep good people.
Recruiting work
Full-cycle hiring, from hard-to-fill searches to campaigns of thousands.
Full-cycle recruitment 40+ hires
Creative, media, client partnership, project management, production, finance, HR, business development, leadership and corporate functions.
Strategic sourcing & pipelines
Specialized, leadership and hard-to-fill roles, sourced through LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, direct sourcing, referrals and professional networks.
Campus recruiting & internships 50+ schools
Directed the internship program, more than doubling participation and expanding partnerships to 50+ colleges and universities nationwide.
Career fairs, mentorship, community outreach and speaking engagements to build the employer brand.
Hiring manager partnership
Advised on assessment, interview strategy, compensation, selection and offers. Built and delivered interviewer training on structured interviewing.
High-volume hiring 5,000+ applicants
Part of a ~15-person team recruiting for 36 branches and Head Office. Coordinated the annual National Youth Service Corps program for ~500 participants.
Candidate experience & onboarding
Redesigned onboarding so the experience promised in recruiting carries into day one.
Recruiting in the field
Career fairs, school visits and the students and early-career talent she's brought in.
Experience
15+ years of people work, on two continents.
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Jun 2023 – Jul 2026
Human Resources Manager · Doe-Anderson
Louisville, KY. Led HR and talent for a 130+ employee integrated agency: talent acquisition, employee experience, performance management, onboarding, manager support, policy, engagement and culture. Partnered with executives on workforce planning.
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Sep 2021 – Jun 2023
Planned career break
Relocated to the United States to support my family's transition.
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Jan 2013 – Sep 2021
HR Business Partner · Central Bank of Nigeria
Sole HRBP for ~200 employees and branch leadership within a ~5,000-person national organization: employee relations, performance, succession planning, talent development, workforce planning, policy and change initiatives.
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2008 – 2013
Recruitment Officer · Central Bank of Nigeria
Large-scale and high-volume recruitment across 36 branches and Head Office.
Recommendations
What the people she's worked with say.
Recommendations from LinkedIn.
“One of Adanma's biggest achievements was the impact she had on our recruitment efforts. She grew our internship program applicant pool by almost 100%, developed relationships with many colleges, universities and career programs, recruited and hired dozens of positions, and consistently received compliments from candidates about the relationships she built and way she presented Doe-Anderson to the outside world along the way too.”
“Adanma is knowledgeable, disciplined, dependable, and fun to be around. She was a great addition to our team and I highly recommend her to others.”
“Adanma has a high sense of responsibility and is a good team player. She is enthusiastic about her work and is able to work with minimal supervision.”
Jemima DaboHR Practitioner, Central Bank of NigeriaManaged Adanma directly · February 2012
“Ada makes the most difficult tasks look like a piece of cake. She is fun loving, dedicated, focused and reliable, even under pressure. Adanma is the lady to work with.”
Maureen AbuPerformance Management Manager, Central Bank of NigeriaWorked on the same team · February 2012
“Adanma is a very nice person to work with, she has a very good sense of humour, she is very hard working.”
Simeon OgbonnayaRecruitment Officer, Central Bank of NigeriaWorked on the same team · February 2012
“Adanma is fun loving and a good team player. She is optimistic and very supportive.”
Jo JoHR Professional, Central Bank of NigeriaWorked on the same team · February 2012
In her words
What I write about hiring, onboarding and retention.
Recent posts from LinkedIn.
Hiring has changed because the workforce is changing.
You cannot attract every generation of talent the same way… But adapting doesn't mean stereotyping. It means listening.
Have we optimized hiring so much that we're filtering out the very people we should be talking to?
Same candidate. Same experience. Same résumé. The difference? A human finally looked at it.
Candidates are interviewing companies too.
Employer branding isn't just a polished careers page, social media posts or a list of company values.
A great candidate experience shouldn't end with an accepted offer.
Onboarding is an organization's first real opportunity to deliver on the promises made during recruitment.
How do you quantify the impact of HR?
How do you measure engaging a passive candidate who accepted a role because of the relationship, trust, and candidate experience you built?
It's that time of year again — Fall Career Fair season!
One of my favorite parts of recruiting has always been getting out from behind the screen and meeting students face-to-face.
Employee retention shouldn't begin when someone submits their resignation.
Culture isn't defined by the programs an organization offers. It's defined by what employees experience every day.
Skills & education
The toolkit behind the results.
- Talent Acquisition Strategy
- Full-Cycle Recruitment
- HR Business Partnering
- Employee Relations
- Strategic Sourcing
- Boolean Search
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- Candidate Screening & Assessment
- Workforce Planning
- Talent Management
- Performance Management
- Employee Experience
- Manager Coaching
- Candidate Experience
- Employer Branding
Education
BA in Accountancy, University of Wales 2008
Certifications
- ACCA
- Talent Management
- HR Transformation
- Managerial Skills
- Project Management
- Supervisory Skills