Jeyhun Hatamkhanov
Baku
Summary
Senior recruitment professional with extensive experience in multi-national environments, specializing in talent acquisition strategy and stakeholder collaboration. Demonstrated success in improving candidate experience and advancing diversity initiatives. Proficient in market intelligence and offer development, effectively managing the recruitment lifecycle to attract top talent and achieve organizational objectives.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
bp
Baku
08.2014 - 06.2025
- Manage the end-to-end recruitment cycle and sourcing process for a range of disciplines, using sound capabilities to identify, attract and engage diverse talents.
- Manage a portfolio of requisitions and participates in the full recruitment lifecycle, including role definition, strategic candidate sourcing, interviewing, selection, offer management and onboarding.
- Develop knowledge and experience of competitors, market intelligence and trends in recruitment through analysing market data.
- Collaborate with hiring managers, P&C teams to ensure that the bp talent acquisition strategy is realised, with a focus on quality of hire, DE&I and critical capabilities.
- Builds strong relationships with hiring managers by understanding their business drivers and talent needs and delivers resourcing initiatives, campaigns and recruiting metrics to influence stakeholders.
- Ensure full compliance with Resourcing governance, the recruitment process, policy including compliance with external and local country requirements.
Recruitment Coordinator (seconded to bp)
Orion Group
Baku
09.2011 - 07.2014
- Company Overview: Azerbaijan
- Supported the Talent Acquisition team to effectively manage the administrative process of a portfolio of requisitions (internal and external) with a focus on direct sourcing and diverse candidates.
- Responsible for logistics and facilitation of interviews.
- Ensured accurate completion of requisitions and generation of offer documentation & liaising with HR Services.
- Ensured complete administration throughout the hiring process.
- Monitored and track pre-employment processes, intervening with business facing HR team/International Mobility and/or candidate to resolve any concerns or delays and close requisitions once candidate(s) have been hired.
- Responsible for ensuring quality candidate experience throughout the process in-line with Candidate Charter.
- Conducted candidate sourcing, screening and assessment where required.
- Prepared external market maps where required, based on research activities.
- Processed candidate expenses in a timely manner and following appropriate approvals.
- Azerbaijan
HR Generalist
AA Services
09.2007 - 08.2011
- Company Overview: Mid-sized Netherlands affiliated company.
- Posted roles, screened applications, conducted assessments.
- Managed onboarding of new joiners including drafting of offer letters, employment contracts and collection of other payroll related papers.
- Acted as SME in HR related compliance matters.
- Ensured alignment with local labour legislation.
- Prepared quarterly and annual state mandated employee reports.
- Developed HR policies and procedures.
- Kept track of staff vacations and leaves.
- Mid-sized Netherlands affiliated company.
Education
Bachelor's Degree - Law
Baku State University
AzerbaijanSkills
- Talent acquisition strategy
- Sourcing and attraction
- Market intelligence
- Offer development
- Candidate experience
- Stakeholder collaboration
- International relocation management
- Workday and TAS expertise
- Agency engagement
- Avature tracking systems
- KPI development
- Dashboard reporting
- Diversity initiatives
- Employer branding strategies
- Passive recruiting
- Video interviewing
- Applicant tracking systems
- Competency-based interviewing
- Onboarding management
- Behavioral interviewing
- Job posting optimization
- Recruitment metrics analysis
- Employee referral programs
- Boolean search techniques
- Executive search
- Salary negotiations
- Interviewing techniques
- Recruitment planning
- Partnership building
- Global recruitment
Languages
- Azeri, native
- English, fluent
- Russian, fluent
- Egyptian Arabic (studying)
References
References are available upon request.
Contacts
+994554250780, hatamkhanovjeyhun@gmail.com
Personal Information
Relocation: Open to international mobility
Accomplishments
Managed recruitment activities across multiple locations (UK, Türkiye, Egypt, Oman, South Africa, Malaysia, India, West Africa Mauritian & Senegal).
Demonstrated capability in managing high volume and massive recruitment tecnicians/blue collar workforce.
Streamlined data hygine in ATS with tangible impact on data management.
Improved onboarding process flow minimising paperwork trail and transitioned to digital process.
Timeline
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
bp
08.2014 - 06.2025
Recruitment Coordinator (seconded to bp)
Orion Group
09.2011 - 07.2014
HR Generalist
AA Services
09.2007 - 08.2011
Bachelor's Degree - Law
Baku State University