
Abdullah Niazi
HR Recruiter
The right hire, faster, with a candidate experience to match
HR recruiter with six years hiring across technical and corporate roles for a Lahore technology and services company. Owns the full recruitment cycle — sourcing, screening, interviewing and offer — and fills 12-15 roles a month across engineering, sales and operations. Cut average time-to-hire by around a week by building proactive talent pipelines and tightening the interview process. Sources actively through LinkedIn and niche channels rather than waiting on applications, and keeps candidates genuinely informed throughout. Manages the ATS, hiring-manager relationships and offer negotiations, and reports on the hiring funnel. Personable, organised and a genuine judge of fit. Looking for a recruiter or talent-acquisition role with a company that hires for quality, not just speed.
Crescent Technologies - Lahore, Pakistan
HR Recruiter April 2018 to Present 8 years & 4 months
Cut average time-to-hire by around a week through proactive pipelines and a tighter interview process.
Source actively through LinkedIn and niche channels rather than relying on inbound job applications alone.
Screen, shortlist and run structured interviews, then advise hiring managers on genuine candidate fit and risk.
Manage the applicant-tracking system, offer negotiations and the whole candidate experience from first contact.
Report on the hiring funnel and source-of-hire metrics to HR and the relevant department heads.
Lahore Business Services - Lahore, Pakistan
Recruitment Officer August 2016 to March 2018 1 year & 8 months
Maintained candidate trackers and coordinated assessment days for large applicant batches.
Built the sourcing and interviewing skills that led to a full recruiter role.
Handled candidate queries and kept applicants engaged and warm through the process.
Earned a talent-acquisition certification during this early period of his career.
Lahore Corporate Services - Lahore, Pakistan
HR Assistant June 2014 to July 2016 2 years & 2 months
Scheduled interviews, posted vacancies and screened the incoming job applications daily.
Learned the basics of recruitment, HR process and professional candidate handling.
Built the grounding that led him into a full recruitment-officer role of his own.
University of the Punjab, Lahore
BBA in Human Resource Management (September 2012 to June 2016)
HR Professionals Institute
Certified Talent Acquisition Professional (January 2018 to June 2018)
Cut time-to-hire
Quality of hire
Proactive Talent Pipeline Build
Recruiter (June 2019 to May 2020)
ATS & Hiring-Process Revamp
Recruiter (February 2021 to September 2021)
Certified Talent Acquisition Professional
HR Professionals Institute (June 2018 to Present)
Structured Interviewing & Assessment
HR Professionals Institute (February 2020 to Present)
- Full-Cycle Recruitment
- Sourcing (LinkedIn & Niche)
- Candidate Screening
- Structured Interviewing
- Applicant Tracking Systems
- Offer Negotiation
- Hiring-Manager Partnering
- Pipeline Building
- Recruitment Metrics
- Candidate Experience