Firat BEGEÇARSLAN
Beyoglu,,Istanbul
Summary
Senior Consultant building end-to-end recruitment delivery across sourcing, interviews, offer management, and pre-onboarding steps. Leads candidate search, structured interviews, and salary negotiations while keeping hiring managers aligned on role needs, market insight, and pipeline progress. Strengthens client trust through clear updates, reporting, and fast issue resolution.
Overview
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Languages
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Certifications
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13
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Recruitment Consultant
Randstad
06.2024 - Current
- Screen candidates against role requirements to identify qualified talent for client shortlists.
- Conduct structured interviews to assess experience, motivation, and fit for open positions.
- Build strong client relationships by maintaining clear communication throughout the recruitment process.
- Search candidate databases and professional networks to source talent for specialized and hard-to-fill roles.
- Coordinate interview scheduling and candidate communications to keep hiring processes moving smoothly.
- Prepare recruitment reports for client and internal review using clear, organized documentation.
- Support hiring managers with market insights to shape realistic candidate profiles and search expectations.
- Manage candidate experience by providing timely updates and professional follow-up at each stage.
- Draft candidate submissions, interview notes, and client communications in a polished, professional format.
- Use presentation and tracking tools to support client meetings and internal progress reviews.
Recruitment Consultant
Randstad
03.2023 - 07.2024
- I started my job as a consultant for the first one and half years and I continue my job as a senior consultant for the last 9 months.
- I start by understanding my clients needs in detail this includes the job description, organizational structure, expectations, and required candidate profile.
- I maintain close communication with hiring managers to ensure we’re aligned throughout the recruitment process.
- I actively source candidates through various platforms like LinkedIn, internal databases, job boards, and referrals.
- I review applications, assess resumes, and shortlist the most suitable profiles for the role.
- I conduct structured interviews to evaluate both technical competencies and soft skills.
- I assess candidates motivation, career goals, and cultural fit, and provide detailed feedback to both candidates and clients. At the same time I provide clients with regular updates and market insights to support their hiring strategy.
- I manage the offer process, including salary negotiations and pre-onboarding steps.
- I prepare performance and pipeline reports, analyze recruitment metrics, and suggest improvements for a more effective hiring process.
- I also stay updated on industry trends to advise clients proactively. In addition, I build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with clients. Understanding their business models, goals, and challenges allows me to act as a trusted advisor and ensure customer satisfaction.
- I take ownership and coordinate solutions quickly and efficiently ensuring client trust is maintained and service quality remains high.
- Sourced qualified candidates through professional networks, internal databases, job boards, and referrals.
- Reviewed applications and resumes to identify profiles that matched core role requirements and experience levels.
- Aligned client hiring needs with role requirements, organizational context, and candidate profile expectations.
Store Second Manager and Store Manager of Nisantasi Store and Forum Istanbul
Indıtex Oysho
10.2021 - 03.2023
- I was responsible for overseeing the entire store operation, including opening and closing procedures, daily cleanliness, product placement, and inventory control.
- I organized daily and weekly sales plans to ensure that my team met their targets. I also led promotional campaigns and adapted corporate strategies to store-level execution. Total worker capacity is 15 persons.
- I managed the recruitment, onboarding, and training processes of store staff.
- I created shift schedules, monitored individual performance, and maintained high team motivation through regular feedback and team meetings.
- I controlled all cash register operations and ensured accurate end-of-day reporting.
- I closely monitored daily turnover and acted quickly in case of any discrepancies. I followed up on sales KPIs such as conversion rate, basket size, and UPT (Units Per Transaction), and developed strategies to improve them.
- Oversee daily store operations, including opening, closing, cleanliness, and product placement.
- Organize sales plans and support team execution against daily and weekly targets.
- Lead promotional campaign rollouts and adapt corporate directives into store-level actions.
- Manage recruitment, onboarding, and training for store staff to support smooth team integration.
- Follow sales KPIs such as conversion rate, basket size, and units per transaction to guide improvements.
- Prepare store communications and meeting materials with Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Outlook.
- Document shift plans, sales updates, and store issues using Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word.
Team Leader
Decathlon
09.2018 - 10.2021
- I was a team leader of 25 persons in Decathlon Maltepe stores. Total worker capacity is 90 persons.
- I prepare working hours of my team members and their working schedules according to monthly goal. Also, I do interviews with new applicants, and decide who to employ.
- I organize the store’s member numbers depending on the rush hours.
- I supply products depending on the demand.
- I determine my responsible departments missing products, and I inform supplier department, and I organize allocation of the incoming products to the store.
- I estimate monthly growth of the income of the store, amount of the products that needed to be sold during the month and working hours of team members.
Occupational Health and Safety Expert class C
Esta Construction Company
12.2017 - 07.2018
- My responsibility was to educate employees regarding occupational health and safety of the construction business. To take actions in order to avoid injuries and fatal damages of construction workers. When I was taking the actions, I was always warning workers if they were not using their safety protection equipments, and I was reminding them that they always need to wear their personal protective equipment.
- To inform the project leader regarding the missing precautions of the occupational health and safety in the construction area.
- Trained construction employees on safe work practices, protective equipment use, and hazard awareness.
- Monitored active work areas for unsafe conditions and reinforced correct safety behavior on site.
- Reported missing safety precautions and hazard concerns to the project leader for prompt follow-up.
- Reminded workers to wear personal protective equipment before entering active construction zones.
- Explained site safety rules in clear terms to support worker understanding and compliance.
Occupational Health and Safety Expert class C
SVR Construction Company
04.2016 - 03.2017
- I was the responsible occupational health and safety expert of one of the three towers. My responsibility was to educate employees regarding occupational health and safety of the construction business.
- To take actions in order to avoid injuries and fatal damages of construction workers. When I was taking the actions, I was always warning workers if they were not using their safety protection equipments, and I was reminding them that they always need to wear their personal protective equipment.
- To inform the project leader regarding the missing precautions of the occupational health and safety in the construction area. Also, I was in charge of documentation control of the workers.
- Monitored worker compliance with protective equipment requirements throughout active construction areas.
- Explained safety procedures to employees before work began and during changing site conditions.
- Reported missing precautions and unsafe practices to the project leader for timely correction.
- Maintained worker documentation and organized records for site compliance reviews.
Supervisor of a Sales
Format C Agency
09.2013 - 04.2014
- I was a team leader of 8 persons. It was a job which I was working while I was studying. I was in charge of advertisement of brands such as, Nescafe express and Nestea.
- I was organizing the advertisement stands in the concerts and festivals.
- Led an 8-person team during promotional events and coordinated daily task assignments.
- Managed brand advertising activities for Nescafe Express and Nestea across concerts and festivals.
- Coordinated setup schedules with event staff to keep booth operations running smoothly.
Intern of Geophysical Engineering
Internship in Kadiköy
07.2013 - 09.2013
- I was intern in Majority of Kadiköy. My job was to go to observations with Geophysical Engineers of the Majority.
- We were going to observe the ground in the areas where the soundings were made, and we were creating map of ground inside the borders of Kadiköy Majorities responsible areas.
- Assisted with site observations during geophysical surveys and recorded ground conditions for review.
- Prepared draft ground maps from field notes and observations collected at survey locations.
- Reviewed survey boundaries with engineers to align mapped areas with local administrative limits.
Education
Occupational Health and Safety - undefined
Marmara University - Institute of Science
01-2017
Engineering Faculty - Geophysics Engineering
Istanbul University
01-2015
Özdemir Sabancı Emirgan High School - undefined
01-2010
Maçka Elementary School - undefined
01-2006
Skills
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Canva
- Candidate screening
- Structured interviewing
- Offer negotiation
- Recruitment reporting
- Client relationship management
- Boolean search
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- Recruitment automation
- Talent market mapping
- Candidate experience management
- Reference checking
- Store operations
- Inventory control
- Shift scheduling
- Sales target planning
- KPI tracking
- Performance coaching
- Sales forecasting
- Training coordination
Affiliations
- Congrees Member of Fenerbahce SK
- Member of an alumni association 1907 UNİFEB
- Member of a Society 1907 UNİFEB
- Member of a Society ALS/MNH
Certification
I studied English during my education period.
Interests
I like reading book, learning new languages, travelling, and exploring historical places, sports I did many different sports so far such as tennis, beach volleyball, football, basketball and swimming Recently, I was professional beach volleyball player and I played in private and official games I do like discovering new cultures I travelled to 20 countries so far I am a fan and official congress member of Fenerbahce SK I dont smoke I do not have any tattoos on my body
Timeline
Senior Recruitment Consultant
Randstad
06.2024 - Current
Recruitment Consultant
Randstad
03.2023 - 07.2024
Store Second Manager and Store Manager of Nisantasi Store and Forum Istanbul
Indıtex Oysho
10.2021 - 03.2023
Team Leader
Decathlon
09.2018 - 10.2021
Occupational Health and Safety Expert class C
Esta Construction Company
12.2017 - 07.2018
Occupational Health and Safety Expert class C
SVR Construction Company
04.2016 - 03.2017
Supervisor of a Sales
Format C Agency
09.2013 - 04.2014
Intern of Geophysical Engineering
Internship in Kadiköy
07.2013 - 09.2013
Maçka Elementary School - undefined
Özdemir Sabancı Emirgan High School - undefined
Engineering Faculty - Geophysics Engineering
Istanbul University
Occupational Health and Safety - undefined
Marmara University - Institute of Science
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 19.12.1991