Ian Cascadden's Linkedin Analytics

If you're in the funeral industry please send me a connection request! 👋🏼 A bit about me: I’ve been lucky to have spent the last 7+ years of my career focused on talent acquisition and recruitment, the first half being at agencies and the second half working in internal positions. My career has allowed me to recruit for diverse skillsets across many disciplines. 2011 to 2015 👨‍🎓 After graduating high school in New Hampshire, I moved to Vancouver BC to attend the University of British Columbia where I achieved a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Political Science and a minor in Economics. 2015 - 2019✈️ After graduating, I stayed in Vancouver on a 3-year work permit and started my career in recruitment. When my post-graduate work visa ended, I left Canada to travel in Southeast Asia for 8 months. I returned to New Hampshire at the beginning of 2019 to work near my family before returning to Vancouver as a Canadian permanent resident in the fall of 2019. 2019 - Present I’ve been living and working in Vancouver since late 2019 and I received Canadian citizenship in the summer of 2023. I love it here and have a great spot by the beach with my fiance and dog! Some of my career accomplishments: 2017-2018 & 2019-2020 - In my 1 year and 10 months total at Matchbox I helped place 32 IT professionals in Vancouver BC. 2021 - At Freshlocal Solutions (FoodX and Spud), I helped fill over 90 new positions across both organizations in 1 year. This included sourcing and recuring high-level tech leaders, building out an impressive automation QA/SDET team, building a devops/SRE team, a security team, a helpdesk team and more. we were building a tech company from the ground up to revamp Spud's 20 year old business model of online grocery delivery. 2022 - Hired 2 contractors and 5 permanent employees in 4 months at Quartech, and filled all roles assigned to me faster than KPIs expected. - Helped grow RVezy from 70 to 150 people in 11 months. This included accounting, backend developers, data analysts and more. I was the first full-time recruiter for the company working closely with their head of HR and the business partners. 2023 - Present - In my current role I am a senior recruiter supporting 250+ managers/locations across the country. In my first 1 year and 6 months, I helped hire over 500 people (25% of the roughly 2,000 employees in Canada). The company has seen reduced turnover during my tenure and we have been exceeding all of our hiring goals for Canada! If you would like to connect, feel free to send me an email - [email protected]