# José Canales José Canales is a remote worker on Himalayas, Talent Acquisition Director APAC at CBTW APAC, based in Vietnam. Source: https://himalayas.app/@joscanales ```text Talent Acquisition Director at CBTW APAC who built its AI division and oversees 300+ annual hires across APAC. ``` | Detail | Value | | --- | --- | | Availability | Looking for a job | | Location | Vietnam | | Authorized to work in | Vietnam | | Salary expectations | 60k+ USD | | Job categories | Talent Acquisition Director, Recruitment Manager, Recruitment Consultant, HR Consultant | | Skills | Talent Acquisition, Technical Recruiting, End to End Recruiting, High volume Recruiting, Executive Search, IT Recruitment, Healthcare Staffing, Recruitment Operations, Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), Applicant Tracking Systems, People Analytics, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Business Analytics, Data Driven Decision Making | | LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/josecanalesvietnam | ## About ```text At CBTW APAC, I oversee 300+ annual hires across APAC and coordinate recruitment strategies across four business lines. In 2025, I built the AI division from scratch, defining its technical requirements and hiring process. I use Claude and Gemini for market research, salary benchmarking, and client proposals, and implemented Relevance AI and Lemlist to automate sourcing and outreach. That automation cut manual administrative time by 50%, while my work with Sales on rate cards and pricing models supports deal closure and margin profitability. Before CBTW APAC, I built and scaled a regional recruitment team of 10+ consultants at Amaris Consulting and delivered 300+ hires annually across Vietnam, Singapore, and Thailand. Earlier, I worked across talent acquisition, executive search, and HR consulting, including co-founding Building Talents. ``` ## Experience ### Talent Acquisition Director APAC (current) CBTW APAC. Dec 2023 - Present ```text CBTW is a global tech company with a presence in 21 countries. - Strategic Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of recruiters across 5 offices, managing performance, succession planning, and ensuring operational excellence across the APAC region. - Commercial & Pre-Sales: Partner with the Sales team to prepare rate card proposals and pricing models, directly influencing margin profitability and de ``` ### Recruitment Partner - South Asia [Amaris Consulting](https://himalayas.app/companies/amaris-group-sa). Jul 2021 - Dec 2023 ```text Amaris Consulting is a global IT consulting firm. - Built and scaled a regional recruitment team of 10+ consultants from scratch, establishing performance KPIs and training programs for IT, Life Sciences, Telecommunications, and Engineering specializations. - Directed recruitment operations across Vietnam, Singapore, and Thailand, successfully delivering 300+ hires annually to support regional ex ``` ### Regional Talent Acquisition Manager Hello Health Group. Jan 2021 - Jul 2021 ```text Hello Health Group is a leading digital health company in Asia. - Lead all talent acquisition activities across 10 Asian countries, including developing and implementing recruitment strategies, managing the full recruitment cycle, and ensuring a diverse and high-quality talent pool. - Drive employer branding efforts, including creating and promoting a compelling employer value proposition and man ``` ### Recruitment Manager Monroe Consulting Group, Asia. Nov 2019 - Jan 2021 ```text Monroe Consulting Group is an executive-level recruitment firm with a network of offices across Asia. - Lead a team of recruiters specialized in the Healthcare and IT sectors. - Implement a business development plan, resulting in the building and maintaining of long-term relationships with clients in the Healthcare and IT sectors. - Recruit and train new agents. - Analyze performance and develop ``` ### Recruitment Consultant RGF Executive Search Japan. Nov 2018 - Nov 2019 ```text RGF Executive Search is an international brand of Recruit Group - The world’s fourth largest recruiting and information services company. - Establish and strengthen relationships with new and existing clients and candidates as a specialist in the Healthcare sector. - Engage in data-mining and proactively source suitable candidates. - Conduct candidate interviews and manage the candidate/client in ``` ### Co-founder | HR Consultant Building Talents. Jul 2016 - Nov 2018 ```text Building Talents is an HR consulting startup with operations in Latin America and Taiwan. - Lead all business development activities, including client meetings and presentations. - Recruit and train employees both internally and externally. - Create and monitor KPIs. - Counsel and appraise employees. - Define and execute strategies according to client needs and requirements. - Update and create ``` Skills: P&L-management, Social-Media-Marketing, Translation, HR-Consulting, Data-Analysis, Small-Business-Management, Budget-Management, Career-Development, Sales-target-management, Market-Research, Event-Planning, End-to-End-Recruiting, Strategic-Planning, Team-Management, Salary-Benchmarking, Learning-and-Development, Business-Development, Brand-Development, Labor-and-Employment-Law, Job-Description-Development, Compensation-Structures, Technical-Recruiting, Training, Leadership, entrepreneurship, HR-Policy, Talent-Management, Business-Storytelling, Account-Management, IT-Recruitment, Business-Strategy, Coaching, SWOT-Analysis, Public-Speaking, Presentation-Skills, Recruitment, 360-Recruitment ### Project Manager [SOS Children's Villages International](https://himalayas.app/companies/sos-children-s-villages). Jul 2011 - Sep 2014 ```text - Identify potential sponsors and maintain relationships with existing sponsors. - Monitor and report on the progress of sponsorship and fundraising initiatives. - Collaborate with marketing and communications teams to promote sponsorship opportunities and fundraising events. ``` Skills: Translation, Budget-Management, Event-Planning, Team-Management, Brand-Development, Project-Management, Leadership, Non-Governmental-Organizations-(NGOs) ### HR Consultant Freelancer. Jul 2010 - Jul 2011 ```text - Analyze clients' organizational structures and update HR policies and procedures accordingly. - Create and update job descriptions. - Review and revise salary grids. ``` Skills: HR-Consulting, Career-Development, Market-Research, End-to-End-Recruiting, Salary-Benchmarking, Business-Development, Labor-and-Employment-Law, Job-Description-Development, Compensation-Structures, Training, entrepreneurship, HR-Policy, Coaching, SWOT-Analysis, Recruitment, 360-Recruitment ## Education ### Universidad Iberoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnología Bachelor’s Degree, International Relations and Affairs ### LinkedIn Managing Stress ```text Jan 2017 ``` ### LinkedIn Leading and Working in Teams ```text Jan 2017 ``` ### LinkedIn How to Start a Business with Family and Friends ```text Jan 2017 ``` ### LinkedIn Getting Started with Video Production and Editing ```text Jan 2017 ``` ### LinkedIn Editing and Proofreading Made Simple ```text Jan 2017 ``` ### LinkedIn Competitive Strategy ```text Jan 2017 ``` ### LinkedIn Building Creative Organizations ```text Jan 2017 ``` ### Taipei National University of the Arts Master’s Degree, Cultural and Creative Industries. 2014 - 2016 ```text Completed an internship at the Taiwan Design Center and authored a dissertation on the impact of the Maker Movement on Taiwanese small and medium enterprises. ``` ### LinkedIn Agile Project Management ```text Jan 2017 ``` ### LinkedIn Tech Recruiting Foundations: 4 Recruiting for the IT Department ```text Dec 2023 ``` ### LinkedIn Tech Recruiting Foundations: 2 Understanding Hardware and Operating Systems ```text Dec 2023 ``` ### LinkedIn Tech Recruiting Foundations: 1 Introduction ```text Dec 2023 ``` ### LinkedIn Tech Recruiting Foundations: 3 Recruiting Software Developers ```text Dec 2023 ``` ### LinkedIn Generative AI, Recruiting, and Talent Acquisition ```text Dec 2023 ``` ### LinkedIn Tech Recruiting Foundations: 5 Waterfall, Agile, and DevOps for Recruiters ```text Dec 2023 ``` ### LinkedIn Storytelling for Recruiting and Employee Retention ```text Dec 2023 ``` ### Google Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot ```text Oct 2025 ``` ### Google Foundations: Data, Data, Everywhere ```text Oct 2025 ``` ### Anthropic Certificate of completion: Claude 101 ```text Sep 2026 ``` ### Anthropic Certificate of Completion: Al Fluency Framework & Foundations ```text Sep 2026 ``` ### CBTW APAC CBTW AI Training – Foundation Phase ```text Jan 2026 ``` ## Tech stack - Tableau - Lemlist - Relevance AI - Google Gemini - Claude To contact José, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire). ## People also viewed - [Lân Phan](https://himalayas.app/@lnphan): Manager, Talent Acquisition, Lazada Vietnam - [Sy Duong Le](https://himalayas.app/@syduongle): Talent Acquisition II, LG Display Vietnam - [Quynh Anh Dao](https://himalayas.app/@quynhanhdao): AI Trainer, Vietnamese Content, Outlier USA - [Thức Nguyễn](https://himalayas.app/@thcnguyn): IT Recruiter, MileGate Vietnam - [Hằng Nguyễn](https://himalayas.app/@hngnguyn): Talent Acquisition Specialist, Unlimit.Pro - [Phuong Vu](https://himalayas.app/@phuongvu1): Talent Acquisition, GetLinks - [Phong Le](https://himalayas.app/@jasperle): Talent Acquisition Executive, Diag Medical - [Nhat Anh](https://himalayas.app/@nhatanh1): Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist (Vietnam & Cambodia, U.S, Head Office), Pizza 4P's - [Hien Luong](https://himalayas.app/@hienluong): Talent Acquisition Business Partnership, Novaland Group - [Mai Nguyễn](https://himalayas.app/@mainguyn6): Talent Acquisition Lead, CBTW APAC