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Joshua A.

Global Talent Sourcer | LinkedIn Recruiting | AI Trainer & Annotator

Looking to hire top talent fast, or need accurate, human-quality data to train and evaluate your AI models? I deliver both. I'm a Talent Acquisition Specialist and Global Sourcer with 3+ years of hands-on, end-to-end recruitment experience across 20+ countries, from sourcing and screening to offer management and onboarding coordination. I specialize in hard-to-fill roles, passive candidate engagement, and building diverse, high-performing teams. I'm also an AI Trainer and Data Annotator. I have graded and quality-checked golden evaluation sets used to benchmark AI models, applying detailed guidelines and rubrics with precision and consistency. WHAT I BRING TO YOUR HIRING PROCESS • Advanced Boolean search & X-ray sourcing (LinkedIn, GitHub, Google) • AI-powered sourcing and talent pipelining • Diversity hiring and inclusive recruitment strategies • Contract, permanent, and executive placements • Vendor management and RPO partnerships AI TRAINING & DATA ANNOTATION • LLM response evaluation, ranking, and rubric-based grading • Data annotation and labeling for AI and machine learning • Prompt writing and AI output quality assurance • Fact-checking and accuracy review • Golden / benchmark evaluation dataset review • Domain expertise in HR, recruiting, aviation, oil & gas, maritime, healthcare, and tech TECH ROLES I'VE SUCCESSFULLY RECRUITED FOR Senior Frontend, Backend, Full-Stack, DevOps, Data Engineers, CTOs, and more, across stacks including React, Node.js, Python, AWS, Golang, TypeScript, and Java. NON-TECH ROLES HR Managers, Executive Assistants, Finance Analysts, Sales & Marketing, Business Development, Content Creators, and Operations Leads. TOOLS I USE DAILY LinkedIn Recruiter | Greenhouse | BambooHR | Manatal | Zoho Recruit | Goodtalent | Recruit'em | SmartRecruiters | GitHub Sourcing | Boolean Strings My sourcing reach spans the USA, UK, Netherlands, France, Portugal, India, Hong Kong, Egypt, Israel, Ukraine, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, and more. Whether you need one critical hire, a full talent pipeline built from scratch, or reliable AI training data, I deliver results with speed, precision, and clear communication every step of the way. Send me a message to get started.

🇳🇬Ikeja, Nigeria$20/hr100% JSS5.00 (6)Since Aug 2024

Earnings and projects

MRR
$569

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#72,574 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#1,904 / 13.8k
Revenue, last 30 days
$1.6k

Last 6 months: $3.4k

World#26,763 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#451 / 13.8k
Total earnings
$6.4k

Billed in all: $6.8k

World#234,491 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#5,321 / 13.8k
Per project
$454

$380 in the last 6 months

World#191,835 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#4,438 / 13.8k
Projects, last 6 months
9

Across 11 contracts

55% fixed45% hourly
World#21,105 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#1,418 / 13.8k
Projects in all
14

Across 19 contracts

58% fixed42% hourly
World#168,283 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#5,761 / 13.8k

Earnings, last 30 days

$6.8k+$1.6k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$5k$6k$7kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 18% in Google Docs

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