• Talent Acquisition Savant who makes sound decisions to reflect positively on business success in alignment with a client s goals, and works to recruit top-notch candidates to assist clients in achieving a competitive market advantage.
• Visionary Professional who rises above candidate recruitment challenges to drive business growth and achieve winning outcomes, and offers skill in producing results across high-pressure accounts, industries, and / or timelines.
• Excellent Communicator who develops synergistic relationships with global executives, senior-level decision-makers, cross-functional professionals, and clients of diverse backgrounds; who excels in autonomous and collaborative work environments; and who leads personnel by example and with integrity to build strong teams to attain objectives.

Diversity Recruiter (Contract)

• Capitalized on the opportunity to lead forward-thinking diversity and inclusion team recruitment initiatives to support an Enterprise Digital Team, including driving front-end efforts of finding multiple levels of product management talent.
• Collaborated with business unit leaders to identify executive-level talent for diversity initiatives, along with assisting recruitment team with comprehensive pipeline building for proactive / reactive roles to meet or exceed core objectives.

  Continually identified networking events to drive brand and obtain lucrative leads.

  Established metrics across sourcing COE by providing sourcing strategies for recruitment team.

  Presented ideas on trends, innovation, and diversity recruiting techniques published in a weekly newsletter.

Recruiting Lead

• Strategically steered recruitment efforts, including growing onsite recruitment team, leading team in understanding technical / non-technical role functionality, and sourcing and building solid business development manager relations.
• Built up recruiting capacity of national recruitment center by hiring recruiters, giving more support to national accounts.

  Expertly harvested business from unestablished client success to further drive recruiting results.

  Ensured seamless processes by training recruiters on sourcing techniques and qualify requirements.

  Provided recruiting support to business development managers to support top accounts and VMS hiring.

  Generated $400,000+ in revenue in 8 months via recruitment and sourcing support for TCS and Cablevision.

Resource Manager

• Directed strategic hiring of SAP and Oracle roles for this IT services, consulting, and business solutions orxxxxxxnization employing 400,000 across 46 countries, including driving success in Solution Methodology, Finance Transformation, Enterprise Architecture, Human Capital, Supply Chain, Change Management, and Emerging Deals and hiring across Media & Publishing, Banking / Finance, Insurance / Securities, Manufacturing, Aviation, Healthcare, and Retail domains.

  Collaborated with practice leaders in resource planning to plan for recruitment roles.

  Obtained Big 4 talent from associate to partner level to boost thought leadership initiatives.

  Streamlined hiring process with practice leaders by assigning a champion to reduce time-to-hire.

  Drove recruitment efforts across key accounts by developing mutually beneficial vendor relationships.

Talent Acquisition Lead Remote

• Maximized recruitment success for high-profile Apple, Fifth Third, Nationwide, Capital One, US Bank, State Street, NYSE, Morxxxxxxn Stanley, Farmers, Chubb, and Hartford accounts for this globally based IT and consulting services firm.
• Served as lead recruiter for aforementioned clients in the BFSI Application Development Division, as well as Microsoft / Java Technologies Division managing recruitment needs of Cisco, Nissan, T-Mobile, Google, Williams-Sonoma, Cardinal Health, Best Buy, CVS, Microsoft, Apple, and Pep Boys and High-Performance Technologies Division managing new technology practice recruitment for Big Data IT, CRM, Mobility, CDN, Guidewire, and Amazon Web Services projects.

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Talent Acquisition Lead Remote

• Directed a details-focused sourcing team of 8 staff while managing the hiring needs of up to 70 positions and building strong relationships with 15 different vendors to further drive recruitment efforts and achieve continual staff success.

  Successfully managed up to 100 concurrent requirements, as well as internal / external clients and sourcing.

  Interfaced with managers to determine employee roll off of projects or client demand to configure strategies.

  Selected as U.S. point of contact for managing an Employee Referral Program, increasing 15% in last 2 quarters.

Talent Acquisition Lead Atlanta Delivery Center (Onsite)

• Led targeted talent acquisition initiatives as member of a 3-person team helping to grow the Atlanta Delivery Center into a $100+ million technical hub, including managing recruitment needs of niche IT skills in Business Application Services, Infrastructure Management, Cloud Services, and Analytics and Information Management, as well as Product and Engineering Services, Mobility, Datacenter Managed Services, and Software Application Service Lines.
• Reviewed proposal bids from senior management to determine rates, along with collaborating with internal / external clients and stakeholders hiring managers to develop implementation plans for attrition, sourcing, and recruitment.
• Expertly managed campus recruitment needs for projects during peak and off-peak times of key campus recruitment.
• Efficiently prioritized tasks among a details-driven team of 5 associates while managing hiring of up to 50 quarterly roles.

  Achieved a hire ratio of 90% candidates via direct sourcing; 10% came from third-party vendors.

  Recognized as one of the top 3 recruiters within a North America team producing 80+ hires annually.

  Reduced vendor costs and closed positions within fulfillment dates by training offshore sourcing teams.

  Awarded cycle time delivery goals of $120 million for CVS / Caremark, hiring 24 Java Developers in <20 days.

  Developed seed hiring across key U.S. accounts by leading recruitment of roles in Enterprise Security Practice in Identity & Access Management and Application Security.

Recruiter

• Drove recruitment success by partnering with corporate hiring managers and account managers to develop functional job descriptions to fill job requisitions for this firm specializing in volume hiring and recruitment for high-profile companies (e.g. Wal-Mart, AFLAC, BP, American Express, Acclaris, Dolby, 7-Eleven, U.S. Cellular, Hospira, and HHGregg).
• Built and sustained large-scale talent pipelines through referrals, internet sourcing, cold / passive calling, and job fairs, as well as participating within professional orxxxxxxnizations, networking events, sourcing, and social networking sites.

  Updated candidate status as a third party via expert use of various Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS).

  Coordinated key candidate selection process and communication between managers and top candidates.

  Improved new recruiter training by developing a sourcing guide in technology platform and search criteria.

Recruiter

• Played a vital role in recruiting, screening, interviewing, and preparing candidates for possible referrals to client companies, including developing a large-scale recruiting network and referral sources for applicants to meet objectives.

  Generated lucrative recruiting / business leads using company database and internet sourcing.

Master of Business Administration (Operations Management ￨ Cum Laude ￨ 3.63 GPA)

Bachelor of Business Administration (Human Resources Management ￨ Summa Cum Laude ￨ 4.0 GPA)

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