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Senior Technical Recruiter for a privately owned IT consulting company with locations in Novi, MI, Dallas, TX, and Raleigh, NC. Recruiting for clients in industries such as insurance, finance, banking, government, energy, marketing, communications, advertising, management consulting, automotive, and higher education.

• Conducted face-to-face and telephone interviews, worked with candidates through the entire hiring life cycle including sourcing, interviewing, technical assessments, marketing, offer negotiation, and on-boarding.
• Performed pre-employment screening including technical tests, background checks, reference checks and drug tests.
• Identified candidates through various sources such as an existing candidate database, referrals, networking, internet research, social media, job boards and postings, cold calling, and third party agencies.
• Maintained a queue of active, passive, and potential candidates. Developed strong relationships with candidates to assist in both short term and long term job searches.
• Utilized MS Dynamics CRM as a candidate/employee tracking system to maintain candidates, perform skill searches, and maintain documentation.
• Interfaced with Sales and Marketing team, and clients to match potential candidates to existing openings. 
• Wrote position descriptions, placed employment advertisements on internet sites and job boards, newspapers, on public and private databases, attended job fairs.  Reformatted and wrote candidate resumes in company format.
• Assisted Sales and Marketing staff in submitting resumes to clients via vendor management systems and other means.
• Consistently recruited and hired the highest volume of candidates.
• Researched and implemented non-traditional, cost saving methods of sourcing candidates such as recruiting blogs, Social Networking, and free job posting sites.
• Maintained a positive Web footprint on behalf of the company using various Social Networking tools. 
• Created recruitment marketing materials, web sites, blog, and Social Networking presence.
• Used Excel to maintain metrics showing interview-to-placement ratios to identify where the greatest success rates originated including initial source, duration candidate has been in the system, Account Manager, client, and whether candidate was interviewed inside or outside of the office.
• Created and maintain a Michigan IT blog http://michigan-it.blogspot.com/ to assist job hunters and provide personal thoughts on the Information Technologies climate in the southeast Michigan area.
• Created and maintained a separate web site http://halogroupcareers.blogspot.com/ to post and manage job openings and provide candidates easy access to new opportunities.

 

 

Senior Technical Recruiter for a privately owned IT consulting company which was later purchased by LogicaCMG. Recruiting for clients in industries such as insurance, finance, banking, government, oil and energy, marketing, communications, advertising, management consulting, automotive, and higher education.

• Conducted face-to-face and telephone interviews, worked with candidates through the entire hiring life cycle including sourcing, interviewing, technical assessments, marketing, offer negotiation, and on-boarding.
• Performed pre-employment screening including technical tests, background checks, reference checks and drug tests.
• Identified candidates through various sources such as an internal database, internet research, job boards and postings, networking, cold calling, referrals and third party agencies.
• Maintained a queue of active, passive, and potential candidates. Developed strong relationships with candidates to assist in both short term and long term job searches.
• Utilized RESUMate as a candidate/employee tracking system to maintain candidates, perform skill searches, and maintain documentation.
• Interfaced with Sales and Marketing team, and clients to match potential candidates to existing openings.
• Wrote position descriptions, placed employment advertisements on internet sites and job boards, newspapers, on public and private databases, attended job fairs. Reformatted and wrote candidate resumes in company format.
• Assisted Sales and Marketing staff in submitting resumes to clients via vendor management systems and email.
• Maintained the company MS Excel People Report of active candidates used in our weekly staff meetings. Kept and maintained meeting minutes.
• Designed and developed company literature used for Recruitment marketing.
• Assisted in the development of company HR policies and procedures, remained up to date on HR laws and regulations to ensure that the company has appropriate and legal hiring and employment practices. (EEOC procedures, documentation, employee files, records retention, affirmative action, interviewing process/liabilities, ADA, legal obligations...)
• Directly interfaced with immigration attorneys regarding processing candidate H1B and/or Green Cards. Managed Visa agreements between candidates and the company.
• Coordinated benefit programs for new hires, participated in new-employee orientations, coordinated with corporate office in completing employment paperwork. Assisted in the development, implementation and presentation of new employee orientation programs.
• Consistently recruited and hired the highest volume of candidates.

 

Sourced candidates through internet searches, job boards and postings, networking, cold calls, and referrals. Recruited for clients in industries such as insurance, finance, banking, government, energy, marketing, communications, advertising, automotive, and higher education.

• Conducted face-to-face and telephone interviews, worked with candidates through the entire hiring life cycle including sourcing, interviewing, technical assessments, marketing, offer negotiation, and on-boarding.
• Performed pre-employment screening including technical tests, background checks, reference checks and drug tests.
• Maintained a queue of active, passive, and potential candidates. Developed strong relationships with candidates to assist in both short term and long term job searches.
• Utilized an internal candidate/employee/client tracking system to manage candidates and employees, perform candidate job matches, and maintain ISO-9000 documentation.
• Interfaced with Sales and Marketing team, and clients to match potential candidates to existing openings. Assisted Sales and Marketing staff in submitting resumes to clients via vendor management systems, email, and fax.
• Wrote position descriptions, placed employment advertisements on internet sites and job boards, newspapers, on public and private databases, attended job fairs. Reformatted and wrote candidate resumes in company format.
• Provided mentoring and training for new and junior Recruiters.
• Introduced online resume search capabilities as a new method of candidate sourcing.
• Participated in a corporate focus group in the custom design of an internal CRM system.
• Consistently recognized as one of the highest performing Recruiters nationally.
• Qualified for President's Club in 1998 and 1999.

 

Area Manager - 6/1996 - 1/1997
Total responsibility for offices in Ann Arbor, MI, Jackson, MI, and Toledo, OH.

 

Branch Manager - 1/1995 - 6/1996
Received Olsten "Bravo Award" for performance by a new Branch Manager at the National Convention.

 

Account Representative - 9/1993 - 1/1995
Qualified for Chairman's Club in 1994

 

Sold Management Consulting services to manufacturing companies adversely affected by foreign competition in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. The program is a Federally funded trade adjustment assistance initiative to assist companies in business turnaround strategies.