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May 2005Present

Sr. Technical Recruiter

Halo Group

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.
Nov 2000May 2005

Sr. Technical Recruiter

LogicaCMG formerly Great Lakes Technologies Group

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.
Feb 1997Oct 2000

Technical Recruiting Manager

Ajilon Consulting

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.
Aug 1993Jan 1997

Area Manager/Branch Manager/Account Manager

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

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

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

1989Aug 1993

Outreach Marketing

University of Michigan - Business and Industrial Assistance Division
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.

Education

BBA

Summary

Senior Recruiter with over 12 years of experience in sourcing, qualifying and closing technology professionals for consulting, option-to-hire, and permanent placement opportunities.  Strong expertise in planning and executing the recruiting process, identifying and contacting candidates, evaluating candidate qualifications, conducting interviews, developing strong relationships with candidates, counseling and advising candidates on their job search.

Specialized in recruiting candidates skilled in Application Development and Architecture, Web, eCommerce, Creative and Graphic Design, Information Architecture, Network/Infrastructure, Business Intelligence, Project and Program Management, Executive level placement, Quality Assurance and Testing.  Regional recruiting for clients in diverse industries including insurance, finance, banking, government, energy, marketing, communications, advertising, management consulting, automotive, and higher education.  Additional experience in Sales and Account Management.

Awards and Recognition

Ajilon 1999 - President's Club

Ajilon 1998 - President's Club Olsten 1995 - National Conference recognition for Top Performance by a New Branch Manager Olsten 1994 - President's Club

Key Skills

Sourcing Tools - Established candidate contact list, networking, referrals, Social Media (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, blogging), CRM tools, Internet Job Boards, job postings, Cold Calling, third party agencies

Communication - Deals with internal and external customers at all levels to ensure successful communication via actively listening and probing questions.

Problem Solving - Resolves in-depth queries in a methodical manner independently and with internal and external business partners to find appropriate resolutions.

Team Player - Enjoys sharing knowledge and encouraging development of others to achieve specific team goals. 

Planning and Organizing - Refined planning and organizational skills that balance work, team support and ad-hoc responsibilities in a timely and professional manner.

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