PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated and quality driven young professional passionate about finding committed IT experts who can provide value to key and instrumental companies in the industry.
• Strong background in collaboration, outstanding interpersonal skills and ability to build productive, enduring relationships at all management levels.
• Values establishing a strong connection with all IT Professionals while recruiting in order to gain exclusive access to
• Values building rapport with IT Professionals to ensure candidate retention and to enhance future business opportunities.
• Strong knowledge of technical terminology including various programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
• I enjoy the challenge of finding the “purple unicorn” hiring managers are looking to hire I want to continue learning while working to exceed company goals and expectations.

SKILL:

• LinkedIn Recruiter
• CATS / ATS (Applicant Tracking System)
• Monster / Dice / CareerBuilder
• Microsoft Office / Excel / Word / PowerPoint / 365
• Data Entry
• Business Development
• Cold Calling
• Reference Checks
• Screening Candidates
• Managing Candidates
• Manage Interview and Hiring Process
• Face to Face Interviewing
• Technical Competency
• Boolean Search
• Support Domestic and International Offices
• Maintain Relationships
• Level Directors
• SDLC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical Recruiter, Southfield, MI

Responsibilities:

• Creating Boolean Searches, Dice, Monster, CareerBuilder, LinkedIn Recruiter, Applicant Tracking Systems.
• Ability to connect with candidates on a personal level, explore interests, understand technical skills and ability, negotiate compensation rates both hourly and per annum, coordinate interviews with hiring teams, provide interview preparation and prompt follow - up with feedback.
• Understanding of work visas and how they can/cannot be applied to different requisitions: H1B, H4, L1, L2, F1, OPT, TN, E3, GC processing, visa transfer, coordinate pay rate with C2C employers, work with legal and delivery to ensure compliance.
• Proficient in writing, checking grammar, formatting resumes, and developing captivating candidate summary profiles.
• Effective business development such as pulling business leads from past employers, pipelined interviews, setting meetings/taking recs off managerial reference checks, LinkedIn, face to face IT networking/company events.
• Train and mentor all new recruitment teams to use ATS, conduct candidate outlines, and different strategies for effective screening.
• While working in a high-volume wholesale staffing market, gained the ability to quickly research, learn and understand new technologies as they advance and new.

Confidential

Policy Research and Communications Specialist, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Planned sponsored events, distinguished lectures, and congressional staff hill briefings by setting date/location details and writing congressmen talking points.
• Wrote articles featured in the internal weekly newsletter sent to over 60,000 NSF employees to highlight upcoming events and briefing summaries.
• Actively engaged with stakeholders, policy makers, government officials and directors, and science community to promote efficient and effective tools when communicating the importance of science in policy development.

Confidential, Springport, MI

Responsibilities:

• Born and raised on family farm with 300+ head of dairy cattle, 250+ rabbits, pigs, chickens, and feed crops.
• Contribute to farm planning, decision making and future of farm during difficult economic times within the agricultural industry.

Confidential, Okemos, MI

Responsibilities:

• Provided full-time in-home day and volunteered night care 7 days a week for an elderly woman 100% bedridden suffering from Parkinson's.
• Set and managed caretaking schedule, prepared all meals and baths, monitored vitals and medication, coordinated with family physician and hospice for end-of-life care plan decisions.
• Gained basic understanding of Punjabi (Indic language).

Confidential

Private Tutor, Okemos, MI

Responsibilities:

• Prepared important learning resources, reading, and study skill strategies for tutee with mental disability for business marketing and economic courses.
• Designed weekly lesson plans to develop writing, business marketing plans, and economic analyzation skills to maintain a 92% and higher for all classes.

Confidential

Technical Writer, East Lansing, MI

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated group interviews with researchers to compile research and data to develop key talking points for the Confidential of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering ( Confidential ) annual newsletter.
• Translated technical research into user-friendly language for a 37-page published annual report (2015 Confidential Annual Review Bulletin).

Confidential

Lead Market Research and Survey Specialist, East Lansing, MI

Responsibilities:

• Designed, administered and analyzed survey in coordination with stakeholders and academia to understand the regional market for 6,000 Michigan livestock producers for strong policy development.
• Wrote and distributed bi-weekly newsletter to 150 stakeholders through Constant Contact and Salsa software.