SUMMARY:

• Results - driven professional with 11+ years’ experience in recruitment, screening, interviewing, placement and retention of superb candidates.
• Intuitive and insightful interviewer & screener
• Excellent customer service and team-playing skills
• Consistent delivery on goals and expectations
• Comfortable with aggressive deadlines and high targets
• Detail-oriented with strong follow through on commitments made
• Provide strategic and effective partnerships with senior level executives and engagement managers for Financial Services and Insurance Unit across North America.
• Directly responsible for all technical hiring across Application Development, Testing and other IT Skills.
• Assess current recruiting practices and make recommendations to re-design, streamline, and continuously improve process, structure and procedures in order to create an efficient, client friendly, effective Talent Acquisition process.
• Support the vision and values of the company and the team through role modeling and coaching desired behaviors.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jamesburg, NJ

Sr. Technical Lead Recruiter/ Manager

Responsibilities:

• Performed full life cycle Talent Acquisition to hire permanent employees into high priority internal and external roles, including IT recruiting, clerical support, and Executive recruiting.
• Networking with practice area leads, existing work staff, and professional networks (such as LinkedIn) and staffing search firms to find the best candidates on the market for various roles. LinkedIn with 1000+ connections and direct connections to the members of 30+ LinkedIN groups.
• Managed and executed full lifecycle recruiting activities, including the analysis of incoming resource requests for both Contractors and FTE’s, and routing of these resource requests to either qualified bench employees for placement or to Talent Team recruiters in appropriate skills vertical in order to source qualified consultants to join the company
• Managed 2 Corporate Recruiters, including day to day assignment and tracking of W2 Salary hiring opportunities, career development, mentorship,, productivity measurement and process management.
• Recruitment of new additions to the Contractor Recruiting Team.
• Maintenance of the New Hire Email templates, which transpose HR’s New Hire Processes into email templates with updated attachments for use by Talent Team members to on-board consultants into new positions
• The maintenance of FTE hiring standards and processes to govern the vetting of FTE candidates;
• Prescreen and qualify candidates for open positions in order to find relevance, culture fit, compensation history, and uncover skill sets and possible concerns.
• Perform the advanced administrative functions associated w/recruitment, including preparation of formatted resumes, posting positions on necessary job boards and networking groups, ensuring accuracy and completeness of standard recruitment files
• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle process for clients which includes; developing the overall recruiting strategy, determining key selection criteria, posting requisitions to multiple channels, screening candidates, scheduling and managing the numerous rounds of interviews with hiring managers, conducting the pre-employment verification, packaging the offer, closing the candidate, and processing all on-boarding paperwork with the HR Generalist.
• Develop, execute and drive results of comprehensive search strategies to recruit senior and niche candidates in limited candidate spaces with contract and direct sourcing resulting in hires
• The creation and management of Resource Management Group Staffing process for both individual staffing needs and project team staffing activities to provide analysis on Delivery consultants, process resource requests, facilitate consultant transition from engagement to engagement, and maintain the highest possible levels of Billable Utilization;
• Performing analysis on reported billable and non-billable time in SAP ESS system to produce regular Utilization reports for all Delivery fulltime salaried consultants, communicating these to both Senior Management and Practice areas
• Producing weekly Permanent Employee (FTE’s) Availability reports to Senior Management and Sales Management detailing which Delivery consultants are currently or soon to be available (on the “bench”) including skills, available dates, loaded costs per hour, resource classification, workforce planning and placement updates, etc;
• Producing daily FTE Bench Cost/Count reports for Senior Management
• Producing semi-annual and annual reports on Utilization for use in the Performance Management Process to assess productivity and career growth for Delivery consultants;
• Working closely and under the supervision of the Chief Delivery Officer, the promotion of options for bench management strategy;
• Tracking end date changes (roll-offs and extensions) with contracts administrators to make sure such changes are consistently reported to both HR and Accounting;
• Updating databases with information about availability, as well as classification of all Delivery resources (FTE and Contractor);
• Proactive interaction with solution leads and account managers to assess the project demand pipeline and answer with staffing solutions for multiple, sometimes simultaneous project staffing effort;
• Promotion of options for workforce planning to answer project demand;
• Creation and management of Roll-Off and Extension notification processes for all P&L groups;
• Maintain an up-to-date repository of all resume profiles for both FTE and Contractor resources.
• Management of Resource Management Group administrative assistant, which entails day to day delegation of clerical and administrative tasks to facilitate RMG reports and FTE hiring processes.

Confidential, Somerset, NJ

Sr. Technical Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Source/screen/qualify and hire top quality candidates. Develop a plentiful pipeline of qualified talent. Anticipate/ prepare for future skill requirements.
• Types of candidates sourced/recruited have included all levels of IT in all platforms, including web, client server and mainframe, AS/400, Java, .Net, ERP/CRM, Pega etc
• LinkedIN with 1000+ connections and direct connections to the members of 30+ LinkedIN groups.
• Developed/maintained a network of contacts/established and developed relationships w/relevant industry organizations/industry conferences.
• Cultivate potential candidates for specific requirements as well as pipelining efforts by utilizing various methods (i.e. networking, referrals, internal database searches, organizational affiliations, online searches, Internet postings, job/career fairs, user/technical groups, database management, and internet mining/setting agents or saved searches).
• Prescreen and qualify candidates for open positions in order to find relevance, culture fit, compensation history, and uncover skill sets and possible concerns.
• Perform the advanced administrative functions associated w/recruitment, including preparation of formatted resumes, posting positions on necessary job boards and networking groups, ensuring accuracy and completeness of standard recruitment files
• Prepared candidates for interviews
• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle process for clients which includes; developing the overall recruiting strategy, determining key selection criteria, posting requisitions to multiple channels, screening candidates, scheduling and managing the numerous rounds of interviews with hiring managers, conducting the pre-employment verification, packaging the offer, closing the candidate, and processing all on-boarding paperwork with the HR Generalist.
• Develop, execute and drive results of comprehensive search strategies to recruit senior and niche candidates in limited candidate spaces with contract and direct sourcing resulting in hires

Confidential, Wayne, NJ

Sr. Technology Recruiter/ Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Source/screen/qualify and hire top quality candidates. Develop a plentiful pipeline of qualified talent. Anticipate/ prepare for future skill requirements.
• Types of candidates sourced/recruited have included all levels of IT in all platforms, including web, client server and mainframe: Confidential - Hired all levels including EVP of Confidential as well as Web Design Manager w/Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash
• Object Oriented distributed and multi-threaded systems design - J2EE architecture, .Net, ASP, VB, Web architects, software developers (C# .Net, C++, Java),
• Database Design and Development, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse/ Data Modelers, Business Objects (including Teradata and Cognos)
• Project Management Methodologies - Agile Unified Process (AUP), Extreme Programming (XP), Object Oriented Design (OOD), Rational Unified Process (RUP), Scrum (development) and Waterfall models
• Network and Systems Architecture - Telecom experience, including Sr IP Telephony/Voice Engineer w/ IP, DHCP, DNS, VPN well as UNIX/Windows System Administrators, Oracle and SQL Server DBA’s.
• Business Analysts with experience in requirement gathering, writing specifications and documentation, including Process flow diagrams, Gap analysis, Use cases, Business functional documents in support of system conversions, file interfaces, as well as user reports
• QA/Testers possessing experience with application performance testing concepts, automated application testing, WinRunner, LoadRunner and QTP ( Confidential )
• LinkedIN with 600+ connections and direct connections to the members of 30+ LinkedIN groups.
• Developed/maintained a network of contacts/established and developed relationships w/relevant industry organizations/industry conferences.
• Cultivate potential candidates for specific requirements as well as pipelining efforts by utilizing various methods (i.e. networking, referrals, internal database searches, organizational affiliations, online searches, Internet postings, job/career fairs, user/technical groups, database management, and internet mining/setting agents or saved searches).
• Prescreen and qualify candidates for open positions in order to find relevance, culture fit, compensation history, and uncover skill sets and possible concerns.
• Perform the advanced administrative functions associated w/recruitment, including preparation of formatted resumes, posting positions on necessary job boards and networking groups, ensuring accuracy and completeness of standard recruitment files
• Prepared candidates for interviews
• Prepared submittals which effectively described a candidate to a Recruiting Manager
• Constantly prioritized and reprioritized open requisitions
• Developed sophisticated search strings that produced resumes that match job requirements
• Developed candidate profiles for each prescreened candidate to present to the Recruitment Managers.
• Responsible for enhancing resources through research of alternative channels of locating candidates (user groups, relevant professional organizations, etc.).
• Managed and maintained the Applicant Tracking System
• Assisted Recruitment Managers with various Recruitment/Ad hoc projects.
• Partner with third party vendors through out the US to fill niche openings
• Contribute to internal program development initiatives to improve product/solution offerings, processes, systems and measures

Confidential, Whippany, NJ

Technology Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle process for clients which includes; developing the overall recruiting strategy, determining key selection criteria, posting requisitions to multiple channels, screening candidates, scheduling and managing the numerous rounds of interviews with hiring managers, conducting the pre-employment verification, packaging the offer, closing the candidate, and processing all on-boarding paperwork
• Develop, execute and drive results of comprehensive search strategies to recruit senior and niche candidates in limited candidate spaces with contract and direct sourcing resulting in hires
• Positions recruited for include Program Manager, Product manager, Business Systems Analyst, Support Analyst, Software Design Engineer in Test, Software Design Engineer, Web Developer, Builder, and Application Developer
• Position recruited for Senior SAP SEM BPS Technical Consultant for SEM upgrade project.
• Enter all recruiting data into our internal recruiting database to track time per hire and cost per hire measures and determine efficiencies.
• Actively monitor various college placement centers and attend local community college campus recruiting events for potential candidates
• Organize and attend job fairs, and employment resource/ workshops.
• Post and update job orders/ requisitions on various Internet job boards and college Intranets
• Ensure proper documentation of recruitment processes adhering to legal, federal, state, and company regulations
• Partner with third party vendors through out the US to fill niche openings
• Contribute to internal program development initiatives to improve product/solution offerings, processes, systems and measures

Confidential

Technical Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle process for clients which includes; developing the overall recruiting strategy, determining key selection criteria, posting requisitions to multiple channels, screening candidates, scheduling and managing the numerous rounds of interviews with hiring managers, conducting the pre-employment verification, packaging the offer, closing the candidate, and processing all on-boarding paperwork
• Positions recruited for include Program Manager, Product manager, Business Systems Analyst, Support Analyst, Software Design Engineer in Test, Software Design Engineer, Web Developer, Builder, and Application Developer
• Positions recruited for SAP FICO, BW, ABAP, MM/WM/QM Functional, Techno - Functional and Technical consultant.
• Maintain hiring manager relationships & delivered high quality recruitment and staffing services in a cost and time effective manner
• Actively monitor various college placement centers and attend local community college campus recruiting events for potential candidates
• Organize and attend job fairs, and employment resource/ workshops.