SUMMARY:

A Lead Recruiter with experience recruiting IT consultants for Fortune 500 client contract engagements and perm placement. Experience in sourcing, hiring and on - boarding of quality consultants, including technical screening, extensive contract negotiations, business development, client vendor management and client delivery. Adept in ability to source and deliver quality consultants to various clients. Skilled in excelling in fast paced and high volume environments. Ability to lead recruiting teams, assist in assessing and mentoring junior recruiters to excel.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Account Manager / Lead Recruiter

Confidential

Sr. National Recruiter for Sprint and Verizon VMO accounts. Successfully placed consultants into Sprint and Verizon VMO contracts. Utilized S-Pro Vendor Management System to submit and track client's candidates. Also utilized JobDiva (Artech Database and Tracking System) to track and update candidate's file and status. Responsible for sourcing and recruiting quality consultants nationally including telecommunications engineers, project managers, business systems analysts, security engineers, database administrators, database analysts, web applications developers, helpdesk analysts etc.

Successfully screened, recruited and presented 50+ candidates (per month) for the Sprint and Verizon VMO accounts. Also responsible for maintaining daily, weekly, and monthly status reports. Responsible for updating Jobdiva database with current candidate data including candidate's availability, current resume, salary or rate requirements and salary or rate history, current job status, key technical skills etc. I served as the only US based recruiter for Artech (state side recruiter). I was responsible for mentoring the team of jr. recruiters supporting Sprint and Verizon based in India.

Confidential, Edison NJ

Sr. Technical Recruiter

Sr. Technical Staffing Specialist responsible for sourcing and recruiting consultants across full spectrum of IT technologies (web, client/server, ERP, network infrastructure, security, and mainframe technologies) for IT engagements for fulltime, and short and long term contract client projects. Confidential direct Client base includes Fortune 500 brokerage, insurance, pharmaceutical, and telecommunications companies in Northern / Central NJ.

Confidential, Mountain Lakes NJ

Sr. Recruiter

Successfully placed 42 consultants in 7 month period with Confidential, including contract placements at Dendrite International, Becton Dickenson, Verizon Wireless, BASF, Schindler, AIG, Realogy, UBS, Tiffany, Stryker Orthopedics, and more. Personally lead Confidential ’ Parsippany NJ office (22 recruiters) in 2nd Quarter positive average weekly spread gain (or increase) of +$4,300 over the previous quarter.

Worked with client tracking systems Procurestaff, S-Pro, Beeline, EPass and CHIMES to submit and maintain candidate delivery. Also worked with company consultant database and tracking systems Jobdiva and Teamtrack to track candidates and update candidate files and status.

Confidential

Results oriented recruiter with excellent communication and organizational skills, while working in a highly successful and fast paced recruiting and sales environment. Achieved top 10% headcount within the organization for 12 years. Hired an average of 45+ consultants per year between 2001-2006. Hired an average of 55+ consultants per year between 1995-2000 (considering market hiring trends were significantly better, within Confidential, from 1995-2000). Worked with client tracking systems Procurestaff, S-Pro, Beeline, EPass and CHIMES to submit and maintain candidate delivery. Also worked with company candidate database and tracking systems CHIMES and Jobdiva to track candidates and update candidate files and status.

Sr. Recruiter responsible for recruiting consultants across full spectrum of IT technologies (ERP, web and client/server technologies, network engineering, network infrastructure and security technologies, voice and data technologies, and legacy mainframe technologies etc) for IT T & M (time and material) and Solutions based contract engagements. Also responsible for recruiting applicants fulltime, and temp to perm placements with Confidential clients. Confidential ’ local NY/NJ/CT and national Client base includes Fortune 500 companies in the financial, insurance, pharmaceutical, government agency offices, and telecommunications industries.

Lead Recruiter and Account Representative for At&t (2002-2007) recruiting and sales efforts. Responsibilities included qualifying, delivery and on boarding of telecommunications consultants for At&t contracts covering At&t locations nationally. Responsible for communicating directly with At&t VMO and VMO agents to discuss current job requirements, pending job requirements and discuss and inquire candidate status of presented candidates, rate negotiations, and pending job skill needs within At&t. Also maintain follow up discussions with At&t VMO and VMO agents regarding consultant delivery and on boarding. Confidential successfully managed 80 consultants working on site at several At&t locations. Utilized Procurestaff tracking system to submit and manage candidate delivery. Also Confidential successfully moved up the national vendor ranks for At&t from 15th out of 23 vendors, to 7th out of 23 vendors from 2002-2007.

Recruiting experience includes extensive Pharmaceutical Recruiting efforts. Responsibilities included recruiting for highly successful Computer Horizon’s accounts for Schering Plough, Hoffman LaRoche, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. Responsible for qualifying, delivering and on boarding of Pharmaceutical consultants and temp to perm consultants including 21 CFR 11 Validation Engineers, QA Review Engineers, Validation Project Managers, Validation Business Analysts, Validation Technical Writers, Quality Chemists, Oracle Clinical developers, Oracle Clinical Database Architects, and various web and client server developers and architects with pharmaceuticals industry experience.

Successfully recruited and placed numerous consultants over my 12 year tenure with Computer Horizon’s clients such as Merrill Lynch, Prudential, Crum and Foster, UBS, UHG, At&t, Schering Plough, Hoffman LaRoche, Pfizer, Dendrite International, Fairfax, Lehman Brothers, City Agencies of NY (MTA, NYPD, HHC, etc), AIG and many more.

Responsibilities include the ability to identify and source applicants, qualify applicants, negotiate consultant rates and salaries, prep resumes, submit applicants, coordinate interviews and get follow up results to interviews from client hiring managers and the interviewing applicants, finalize offers and start packets for consultant on boarding process, as well as establish and maintain contacts with consultants, Computer Horizon’s clients and third party agencies (where utilized).

Responsible for compliance with Confidential recruiting and delivery processes and Computer Horizon’s management requirements. Provide resourceful sourcing skills and display proactive approach in full lifecycle recruiting process, from sourcing to on boarding and also contract preparation and client delivery. Provide and maintain applicant tracking on company databases Chimes, JobDiva, and provided information for daily/weekly/monthly data reports as requested.

Applicant sourcing includes recruiting applicants from job/resume websites, networking, company database searches, and posting job ads on job/resume boards to identify and source applicant consultants. Experience in working with management to create new recruitment and advertising strategies. Extensively involved in mentoring junior recruiters within organization.

Delivery skills include ability to coordinate pre-hire and post-hire activities such as pre-placement technical screening, background checks and client drug screens, work visa sponsorship application preparation, relocation assistance and completing new hire paperwork and coordinating client starts. Present and review all contracts with consultants. Administer all company benefit information in pre-start meetings with new consultants. Display excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.