SUMMARY

• Nearly 15 years of professional recruiting experience including: information technology, accounting and finance, pharmaceutical and professional support.
• Proven track record of success in recruiting for hard to find skills and high volume accounts.
• Outstanding relationship building and development skills.
• Extensive experience with various recruiting methods including online recruiting, direct recruiting, college recruiting and building referrals networks.
• Superior systems skills including complex Boolean queries and utilization of applicant tracking systems.

EXPERIENCE

March 2009 to February 2010 Confidential
Manager, Business Development

• Conducted on and off-site candidate meetings to develop strategy for marketing backgrounds into key clients and assess fit for current or future open positions.
• Developed and executed strategy for marketing of technology staffing service in undeveloped territory of New Haven and Fairfield County Connecticut and Westchester County, New York.
• Identified key resources to aid in business development and recruiting including networking groups, social networking, professional networking and internet research.
• Worked with recruiting team to develop strategies to increase candidate mind-share and brand awareness.

October 2005 to February 2009 Confidential
Senior Recruiter

• Identified, screened and placed information technology professionals for multiple open positions, including Developers (web, client server and database), Project Managers, Business Analysts, QA, Database Administrators, Business Intelligence, ERP, and network and infrastructure support.
• Recruited for several marquis clients including UBS, Mastercard, GE Commercial Finance, SAC Capital, First Reserve Corporation, Hartford Insurance, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals.
• Mentored recruiting team on sourcing strategies, search techniques and interview and placement processes.

August 2003 to October 2005 Confidential
Finance and Accounting Recruiting Consultant

• Managed start-up interim/consulting/contract staffing division, providing staffing services to small and large clients including GE Commercial Finance, Diageo, Nestle Waters, Heineken USA, Allied Domecq and Kraft Foods.
• Identified, screened and placed staff-senior level accounting and finance professionals, including interim Controllers, Directors, Managers and senior accounting and finance staff.
• Established and maintained relationships with key clients.
• Served as team “super-user” for internal recruiting and candidate/client tracking system.
• Created and established monthly marketing campaign for staffing operations.
• Increased annual margin from $19k in 2003 to over $315k in 2004 (on track to $400k in 2005).

February 1998 to February 2003 Confidential
Managing Director (April 2001 to February 2003)

• Managed and directed staff of up to 8 professionals in operations, sales and support of professional staffing service.
• Recruited and hired staffing and support professionals for accounting and finance (temporary and permanent), and administrative and office services (temporary and permanent) divisions.
• Established goals and developed tracking mechanisms to assure goals are met.
• Performed performance reviews and established new goals.
• Full profit and loss responsibilities for $2,000,000.00 operation.
• Reviewed contracts and proposals for local company’s staffing requirements.
• Continued to play active role in daily activity of permanent accounting and finance division.
• Reestablished a consistent monthly profit in all divisions and office through implementing cost-cutting measures and increasing divisional revenue.
• Played vital role in development, role-out and training for new, online recruiting and applicant tracking system.

Financial Recruiter (February 1998 to April 2001)

• Identified, recruited, interviewed and placed all levels of accounting and finance professionals.
• Negotiated with applicant and client to formulate acceptable offer.
• Marketed services to corporate clients.
• Increased temporary divisional production by over 200%.
• Increased permanent divisional revenue by over 80%.
• Promoted to Managing Director, June 2001

December 1995 to February 1998 Confidential
Division Director (December 1997 to February 1998)

• Supervised Staffing Managers and operations staff, set goals and monitored performance.
• Performed monthly sales activity reviews to devise strategies for account management and growth.
• Recruited and interviewed potential candidates for Staffing Manager and other internal positions.
• Trained staff on sales, recruiting, and operational issues.
• Monitored monthly budget for advertising and promotional costs.
• Increased divisional revenue by 25%.
• Achieved top ranking in quality assurance among Northern Mid-Atlantic region.

Staffing Manager (December 1995 to December 1997)

• Recruited and screened prospective applicants for administrative positions.
• Marketed all divisions including: administrative and office services, accounting and finance, information technology, and legal staffing.
• Ranked among top 10% of Staffing Managers in Northern Mid-Atlantic Region.
• Promoted to Division Director, 1997.

Education

Completed 3+ years towards Bachelor of Science

Computer Skills And Affiliations

• Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Lotus and Lotus Notes.
• Experience in creation of web pages and email marketing campaigns using MS Word and Outlook.
• Hands on experience with online recruiting sources including monster.com, careerbuilder.com, hotjobs.com, fairfieldcountyjobs.com, dice.com, linkedin.com.
• Expertise with applicant and client tracking systems including: CPAS, Profile, Recruitmax, Peopleclick, Workforcelogic, eEmpACT, and home-grown applications.
• Experience working with Vendor managed companies including Beeline, Procurestaff, Kelly Vendor Services.