CAREER SUMMARY:

• Lead Senior Recruiter with expertise is connecting employers and job seekers nationwide
• Foster relationships with hiring leaders, ensure a smooth recruiting process and establish an outstanding candidate experience against a strategy tightly aligned with company strategy and values.
• A dopts next generation sourcing techniques, such as Hiretual AI. Deploys successful Social Media recruitment strategies .
• I’m a natural connector; bringing a deep commitment to building an inclusive workforce, person by person and team by team
• Expertise in developing innovative approaches to direct sourcing and developing talent pipelines .
• Strong written and oral communication skills; ability to synthesize information into clear, detailed analytical reports and executive summaries.

SKILLS:

Software (ATS): PeopleSoft, Taleo and Brass Ring, Greenhouse Microsoft Office; Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint

Other: LinkedIn/LinkedIn Recruiter, Hiretual, Seek - Out, Angel List

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Edison, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Lead high volume, end - to-end recruitment efforts, across all verticals at Confidential .
• Have recruited for key corporate roles, across all verticals. (Mid to senior level niche roles)
• Works successfully with Hiring Managers, HR Business Partners and Confidential Specialists Groups to reduce the onboarding timeframe from thirteen (13) to six (6) weeks in a high-volume environment.
• Builds strong relationships with various line and functional clients to ensure the ability to influence, guide and drive the recruiting process and have improved ration of hires to starts by 30%.
• Ensures a strong positive client and candidate experience throughout the hiring life cycle.
• Utilizes traditional and creative sourcing techniques, including social media as well as direct sourcing to identify A-player talent.
• Have improved company communications/set timetables for processing resumes by personally managing the interview calendar and setting up the expected timeframe for feedbacks and interviews
• Instrumental in communicating Confidential ’s brand to candidates when offers are extended and have closed on 90% of offers. Established effective recruiting metrics.
• Convey the benefits of the Confidential ’s brand by discussing what skills candidates would learn tools they would utilize and develop. Offers to starts ratio is 8 out of 10
• Successfully lead the Bank of America account nationally; have overseen the placement of key candidates, lowered escalations, and have set-up a structure for effective hiring process.
• Oversee the closing process including offer letters. Works in conjunction with hiring managers and stakeholders to quickly resolve day-to-day issues as they arise including, slow responses from managers to return feedback
• Frequently utilizes LinkedIn, Hiretual, Angel’s list, Seek-Out and Facebook groups (Recruiters Online) to source candidates.
• Update and maintain Greenhouse ATS.

Confidential, Trenton, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Work on the complete, end-to-end recruitment process.
• Recruited for corporate roles across all verticals.
• Set up recruiting and sourcing strategies with Hiring Managers, HR Business Partners.
• Exceeded onboarding goals through streamlining communication process with Hiring Managers and HR partners. Set up goals with hiring managers to ensure proper turnaround time between submittals and feedback.
• Shortened the length of time from posting jobs to successfully onboarding candidates by 40%. by having Hiring managers to interview candidates within 48-hours and provide feedback on interview within 24- hour of finalization of the interview.
• Created efficient procedures around submitting profiles, setting up interviews, gathering feedback and sending out offers through an expedited process.
• By conveying the benefits of the company’s brand, closed top talent that would have otherwise been lost to competitors who paid a higher salary.
• Closed 88% of all candidates to whom offers were extended.
• Managed all recruitment functions including job postings, gathering and screening resumes of candidates, interviewing candidates and extending offers.
• Applied Google Chrome Extensions, LinkedIn, and Angel’s List, Google and Facebook for online recruitment.
• Utilized Taleo ATS.

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

Lead Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Led the recruitment efforts for A-player talent in specialized areas.
• Increased interview-to-close ratios from 4:1 to 4:3. Worked major VMS account (financial).
• Oversaw and led a team of three (3) that generated an increase of 20% revenue for the company.
• Through individual leadership and direction of the team the account went from a Vendor 3 status to a Vendor 2 status.
• Created a process that allowed quicker submittals.
• Used Taleo and internal systems to screen and interview final candidates.
• Worked with hiring managers to devise hiring protocols.
• Used Excel-based reporting tools.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• As a lead recruiter, responsible for filling positions in capital markets (investment banks); recruited for Java, database developers, Oracle and SQL DBA’s.
• Utilized social media and referrals to locate, recruit and close candidates
• Regularly utilized extensive skill base of interviewing techniques to pre-screen and pre-close active candidates

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Recruited senior level resources within tight deadlines for investment banks; utilized LinkedIn and referrals and network of passive and active candidates.
• Recruited for Software Developers, DBA developers.
• Effectively made cold calls to recruit passive candidate market.
• Used Excel for metrics reporting.
• Demonstrated expertise in building strong, lasting relationships with candidates.