SUMMARY

Organized, knowledgeable and hard - working professional with 20+ years experience in Recruiting, Sales, Management and Benefits co-ordination with a broad background in staff augmentation, consulting services, employee benefits, sales and service.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Windows2003/2010/XP
• MS Word
• MS Excel
• Visio
• PowerPoint
• Explorer
• ATS Job Diva
• Hire Desk

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - New York, NY

Senior Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Full cycle recruiter responsible for sourcing, screening and scheduling interviews with clients on a national basis.
• Worked with industry leaders from Fortune 1000 companies to small, privately held businesses.
• Helped to build and maintain an extensive database of top talent in a wide assortment of skills and qualifications.
• Worked in placing applications and database developers, network/ systems administrators, engineers, desktop support specialists, information security analysts and project managers.
• Also recruited and placed candidates in administration support, finance and accounting management as well as analytical positions.
• Worked closely with sales team and was heavily involved in client calls to provide guidance and assistance in streamlining requirements gathering and providing input on key aspects of each hiring need.
• Conducted background and reference checks and coordinated prescreening process using Skype and scheduling on site interviews with numerous applicants.

Confidential - New York, NY

Senior Technical Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Specialize in the placement of high level technology specialists and financial professionals in Hedge Funds, Private Equity firms, Front Middle and Back Office Operations.
• Sourced application and web developers for brokerage and commercial Real Estate clients.
• Recruited candidates with Java, JavaScript, Python, WFC, Angular.js, .net C#, ASP.net, SQL developers as well as Systems Administrators and Data Warehouse developers in both contract and perm positions.

Confidential - New York, NY

Manager/Senior Technical Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Manage and oversee a team of recruiters to evaluate requirements and source suitable candidates for placement in both contract consulting roles as well as full time positions.
• Participated in weekly client/vendor conference calls for requirements gathering and establishing customer needs.
• Daily sourcing, identifying and qualifying top IT professionals for placement in both consulting and perm positions in industries such as banking, brokerage, healthcare, biotech, energy/utility, telecommunications, manufacturing and others.
• Scheduled interviews and arranged pre-qualifying tech checks.
• Able to explain compensation and benefits to each candidate addressing any concerns about hourly vs. salary compensation for W-2 and corp. -to- corp. hires.
• Communicated features and benefits of company sponsored 401(k) plan as well as health insurance program
• Heavy phone contact to gather candidate referrals and extract top talent from job boards and networking sites.
• Daily phone and email contact with passive candidates thru cold calling, job board use and social media and business community sites such as LinkedIn, the Ladders, Indeed and others.
• Extremely effective at working under pressure, meeting deadlines and getting quick turnaround for time sensitive needs.
• Able to search candidate database folders and profiles to find people with the hard to find and niche skill set that will meet the demands of the hiring managers for interview and placement.
• Very knowledgeable with programming toolsets and methodologies to identify the candidates who possess the business knowledge as well as the technical expertise to qualify for placement in perm and contract roles.

Confidential - White Plains, NY

Recruiter /Account Executive

Responsibilities:

• Sourced, qualified and placed IT professionals for this multi- billion specialized staffing firm.
• Managed internal candidate review process by meeting directly with several candidates each week in face-to-face interviews.
• Extensive review of candidates goals and technical expertise were evaluated in one on one meetings.
• Utilized SmartForce program for evaluations and training.
• Recruited for diverse technology needs such as programmer analysts working in C/C++, Java J2EE, Swing, JavaScript, JDK, .net/C#, SQL Server, PL/SQL.
• Sourced and placed several Database Administrators.
• Recruited for Network and Systems Engineers and Administrators, Program and Project Management, Business Analysts, Technical Writers, Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers.
• Knowledgeable in various methodologies such as Agile, Scrum and UML.
• Good understanding of various ERP software solutions such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards, Great Plains.
• Placed technical resources from Help Desk support up to and including CIO/CTO level.
• Developed specialized techniques, which were adopted by the region and added on as part of recruiter training nationally for gathering information and uncovering new business opportunities thru lead generation programs.
• Worked with outside vendors and agencies to co-ordinate third party candidate pool and H1B Visa, EAD and student visa (F-1) candidates.
• Discussed health benefits, 401(k) savings programs and PTO options with each candidate
• Handled job postings, hiring policies and procedures, background checks, rate and salary negotiations as well as consultant extensions and conversions.
• Was instrumental for increasing branch revenue within the IT division by 40% in 2003