SUMMARY:

• Senior Corporate Recruiter with over 11 years of experience working with prestigious government contracts in a cleared environment.
• Extensive experience recruiting for corporate staff, investigation professionals, management, security officers, IT, software developers, software architects, database admin, engineers, scientists, planners, designers, architects, key personal for proposals and administrative support staff.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational, and leadership skills.
• Exceptionally versatile, with the ability to manage multiple task in a high - pressure environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Open Hire (ATS)
• Success Factors (ATS) Bullhorn (ATS)
• BrassRing (ATS)
• OneSource (ATS)
• Remix (ATS)
• LinkedIn
• OFCCP
• MS Office Professional Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Windows 2010

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Corporate Recruiter

Confidential, McLean, VA

Responsibilities:

• Manage full life-cycle IT recruitment including creating search strategies, actively sourcing candidates, pre-screening, interviewing and presenting qualified candidates to hiring managers, negotiating offers and facilitating the hiring and on-boarding processes
• Provide consultation to hiring managers on all aspects of the hiring process, including hiring strategies, recruitment cycle timing, coaching and guidance on best practices and sourcing trends
• Responsible for developing, recommending and executing recruitment strategy with decision makers to ensure a successful candidate search within the identified time frames
• Use proactive methods to network with IT industry experts and professional industry related associations, in order to build ongoing passive candidate networks
• Build relationships and communicate consistently and proactively throughout the recruitment process to ensure all participants in the hiring process are updated and well informed
• Create a positive candidate experience (for both the selected and non-selected candidates) throughout the entire recruiting process

Senior Corporate Recruiter

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for full life cycle recruitment:
• Senior Cyber Security Engineer, Multimedia Graphic Designer & UI Web Developer, Mid-Level and Senior Java Developer, Network Engineer, Security Support, Oracle and SQL Server DBA, Systems Engineer, Salesforce Developer, JavaScript Developer, QA Manager, ISSO, Information Assurance Manager, Help Desk Specialist.
• Investigation and Security professionals, Project, Program and Operations Manager. Armed/unarmed security officer, Construction Surveillance Technician Access Control Specialist, Physical Security Specialist for local and nationwide positions in a cleared environment.
• Screen and qualify applicants through phone and in person interviews, reference checks and testing. Present offers negotiate salary.
• Successfully source qualified candidates through internal database, networking, Internet databases, referrals, job fairs, military transition centers and advertising. Track cost to hire and time to fill metrics.
• Assist managers with hiring decisions, placement, compensation, employee transfers, and promotions.
• Responsible for the company’s recruiting process and the maintenance of the applicant tracking system to ensure company is OFCCP compliant.
• Plan, coordinate, and assist with all company job fairs.
• Responsible for internal and external advertising through varies multimedia resources.
• Review all pre-employment physical screenings and background checks to include criminal, credit, driving record, and employment and personal references. Determine whether the applicant meets company/customer requirements. Take appropriate action as determined.
• Coordinate pre-employment security screening for corporate positions, and security officer positions that require a security clearance. Administer Inwald Personality Inventory (IPI) test. Consult with Interviewer to determine whether applicant should continue with processing for employment.
• Conduct new hire orientations.
• Train all managers on interview guide lines and Applicant tracking system.
• Assist senior management with the recruiting budget. Provide detailed reports and recruiting expense history to determine the New Year’s budget.
• Attend monthly Program Operations meeting with senior management to review staffing, financials, issues, concerns, risks and opportunities for the prior month and future outlook.
• Conduct weekly staffing status meetings.
• Supervise contract recruiters and screeners for large contract start-ups.
• Attend business development proposal meetings and provide human resource information and key personnel resumes as needed.
• Participate in ISO Audits and continuously update ISO forms, checklists, processes, and position summaries to ensure recruiting stays ISO compliant.
• Responsible for the development of the company’s recruiting processes. Development and maintenance of the applicant tracking system.

Corporate Recruiter

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Partner with The Washington D.C. Regional Recruiting Center to staff positions requiring high levels of security clearances.
• Focus on candidate’s in the field of Engineering, Information Technology and Finance.
• Perform detail phone screening with candidates requiring TS, TS/SCI and Full Scope Poly.
• Support staffing efforts through sourcing, screening, qualifying and scheduling interviews with hiring managers in Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia.
• Extend an offer to candidates to interview with hiring manager based on compatibility with specific job requirements and corporate standards.
• Point of contact for candidates regarding, online application, security forms, directions, travel arrangements, expenses, hotel accommodations, feedback and rescheduling.
• Successfully sourced potential candidates through internal database, networking, cold calling, Internet databases, referrals, job fairs, and advertising.
• Prescreen candidates with detailed phone screens, evaluating candidates' compatibility with specific job requirements.

Corporate Recruiter

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Solely responsible for full life cycle recruiting of all technical and administrative positions
• Assist managers in hiring decisions, placement, compensation, employee transfers, counseling, and discipline.
• Consistently fill numerous contract, contract-to-hire, and full-time positions above monthly quota.
• Negotiate salary and effectively closed 95% of candidates receiving offers.
• Tracked recruiting metrics such as cost per hire, turnover rate, interview to hire etc.
• Assist the Director, Human Resources, with developing the company’s new compensation structure.