Astralis Senior Principal Salesforce Recruiter - Apps Associates Inc
(2022-06)
- Manage full cycle recruiting for multiple, complex searches, creating innovative sourcing strategies and engagement to bring the best talent to each role.
- Develop and execute fully comprehensive sourcing plans, analyzing requirements to determine target profile needs and matches.
- Coordinate closely with recruiting team members to innovate our research strategy for talent pooling, market mapping and competitor analysis.
- Collaborate closely with hiring managers throughout the recruiting process to ensure we meet their hiring needs and goals.
- Regularly manage pipeline activity and maintain data integrity, and proactively share data-centric updates with internal stakeholders.
- Facilitate and lead meetings and key initiatives and projects with client groups, and with the recruiting teams, that will continuously improve and scale our recruiting operations and results.
Lead Talent Acquisition Specialist - Perficient Inc. - New York, NY
(2015-01 - 2022-03)
Full life-cycle recruitment, Supporting up to seven business units (Salesforce, Big Data, Adobe Digital, Strategic Advisors, Oracle, IBM and MSFT) in Perficient, Inc. simultaneously. Range of open requisitions is from 10 to 35.
- Established as a leader and talent advisor for all things recruiting and staffing.
- Conduct weekly recruiting meetings with Stakeholders and recruiting teams to discuss current and future demand and talent pipeline. Manage Stakeholder expectations. Provide and interpret Market Surveys as needed.
- Prepare weekly staffing and demand reports for Stakeholders and Leadership.
- Created job descriptions and posted to boards (i.e., Indeed.com, LinkedIn, CareerBuilder, Jobsradar, AWE Intuit, Craigslist and Monster). Worked with college recruiting departments and local career groups.
- Coached and mentored hiring managers on recruiting processes so that specifications and guidelines for open positions were correct and EEOC guidelines followed. Guided hiring managers to ensure competitive salary ranges.
- Assist in leading the RPO Vendor recruiting team and Perficient recruiting team assigned to this project to ensure its success through consistent collaboration, communication, process improvement, metrics and audits.
- Responsible for recruiting for a large hiring initiative – Big Data Program (300 Big data Developers nationwide in 2017). Assist with marketing material, bringing new ideas to the table and addressing challenges.
Sr. North East Lead Recruiter - Acumen Solutions - New York, NY
(2013-06 - 2014-08)
- Apply project management skills to create and execute a responsive recruiting plan to fulfill the staffing needs of multiple hiring managers within Acumen Solutions.
- Act as a partner with internal client teams to ensure that a team providing recruiting services positively affects their business.
- Build relationships with hiring mangers to serve as a trusted advisor.
- Manage internal client expectations
- Devise and implement creative sourcing strategies to generate a robust and superior candidate pipeline.
- Meet established hiring targets
- Source to particular strategy as defined in the performance metrics
- Generate qualified candidates through cost-effective efforts
- Develop knowledge of the marketplace to ensure competitiveness in hiring
- Ensure compliance with EEO/Diversity policies including applicant flow logs
- Serve as communication liaison for everyone involved in the staffing process
- Accurately report and track candidate data as requested
- Participate in special projects/task forces as assigned
- Research and test new applications and software based on the company's needs
- Work with IT personnel and Vendor's to communicate functional requirements
Global Talent Manager - ALTIMETRIK (a Synova Inc. Company) - New York, NY
(2012-06 - 2013-05)
- Grew the company by 200% in head count as the only HR person in the New York and San Francisco Offices.
- Achieved 100% retention of employees by strategically implementing employee retention programs in India, Uruguay, San Francisco and New York.
- Built employee base from 2 to 45 employees primarily by passive recruiting (96% of the time) acting as the outbound sourer.
- Conduct new employee orientations for each new hire, conduct the Founders of the company on employment relation's issues for all staff employed in Uruguay, India, New York and San Francisco Offices.
- Coach the Founders, CEO and President of ALTIMETRIK to improve communication and address performance issues by implementing strategies on relationship building.
- Reduced cost per hire by 12% through creative recruitment initiatives, accomplished by rewarding internal referrals and stand-alone recruiting.
- Provide coaching and counseling to India, Uruguay, San Francisco and New York employees on all functional areas of HR, with an emphasis on employee relations exit interviews for each terminated employee.
- Implemented employee satisfaction survey and forum enabling open communication and a channel for critical feedback recognized for significantly improving key metrics.
Talent Resource Manager - Fujitsu NA - New York, NY
(2011-05 - 2012-05)
- Effectively increase revenue of practice (11m to 15m) by exceeding GPM% and doubled the size of the practice from 21 employees to 60 employees.
- Leading a team of 2 onshore recruiters and 4 offshore sources.
- Surpassed company goals by 110% utilizing recruitment strategies and relationship building programs that deliver the desired results that are aligned with the company's goals.
- Member of the Recruiting Management Council – Implemented a corporate-wide workforce review and planning strategy to identify solutions for knowledge retention issues.
- Partner with practice management to assess recruiting needs and consult on strategic hiring decisions that support business objectives and drive the full life cycle recruiting process: sourcing, recruiting, interviewing, and hiring of full time and specialized consultants.
- Responsible for day to day operations of company including budgeting, forecasting and all recruiting operations
Recruiting Manager - Bond Street Group, Inc. - New York, NY
(2010-09 - 2011-05)
- Responsible for delivery and execution of IT Consulting Services to NY/NJ/CT based clients. Build and develop recruiting methodology and best practices.
- Manage Recruiting Division including hiring, training and professional development Business Development & Sales to NY based clients.
- Responsible for contributing to the overall strategy, vision, and execution of our recruiting processes from start to finish.
- Prospecting and selling to new and existing clients. Responsible for negotiating contract terms from initial to final stages, tailored to clients individual needs
- Provide full-time, contract, and temp-to-hire staffing services matching clients with technologists that include: Front End Programming, Network Engineering and Administration, Desktop Support and Helpdesk, Database Administration and Engineering, Project Management and Business Analysis
- Recruiting and lead generation methods including LinkedIn, Spoke, JigSaw, and full utilization of professional networks.
Lead Technical Recruiter - Sapphire Technologies (a Randstad Company) - New York, NY
(2007-08 - 2010-08)
- Develop and manage departmental and tactical recruiting plans targeting candidates within specific industries and financial verticals.
- Recruit and place consultants and full time employees at Tier 1 financial institutions.
- Handled the full life cycle of IT Recruiting: Screening Resumes coordinate technical tests & interviews, closing of candidates and maintaining relationships. Gather technical and functional requirements, create and maintain job descriptions, qualify, interview, debrief, administer pre-employment testing, conduct offer negotiations and reference checks.
- Utilize all effective recruiting channels and methods to attract high quality applicants in a cost effective manner such as writing, placing and managing job board postings, identifying and utilizing other specialty sites, cold call recruiting, networking, job fairs, and internal / external referral programs.
- Provide data analysis around marketplace trends, make strategic program recommendations that will help increase recruiting effectiveness, continuously develop and maintain professional skills and industry know-how by staying current on recruiting best practices, internet products/services, opportunities, and trends
- Facilitating meetings with C-Level management for technical presentations
