Sarah
Fractional Senior Recruiter
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Senior full-cycle recruiter with 15+ years leading end-to-end recruitment for senior, technical, executive, and high-volume roles across construction, SaaS/technology, and professional services. Skilled at building and executing talent acquisition strategies through research, cold calling, lead generation, and social media recruitment marketing, and at managing the full candidate journey from sourcing and behavioral/technical assessment through offer negotiation and onboarding. Experienced administering ATS and HR systems, ensuring recruiting activities comply with employment & labor law and HR legal compliance standards, and partnering with hiring managers and executives to align hiring with organizational goals.
Comfortable operating independently in a fractional, part-time, or contract capacity, managing multiple concurrent requisitions with strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
Experience
Senior Corporate Recruiter - Precision General Commercial Contractors - Remote
(2021-09)
Lead end-to-end recruitment for senior, technical, and high-volume roles across a multi-state organization, owning talent acquisition strategy and execution independently in a lean, fractional-style talent function.
- Source and attract passive candidates through research, cold calling, lead generation, LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, Handshake, and social media recruitment marketing, building talent pipelines for hard-to-fill positions.
- Coordinate interview schedules, conduct behavioral and technical interviews, and assess candidate fit alongside hiring managers and executive leadership.
- Negotiate employment offers and ensure all recruiting activities comply with federal, state, and local employment & labor law, including E-Verify and background check requirements.
- Support employee orientation, onboarding, and employee relations processes to ensure a smooth transition for new hires.
- Administer iSolved ATS and HR systems, building recruiting dashboards that track time-to-fill, source-of-hire, and pipeline conversion by channel.
- Partner with senior leadership and the CEO on staffing plans, workforce timelines, and organizational/succession planning initiatives.
- Led design and rollout of a company-wide compensation structure, including job architecture, market pricing, and salary benchmarking.
Program Manager – Talent Acquisition - NextAxiom Technology (SaaS Workflow Provider) - Hybrid
(2018 - 2021-02)
Managed full-cycle talent acquisition across technical and specialized roles for a fast-scaling SaaS technology company.
- Implemented recruiting KPIs and streamlined sourcing approaches to improve pipeline quality and candidate experience.
- Led candidate attraction initiatives and recruiting events; built ongoing talent communities through college and Handshake partnerships.
- Evaluated and administered ATS platforms, establishing collaborative hiring workflows with managers and reporting on cost-per-hire and time-to-hire.
- Developed targeted messaging and sourcing strategies for niche technical roles based on ongoing market trend analysis.
HR Manager / Corporate Recruiter - NextAxiom Technology (SaaS Workflow Provider) - Hybrid
(2012-05 - 2018-01)
Executed full-cycle recruitment across technical and corporate roles, scaling headcount from 8 to 125 employees in one year.
- Applied AIRS sourcing techniques, Boolean search strings, and LinkedIn Recruiter to build candidate pipelines for specialized, hard-to-fill positions.
- Partnered with hiring managers on role scoping and crafted job postings aligned to team and market needs.
- Led offer negotiations and staffing plan reporting; managed remote hiring and onboarding across a multi-state workforce, maintaining HR legal compliance throughout.
Corporate Recruiter - Berkeley Communications Corporation - Berkeley, CA
(2009 - 2012)
Sourced, hired, and retained networking and storage technicians and subject-matter experts to staff defined client contracts.
- Developed a green/sustainability reuse-and-recycled-parts revenue stream, adding $200K in annual revenue.
Human Resources Manager - Bauer's Intelligent Transportation - San Francisco, CA
(2007-10 - 2009-10)
Reported directly to the CEO; redesigned recruiting and training & development processes to support scaling operations.
- Implemented new compensation and retention strategies supporting growth from 180 to 350 employees to service new clients Yahoo and LinkedIn.
Human Resources Manager - Alwaysonvacation.com (SEO Provider, Vacation Rentals Market) - San Ramon, CA
(2005-01 - 2007-10)
Built the talent acquisition function to grow an engineering and sales team supporting a vacation-rentals SEO business.
- Reduced costs by establishing an offshore SEO engineering team in Noida, India; improved Salesforce adoption by training a 20-person sales team.
Education
B.A. - Sociology - University of California, Berkeley

