EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

A highly successful recruiter with experience working for prominent, Fortune 500 companies. Major strengths in project management, sourcing, interviewing and consulting with senior executives. Expertise is in delivering quality candidates in a fast-paced, highly competitive environment. Industry knowledge includes financial services, healthcare and management consulting. Excellent reputation for working with difficult clients and recognizing and developing talent. Thrives in an environment that provides creativity, autonomy and teamwork.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

THE THOMSON CORPORATION, Stamford, CT; 2006 - 2008

A leading global provider of integrated information-based solutions to business and professional customers with more than 32,000 employees in 37 countries generating global revenue of more than $6 billion

Recruiter/Sourcing Specialist - (Home-Office)

Recruiter and Sourcing Specialist for Thomson Tax & Accounting and Thomson North American Legal for entry-level through executive-level positions:

• Full-cycle recruitment

• Develop proactive and strategic sourcing strategies and solutions for a variety of positions while utilizing best in class practices, tools and strategies to identify and build talent pipelines
• Member of the Functional Recruiting Council responsible for delivering excellence in recruiting services and solutions and improving the company's ability to attract and hire the most qualified candidates
• Develop and execute strategic sourcing plans using multiple channels, including job boards, AIRS/Boolean searches, networking, research and cold calling

HEWITT ASSOCIATES, Orlando, FL; 2004 - 2006

The world's largest multi-service provider of human resources outsourcing and consulting providing services to more than 2,600 clients, servicing over 18M employees in 35 countries with 20,000 employees generating global revenue of more than $2.2 billion.

Recruiter - (Home-Office)

Responsible for full-cycle recruitment including establishing job requirements with senior hiring managers, sourcing, screening, interviewing/evaluating and extending offers. Recruited for a wide variety of positions for a diverse group of clients throughout the United States; Provided direct sourcing and research for Professional and Technology positions for the Thomson Corporation

• Maintained an outstanding retention rate of 90% in the high-volume Orlando market (target goal is 85%).
• Successfully recruited over 170 qualified candidates in 10 weeks through a combination of agencies, job fairs, open houses and networking with internal employees.

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• Created "Take Your Friend to Work Day" Open House increasing the employee referral program significantly to 100 potential candidates. Seventy-five received initial interviews; approximately half were hired as employees. The program was so successful that it was adopted at Hewitt's corporate headquarters.
• Developed a high-impact training program (including PowerPoint presentation) to educate over 80 managers on behavioral interviewing techniques. This presentation contained valuable content presented in a humorous style that received unsolicited feedback that was overwhelmingly positive and was used as a common reference throughout the facility.
• Developed Strategic Sourcing Plans for Finance/Accounting, Legal, Sales and Technology positions.
• Initiated an innovative new hire process to improve retention levels that involved following up with new employees during the first 60 days to make sure they were moving forward in a positive way and being provided with necessary support and resources.
• Selected as Project Leader to direct, persuade and educate other internal recruiters from outside of Florida who were assigned to assist in filling Orlando positions.
• Recipient of Hewitt award for recruitment excellence

Contract Recruiter - (Ossanna Consulting Group)

Hired by Ossanna to work exclusively on the Hewitt account for 3-months and then was recruited by Hewitt as a full-time Employee

HORIZON BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD, Newark, NJ; 2001

A leading health services corporation in the state with more than 4,600 employees serving over 2.5M  customers.

Recruiter (Consultant)

• Full-cycle recruitment for non-exempt, exempt and professional level positions including but not limited to service employees, account managers and audit analysts.

MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER, New York, NY; 1999 - 2000

The world's largest and most prestigious private cancer institution with over 8,000 employees devoted to patient care, education and research.

Contract Recruiter - Professional Staffing

• Member of recruiting team for non-exempt and exempt level positions

JP MORGAN CHASE, New York, NY; 1988 - 1997

A leading global financial services firm with assets of $1.2 trillion and operations in more than 50 countries.- Compensation, Organizational Development, Recruiting

• Pre-screened prospective employees for non-exempt and exempt level human resource positions
• Initiated and created a proposal for a company-wide development program that provided guidelines for internal employees receiving college degrees to compete for professional positions within the organization.
• Recipient of Awards for Excellence

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EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

EDUCATION

M.B.A. - Human Resource Management, Baker College, Flint, MI, 2004

B.S. - Business Management, College of Staten Island, Staten Island, NY Dean's List, 1997

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

AIRS - Certified Internet Recruiter

GROUPS AND ASSOCIATIONS

AIRS, Electronic Recruiting Exchange, Workforce Management, Human Capital Institute, Recruiters & Sourcers, Recruiters Network

Computer Skills:

Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Lotus Notes, Access, PeopleSoft, eRecruit, Taleo