Contract Recruiter Resume

Title
Contract Recruiter

Primary Skills
Contract recruiter in telecom, IT, Sales/ Marketing

Location
US-IL-Chicago

Posted
Mar-03-09

PROFILE
Professional recruiter with a demonstrated ability in full life cycle staffing and recruiting strategies. Experience includes developing, deploying and managing sourcing activities designed to identify the best possible candidates for hire. Effective in communicating with candidates, hiring authorities, vendors, and support personnel to achieve objectives in a timely manner while maintaining a “who do you know?” frame of mind.

EXPERIENCE
Aladdin Knowledge Systems, Arlington Heights Illinois. September 2008 -- December 2008. Senior Contract Recruiter
? Hired as an on-site recruiter to provide full life-cycle expertise (search, identify, source, qualify, interview, prep, follow up and close.)
? Successfully developed recruiting strategies and alliances with internal Management team and Human resources.
? Worked on 8-14 open reqs at any given time including positions for Technical Support Engineers (tier one and tier two), Director of Technical Support, Inside Sales Reps, Director of Inside Sales, Field Marketing Manager, Channel Marketing Manager, Product Managers, R&D Manager and Shipping & Receiving Manager.
? Other duties included building relationships with management and outside search agencies, manage the candidate flow, partnering with seniors and peers to develop and implement recruiting/staffing solutions, gathering salary and compensation figures, negotiating offers, checking references and placing/posting ads on various on-line sources such as Careerbuilder, Monster, the Ladders, LinkedIn and the ITA.
? In less than 4 months was directly involved in 15 new employees being hired by Aladdin.

Proactive Recruiting, Lake Forest Illinois. August 2007 -- September 2008.
Senior Recruiter/Account Manager
? Used primarily as an external Recruiter/Account manager directing activity in a variety of full life-cycle corporate searches ranging from Director through staff level.
? Specific positions included recruiting candidates for Inside/Outside sales, Customer Support, Sales Engineering, Professional Services, and Software Engineering.
? Assist in the recruitment efforts for client companies in the Telecommunications, Management Consulting and Information Technology arenas.
? Directly worked with HR and various departmental hiring authorities throughout the inter-view process.
? Reach out personally to candidates in order to investigate, educate and motivate them about our client's present and future openings.
? Cultivate and develop relationships with diverse, high potential, highly skilled talent for inclusion in talent pools for future openings.
? Maintain a high degree of curiosity and creative thinking in order to develop and execute well-rounded sourcing strategies.
? Develop recruiting strategies encompassing employee referrals, internet sourcing, directory and association mining, on line print postings, internal candidate databases and direct re-search/name generation.

Sears Holdings Corp. Hoffman Estates Illinois. May 2007 -- July 2007
Contract Recruiter
? Hired as an off site Recruiter to staff up Sears Holdings new E-commerce Center.
? Implemented recruiting strategies to provide a qualified and diverse candidate pool for Sears.com to migrate their E-commerce platform to IBM Websphere.
? Identify and Recruit a variety of IT talent in the areas of E-commerce, Web Services, Soft-ware Development, Quality Assurance, Middleware, and Deployment.
? Identified and Recruited candidates at various levels of experience and authority including Divisional Vice President, Delivery Managers, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Lead Developers, Open Source Java Architect and Java web Developers.
? Serve as point of contact for candidates throughout the interview process.
? Management and tracking of candidates using Brassring applicant tracking system (ATS).

TSRI, Buffalo Grove Illinois. April 2006- April 2007
Contract Recruiter
? Hired as an onsite recruiter to assist on a variety of specialized searches.
? Responsible for the identification and recruitment of talent in the fields of IT, life science (pharmaceutical, medical and scientific), telecommunications, marketing and sales.
? Directly involved in day to day activities such as networking, sourcing, prospecting and internet recruitment.
? Performed full life-cycle duties including recruiting, interviewing, negotiating and presenting offers and start dates.
? Coordinate and conduct background and reference checks.
? Management and tracking of an in-house data base (Goldmine) and daily input of new candi-dates.
? Provided daily internet research, web-based Boolean and advanced search operations.
? Provided weekly support of on-line job postings using resources such as Job.com, Career-builder, Monster.com, The Ladder's and Craig's List.

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