Karla Thomas

469-***-**** c acu1sd@r.postjobfree.com 972-***-**** h

SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Proven Human Resource Professional with seventeen years’ experience in staffing, recruiting, employee relations and relationship building. Broad-based human resources knowledge to effectively interact with senior management. Expertise in Full Life Cycle Recruiting, project management and retention. Capacities to source, screen, and select candidates based upon strategic qualification. Abilities to conduct interviews, train interviewers, and facilitate decision-making regarding offers. Ability to benchmark human resource effectiveness against other corporate business functions. Possesses a high level of communication, analytical problem solving and negotiating skills, excellent presentation skills.

Professional Experience

Experis formerly Comsys/Manpower, Dallas, TX 2005 –present

Sr. Recruiter/Talent Advisor, IBM RPO to American Airlines – Remote (2012 Contract ended 3/31/2016)

Taleo System used

*Full Life Cycle recruiting for the following positions:

Maintenance & Engineer (M&E)

Analyst (Entry and Senior Level)

Supervisor Ground Support

Production Supervisor

Developer Training Content Production

Planner Bill of Work

Flight Training Scheduler

Procurement Finance and Metrics

Auditor

Technician Courseware

Manager Corporate Real Estate

Accounting and Finance

Responsibilities:

Lead recruiter for M&E recruiting efforts in an RPO environment

Partner closely with client recruiting team and leadership to meet overall recruiting needs

Complete intake meetings with hiring managers to ensure all job description details are understood and post correctly. Build out plan for screening and interview process for all candidates as needed for each position. Advise on the selection of the best candidates.

Support various professional level positions supporting M&E, IT and Corporate roles

Responsible for delivering the best talent with the right combination of skills and experience to drive organizational impact.

Play an essential role in tracking industry events, technology trends, and changes within the employment landscape which may impact our existing best practices and/or short- and long-term need for critical talent roles.

Act as an ambassador for IBM and am responsible for articulating the company story, gaining interest in our business, and articulating our value proposition while building a repeatable model for future recruitment projects.

Ensure recruitment efforts adhere to company policies and procedures, as well as federal regulations/guidelines.

Measured monthly on recruitment metrics such as time-to-fill, quality of hires, diversity of hires, declined offers and aging requisitions

Utilize recruiting tracking report and report data on a weekly to both IBM and AA leadership teams

HR Recruiting Coordinator, Accenture, Richardson, TX, Remote (2010 – 2012)

Utilized a wide variety of methods to generate candidates, including web-based sourcing, internal/external networking as well as referral programs

Conducted initial screening of credentials via telephone and discuss the position briefly, verifying the candidate is interested in the position and falls within the budget parameters of the position.

Arranged accommodations and transportation for candidates coming from out of state.

Oversaw onboarding paperwork dealing with drug screening, background checks, and tax information.

Screened and interviewed candidates for sales and IT groups

Managed contractual obligations

Developed and presented communications material

Complete various operations in ATAS (The Accenture Talent Acquisition System) Taleo

Coordinating assessment day, scheduling interviews and completing orientation logistics

HR Invoicing Coordinator, CVS Caremark, Richardson, TX (2005-2009)

Maintained payroll for over 2000 employees and 33 vendors

Co-lead the design and administration of financial reports

Served as mediator between Vendors, Managers, AP and employees to resolve benefits, wages and/or bonus disputes

Created and reviewed process for invoicing, analyzed variances between recoveries and billed amounts

Education

UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX, Dallas, TX

Master of Business Administration

GRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY, Grambling, LA

Bachelor of Science - Marketing

BUSINESS SKILLS AND TRAINING: Microsoft Office, PeopleSoft, SAP and Taleo

SOURCING TOOLS: LinkedIn, Facebook, Indeed, Engineering.com, Informs, Taleo

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