Human Resources Administrative Assistant

M. CHRISTINE DeCAROLIS

*** ********* ***** ****: 412-***-****

Pittsburgh, PA 15235 Email: ********@*****.***

SUMMARY

Professional recruiter with ten years experience in attracting and hiring talented professionals. Excel at

building excitement and passion with candidates, resulting in a 100% hiring success rate.

Accomplishments include:

• Instituted internal referral site which resulted in 65% of candidate pool.

• Managed and led multiple career fairs for both campus and military works streams.

• Created and managed offsite awareness building events for high level candidates.

• Instituted and helped design interviewing techniques, including behavior based interviewing best

practices.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

COLONIAL LIFE – Pittsburgh, PA 2009 – Present

Fortune 500 Insurance Company

Benefits Counselor/Human Resources Consultant

Recruiting, HR consulting with companies on behalf of Colonial Life specifically with health care and

insurance benefits

McKINSEY AND COMPANY – Pittsburgh, PA 1987 – 2009

Management Consulting Firm

Recruiter/HR Consultant (1999-2009)

Operations Recruiter based in Pittsburgh responsible for staffing multiple offices across the US and

Canada. Managed the Operations Practice HR Consultant and onboarding initiatives for candidates and

new hires.

• Developed accurate job descriptions, testing benchmarks and behaviorally-based assessment

questions.

• Conducted telephone screening and reference checking of all candidates.

• Participated in finalist interviews (as needed) to help select the best candidate.

• Planned and conducted multiple employment searches by effectively sourcing, interviewing and

evaluating, closing and hiring qualified talent.

• Successfully marketed the Firm to prospective employees via career fairs and awareness building

events throughout the country.

• Determined position needs, prepared job descriptions and developed specific recruitment strategies.

• Consulted with Practice leadership regarding recruitment plans, policies and procedures, interviewing

techniques, legal/employee relations issues and the role of human resources within the recruitment

process. Ensured compliance with all employment related legal issues.

• Set recruiting targets with leadership to ensure a continuous pipeline of top talent.

• Managed and developed two administrative team members.

• Designed and executed websites for cultivation events – Led project management team.

• Worked closely with the marketing area to create new recruiting materials.

• Regularly monitored the performance of the all recruiting activity.

• Designed and developed recruiting events for high level industry candidates.

• Continuous improvement on setting up interviewing days across North America.

• Traveled bi-monthly to participate in interviewing days; met and greeted candidates; facilitated and

led decision meetings.

• Managed database for all potential candidates throughout the interviewing process.

• Worked with LinkedIn, Indeed, Doostang, Monster and other online services to source resumes of

qualified candidates.

Recruiter (cont’d.)

• Functioned successfully in an unstructured, fast paced, consulting firm ensuring large volume, high

quality results.

• Managed and executed the Operations Analyst program at MIT, Stanford and University of Michigan

for the recruiting season.

• Worked as a campus recruiter for three years attending campus career conferences, conducting

interview days and working with qualified candidates from beginning of process until hiring decision

• Led military recruiting for the Firm; attended the Service Academy Career Conferences throughout

the US on behalf of the Firm.

• Supervised military candidates’ resume screening, interviewing candidates and handing off to hiring

offices

• Led and managed reputation building and candidate attraction events from beginning to end involving

websites, sourcing candidates, and finding meeting venues, etc.

Executive Administrative Assistant (1987-1999)

Provided high-level administrative support for the Managing Director of the Pittsburgh Office of McKinsey.

Also worked on client team documentation for multiple client teams.

• Performed all executive assistant duties to provide high level administrative support for a key

executive.

• Worked on client documents with Visual Aids and provided top notch error-free client documents for

client presentations.

EDUCATION

BS Degree, Business and Communications

Carlow University, Pittsburgh, PA

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