Human Resources Information Technology

Stacey Rhoads

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Recruiting and Talent Acquisition professional with more than 12 years

experience in full lifecycle recruiting operations for IT, Marketing, Sales

and Administrative Support positions

. Over 3 years talent acquisition experience with a Fortune 500 firm

. Well versed in large scale staffing operations

. Domestic and international recruitment expertise

. Proficient with IRecruiter, Taleo, SAP HR module, MS Office Suite, and

other web based applications

Professional Experience

CORPORATE RECRUITER/RELOCATION ADMINISTRATOR DECEMBER 2006 TO PRESENT

JBS/Pilgrim's Pride Corporation Pittsburg, TX

One of the largest chicken food processing companies in the United States

and Mexico employing approximately 41,000 with revenues in 2008 of $8.5

billion.

. Worked closely executive management and senior staff for execution of

the talent acquisition plan ensuring the plan's success by continuous

evaluation and redirecting efforts to meet the needs of the business.

. Responsible for talent acquisition functions for the home office and

22 other locations throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and

Mexico.

. Initiated and rolled out best-in-class practices and processes

including costing metrics, and ratios for the company, along with site

specific initiatives for specialized markets.

. Charged with managing external vendor recruiting sources efforts

resulted in significant lower fees.

. Using direct sourcing methods was successful in recruiting 117

salaried employees eliminating the need for recruiting fees, or

advertising costs.

. Reduced the needs for outside recruiting fees on IT professionals from

100% to 7%. Similar results maintained throughout tenure.

. Utilizing selective screening techniques and rigorous background

checks turnover on IT staff dropped from 83% to 12%.

. As part of onboarding task force initiated a process with the IT

department for new partners to have all telephone and network hookup

on first day of employment. Prior to this process there was a one week

wait for these services.

. Processed H1B and L1 visas for foreign workers and current

international employees

. Worked in partnership with outside relocation company constantly

overseeing that the service met the expectations of the Pilgrim's

Pride and the new employee. Monitored both the employee and service to

see that both parties were using all diligence so the employee would

be on site as quickly as possible while staying within budgetary

guidelines.

Search Consultant February 2004 to December 2006

INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR Pittsburg, TX

Served as an independent contractor providing placement services for both

regular, and contract hires in the Information Technology market.

. Provided nationwide search services for various clients including two

of the Big Five consulting companies. Services consisted of placement,

both regular and contract hire of Information Technology professionals

mainly in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software with vendors

including SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft and Microsoft .NET products.

Average salary levels for these positions was $100,000.

. Utilized various methods to source candidates such as direct

recruiting, personal networking, use of professional organizations,

and industry specific job boards.

. Extensively used behavioral interview questions to ascertain

candidate's ability to meet client's competency requirements

. Worked closely with clients to fully understand both the job

requirements as well as the culture of the organization so a win-win

job situation would exist between client and candidate. Coupled with

screening methods was able, on average, to have one hire per three

candidates submitted. Is this a fairly accurate statement? Quality of

work resulted in regular repeat business from clients.

. Maintained constant communication with both clients and candidates

keeping each party abreast of activities throughout the recruitment

process.

. Performed extensive background checks and coordinated salary

negotiations between candidates and clients.

Human Resources Assistant Recruiter November 2001 to September 2002

Spherion Corporation (at BMW) Greer, SC

Spherion Corporation is a recruiting and staffing company with 700

locations and 70,000 employees producing revenues of $1.9 billion.

. Reporting to the Director of Recruiting performed generalist staffing

functions including applicant tracking, screening, employment offers,

post offer physicals, and new hire paperwork.

. Functioned as key member of implementation team for a Taleo web based

applicant tracking system.

. Pre-screened applicants analyzing their competencies against job

requirements. At the conclusion of the interview a complete report was

submitted to hiring managers to determine future interviews.

. Responsible for maintaining databases that tracked new hire activity.

. Worked with managers and Human Resources staff in other areas to

complete tasks or special projects dictated by business requirements.

Senior Recruiter November 2001 to September 2002

Staffing Resources Norcross, GA

Privately held staffing company providing accounting and administrative

staff on either a contract or full-time basis.

. Primary responsibilities were to qualify, interview and assess

potential Administrative candidates for client companies.

. Grew client utilization of firm by understanding client needs and then

providing thoroughly screened candidates with the ability to perform

at the client's expectations.

. Marketed the firm to expand the client base by presentations showing

the advantages of the firm.

staffing supervisor/On-site supervisor October 1999 to April 2001

RANDSTAD NORTH AMERICA Suwannee, GA

One of the largest recruitment agencies in the United States, Randstad has

over 600 offices throughout the country.

. In this multi-functional role handled, recruiting, orientation,

productivity tracking, employee relations and payroll for an 850 (90%

hourly) employee $12 million account.

. Compared manual timesheets to the Kronos system records. Due to the

employee volume the position required weekend work to ensure payroll

being issued on a timely basis.

. Employee relations functions included counseling and disciplinary

measures in accordance with established policy. Dealt with issues such

as attendance, productivity, fighting, misappropriate use of company

equipment and others. All matters were resolved in-house with no

charges being filed with a regulatory agency.

. Sole source for all recruitment activities including assessment,

screening and qualifying candidates for openings.

Education

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GA 1996-1998

UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX (Online) 2007-2008

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