Azita Arshadi
***** *. ******** **** **********, AZ 85259
Cell: 602-***-****
Home: 480-***-****
Email: ablyhb@r.postjobfree.com
OBJECTIVE: Seeking a position as a staffing specialist or full life cycle
recruiter where my excellent skills and Knowledge in corporate,
contract, staff recruiting and human resources will increase
employee longevity and the company's profits.
BACKGROUND SUMMARY:
Currently hold a B.S. in Chemistry and highly professional skills in
recruiting for positions such as:
Senior, management and director network security software professionals,
project management, and product
management, marketing, sales, finance, legal, quality assurance, business
analyst, information technology,
software development engineers and call center professionals. Strong skills
in hiring well qualified candidates, posting job openings online with paid
and free job websites, participating and building strong relationships with
local Yahoo networking groups, colleges, universities, outsourcing
companies, trade organizations, technical user groups, alumni associations,
job fairs and trade shows. Understand all areas of making an offer,
negotiating salary, negotiating rates and terms of a contract with staffing
agencies and consulting with hiring managers on preparing offers according
to the compensation policy. Outstanding skills in team playing and multi-
tasking in high volume environments.
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:
Recruiter:
. Designed a Hiring Managers Interviewing Guide for managers and interview
teams and a Recruiting Process Guide for the hiring managers which
assisted in defining an efficient process flow.
. Recruited for corporate, contract, staff and worked with the SVP, VP,
CTO, COO and CFO hiring managers to provide forecasting, consultations,
hiring strategies and to fulfill their hiring requirements.
. Planned and coordinated job fairs and trade shows; monitored all job
postings and renewals; advertised open positions on non-traditional job
boards, outplacement agencies college career centers, local government
agencies and non-profit organizations.
. Worked closely with immigration attorneys to handle Green Card
application files for employees and to facilitate the H1-B Visa transfers
and sponsorships.
Human Resources:
. Communicated closely with the vice president of human resources and the
human resource generalist to determine priorities of the open
requisitions and to strategize sourcing techniques.
. Identified applicants, initiated contracts, sourced, screened, recruited
and hired customer service representatives for a high-volume online bill
pay and a high-volume mail-order pharmaceutical call center.
. Made sure all pre-hire documentation was complete, worked closely with
human resources to coordinate new hires, new start dates and prepare for
a new employee orientation.
. Assisted human resources, operations and training managers with
monitoring the recruiting activities, the quality of new hires and also
administered assessments and ran credit checks.
Consultant:
. Served as a consultant and advisor to internal clients and provided
standard recruiting activity reports to reflect daily and weekly progress
plus assisted with implementing and improving hiring procedures and the
talent acquisition process.
. Sourced candidates through existing ATS, advertising, internet, job fairs
and raw search, as well as, recruited for a variety of exempt and non-
exempt front and back office pharmacy positions.
. Implemented new procedures and forms to improve the recruiting process,
performed research, sourcing and cold calling to find talent for specific
target companies, established partnerships with outplacement agencies and
vendors.
. Provided consulting and recruiting services to private engineering firms,
staff programmers, other information technology and software engineers
for internal and off-shore projects.
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WORK HISTORY:
ACI, Scottsdale, AZ Independent Recruiter
11/08-Present
Responsible for full cycle recruiting for professional exempt senior level
technology, software development, interactive advertising/E-Commerce, call
center supervisors/ non-exempt customer service representatives both as in-
house and off-site contract recruiter. The client companies serviced are
Web.com, ZogMedia, Go Daddy, The JAR Group, and McKesson.
Lumension Security Inc., Scottsdale, AZ Corporate Recruiter
08/07 - 11/08
Responsible to recruit for network security software professionals for all
departments across the organization. Managed the entire recruiting process
using the applicant tracking system "OpenHire," Recruited at a senior level
for all four U.S. locations, worked as head of the Employee Referral
Program.
iCrossing, Scottsdale, AZ Corporate Recruiter
06/05 - 07/07
Supported both divisions of the company which include product development
and digital advertising in all seven U.S. locations, utilized Taleo and
HireBridge to maintain the entire recruiting process and report metrics,
recruited all types of software, QA/Test, Business Analyst, project manager
and database engineers, SEO/SEM, GUI and system developers for the
technology division and search engine experts, natural and paid search
industry for the advertising agency.
CheckFree Corporation, Phoenix, AZ Contract Recruiter
02/05 - 06/05
Networked with community services, colleges, internet sites, blogs,
networking groups and employment agencies to increase the applicant flow;
recruited customer service representatives and supervisors. Also sourced,
reviewed, screened resumes and interviewed call center candidates for
multiple departments in the company.
Express Scripts Inc., Tempe, AZ Contract Recruiter
11/03 - 01/05
Accountable for planning and forecasting the staffing needs in advance for
three locations; constantly monitored the closed and open requirement
tracking system; utilized the internal applicant tracking system;
maintained and updated all job postings; established close rapport with the
hiring managers, supervisors, and HR generalists. Recruited CSR, supervisor
and pharmacy technicians.
ACI, Scottsdale, AZ Independent Consultant
08/01 - 11/03 Provided consulting and recruiting services to private
engineering firms, staffed programmers, IT and QA software engineers for
internal and off-shore projects and utilized various internet tools to
search for qualified candidates. Performed contract recruiting for call
center and staff positions for ImprovNet, Advance PCS (Caremark) and
McKesson Corporation.
Xyterra Computing, Scottsdale, AZ Contract Recruiter
06/01- 08/01
Worked to provide full cycle recruiting and hiring of software, hardware,
product, design, sales and marketing engineers and managers for OS/Kernel,
CIU/DDP, HA/Cluster, Engineering Groups using different tools and search
engines; managed salary recommendations, offer letter generation and offer
acceptance or decline.
ON Semiconductor, Phoenix, AZ Talent Consultant
11/00 - 06/01
Managed the entire life cycle of the recruitment process from sourcing,
interviewing to relocation and H1-B sponsorship assistance in the final
stages of hiring also actively involved in internet advertising and media
campaigns and maintained and updated all job postings, open and closed
requisitions.
FLIPCHIP TECHNOLOGIES, Phoenix, AZ Contract Recruiter
07/00 - 11/00
Recruited for semiconductor engineers and product developers. Performed
Internet queries on web-based search engines to focus on desired skill-sets
and prospects, targeted resume databases, newsgroups, alumni and
organizational directories, attendee, speaker lists and bulletin boards to
support all recruiting needs. Supported all engineering business units.
VOLT Technical Services, Phoenix, AZ Account Manager
09/99 - 05/00
Lead new business development, old accounts rejuvenation, and maintenance
of existing accounts for the entire technical division, interacted and
coordinated activities with technical recruiters, performed regular client
visits for account maintenance and continued new business generation.
TSC Resources Account Manager 02/98-
09/99
Mini-Systems (Modis), Phoenix, AZ Account Manager
02/96-02/98
YOH Scientific/YOH IT, L.A, CA- Phoenix, AZ Account Manager
09/93-01/96
ENSR Consulting & Engineering, Camarillo, CA Environmental Chemist
05/89-07/92
EDUCATION:
California State University, Northridge Bachelors Degree in Chemistry