Kelly Sanders
Cedar Park, TX 78613
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Talent acquisition professional with 15 years of progressive experience consulting and partnering
with clients to assist them in meeting their staffing and business needs
Highlights:
• Over 10 years experience with both high volume and single position recruiting
• Manage and motivate teams of researchers and recruiters, providing strategic direction,
training, and day to day support to ensure staffing and research objectives are met
• Proven expertise in recruiting all levels of candidates both active and passive
• Expert experience with a variety of online tools and resources to promote research and
recruiting efforts for passive candidates – Dun & Bradstreet’s Million Dollar Database,
Hoovers, Corp Tech, Harris InfoSource, Leadership Directories, Lexus Nexus, Jigsaw, job
boards, LinkedIn, etc.
• Ability to effectively manage clients ranging from individual independent recruiters,
executive search firms & RPO’s to Fortune 500 companies
• Expertise in providing research and recruiting services to a wide range of industries,
including but not limited to Financial Services, Business Consulting, Accounting / Tax,
Healthcare, Insurance, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, and Biotechnology
Research First, Inc. 2000 - Present
Horseshoe Bay, TX
Provider of executive and professional research & recruitment - specializing in the design of
staffing programs to meet client needs
Vice President Research & Recruiting 2006 – present
• Managed, motivated and guided the efforts of the strategic sourcing & recruiting teams
throughout each service request through the name generation, cold calling, sourcing,
networking, competitive intelligence, research identification, initial screenings, behavioral
interviews, offer negotiations, etc.
• Responsible for passive and active candidate generation and determination of unique
sourcing avenues in order to identify top talent for clients
• Created strategic sourcing & recruiting plans to assist corporations in decreasing usage
of outside search firms by using alternative staffing methods
• Successfully fulfilled client staffing needs in a tight job market through expertise in
recruiting passive & active candidates
• Managed client relationships, working closely with both HR teams and department
managers to ensure success of each project
• Consulted with clients to determine appropriate strategies to meet their hiring goals
• Implemented specific strategies for research and recruiting projects
• Directed the research needs for all clients
• Utilized a variety of resources to accurately design research strategies
Kelly Sanders
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• Partnered with a Fortune 500 insurance client to develop staffing solutions for large
scale call center hiring in multiple locations throughout US
Manager Research & Recruiting 2000 - 2005
• Consulted with clients to determine appropriate research strategies
• Provided research for individual, small and large scale hiring projects across multiple
industries
• Provided recruiting services for all levels (call center representative through upper level
executive management) of passive & active candidates by using specially developed
research
• Specifically requested by top clients to provide their research
Contract Researcher / Recruiter
Austin, TX 1996 - 2000
Worked on a contract basis to provide research and recruiting services to a variety of clients
• Consulted with clients to determine their specific sourcing and staffing needs
• Created individual research strategies based on clients’ needs and expectations
• Set and managed client expectations
• Provided quality name generation and corporate research through cold calling targeted
companies
Talent Tree
Austin, TX 1994 – 1996
Staffing Coordinator
• Responsible for placing applicants in appropriate positions in a variety of industries based
on their personal skills and experience
• Conducted interviews with applicants
• Managed payroll for all temporary employees
• Assisted in business development through networking and involvement in local
organizations
Education
University of Texas
Austin, TX
Bachelor of Arts
Memberships:
Society for Human Resources Management
References:
Available on request
Kelly Sanders
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Kelly Sanders
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