Manager Human Resource

Christine Soderlund

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Porter Ranch, CA 91326 Cell: 818-***-****

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PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW

Results-oriented staffing professional with nearly 15 years of agency recruiting and corporate

talent acquisition experience gained partnering with a variety of industries from start up through

Fortune 25. Over ten years experience hiring, training and managing competent recruitment

teams as well as extensive hands-on recruiting experience with array of positions including hard-

to-fill and mission critical.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Strategic Sourcing and Consultative Recruiting Infrastructure and Process Development Results

Oriented Problem Solver Recruiting Best Practice Analysis and Implementation Recruitment

Technology Business Partner

EXPERIENCE

ValleyCrest Landscape Companies 8/2001 – 5/2008

$1 Billion Specialty Contractor and Commercial Landscape Maintenance Company

Manager, Recruiting

Overall responsibility for planning, developing and driving all recruitment functions for multiple

business units. Recruited, mentored and managed team of seven.

• Saved the company over $3.5 million in outside staffing fees; hired hundreds of successful

candidates nationwide at the professional and executive level

• Renegotiated contingency and retained search fees in order to save approximately

$250,000 a year

• Partnered with company executives and managers to build successful, consultative

relationships resulting in low cost, quality hires with low turnover rates

• Introduced innovative recruiting techniques resulting in lower time-to-fill and cost-to-fill for

majority of positions

• Partnered with IT team to develop interim ATS while working through RFPs allowing

recruiters to share data, reduce time-to-fill and cost-to-fill on key positions

• Rolled out nationwide college recruitment program resulting in over 75 interns and 50 full

time hires each year from targeted campuses

• Introduced creative and effective recruiting events which contributed to “employer-of-choice”

branding

Velodea/Bleu22 10/2000 – 8/2001

Award winning creative high tech firm that employed top website developer talent

Director, Human Resources and Recruiting

Hired when firm first gained funding – responsible for general Human Resource function as well as

staffing functions

• Recruited firm’s creative, technical, marketing and financial talent

• Introduced streamlined and customized Human Resource policies and guidelines including:

time and pay policies, benefits introduction and administration, 401(k) plan and employee

handbook

• Developed online employee website enabling employees to save time when searching for

Human Resource guidelines, forms and policies

Warner Bros. 8/2000 – 10/2000

Independent Contractor

Recruited for multiple positions (primarily non-union) responsibilities including: tracking resumes;

interviewing candidates; coordination of interview process for hiring managers; background and

reference checks and negotiating offers.

• Wrote departmental recruiting process manual outlining best practices for use by future

contract recruiters

eHobbies, Inc. 2/2000 – 8/2000

Niche start up firm funded by high profile capital investment firm

Director of Recruitment

Responsible for strategic recruitment for all business units within the company – hired over 60

professional staff

• Saved company over $200,000 for professional level hires

• Built recruiting pipeline to address staffing requirements for hard-to-fill positions

• Developed various programs to address employee retention, turnover and succession

planning

Ajilon 11/1995 – 2/2000

One of the world’s largest staffing firms specializing in temporary staffing and professional level

full-time placement

Division Manager, Financial Executive Search

• Recruited, trained and mentored three recruiters resulting in over a million dollars collected

in placement fees during a calendar year

• Achieved “Top Perm Biller in the Region” for multiple quarters

• Built long lasting consultative business relationships with all clients including “challenging”

and those with hard-to-fill positions

El Camino Resources, Inc. 5/1994 – 11/1995

Fortune 500 computer leasing firm

Regional Staff Accountant

EDUCATION

MBA – California State University, Northridge

BS, Business Administration - Option in Organizational Management – California State University,

Northridge

COMPUTER SKILLS

PeopleSoft/JD Edwards Microsoft Office Applicant Tracking Systems

References Available Upon Request

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