Brandon Puzzo
**** *** ******** **. #*** St. Tampa, FL 33614
*******@*****.***
Education: Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FL
Bachelor of Arts, Public Relations & Advertising, Minor in Business
• Date of graduation, spring 2011
Master of Business Administration, expected graduation December 2015
Experience: Prudential Financial Services, Tampa, FL
Recruiting and Marketing Intern, October 2014 – Present (Part Time)
• Focused on using Career Builder, Linked in and Monster for passive recruiting and
building pipeline of candidates for the future
• Coordinated to create monthly objectives and hiring goals
• Helped organize start paper work as well as benefit and compensation packages for
newly hired employees
Insight Global, Orlando, FL
Recruiter, July 2014 – September 2014
• Effectively recruited strong candidates in the IT related fields including all levels of
experienced IT professionals, Software programmers, Embedded developers,
Applications developers, Designers, and Engineers
• Determined the abilities of candidates against a technical job description by
interviewing candidates in person, telephone, or videoconference as well as reference
checks to assess their qualifications.
• Interfaced with different account managers about multiple job openings at the same time to
attain quarterly goals and statistics
• Maintained an average of five candidate submissions weekly
Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FL
Admission Counselor, September 2012 - March 2013
• Managed all high schools in Southwest region of Florida
• Worked with upwards of 300 students to complete application process
• Reviewed student application as well created financial aid packages
• Traveled to schools and college fairs giving presentations in the hopes to attract
additional applicants
• Prepared weekly analysis and statistics to track goals and progress
Sigma Chi International Headquarters, Evanston, IL
Alumni and Volunteer Services Coordinator, January 2012- September 2012
• Managed budgets and lead support for several committees
• Facilitated alumni and mentor training workshops
Coordinator of Accountability and Conduct, July 2011- January 2012
• Oversaw all 249 undergraduate chapters in terms of accountability and sanctioning while
partnering with Universities and students to create realistic action plans to monitor track,
and reported growth and development of all chapters
• Conducted in depth interviews for membership reviews as well as removing members from
chapter in deemed necessary for long-term growth
Lakeland Family YMCA, Lakeland, FL
Public Relations Intern, August 2010 – May 2011 (Part Time)
• Organized and facilitated meetings as well as leadership retreats
• Coordinated and maintained work schedules
• Developed and trained leadership activities for department heads