Recruiter
Resume:
IT/RECRUITER - HUMAN RESOURCE - ACCOUNT MANAGER
Tom Whiting
Bloomington, Illinois 61704
***.*********@*****.*** Cell# 309-***-****
(Remote Contract or Permanent Positions Only)
Objective;
To use my Recruiting, Client/Onsite Management, Human Resource, Sales, Negotiating Training and experience as well as my familiarity with OFCCP and EEOC regulations, guidelines, documentation and policies in the area Information Technology (Applications/Infrastructure), Aerospace, Healthcare, Medical, and Engineering Fields to secure a position with a growing staffing company. Skills;
Microsoft Office; Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint. Lotus Notes, Internet Explorer, Maxthon web browser, Google Desktop, Windows 98, XP, ME, Vista, Sendouts Software, Beeline (Vendor Management System) Teamtrak, Peopleclick, Taleo, iCIMS, Sakti, Talent Link and other proprietary Applicant Tracking and VMS Systems. Sourcing Methods
Personal Database, Recruiter Networking, Proprietary Company Databases, Current and Past Candidate Networking, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, Simply Hired, Monster, Dice, Careerbuilder as well as experience in sourcing and recruiting for both passive and aggressive candidates. Additional Training and Certifications
Shapiro Negotiating Institute
CarrierBuilder Boolean Searches
Monster Boolean Searches
Applicant Tracking System
Vendor Management System
Account Management
Human Resource
Benefits
OFCCP
EEOC
Technologies Recruited
Windows, SQL Server, Classic ASP, ASP. Net, Java, Salesforce, Cloud Computing, J2EE, WebSphere, Tivoli, VBScript, Visual Studio, Visual FoxPro, PowerShell, EPIC, Process Explore/Monitor, RootkitRevealer, VB, VB.Net, C#, C++, Messenger, COBOL, Cold Fusion, Groovy, LabView, RPG (Report Program Generator), Tea, Perl, PHP, Clarion, Ant, Python, REXX, Ruby, MATLAB, Cobra, Rust, UNIX, Linux, AIX, HP-UX, Red Hat, SUSE, Solaris, Ubuntu, Oracle, Cisco and many others.
Professional Experience;
HTC Global Services 2/2015 – Present
Troy, Michigan (Remote Recruiting Position)
Contract Senior Technical Recruiter/Account Manager
• Coordinate candidate interviews with client managers and VMS groups.
• Responsible for HR Activities; Background Checks, Drug Screens.
• Responsible for Contracts and Offer Letters.
• Recruited for Healthcare Industry; CHI (Catholic Hospitals Initiatives)
• Recruited for Insurance Industry; State Farm Insurance, Seabright, American Family, CNA and others.
• Responsible for acquiring new IT Staffing business.
• Responsible for managing existing IT Staffing accounts.
• Distribute client requirements to remote recruiters.
• Create line of site with current and prospective clients for proactive recruiting.
• Responsible for all steps and aspects associated with the identification, placement and management of IT employees placed on site at State Farms Global IT Headquarters.
• Responsible for screening candidates through cold calling, and face to face interviewing to ensure their qualifications meet open positions.
• Conduct skills testing, office interviews, reference checks and background investigations on prospective candidates.
• Coach candidates through the client interview process.
• Prepare and coach candidates on resume changes for presentation to clients.
• Build relationships with contract employees through different activities including weekly lunch meetings.
• Develop strong communication channels as well as strong professional relationships with State Farm internal and external professionals for the client’s success.
• Provide World Class Service to contract employees and clients by earning their respect, acting with the greatest amount of professionalism and expressing the highest sense of urgency.
• Responsible for Project Mangers, Electrical Engineers, System Engineers, Business Analysts, Project Coordinators for the Insurance, Engineering, Financial, Manufacturing and Health Care verticals. STL Technology Partners 02/14 – 02/15
Bloomington, Illinois
Contract IT Staffing Account Manager / IT Recruiter
• Responsible for HR Activities; Background Checks, Drug Screens.
• Responsible for Contracts and Offer Letters.
• Responsible for acquiring new Commercial Staffing business.
• Responsible for acquiring new IT Staffing business.
• Responsible for managing existing IT/Commercial Staffing accounts.
• Responsible for resource delivery to client.
• Responsible for on site resource management.
• Responsible for Cloud, Co-Location and all Data Center related products.
• Coordinate candidate interviews with client managers and VMS groups.
• Distribute client requirements to remote recruiters.
• Account Manager over the VUE project; $1.5 million dollar project.
• Create line of site with current and prospective clients for proactive recruiting.
• Responsible for all steps and aspects associated with the identification, placement and management of IT employees placed on site at State Farms Global IT Headquarters.
• Responsible for screening candidates through cold calling, and face to face interviewing to ensure their qualifications meet open positions.
• Conduct skills testing, office interviews, reference checks and background investigations on prospective candidates.
HTC Global Services 11/2012 – 01/2014
Troy, Michigan (Remote Recruiting Position)
Senior Contract Technical Recruiter/Account Manager
• Coordinate candidate interviews with client managers and VMS groups.
• Responsible for HR Activities; Background Checks, Drug Screens.
• Responsible for Contracts and Offer Letters.
• Responsible for acquiring new IT Staffing business.
• Responsible for managing existing IT Staffing accounts.
• Distribute client requirements to remote recruiters.
• Create line of site with current and prospective clients for proactive recruiting.
• Responsible for all steps and aspects associated with the identification, placement and management of IT employees placed on site at State Farms Global IT Headquarters.
• Responsible for screening candidates through cold calling, and face to face interviewing to ensure their qualifications meet open positions.
• Conduct skills testing, office interviews, reference checks and background investigations on prospective candidates.
• Coach candidates through the client interview process.
• Prepare and coach candidates on resume changes for presentation to clients.
• Build relationships with contract employees through different activities including weekly lunch meetings.
• Develop strong communication channels as well as strong professional relationships with State Farm internal and external professionals for the client’s success.
• Provide World Class Service to contract employees and clients by earning their respect, acting with the greatest amount of professionalism and expressing the highest sense of urgency.
• Responsible for Project Mangers, Electrical Engineers, System Engineers, Business Analysts, Project Coordinators for the Insurance, Engineering, Financial, Manufacturing and Health Care verticals. Keane Incorporated/NTT Data, Inc. 8/2009 – 10/2012 Bloomington, Illinois (Remote Recruiting Position) Account Manager/Senior Recruiter allocated to State Farm Insurance. (Global IT Headquarters)
• Responsible for all steps and aspects associated with the identification, placement and management of IT employees placed onsite at State Farms Global IT Headquarters.
• Responsible for screening candidates through cold calling, and face to face interviewing to ensure their qualifications meet open positions.
• Conduct skills testing, office interviews, reference checks and background investigations on prospective candidates.
• Coach candidates through the client interview process.
• Prepare and coach candidates on resume changes for presentation to clients.
• Build relationships with contract employees through different activities including weekly lunch meetings.
• Develop strong communication channels as well as strong professional relationships with State Farm internal and external professionals for the client’s success.
• Provide World Class Service to contract employees and clients by earning their respect, acting with the greatest amount of professionalism and expressing the highest sense of urgency.
• Responsible for recruiting Engineering, Applications, Infrastructure and Telecommunications requirements; Classic ASP, ASP. Net, Java, J2EE, WebSphere, Tivoli, VBScript, Visual Studio, Visual FoxPro, PowerShell, Process Explore/Monitor, RootkitRevealer, VB, VB.Net, C#, C++, Messenger, COBOL, Cold Fusion, Network, Network Security (UNIX Security, Windows Security, Border Protection, Intrusion Detection), Process Engineers, Designers, Software Engineers, Planners, Business Analysts, Project Managers, Test Analyst Environment, Test Analyst Technical and Operations Support Specialists roles (Technical Administrators.) Spherion Corporation 1/2007 – 7/2009
Alpharetta, Georgia (Remote Recruiting Position)
Senior Aerospace/IT Recruiter Contracted to Honeywell Global Aerospace Division
(US, Canada, Puerto Rico and Europe)
• Responsible for all steps and aspects associated with the writing of specific requirements, postings, sourcing strategies, candidate identification, interviewing, references, background and drug tests and placement of contract, contract to permanent and direct hires of Aerospace Engineers; (International Space Station and DOD contracts), Electrical Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers, R&D Engineers, Embedded Software Engineers, Software Engineers, Process Engineers, Designers, Design Quality Engineers, Chemical Engineers and Petrochemical Engineers.
• Responsible for screening candidates through cold calling, to ensure their qualifications meet open positions.
• Coach candidates through the client interview process.
• Prepare and coach candidates on resume changes for presentation to clients.
• Build relationships with Hiring Managers, Human Resource Generalist and Human Resource Mangers.
• Responsible for setting up phone and face to face interviews nationwide on .
• Develop strong communication channels as well as strong professional relationships with internal and external professionals for Spherion Corporations client’s success.
• Responsible for hiring Honeywell’s International Inc., Aerospace, Special Materials, Automation and Controls Solutions recruiting team. (Largest Recruiting Outsourcing contract in North America to date.
• Handle large requirement load.
• Successfully recruited for such companies as; Lexmark International Inc., Siemens, Honeywell Aerospace and Cisco Systems.
Strategic Staffing Solutions 7/2007 – 12/2007
Oakbrook, Illinois (Remote Recruiting Position)
Virtual National Accounts Recruiter (Contract)
• Responsible for National recruiting for JP Morgan Chase, Wachovia Investments, McDonalds, Nicor and Comcast throughout the United States. (Utah, California, Texas, Georgia, Florida, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, North Carolina, Washington D.C. and others)
• Responsible for all steps and aspects associated with the identification, placement and management of contract, contract to permanent and direct hires of Information Technology, Engineering, Administrative, Trainers, Sales, Management, Human Resource and Light Duty Warehouse employees.
• Conduct skills testing, office interviews, reference checks and background investigations on prospective candidates.
• Coach candidates through the client interview process.
• Prepare and coach candidates on resume changes for presentation to clients.
• Build relationships with contract employees.
• Develop strong communication channels as well as strong professional relationships with internal and external professionals for Strategic Staffing Solutions client’s success.
• Responsible for recruiting Applications, Infrastructure, Telecommunications, Sales, Management, Finance, Accounting, Manufacturing, Engineering and Light Warehouse duty requirements; Classic ASP, ASP. Net, Java, J2EE, WebSphere, Network, Network Security, Storage Area Networks, Business Analysts, Project Managers, Project Coordinators, Manual/Automated Testers, Electrical Engineers, R&D, Mechanical Engineers, Embedded Software Engineers, Software Engineers, Process Engineers, Designers, Design Quality Engineers and Chemical Engineers.
• Successfully recruited for such companies as; JP Morgan Chase, Wachovia Investments, McDonalds, Nicor, Comcast and many others.
• Provide World Class Service to contract employees and clients by earning their respect, acting with the greatest amount of professionalism and expressing the highest sense of urgency. TEK-Systems 6/2003 – 7/2007
Bloomington, Illinois (Remote Recruiting Position) Professional Senior IT Recruiter
• Responsible for all steps and aspects associated with the identification, placement and management of Engineering, Manufacturing and IT employees.
• Responsible for screening candidates through cold calling, and face to face interviewing to ensure their qualifications meet open positions.
• Responsible for recruiting of University and College campuses for internal and external positions.
• Conduct skills testing, office interviews, reference checks and background investigations on prospective candidates.
• Coach candidates through the client interview process.
• Prepare and coach candidates on resume changes for presentation to clients.
• Build relationships with contract employees through different activities including weekly lunch meetings.
• Develop strong communication channels as well as strong professional relationships with internal and external professionals for TEKsystems and the client’s success.
• First year eligible contest winner; Billing average 11,000/week, actual; 17,000/week
• Responsible for recruiting Engineering, Manufacturing, Applications, Infrastructure and Telecommunications requirements; Classic ASP, ASP. Net, Java, J2EE, WebSphere, Tivoli, VB, VB.Net, COBOL, Cold Fusion, Network, Network Security (UNIX Security, Windows Security, Border Protection, Intrusion Detection), Electrical Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, R&D, Process Engineers, Designers, Embedded Software Engineers, Software Engineers, Design Quality Engineers, R&D, Chemical Engineers, Structural Engineers, Storage Area Networks, Planners, Business Analysts, Project Managers, Test Analyst Environment, Test Analyst Technical and Operations Support Specialists roles (Technical Administrators.)
• Successfully recruited for such companies as; State Farm Insurance, Caterpillar Inc., Mitsubishi Motors, Keystone Wire, Pekin Insurance, Country Financial Insurance, Horace Mann Insurance, University of Illinois, Amdocs and the State of Illinois. Frito-Lay Pepsi Co. 7/2002 – 7/2003
Normal, Illinois
Outside Sales Representative
• Responsible for all aspects of selling and maintaining existing accounts.
• Responsible for new accounts through cold calling.
• Sold additional space for new, existing and promotional items
• Build client relationships at the District and managerial levels.
• Trained new sales reps.
• Provide second to none service.
• Received national recognition for top sales rep in the Midwest Region. McKee Foods 1/2000 – 7/2002
Pontiac, Illinois
Owner/Operator
• Responsible for all aspects of business operations.
• Accounting, billing, pricing, promotions, ordering, inventory control and account development.
• Maintain existing accounts.
• Add additional accounts through cold calling.
• Cultivated relationships at the store and district levels. Otis Spunkmeyer 4/1993 – 1/2000
Chicago, Illinois (Remote Sales Position)
Outside Sales Representative
• Responsible for growing new territory through cold calling.
• Responsible for all aspects of selling and maintaining new and existing accounts.
• Sold additional space for new, existing and promotional items
• Build client relationships at the District and managerial levels.
• Received national recognition for 1st year sales.
• Went from 0 to 15,000 weekly billing in the first year.
• Received national recognition for weekly, monthly and yearly sales. GTE/Verizon Directories 4/1991 – 4/1993
Normal, Illinois
Telephone Sales Representative
• Responsible for sales to new customers through cold calling.
• Meet and exceed company set goals through selling additional advertising to existing customers.
• Sell new and existing products.
• Received national recognition for meeting and exceeding annual goal of 150%.
• Received national recognition for meeting and exceeding annual revenue increase goal of 15%.
• Received Eagle award for reaching forecasted plan for 18 consecutive pay periods. Education;
Black Hawk College - Moline, IL.
Mira Cost College – Oceanside CA.
Palomar College – Palomar CA.
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