Brian Brennan

White Plains, NY *****

914-***-****

ad0nqm@r.postjobfree.com

www.linkedin.com/in/brianbrennan

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Dynamic and performance-driven Talent Acquisition Specialist with extensive background in full life cycle recruitment of professionals in Information Technology, Engineering, Healthcare and Business Operations.

Proven history of hiring best-in-class employees utilizing low cost, creative sourcing strategies in high volume recruiting environments across multiple industries and diverse candidate slates.

Key strengths include: recruitment project leadership and delivery, management collaboration, developing candidate sourcing strategies, end-to-end hands-on recruiting, offer negotiation and candidate closing.

Excellent interpersonal, influence management, team building, and presentation skills.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Xylem, Inc., Rye Brook, NY 8/2021 – 7/2022

Talent Acquisition Consultant

At a leading global water management solutions company, conducted high volume recruitment placing over 65 premium skilled professionals in first year. Successfully filled enterprise critical positions with top tier candidates in Engineering, IT, PMO, Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Sales, and Administration.

Reduced recruiting cost-per-hire by 85% utilizing non-fee sourcing techniques including: LinkedIn Recruiter, social media, employee and external referral networking, direct recruiting, ATS, diversity career sites, database mining, user group meetups, career fairs, campus recruiting, and temp-to-perm conversions.

Conducted daily/weekly status meetings with hiring managers to solicit feedback on recruiting challenges, candidate quality and achieving monthly staffing objectives. Provided recommendations to streamline and drive recruiting agenda to meet aggressive hiring demands and monthly metrics.

Top Echelon Network 7/2020 – 8/2021

Sr. Engineering Recruiter - Consultant

Top Echelon’s mission is to enable independent recruiters to increase placements by continuously expanding their contact network across diverse industries and engineering specialty areas.

With a placement rate of over 70%, collaborated with other freelance recruiters to develop candidate pipelines and expand over 30 new business accounts to share sourced engineering candidates for contingent placement.

Panasonic Corporation (Ascensia Diabetes Care), Valhalla, NY 12/2018 – 7/2020

Talent Acquisition Consultant

Sourced, qualified and hired over 50 specialized Engineering, IT and Healthcare professionals to develop Continuous Glucose Monitoring systems for patients living with diabetes.

Provided full life cycle recruitment from job description development to candidate sourcing, evaluation, selection, background checks and onboarding.

Upgraded R&D Talent Acquisition best practices to attract and retain premium talent for new medical device product development. Trained and advised management on behavioral and competency-based interviewing, hiring for potential, and candidate experience.

Improved time-to-hire by 35%.

Xerox Corporation, Rochester, NY 8/2016 – 12/2018

Sr. Corporate Recruiter

Responsible for sourcing, qualifying and placing top Engineering professionals for enterprise critical positions in the Business Development, Workflow Automation and Document Management Groups.

Utilizing creative sourcing techniques, conducted high volume recruitment at all levels for the following key personnel: Systems Integration Engineers, Project Managers (Cloud, SaaS), Data Analytics Specialists, Software Applications Developers, and Sales Engineers.

Focused daily on candidate assessment and experience, skills-based pipeline development, behavioral interview training and detailed candidate summaries provided to hiring teams.

Montefiore Health System – Information Technology Division, Yonkers, NY 9/2012 – 8/2016

Corporate IT Lead Recruiter

Provided full life cycle recruitment for Information Technology professionals developing and implementing digital Electronic Medical Record (EMR) applications across all patient functional areas for Montefiore Health System and Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

As Lead Recruiter, launched major Epic Systems implementation across all Epic module rollouts, from inpatient registration and physician order entry to patient portal development and revenue cycle automation.

Sourced and recruited over 130 Epic certified analysts for Epic Systems division (Epic@Montefiore) enhancing Montefiore’s role as a leading provider of Healthcare IT solutions among renowned U.S. hospitals.

Pascale & LaMorte, LLC, Fairfield, CT 5/2010 – 9/2012

Account Manager – Executive Search

Provided broad functional search expertise to major multinational corporate accounts with a consistent placement rate of 75%.

Managed large scale recruiting projects and exceeded sales goals in sourcing and placing skilled Technology, Finance and Operations professionals at all organizational levels. Successfully built high growth accounts in Consumer Products, E-Commerce, Product Engineering, Renewable Energy, and Financial Services.

Cultivated strong relationships with hiring managers and executive leadership to gain insight into existing and future hiring initiatives for pro-active candidate identification, presentation and placement.

Utilized multiple sourcing channels for all positions including: direct competitor sourcing, network referrals,

social media, outsourcing firms, industry trade associations and job fairs.

Key clients included: GE, Diageo, IBM, Mastercard, Philips, Fuel Cell Energy and Bridgewater Associates.

EDUCATION

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, Fordham College, Bronx, NY - B.A., Political Science

PACE UNIVERSITY, Lubin Graduate School of Business, White Plains, NY - MBA

SKILLS

Social Media Recruitment/Advertising, LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, Glassdoor, Careerbuilder, Google X-Ray, Windows 11, MS-Office Pro 2021, Office 365, MS Project, MS Teams, Zoom, Slack, Visio, SharePoint, Clarity, Epic, HireVue, Salesforce.

ATS: Workday, Taleo, Jobvite, Jobdiva, iCIMS, SAP HCM, SAP SuccessFactors, BrassRing, PeopleSoft, Handshake, Greenhouse, ServiceNow.

Career Gap

Full Time Caregiver 7/2022 – 8//2023 Provided continuous elder care for father successfully relocating him from Florida to Assisted Living

in Connecticut.

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