Pam Agar

Talent Acquisition Professional

Westminster, CO

720-***-**** ᐧ ad116k@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamagar-recruiter

Why speak with me…

• I create a win for job hunters, my employer, and their stakeholders (internal or external).

• I’m a talent acquisition advisor and full cycle recruiter with a passion for doing it right!

• Professional relationships, tenacity and innovative thinking are just a few of the keys to my success.

• My extensive network and high referral rates speak to my ability to build AND maintain those relationships.

• It’s part of my job to be like a bulldog; to never give up on finding terrific resources, until the positions are filled.

• I’m quite creative in my means of obtaining talent.

• I enjoy the thrill of the hunt, the accomplishment of a hire, and the satisfaction of creating a superior candidate and hiring team experience.

• I love what I do and do it well!

Professional Snapshot

• Senior talent acquisition professional with deep experience in recruitment in many different sectors supporting small, large, private, public, Fortune 500 and global companies in their recruiting needs for technical, non-technical, administrative, sales, marketing, management, leadership, and executive roles

• Consistently meet or exceed hiring expectations, attract top talent by creative avenues and excite them about the opportunity and company by being an impressive brand ambassador

• Improved hiring teams and candidate experiences by 50%, based on follow-up communications and feedback from both areas

• Optimized and streamlined recruiting processes, resulting in a decrease of time-to-hire, on average, by 25%; often as much as 20 days or more

Core competencies include: Sourcing, Interviewing, Strategic Searches, Boolean Search Strings, Networking and Research Skills, IT / IS / ERP Recruiting, Admin/Sales/Marketing Recruiting, Leadership and Executive Recruiting, BPO Recruiting, Compensation and Roles Information Relative to Location, Various Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), Strong Communication and Negotiation Skills, Organization, Knowledge of OFCCP, EEOC and Immigration/Mobility Guidelines, Diversity/Inclusion/Equity Initiatives and Diverse Slate hiring practices, Training and Mentoring, AIRS Certified Social Sourcing Recruiter (CSSR) Select Career Highlights

• In addition to normal recruiting duties, developed and presented several training and informative PowerPoints on varied subjects, such as: “What Sourcers Do”, “Veteran Recruitment and Why It Matters”,

“Streamlining the Recruiting Process”, and “Boolean and X-Ray Searches Made Easy” (PeopleScout)

• Managed up to 38 requisitions within the first 5 months; completing kickoff meetings with hiring teams, sourcing candidates, moving applicants from screens to offers in a fast-paced biomanufacturing environment (Catalent)

• Exceeded demand by bringing more than 30 new Scientific Informatics Analysts into the development program within the first 9 months of my starting. Designed and helped streamline and calibrate interview processes to improve OFCCP / EEOC compliance, align more closely with stakeholders’ desires and better meet Diversity, Inclusion and Equity initiatives (Accenture)

• Filled over 90 positions in just 2 years - recruiting and closing 4 new hires per month for 24 months. Developed relationships with and earned the trust of the hiring teams, resulting in belief in the recruiting team’s ability to fill positions more quickly and effectively than previous 3rd party vendors (Trimble)

• Advised leadership on alternate applicant tracking systems, helping to implement, integrate and cut over from Taleo to Bullhorn once management decided on the system. Grew candidates in the new system from 250 to over 2100 technical prospects within my first year (DBAK) Technical Skills and Experience

ATS / CRM experience with iCIMS, Taleo, Workday, LinkedIn Recruiter, Bullhorn, PC Recruiter, Salesforce - Microsoft Office, Google G Suite applications, X-ray and Boolean searches, extremely computer literate with strong internet networking and search experience

Education - Military - Certifications

• AIRS Certified Social Sourcing Recruiter (CSSR)

• US Army E-6 / SSG - Honorable Discharge after six years of service

• A.A.S., Medical Laboratory Science - Coastal Carolina - Jacksonville, NC Recent Professional Experience Detail

PeopleScout, a TrueBlue Company (remote) Sep 2022 – Apr 2023 PeopleScout is the world’s largest RPO provider managing talent acquisition solutions that span the global economy, with end-to-end MSP and talent advisory capabilities supporting total workforce needs. Senior Technical Recruiter

• Partnered with client’s in-house talent acquisition team to bring high-quality, niche technical resources to the business

• Managed the creative and innovative sourcing of passive candidates

• Evangelist for the client and their work in order to bring excitement and interest to technical positions

• Successfully supplied candidates for and filled requisitions for Software Engineers, Systems Administrators, Technical Lead Developers, Solutions Architects, Security Professionals, and other hard to fill technical roles

Catalent Pharma Solutions via Computech (contract and remote) Feb 2022 – Sep 2022 Catalent is a global Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) focused on providing innovative technologies and solutions to help more and better biologic treatments get to patients. Recruiter

• Successfully managed up to 40 requisitions, building relationships with hiring teams, sourcing and managing candidates to bring winning candidates through the offer and hire process

• Filled a variety of positions to include biomanufacturing upstream, downstream and mRNA and Molecular Therapeutics roles

• Also filled Process and Operations positions such as Regulatory Affairs Specialists, Calibration Technicians, Biomanufacturing Optimization and Projects roles and Scientific positions such as Microbial Control Process roles

• These positions all ranged from entry-level and early career to Lead and Management level positions Accenture via BCForward (contract and remote) Mar 2021 – Jan 2022 and Jul 2018 – Apr 2020

(COVID-related layoff between Apr 2020 and Mar 2021) Accenture is one of the largest consulting firms in the world, supporting clients in a variety of business verticals. Recruiting Specialist

• I supported talent acquisition in the Life Sciences division recruiting bioinformatics resources, biomedical engineers, data analysts, data scientists and more, and supported a large delivery / logistics carrier in recruiting warehouse associates, product pickers and delivery drivers

• Successfully sourced, recruited, and helped onboard niche scientific candidates for hire as consultants within Accenture Scientific Informatics Services (ASIS) - formerly LabAnswer - in the Life Sciences division

• Met demand by bringing more than 30 new Scientific Informatics Analysts to the department in my first nine months

• Designed, streamlined, and calibrated interview processes to improve compliance with labor laws and to better meet diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives while using specific Diverse Slate processes

• Sourced, interviewed and recruited hourly delivery drivers, product pickers and warehouse personnel for varied shifts as part of Accenture’s BPO (business process outsourcing) contract with a major delivery logistics client

Trimble Inc. via ClearPath (contract and hybrid) Feb 2016 – Jun 2018 Trimble delivers products and services that connect the physical and digital worlds with core technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity, and data analytics to enable customers to improve productivity, quality, safety, and sustainability and transform industries such as agriculture, construction, geospatial, transportation and logistics.

Talent Advisor – Recruiter

• Brought top talent to Trimble across multiple divisions such as Advanced Positioning, Geospatial, Survey, and Agriculture using various methods and techniques like social networking, job boards, referrals, job postings and others while providing a positive candidate and stakeholder experience

• Filled over 90 positions in 2 years, recruiting and closing 4 new hires per month for 24 months – Types of positions filled were process engineers, positional engineers, data analysts and data scientists, construction managers and agri-engineers

• Consulted with and advised hiring teams and business partners how recruiting develops sourcing strategies to drive the best approach to recruit top talent in a highly competitive market

• Improved relationships with and instilled trust of the hiring teams resulting in belief in the recruiting team’s ability to fill positions more quickly and effectively than previous 3rd party vendors used Accenture via BCForward (contract and remote) Recruiting Specialist Accenture is one of the largest consulting firms in the world, supporting clients in a variety of business verticals. DBAK - Englewood, CO Senior Resource Manager / Recruiting Manager DBAK is a national IT consulting firm specializing in Oracle technology, database management, software licensing services, and cloud computing solutions.

HPC Solutions - Lakewood, CO Senior Recruiter and Assistant Contract Administrator HPC Solutions is a WOSB HUBZone company and GSA schedule holder and a full-service technology aggregator and innovator supplying product and services for civilian and government clients. Prior experience

Have previously served as a

• Technical Staffing Specialist and Account Manager

• Bookkeeper and HR Generalist, Administrative Supervisor

• Payroll and Scheduling Specialist

for small and medium companies and a Colorado university and I have translatable experience from being a

• co-owner of a Land Surveying business

• licensed residential Realtor

• Medical Laboratory Scientist

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