Larry Kriger

720-***-**** ad1bc6@r.postjobfree.com

linkedin.com/in/larry-kriger-91b79b7

Sr. Talent Acquisition Consultant and sourcing specialist. Built and operated several successful recruiting and staffing companies. I managed recruiting teams, developed corporate staffing plans, trained recruiters in recruiting and business development all while performing full life cycle recruiting. I worked as a contract, contingency, retained and corporate recruiter. I hired over 1,000 candidates in my career. Over 25,000 hours of recruiting experience. I am an expert at direct and internet sourcing.

Accomplishments:

Developed complete staffing/recruiting plans for 4 national corporations that resulted in the hiring of over 2,500 employees within 18 months.

Trained over 20 individuals in engineering, technical, management, telecom, call center and sales recruiting. Expert at sourcing talent.

Sold recruiting solutions and developed over 10 million dollars in sales.

Recruiting Titles held: Manager Talent Acquisition, Sr. Technical Recruiter, Sr. Recruiter, Contract Recruiter (all levels) Corporate Recruiter.

Expert at sourcing and high volume recruitment in a vendor neutral environment. Boolean search expert, Passive recruiting expert.

Access to 350 Million Resumes and profiles, personal database over 2 hundred thousand Professionals (in US).

Largest requisition load at one time was 126 positions.

Education: West Virginia University BS Degree in Management

Experience:

Jacobs Engineering, Sr Strategic Recruiter 2/22 to present

Responsible for recruiting passive candidates for strategic positions in the Water, Transportation and Construction Divisions. Act as an internal headhunter and sourced mid-level Engineers thru Program managers. Sourced Civil, Geotechnical, Electrical, Project Management and Construction Engineers. Averaged 10 new candidates weekly that were interviewed and ready to move to Jacobs. Top positions were in Water, Wastewater, I&C, Bridge, Design Build and Project Management.

Garver Inc Sr Talent Acquisition / Water Recruiter 10/21 to 2/22

Managed the Water division talent Acquisition. Full life cycle recruiting for a 70+ position requisition load from Designers to Vice president level. (Short Tenure based on Covid Complications).

AECOM, Inc Sr. Corporate Recruiter. 11/2019 to 10/2021

Provide full cycle recruiting for the central Water division with AECOM. Recruit Water, wastewater, Geotechnical, Mining, Design Engineers and AutoCad Designer/ drafters. Top 10% of recruiters within the company. Actively sourced candidates when no applicants were in the pipeleine.

Managed Careers a THOR,llc company. Sr. Talent Acquisition Consultant 6/2014 to 11/2019. Responsible for sourcing and full lifecycle recruiting Nationwide. Positions recruited include all level Civil, Environmental, Water/ Water Resources, Transportation, Geotechnical, Mining, Construction Management, Construction Supervision, Resident Engineering, Remediation from Engineers to Vice President level. Salaries from $60,000 to $350,000.

Contracts included: Arcadis, Golder Associates, TIAA, Survey Gizmo and Red Oak Technology. End clients included ; Apple, Cisco, Zeltiq, CEC, Terumo BCT, KlaTencor, Covidian, Equinix, Great West Financial, Tyco and several others. Utilize social media, job sites, Boolean search, database search and sophisticated sourcing strategies to develop pipelines of qualified candidates. Worked onsite and remote. OFCCP compliant.

Westwood College, Admissions Recruiter 12/2013 to 6/2014 Company Closed

Worked in a call center environment recruiting students for the on-line education programs at Westwood College. Meet all quotas and made over 100 contacts daily.

Professional Engineering Services, Inc.

Sr. Recruiter/ Talent Acquisition Consultant/ Partner 11/2006 to 12/2013

Recruited Engineers on a contract, retained, and contingency basis. Served the Energy, EPC, Life Sciences and Oil & Gas industries. Responsible for full lifecycle recruiting from requisition development thru candidate sourcing to offer/acceptance and start.

Echostar, Responsible for full lifecycle recruiting of Software development, Engineering and support candidates in 3 time frames at 4 divisions. Recruited Engineers, Program Managers, Product Managers and Project Managers. Averaged 9 hires a month with a requisition load averaging 45 positions. Onsite.

Blockbuster Video, Planned all recruiting for the acquisition of Blockbuster by Echostar. Recruited program management, technical and software development positions nationwide. Onsite

Zidea, Inc, Responsible for recruiting software engineers, hardware engineers, sales and all positions for this privately held company and the different divisions. Locations spread out nationwide. Responsible for full life cycle recruiting from requisition creation, to sourcing thru hiring completion. Onsite.

Digital Lightwave

Recruited FPGA design Engineers, Power supply Engineers, Electrical and RF engineering talent for design of state-of-the art FPGA’s and design for Optical test equipment in this test Equipment manufacturer. Remote.

MWH Global, Responsible for recruiting and hiring of Engineering professionals from director level to entry level. Successfully hired 80 employees in first ten months. Developed candidate database which has over 13,000 engineers in the EPC industry. Recruited candidates from various sources including the internet, professional organizations, databases and direct recruiting. Represented MWH at national trade shows and colleges. Onsite.

Utility Engineering, Zachary Construction For this 500+ employee engineering division of Zachary construction, responsible for recruiting of engineers and designers in the power and utility industry. Onsite

Professional Consulting Group, Inc. 3/92 to 6/2005

Sr. Recruiter and Account Executive

Responsible for staffing/recruiting of engineering, programming, networking, operations, sales, marketing, management, administrative and non-exempt employees in engineering telecommunications, computer consulting, manufacturing and other high tech industries. Hires were both permanent and contract employees. Developed complete recruiting programs for several clients and managed staffing departments for same clients. Responsible for over 1,000 hires while at Professional Consulting Group. Worked within client teams on site as well as offsite performing retained and contingency search. Responsible for full life cycle recruiting. Worked with several ATS systems and CRM systems.

Clients included; Qwest, ICG Communications, MCI, JD Edwards, DCI, AIC, PBC, ACS, KLA-Tencor, Corning, Pfizer Valleylab, CH2M, Ebasco, Woodward Clyde, International

Technology, OHM, IBM, US West, TCI, Time Warner, Sprint, Cisco Systems, Lucent, Bay Networks, AT&T, MCI, Northern Telecom, CSG, First Data Corporation, Sun Micro Systems Storage Technology, Lockheed Martin, Oracle, Galileo, Rhythms, Enron, MWH Global, Utility Engineering, Covidian, Amgen and hundreds of other companies.

International Electronic Machinery, Account Manager 7/91 to 1/92

Sold computer peripherals to Hewlett Packard environments in 13 states. Controlled over 400 accounts. Sales exceeded $1,000,000 annually. Company out of business.

International Consulting Group, Inc., Sr. Recruiter/Partner 5/87 to 7/91

Operated a two office, thirteen person engineering and environmental search firm. Worked as a technical recruiter and account manager. Responsible for billings in excess of $500,000. Trained six recruiters and had responsibility for market development, national sales and complete business operations while working a full lifecycle desk.

Housecalls International, President 3/84 to 5/87

Conceived, financed, developed, operated and franchised a cooperative marketing business for the service industries. Responsible for the complete business plan from conception, market research, financing, planning, operations to national franchising. Developed comprehensive marketing programs, which included all media. Wrote training manuals, operations manuals, business plans, budgets, strategic plans and franchise documents. Responsible for the establishment of four franchises and the sale of 18. additional franchises. Complete profit/loss responsibility.

Professional Carpet Systems, Owner 83 to 84

Set up and operated commercial carpet cleaning and dying franchise. Built business to 4 crews, 100+ accounts and $1,000,000 gross sales. Sold business after 18 months for a profit..

Rocky Mountain Recruiters, Sr. Technical Recruiter 81 to 83

Performed full lifecycle contingency search for I.T., Engineering, Management and Sales professionals. Averaged 2 hires a month. 50% business development and 50% recruiting.

Central EDP, Data Processing Recruiter 79 to 81

Performed full lifecycle contingency search for I.T. professionals. Averaged 2 placements a month. New Jersey’s premier IT search firm. Worked the New Jersey and New York marketplace. Clients included: AT&T, BASF, SeaTrain, Sealand, Ciba Geigy, Mecrk, Johnson and Johnson, Foster Wheeler, Pfizer, and 30 others.

Sourcing: The variety of industries, projects with requirements, can lead to different techniques. Associations: Publications: Research Paper Databases: Twitter: Boolean (job boards, search engines, metadata, Linkedin: Referrals: Work Groups: Stackoverflow: Hackerrank: Techfetch: Google Groups:

ATS: ICIMS, Taleo, Brassring, Oracle HR, BullHorn, ACT, Lotus, PC Recruiter

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