Talent Acquisition

SEAN MCGOWAN

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Professional Summary

Technical Recruiting Client Management ATS Recruiting Management/Technology

High energy and insightful Senior Technical Recruiter with over 15 years recruiting and sales of staffing services, Multifaceted experience, eager to contribute a demonstrated record of success in Talent Acquisition campaigns to further the goals of employers and clients.

Demonstrated strengths in sourcing and recruitment strategies that equal great candidates and placements. Detail Oriented, contribute to the organization from a fundamental level to build strong pipelines, brand awareness recruitment success. Full lifecycle recruiting of technical, non-technical and management roles. Strong outreach/calling/Texting and InMails.

Advanced knowledge of technical recruiting tools and resources including ATS, LinkedIn (15,000+ Technical followers). LinkedIn Recruiter (expert). CareerBuilder, Dice, Clearance jobs, Indeed and more.

Certified LinkedIn Advisor for Recruiting, AI integration with Recruiter

Skilled in finding, attracting and building relationships with candidates through the Recruiting cycle.

Big in listening to draw out skills and motivations of candidates and get needed information and authority to submit to clients. (RTR)

Candidate Reference Checking

Strong Boolean skills

Strong candidate submission skills, (winning write-ups)

Candidate progression from initial contact to placement and negotiating rates

High Volume Recruiting, Metrics Driven

Strong proponent of Teams/Zoom/Meet video interviews and client meetings

Strong experience in working with hiring managers, Technical Questions to hone top 5 priorities

Use employer branding, posting optimization and innovative candidate sourcing strategies

A creative thinker who values innovation, team input and great willingness to share credit with others

Experienced working with 3rd party vendors and negotiations

Fostered partnerships with all stakeholders for staffing.

MCP experience with Pro-Unlimited, Rightsouring, Randstad, Adecco

Technical Skills: MS Office, Google Apps, G Suite Administrator (email, Drive, forms, landing pages, surveys, intranets) Teams, Zoom, Salesforce and Bullhorn CRM, JobDiva and Bullhorn ATS; Hootsuite for managing multiple Social Media streams, Crowdsource Social Media content, Slack, Hangouts, DocuSign, SkillSurvey 360, Calendry

Sr. Technical Recruiter, ConsultNet September 2021 – September 2023

$100 MM Dollar Revenue Company in Staffing, Salesforce, Entertainment and Near Shore Development

Profit Margins averaged 32% - 34%

Average Profit per year of 300-500k Net.

Average of 82% of submitted candidates asked to interview with client.

Shared Jobs, Industry Articles with social audience on LinkedIn, X, Instagram

Invited to serve on Core Values Committee to recognize outstanding team members companywide for Integrity, Professionalism and Teamwork.

Selected Contract/CTH/Direct placements while at ConsultNet:

Aerospace:

2 X Embedded Engineers (both firmware and C) - Satellite

Sr. DevOps Team Lead – UAV Leader

Sr. Electrical Engineer – Space Domain

Jr. Electrical Engineer – Space Domain

Direct – Embedded SW Director - Satellite

C++ Front End Developer - Satellite

Support Federal Contracts (Secure Development):

4 X QA Engineers

2 X SDETs

System Engineer

Reliability Engineer

Jasper Reporting Specialist

JIRA Specialist (Scrum + SAFE)

Cloud Engineer

Retail:

Software Development Manager/IT Manager – CTH

Director Digital Commerce

Digital Commerce Manager

Block chain – Biotech – Utilities – Healthcare:

Product Manager

Scrum Master

iOS and Android Developers (contract and perm)

Network Engineer

Systems Engineer

Data Integration Manager

Vice President, Talent Acquisition Nov 2014 – May 2019

Platinum Enterprise Solutions Torrance, CA

Developed and Managed Client Accounts; Worked with hiring managers, stakeholders to identify skills/behavior needed and recommend TA strategy

Led, managed and developed the talent acquisition and organization team across multiple locations

Sourced & recruited technical (IT) candidates including developers, Cloud/AWS, Big Data, ML and AI, DevOps, Infrastructure (VMWare), .Net, Full Stack, Java, UI/Front end, ERP and CRM roles

Placements increased over 150% during tenure with Platinum

Sourced & recruited for full time candidates for full time direct placement roles in Management areas (Mgr., Dir., VP)

Managed Recruiting and TA Information Technology (IT); Instrumental in revamping the recruitment processes

Ongoing identification and management of external recruitment relationships

Recommended both Sales and Recruiting Staff to ownership

Migrated legacy ATS to Bullhorn Corporate then Enterprise in 2015; Worked with team including IT, Human Resources, Finance, Operations, Sales, Recruiting, and Legal to buildout system. Established workflow of sales and recruiting and onboarding processes. In 2017, migrated ATS Bullhorn > JobDiva to homogenize all divisions of the company. This included Data cleansing and migration (including business workflows).

Manage Social Media Networks (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Glassdoor) with Hootsuite; Brand management

Elevated corporate social media: Facebook, Twitter, G Suite, Glassdoor, CareerBuilder & Dice presence

Designed and developed internal company intranet that is accessed by all employees for Payroll information, Company benefits, Events, Financials, Sales Center and Recruiting Center; Developed Slide Decks, Landing Pages and company Fact sheets

Responded to IT Staffing and Recruiting RFPs for local and county governments

Director, Solutions April 2014 – Nov 2014

ConexIS Irvine, CA

Recruited to help firm convert from Fulltime/Direct Placement agency to contract and direct placements of IT consultants and executives and to start off Sales in contract staffing

Worked with ownership to hire recruiters; managed recruiting efforts for contract positions

Elevated recruiting processes to Best Practices

Recruiting and candidate sourcing

Candidate engagement and communications

Managed firm’s largest client accounts, Samsung Research America and Hyundai Finance closing over $1.5 million in business in 4 months (5 placements). Also worked with clients to extend current contracted personnel

Sr. Director, Recruiting and Operations (contract) Nov 2013 – Mar 2014

ViberTex Irvine, CA

Consulted with management to help staff large SAP and Oracle Migration for Purchasing including iProcurement, iSourcing and Purchasing installation and implementation

Staffed project Team (functional and technical) and on-boarded selected team

Director Oct 2012 – Sep 2013

Placement Strategies Carlsbad, CA

Account Management of Farmers Insurance Account; Recruited over 10 placements

Implemented business change from VMS model of pass-through affiliate vendor model (3 layers) to full service sales and Recruiting/Employer (2 Layers)

Spearheaded redesign of website with new functionalities

Implemented Bullhorn Corporate ATS with backend connections to website, job boards and partner firms

Conducted 1st and 2nd. level behavioral and technical interviews; helped to close “on the fence” candidates

Director, Strategic Sourcing May 2011 – October 2012

Mile5 Solutions LLC (SAP Solutions Partner) Irvine, CA

Startup run by past Vice President at RJT Compuquest, recruited to build IT Staffing support for SAP Solutions practice and client engagements with focus on SAP technical and functional positions

Built standalone IT Staffing Services marketed to non-SAP clients

Successfully signed clients including Zurich Financial & Farmers Insurance

Implemented Bullhorn Corporate ATS and offshore recruiting

Director, Sales July 2010 – May 2011

Structure Networks Tustin, CA

Managed client accounts; Successfully brought in new clients

Recruiting and candidate sourcing

Worked with recruiters to market jobs and recruit candidates for clients

Sr. Director Jun 2004 – Jul 2010

RJT Compuquest (Staffing and SAP Solutions Partner) Costa Mesa, CA

Recognized as leader in revenue generation firm wide in staffing; Led the team with clients in the Entertainment practice – Warner Bros, Disney and Sony Pictures

Led recruitment team of 3 Sr. Recruiters

Placed hundreds of consultants and full time hires which led to revenue of $5-7 MM per year in staffing

Sr. Account Executive May 1998 – May 2004

Keane, Inc. (Application Outsourcing and IT Staffing) Irvine, CA

Assumed Increasing responsibilities through acquisitions of The Professionals >Metro Information Services > Keane

Headed up Entertainment Practice worldwide for client Warner Bros. Revenue in excess of $5MM/annum

Worked with recruiting team to flesh out job details, interview selected candidates prior to presentation

Attained Pinnacle Club twice for attaining and exceeding revenue goals

Brought in Lockheed Martin IMS as client when they were selected to build the systems and engineering areas of The Toll Roads Fastrak Toll system. Provided 85% of project consultants over the 5 year development effort.

Education

Studies in Business and Computer Science

University of Pittsburgh

Regis College (now University)

Giving Back

Active Red Cross Blood Donor (Double Red and Platelets)

Festival of Children Foundation/LA Mission Skid Row Holiday Event - Volunteer

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