Makham Traore
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SUMMARY
A Senior Recruiter with 10 years of experience recruiting for Fortune 500 Company.
Resourceful, solution-focused professional with excellent interpersonal and rapport-building.
Proven experience in coaching, mentoring and directing recruiters on full life cycle recruiting processes and procedures.
Led and coordinated daily huddles and candidate submission activity between sales and recruiting teams.
Excellent in developing and evaluating business process Models.
Experience peformatting and rewriting resumes, preparing condidates for inteviews, coordinating phone, videos, in-person interviews with CRMs and hiring managers.
Extensive experieence with LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, as well as utilizing ATS and MSP Portal for hiring process.
Excellent Analytical, methodical, and resourceful approach to problem solving, identifying and documenting root causes and corrective actions to meet short- and long-term business and system requirements.
Experience with State/Government jobs, Healthcare/Life Science, Financial Services including technical and non-technical industry fields such as: Information Technology; High-Tech; Financial & Banking Services; C-Level Executives; Corporate; State Government; Telecommunications; Healthcare; Insurance; Energy & Utilities; Manufacturing; Administration; Pharmaceutical & Biotech; etc.
Experience with W2, 1099 and C2C.
Knowledgeable in immigration regulations with respect to H1-B, L-1, EAD, OPT EAD, H4 Visas and Green card holders.
Complete life cycle management of the hiring process.
Strong track record of building, maintaining and expanding relationships (clients, hiring managers, candidates, vendors).
Work as a Liaison between Technical Candidates, Team and Hiring Managers.
Strong interpersonal skills, which includes facilitation, interviewing, Presentation, Leadership and negotiation skills.
Have excellent communication skills, people skills and analytical skills.
EXPERTISE:
Strategic planning, Effective communication and writing skills, Exceptional analytical skills, Talent Acquisition, Bench Marketing, End to End Recruitment Management, Offer Negotiation & Closing, Recruiting, Sourcing and Screening, Consultants management, Client Relationship Management, Vendor and Agency Management, Benefits Negotiation, Team Management, Online recruitment Tracking System, Social Media recruiting.
SKILLS:
Proficient with Microsoft Word, Outlook, Works, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project, Visio, Notepad, Adobe Suite (Dreamweaver CS5, Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash), HTML, JavaScript, java, and C++, JobDiva application System, Network, LAN/WAN, Internet Routers.
EXPERIENCE
Talentburst, Inc April 2022 – November 2023
Sr. Recruiter
Prioritizing requisitions, sourcing and recruiting qualified candidates to support the account.
Conducted pre-screening interviews and made candidate selections
Proficiently managed the time clock.
Handled Large Volume of requirements and Client relationship on the procurement process
Effectively sourced candidates through proven recruitment channels: internet research, job boards, internal database, networking and referrals.
Proactively developing relationships with key talent to create pipelines for critical areas of the business in order to minimize overall recruiting cost per hire.
Tracking activity such as interviews, candidate progress, attendance, and incentive programs
Maintain all documentation using TalentBurst's online systems and access database to track information and hiring metrics regarding candidates and sourcing strategies.
Created the process and costing sheet to calculate the margin on the hiring process
Must have the ability to effectively communicate to contractors, potential contractors, client contacts and internal contacts.
Provide any other backup needed for the OPM
C&L Group LLC. / VSG. June 2013 – March 2022
Sr. Lead Tech Recruiter
Develop effective strategies for sourcing and evaluating candidates and implement those strategies to fill a broad range of Job requirements such as Technical Project Manager, Business Analyst, SharePoint Dev/Administrator, .Net, C#, Java Developers, Application Support, IT Sport. Network Engineer/Architect, DevOps, Software Engineers, Unix, Nursing/Medical (Life Science), HR, Engineering roles, Accounting, Customer Service, Media, Cyber Security Analyst, Security Engineer, Instructor, and various positions across the firm and external clients and mainframe technology.
Managing a team of 10 Recruiters to find the best talent on the market.
Aggressively build a pipeline of top candidates through researching and sourcing, implement creative sourcing strategies to achieve hiring goals using JobDiva.
Screen potential candidates, Qualify and engage candidates for technical and cultural fit, Coordinate on site interviews.
Partner with leadership and work cross functionally to understand requirements and iterate on current processes, sourcing for technical candidates through multiple channels (web, social/professional networks, etc.)
Ability to maintain accurate documentation within the JobDiva applicant tracking system.
Excellent verbal and communication skills, extremely diligent and detail oriented with strong sense of intuition and capable of excelling at multitasking.
Schedule video and in person interviews with candidates and hiring teams.
Draft offer letter emails and send new hire paperwork, manage drug testing processes, Process new hire paperwork for set up, maintain filing and job folders
Liaison between hiring managers, hiring committees, and candidates
Assist with candidate selection process (resume requests, review and selection of candidates).
Review applicant resumes and conduct phone screens, reaching out to 55+ calls/candidates on a daily basis.
The Reading Hospital Medical Center, Reading, PA 2012-2013
Technical Support Analyst/Systems Administrator
Implement new internet firewall for content filtering, increasing employee productivity.
Merging data with several other sources to identify Email address, user ID from HR system, Call Recording and a couple of others to insure we migrate the users with full knowledge of any usage associated with that extension / user.
Provide installation, maintenance, technical and customer support for desktop/workstations, LAN/WAN networked clients and servers, network connectivity, network cabling, and related software.
Install, configured and provided troubleshooting for applications including: MS Win OS, MS Office suite, remote desktop support, Active Directory and GPO, backups, network printers, and network connectivity, configuration and maintenance of all network devices.
Migration of all workstations to Windows 7 professional
Conducted basic network maintenance and troubleshooting in LAN and WAN environments
Enter information into the problem tracking system
Troubleshoot user’s computer issues
Monitor Pulse System activities of Epic application
Provided technical support for multiple sites within the organization
Managed Windows 2003/2008/2012 Server administration
User Administration in Active Directory and Exchange 2010 Server
Provided on-site hardware repairs, software configurations, and system deployments
Supported site users via ticketing system
Managed and supported IP Camera systems
Worked with and gave guidance to Engineering Team on major infrastructure/networking projects
Configured, supported, and maintained all local network printers for entire organization
Provided 24/7 support to executives via telephone, e-mail, JoinMe / Webex Remote
Troubleshoot software, hardware and network connectivity problems
Analyzed executive problems and formulated plans of resolution
Installed, supported and configured various enterprise applications and software
EDUCATION
Pennsylvania State University, Reading, PA 2009 - 2013
Bachelor Degree: IST (Information Science Technology)
Emphasis: Integration and Information