Laura Torres

Austin, TX 512-***-**** ad25ps@r.postjobfree.com

linkedin.com/in/laura-torres-b1b435aa

5+ years of technical recruiting and sourcing experience in the corporate, software engineering, and AR/VR+ space. EDUCATION

Texas State University, San Marcos, TX BA Psychology, 2014 Austin Community College, Austin, TX AA Psychology, 2014 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Meta, AUSTIN, TX (remote) December 2021 – January 2023 Technical Sourcer, Reality Labs AR/VR+

• Led companywide initiatives focuses on Embedded/Firmware Software Engineer and Gameplay/Graphics Software Engineer development pages

• Worked closely with recruiters to deeply understand requirements of roles within the AR/VR Software Engineer department

• Partnered with coordinators and recruiters to manage efficient model of operation, including scheduling interviews, and moving through the interview process

• Strategized different ways to build talent pipelines and execute on tactical research, referral generation, and niche sourcing campaigns

• Sourced and engaged with candidates using Boolean, LinkedIn, and alternative search techniques

• Regularly tracked pipeline activity to share with lead manager and personal development

• Innovated diversity sourcing strategy using various tools to help influence hiring managers

• Find and engage candidates that specialized in AR/VR products and skills by utilizing ATS: LinkedIn Recruiter, Facebook’s Internal ATS, and SeekOut

• Partner with coordinators and recruiters to manage an efficient model of operation

• Strategize different ways to build talent pipelines and execute tactical research, referral generation, and sourcing campaigns

• Utilize data for reporting and influencing hiring decisions while maintaining data integrity ACCRUENT, AUSTIN, TX SEPTEMBER 2018 – December 2021 Talent Acquisition Specialist

• Responsible for managing full life cycle of all areas of technical and professional recruiting including sourcing, selecting, interviewing, evaluating, and closing candidates, for mid to senior-level positions

• Primarily focused on recruiting for engineering, products, cloudops, and IT roles

• Work with department heads and hiring managers to help them identify job requirements, create job descriptions, and interview guides, and develop sourcing strategies

• Co-founded an employee resource group for Hispanic, Mexican and Latinx employees to assist in fostering a company culture of inclusivity, diversity, and growth

• A functional leader for Accruent’s inclusion and diversity council

• A committee leader for Fortive’s (parent company) Latinx and friends employee resource group

• Work with the applicant tracking system Greenhouse and use it to maintain the recruitment process and keep accurate details on all candidates

• Proactively source candidates from a variety of resources including internet job boards, ad-reply, networking, direct sourcing, etc.

• Prepare and present quarterly reports to the Research and Development C-team executive and L2 leaders on recruiting and employment activities

• Maintain a 94% offer acceptance ratio on 40+ hires for the entire year of 2020

• Established a diversity dashboard to track new hires and current employees on gender and ethnicity

• Created a global talent acquisition dashboard of KPIs to assist the team in keeping track of goals

• Assisted in creating a diverse candidate of pipeline slate for each open req and increased diverse slates presented to interview teams by 75% for Q4 2020

• Helped mentor and train 2 new team members on the talent acquisition team within a 1-month period KEYSTAFF INC., AUSTIN, TX FEBRUARY 2015 – SEPTMEBER 2018 Lead Recruiter II

• Register/maintain all new hires’ information

• Top recruiter in company history to reach a $24K GM for the fiscal months of April- May 2017

• First recruiter in company history to be promoted to Recruiter II

• Make sure all new hires’ information is correct within ATS database for future internal/external audits

• Maintain phones and direct callers to proper personnel

• Multitask between answering phones, entering new hire information into the database, and running background checks/ administering drug tests

• Fill in for Branch Manager when away from the branch

• Work with ATS to ensure updated employee profiles

• Read work instructions to feed client needs for each position

• Meet weekly/monthly quotas (individually and as a team)

• Maintain quota of 8 or more new hires weekly, maintain the GM (general margin) as set for Recruiter II at $10,000 or more

• Correct Docusign documents according to I-9 and W-4 specifications for internal/external audit purposes

• Train new hires according to KeyStaff training guidelines and outlines

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