VALERIE GORNAIA

Sourcing/Technical Recruiting Lead

Los Gatos, CA

408-***-****

ad2amy@r.postjobfree.com

US Citizen

OBJECTIVE: Sourcing/Technical Recruiting Manager

Full Cycle Recruiting/Sourcing Lead

Staffing Agencies and Corporate Technical Recruiting Define Sourcing and Recruiting processes

Build Sourcing and Recruiting teams

Sourcing and Technical Screening Mentor

Crafting and Maintaining Strong Employer Brand

Talent Pipelining

Compensation Negotiation

Contracts and Permanent positions

Leadership and Determination

SUMMARY:

8+ years of Technical Recruiting and Sourcing

-Sourcing Lead

-Technical Recruiting Lead/Manager

Full Cycle Recruitment: job posting, sourcing,

identifying, interviewing, screening, interviews

tracking, salary negotiations and offer generation.

Job Portals, social media, X-Ray search, message boards, internal databases, referrals

Experience working with Vendors and Agencies

-Software Test Engineering background

Domain: IT, Semi-Conductor, Hardware, Healthcare/

Biotech, Retail, Fashion, Aerospace/Aviation, Sales/ Marketing, Finance, Real Estate, Education.

Clients: Apple, Google, Facebook, Dell, Comcast, General Electric, Barracuda Networks; Blackhawk Networks, HP, Macy’s, Sephora, Albertsons, Cisco, Verizon, Fujitsu, Frontier, Cisco, CastLight Health, Humana, PrimeKey, NationStar, Capital One, US Bank, Honeywell, Shell, Flatiron.

Sourced/filled: Software Engineers with Machine

Learning, Hardware Engineers, AI Developers, Java

Developers, C/C++ Software Engineers, C# Software

Engineers, Front-End Developers, Back-End Developers, Full-Stack Engineers, Python Developers, Power BI

Developers, Data Scientists, UI /UX Designers, UX

Researchers, UX Architects, Audio Engineers, Manufacture Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Product Line Support, VR Programmers, Semiconductor Equipment Engineers, Cloud Engineers, Infrastructure Engineers, DevOps, SRE, Assembly Technicians, QA Automaton Engineers, Test Technicians, Lab Specialists, Medical Researchers, Medical Technologists, System Administrators, Business Analysts, Pre-Sales Engineers, Corporate Legal Counsel, Paralegals, Account Managers, e-Commerce Director, Regional Sales Director, VP of Operations, VP of

Engineering.

KEY RECRUITING SKILLS:

ATS: Salesforce; Jobvite; Green House; Tracker;

Workday; JazzHR; Bull Horn

Sourcing Tools: LinkedIn Recruiter; Facebook;

Twitter; Blogs; X-Ray Search

Job Boards: Bench Folks; CareerBuilder; Indeed

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Schallenberger Elementary Aug 2023 - Current

San Jose School District

Educator (part-time)

-Work with children 1 - 5 Grades

Radar (RFID technology) Dec 2021 - Feb 2023

Lead of Technical Recruiting

San Diego, CA

Lead Full Cycle Technical Recruiting.

Defined Recruiting and Hiring processes.

-Built Sources team.

-Developed Sourcing processes and techniques.

Improved existing sourcing tools and ATS.

Wrote Job Descriptions.

Sourcing; Screening

Compensation Negotiations.

Offer Generation.

Bayside Solutions Oct 2020 – Dec 2021

San Ramon, CA

Sourcing Lead/Sr. Tech. Recruiter

Led Sourcing processes; rained Sourcing team.

-Conducted technical screenings, negotiated

compensation, generated offer letters.

Generated and maintained pipeline of IT

professionals.

Sourced for domestic and international candidates’ market (UK; Japan).

Filled openings for Apple, Google, FB, Humana,

Light Health, Ross, HP, Applied Materials.

Worked with high volume of openings

Openings: Full-Stack Developers, Front-End and

Back-End Developers, Software Engineers with C++/

C#, Hardware Engineers, Data Scientists, PM,

DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure Engineers, Cloud

Solutions Architects, Hardware Engineers,

Manufacture Engineers, Aerospace Engineers, Aircraft Mechanics, Test Automation, UX/UI Designers, UI

Engineers.

ValueWorkSource Aug 2018 – June 2020

Campbell, CA

Sr. Corporate Technical Recruiter

(Centric Software; Barracuda Networks)

Sourcing and Recruitment expertise for Engineering talent in both US and international markets (Italy, UK, Russia, France, Canada, China).

Work with Hiring Managers and Executives to define job requirements.

Engage both active and passive candidates through various approaches to sourcing.

Filled different level/caliber positions: Java and .Net Developers, Full-Stack Software Engineers, Data

Scientists, AWS Architects, DevOps, Cloud Engineers, UX/UI Engineers, Manufacture Specialists, Battery

Testers, QA, Sales/Marketing etc

Exceed weekly and monthly metrics; filled 5-7

openings per month.

Maintain strong work ethics, working with the

colleagues and candidates.

Participate in debrief sessions.

Offer letters Generation.

Advanced Talent Software March 2018 – Aug 2018

(contract ended)

Belmont, CA

Corporate Technical Recruiter (Roche Molecular)

Sourced, qualified and retained top-notch IT

Professionals.

Used sourcing techniques, looking for active and passive candidates.

Built relationship with Hiring Managers.

Full Cycle Recruiting.

Educated and informed business leaders on talent supply in the external marketplace.

Interviews, selection process and offers development.

Coach on providing feedback to candidates,

determining competences, conducting interviews

using in-depth behavioral and skills assessment

techniques.

Gathered feedback from Hiring Managers/Interview Panel; facilitated debrief sessions.

Pipelined Management assessing internal and

external talent pools.

Proactively managed escalation process related to all requisition activity.

Red Oak Technologies Jan 2017 – March 2018

San Jose, CA

Sr. Technical Recruiter

Full Cycle Recruiting.

Work with the prominent clients, by placing IT Talent directly to Apple, Blackhawk Network, Macy’s,

Sephora, Albertsons, Flatiron and many others.

Consistently exceed weekly and monthly metrics

goals.

Source, screen, qualify and submit top candidates.

Collaborate with Account Managers.

Work closely with VP of Business Development and VP of Operations.

Maintain strong work ethics, working with the

colleagues and candidates.

Vendors/MSA.

PDS Tech Inc. Nov 2015 – Jan 2017

San Jose, CA

Sourcing Lead

Redefined sourcing processes.

-Built Sourcing team; trained them.

-Applied Advanced Boolean Search and Xray search.

-Collaborated with Recruiting Manager.

-Sourced, screened and submitted top Engineering

candidates to Hiring Managers.

-Negotiated compensation package or hourly rate.

-Kept track of Sourcing efforts and productivity

through metrics.

-Worked closely with the Hiring Managers (Apple,

Applied Materials, FB, Frontier, Fujitsu, Cisco)

EDUCATION:

Master’s Degree: Scientific & Technical Information Systems, Eastern Europe.

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