Connie Yvette Knox

Senior Technical Recruiter

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Dynamic professional with solid experience recruiting, implementing, headcount management and optimizing HR policies, best practices, and people management methodologies within demanding work environments. Adept at leading initiatives and delivering quantifiable results to improve human resource function. Skilled in coaching staff/managers and collaborating with senior management to translate critical business needs into actionable plans. Expertise in driving open communication between management and staff to develop thriving cross-functional relationships at multiple organizational levels.

Areas of Expertise

Team Leadership

Strategic Workforce Planning

Full Life Cycle Recruitment

Networking & Referrals

Salary Negotiations

Employee Onboarding

Sourcing

Best Practices

Training & Development

Professional Experience

Meta (formerly Facebook), Menlo Park, CA 2019 – 2023

Senior Technical Recruiter

Partnered with hiring team of 20 members and guided recruitment and identified candidates for Meta FinTech, Research Scientist and UXR roles. Imparted skills, knowledge, and expertise to new recruiters, sourcers, and managers to exceed performance goals and productivity targets. Enabled and empowered recruiters and sourcers to effectively utilize Oculus 2 as well as provided training on utilizing Metaverse for recruitment initiatives.

●Consistent average of 120% total metric score across all performance rubrics for three years.

●Exceeded the partnerships team’s objective by more than 30% and achieved average pass-through rate of 95%.

●Incorporated aggressive individual hiring goal of 56% diversity hires per half of 27% benchmark and exceeded target for four out of five bi-annual performance cycles.

●Recognized as communications champion for UX research recruiting team by providing weekly “UXR WiRe” for centralized overview of critical information from leadership team as point of reference for recruiters and sourcers.

●Connected with prospects as Meta Connections Ambassador to evaluate candidate expectations and provide required resources for further discussion prior to scheduled interview, increasing offer acceptance rate by 10%.

SunTrust Corporate Banking, Atlanta, GA 2018 – 2019

AVP – Senior Talent Acquisition Corporate Recruiter, Commercial Wholesale Banking (2018 – 2019)

Delivered market/competitive intelligence and advised hiring managers on formulating effective recruitment strategies as well as long-term recruitment plans. Devised and executed sourcing plans as well as defined and implemented innovative recruitment strategies to maintain healthy pipeline and meet long-/short-term human capital needs of SunTrust. Capitalized on recruitment strategies, market research, and industry networking to recruit high-caliber human talent. Crafted and closed complex hiring deals to attract and retain top talent. Engaged leadership team to establish in-depth understanding of talent acquisition processes, outcomes, and service standards. Achieved OFCCP compliance by determining applicant pool. Developed and executed workforce strategic plans to align recruitment efforts with company goals, resulting in improved talent acquisition efficiency and managed te

●Researched labor market and competitive intelligence to identify emerging recruitment technologies to recruit top talent.

●Adopted proactive approach to source exec./senior-level contributors for commercial, technology and wholesale functions.

Guided recruitment strategy for various openings in cybersecurity (average 25-30 open job orders), managed hiring manager intake sessions, candidate identification screening/interviews, presentation to manager, and offer negotiations. Built rapport with hiring managers, HRBPs, as well as other businesses/functions and delivered support as SME on effectively meeting talent acquisition requirements. Employed in-depth industry knowledge to identify top talent and advised as well as consulted on resolving issues related to talent acquisition. Established healthy pipeline by using direct/passive sourcing techniques.

●Guided and mentored new team members to build technical expertise and excel as consummate professionals.

●Consulted with leadership for devising robust talent management, on-boarding, and new-hire retention strategies.

●Partnered with leadership teams to form common understanding of talent acquisition processes, outcomes, and service standards.

●Created and deployed offer strategies with compensation department for efficient enforcement of compensation practices.

●Sourced and recruited technical skillsets for Angular, Scala, Java, Azure, AWS, Docker, Cloud, React, Google Cloud, Ansible, Kubernetes, Python, Ruby, security engineers, AI, and other technical-level skill sets.

●Recruited and sourced: Sr. Test Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Sr. Test Automation Engineers.

The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, GA 2018

Talent Acquisition Specialist II

Enforced control over full-cycle strategic recruitment to acquire diverse human talent in areas of accounting and finance. Analyzed requirements and advised hiring manager to align work activities to meet staffing goals. Formed effective business decisions on talent management by leveraging data analytics. Conformed all work activities to FLSA regulations and guidelines as well as internal company policies. Led pre-screening of human talent against defined job requirements by capitalizing on best practices and coordinated with HRBPs to streamline offer approval process. Consulted with hiring managers during intake sessions and debriefs to improve employee experience.

●Built positive organizational image by providing memorable candidate experience.

●Recruited and sourced: Sr. Test Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Sr. Test Automation Engineers.

ACI Worldwide, Norcross, GA 2017 – 2018

Senior Global IT Recruiter

Managed full life cycle recruiting process across North America, Canada, and Latin America. Supported as talent advisor and continually explored and leveraged new channels to identify top talent. Defined talent acquisition strategies and sourced as well as qualified candidates by leveraging different recruiting methods and techniques. Formed healthy talent pipeline for hard-to-fill vacancies by employing internet research, referrals, and networking. Aligned all organizational recruiting programs/processes with company’s workforce strategic planning and headcount management and business unit goals and formed recommendations to drive improvements and talent acquisition efficiency, while minimizing costs.

●Partnered with senior leadership to discreetly recruit while managing highly sensitive and confidential information.

●Introduced efficiencies and reduced time to fill IT requisitions from 100 days on average to less than 30 days.

●Investigated and used competitive market intelligence and salary surveys, including talent neuron to create compensation benchmarks.

●Recruited and sourced: Sr. Test Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Sr. Test Automation Engineers.

Additional Experience

Senior Corporate Recruiter IT – Cox Automotive, Cox Enterprises, Atlanta, GA

●Recruited and sourced: Sr. Test Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Sr. Test Automation Engineers.

Senior Corporate Recruiter IT – Product Development & Shared Services Contractor, First Data, Atlanta, GA

●Recruited and sourced: Sr. Test Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Sr. Test Automation Engineers.

Senior Talent Acquisition Corporate Recruiter, SunTrust Corporate Banking, Atlanta, GA

●Recruited and sourced: Sr. Test Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Sr. Test Automation Engineers.

Senior Technical Recruiter (VMS), The Bartech Group, Bingham Farms, MI

●Recruited and sourced: Sr. Test Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Sr. Test Automation Engineers.

Talent Acquisition Manager/Recruiter, Coliseum Health System (HCA), Macon, GA

Contract Vendor Manager (VMS), AGILE-1, Atlanta, GA

Corporate Recruiter – IT, ACS, Atlanta, GA

Senior Technical Recruiter/Account Manager, AT@TECH, Atlanta, GA

Senior Technical Recruiter/Account Manager, MIT Consulting, Atlanta, GA

Technical Recruiter/Account Manager, Camden Vale Corporation, Atlanta, GA

Quality Control, Census Bureau, Conyers, GA

Sales Representative, Peachtree Software, Norcross, GA

Contract Sales Representative, Bellsouth (Spherion), Atlanta, GA

Insurance Adviser/Call Center – Team Lead, Consumer Financial Network, Duluth, GA

Personal Account Executive, Aon Risk Services of Georgia, Atlanta, GA

Insurance Counselor, Geico Insurance Co., Macon, GA

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Communications (Coursework Completed)

Mercer University, Macon, GA (Tentative Completion Date- 2024)

Technical Proficiencies

Microsoft Office Suite, MS, MS Outlook, PeopleSoft, QuickBooks Pro, Recruitmax, VURV, UltiPro, Hiremax, Peopleclick, Avature, Acceleration VMS, eTEMP, Taleo, LAWSON, TestSource, BULLHORN, Fieldglasss, Kenexa, Workday, Montage, SmashFly, Conducted web-based Recruiter training on a software application, v7.1 for VURV, Kenexa

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