Stephanie Barbu Contact: (cell) 408-***-**** ad3hmc@r.postjobfree.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-barbu-92459155/ Location: Remote or Austin (and surrounding area), TX SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

● Management: Upskill team members while empowering creative problem solving. Conduct regular

(monthly/quarterly) reviews with key stakeholders, communicating achievements, formulating strategies for roadblocks, and sharing opportunities for improvement for both recruiting and supported service lines.

● Partnership: Creative and driven, able to build trusting relationships with both candidates and stakeholders. Confident, able to address client or candidate concerns quickly and effectively.

● Training & Development: Extensive experience using an applicant tracking system (ATS) for managing the end to end sourcing process and ensuring that the recruitment team is effectively using it. Proven track record of building out recruiting operations to operate seamlessly such as automated workflow, creative sourcing tools, training others on best ways to utilize the ATS, understanding data analysis for better candidate Passthrough Rates (PTR) at every interview stage.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Meta Platforms Inc (formerly Facebook), October 2016- March 2023 Recruiting Manager Nov 2021-2023

**impacted by the Meta Warn Act layoffs, along with 21,000 other Meta peers

● People Management: Led a team of 16 direct reports within a broader team of 40. Conducted weekly 1:1s, set quotas, benchmarks and goals. Worked in collaboration with senior recruitment leaders building TA strategy, including a best practices playbook that was implemented across the TA organization

● Provide purpose and direction to my team by communicating a clear vision and empowering them to do impactful work by removing barriers

● Prioritize and distribute daily/weekly client requirements to the team, motivate & guide the team to deliver to established metrics

● Work with hiring teams, cross-functional stakeholders, HRBP's, and my Director/VPs to improve hiring processes with a focus on velocity, pass through rates, and outcomes

● Responsible for individual and team’s annual and quarterly hiring quotas;

Consumer Marketing grew from ~250 (when I joined in 2016) to ~over 700

● Responsible for DEI company goals, teaching and mentoring on how to find diverse talent and being intentional in increasing the % of DEI talent recruited through implementing weekly talent drives

● Drove talent pipeline planning and effective sourcing strategy for 3,000 person business unit's hiring needs over a 12-month horizon

● Exceptional at service recovery; flexible, able to adapt to changing client priorities

● Experience in aligning sourcing strategy to attract and identify top talent to support business goals, job requirements and culture

● Developed innovative sourcing strategies to drive high performance across my sector and Provided strategic direction on developing recruiting strategies when coaching team direct reports Lead Sourcer Oct 2016- Nov 2021 (Consistently met 120% ++ of my quota until my promotion to Manager)

● Recruiting experience covering all levels from senior individual contributors to Managers, Directors and VPs while specializing in Marketing, Sales and Integrated Media (digital media managers, social media managers, integrated media managers, marketing insight researchers, marketing managers, comms planning, brand strategy)

● Excellent at market mapping and research capabilities combined with strong project management skills to build and maintain a network of potential candidates.

● Proactive at market research and on-going relationship management; conduct in-depth screening of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high interview-to-offer ratios

● Led diversity (DEI) hiring strategy through training and leading our sourcing/recruiting sessions

● Advised & educated managers on internal / external sourcing processes. Provided timely and service-oriented communication and services to hiring managers regarding candidate, screening, selection, offer letters, and onboarding

● Develop long-term recruiting strategies. Source candidates using social platforms. Build a promising pipeline of candidates

Alphabet Inc., Nest (via Nelson Staffing) Technical Recruiter (contractor), October 2015 - October 2016

● Sourced on high-priority technical backend software reqs focusing on cloud development, data and real-time systems. Met 125% of my quota.

● Created and branded a competitive intelligence weekly publication for the recruiting team. Reported on relevant news within talent-competitive companies. Focus was to report on layoffs, changes in leadership, downsizing, reorgs, earnings misses, and mergers and acquisitions. The focus brought about from this publication yielded us 285 on-site interviews, 30 offers extended and 25 hires.

● Program managed multiple third-party agencies. Review technical resume submittals, manage daily communications, and provide calibration and feedback.

● Spearheaded a recruiting tools study to identify and pilot new cutting-edge resources available to the recruiting professionals. Provided an analysis and recommendation based on increase in recruiter productivity, effectiveness, cost, functionality and usability.

● Created recruiting events program for Nest. Researched relevant conferences, strategized planning and execution focused on long-term pipeline generation.

● Managed and tracked ROI and future pipeline for our Google i/O and WWDC events as well as other external conferences.

GuideSpark Inc. (fast pace startup focused on video content)) Senior Recruiter, Aug 2014- Aug 2015

(1 of 2 Executive Recruiters responsible for the total of company’s hiring goals)

● Responsible for full-cycle recruitment for all open design roles, writers, engineering, sales, G&A, Finance, Product and Operations. Grew the company from a 70 person startup to 300+ in 12 months.

● Trained new hiring managers on best interview practices to evaluate candidates. Developed a training manual and conducted training for future interviewers.

● Created and managed Guidespark’s first university recruiting and summer internship program. Built relationships with university career centers and college graduate diversity programs, developed budget proposal, outlined summer activities for interns, and designed the cumulative projects and presentations. SoloPoint Solutions (Recruiting Agency) Account Manager & Technical Recruiter, Jul 2013 – Aug 2014

● Responsible for business development, account management and recruiting in the high-tech industry.

● Built, grew, and maintained partnerships with clients to ensure recruiting functions met their business needs.

● Responsible for recruiting engineering candidates in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing resources and QA. The Bay Club Company Sales Director Jul 2010 – Jul 2013

● Created an advertising strategy and corporate sales to allow discounts to local companies to be offered as a supplement to corporate wellness programs and bring in large batch revenue.

● Accountable for a monthly Sales 51% increase to prior sales goal, bringing and closing new business in a month-to-month format. Received 100% Club Award for reaching all of my monthly quotas.

● Built referral program to drive revenue and brand awareness. EDUCATION

University of California, Santa Cruz 2010 Bachelor of Arts (Major in Law; Minor in Italian)

Fluent in French and English, moderate in Italian and Spanish

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