BRANDON TAYLOR

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A strong Talent Partner that executes clean and concise hiring plans; that are designed to reduce Time to Fill, with top tier talent. Strategic, in sourcing and tapping into both active and passive talent pipelines, to partner with candidates, matching them to the best opportunity for them. Thorough throughout, the entire hiring process, to ensure that the candidate has a positive start to their next opportunity. Effective in serving as an advocate for both candidate and company. Prior experience in lead capacity roles, included the management and development of teams upwards of 170 resources.

Last 12 Months Placements

Snr Full Stack Engineer 4

Jr Full Stack Engineer 4

Front End React Developer 6

Snr Cloud Architect (AWS/ Azure) 4

CFO 1

Controller 2

Snr Network Engineer 1

Embedded Systems Engineer 2

Accounting Manager 3

Senior Accountant 3

Project Executive 3

Project Manager 2

CISO 3

YNESP – OWNER 2018 – Current

• Identified active and passive talent for career placement in technical based roles.

• Sourced talent via, Social Media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter), Job boards (Indeed, LinkedIn, BarefootStudent, Monster, CareerBuilder, Dice and Craigslist) and self-designed Social Sourcing Strategies to produce top-level talent

• Assisted in consultant relocation plans

• Negotiated contract values to bring in talent at market value

• Aligned consultants with opportunities best matched to experience and goals

• Pilot new requirements and help hiring manager establish guidelines to capitalize on fast moving talent in an fast moving market.

• Train and develop talent acquisition teams for start ups, by identifying strong personality traits to help connect with talent.

• Design recruiting plans for start-up clients, while assessing money spent on recruiting tools, improving on ROI from a TA perspective.

• Lead junior recruiting resources, On-Site, Remote within the US, Nearshore and Offshore.

• Partner with hiring managers in creating reasonable hiring timelines, building relationships that operate in more of a partnership as opposed to just a tool.

• Creating value in candidates by presenting market analysis to Hiring Managers.

• Provided contingent hiring solutions for large and small companies, both in high volume and complex hiring demands.

• Supported clients across multiple verticals, including technical, accounting, sales and marketing based roles.

o Clients Include – Amazon IBM Microsoft Google FLAWLESS RECRUIT

April 2022 – February 2023

Recruiting Consultant

IBM CONTRACT May

2022 - July 2022

Senior Technical Recruiter

GOOGLE CONTRACT October

2021 - March 2022

Senior UI/UX Technical Recruiter

KIN AND CARTA September

2021 - June 2022

Technical Recruiter

AMAZON March 2021

- September 2021

Technical Recruiter

GALAXE SOLUTIONS – FTE October

2020 - March 2021

Technical Recruiter

• Sourced talent through a variety of tools and applications and managed job boards for current openings

• Thoroughly vetted candidates on technical skills and knowledge to improve candidate quality and selection rates

• Investigated candidate backgrounds, reaching out to referrals as an additional source to better present candidates to clients

• Worked with potential new vendors and got them added to approved vendor lists to better support Galaxe Solutions growing business needs

• Designed Recruiting structure to manage a full pipeline of talent

• Negotiated pay rate, on FTE, C2C, and W2 basis

BROOKSOURCE AURORA HEALTHCARE August

2020 - October 2020

IT Analyst

• Troubleshot and supported end-users on a variety of different applications including Epic, and other required applications

• Assigned tickets to different departments as needed

• Provided follow-up support for escalated tickets

• Completed support requests within the team as needed

• Provided training to new users during transition time to new applications PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TEKSYSTEMS – FTE September

2019 - July 2020

National Big Data and Cloud Architect Recruiter

• Designed marketing plans to engage specific talent through a wide variety of tools, including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, among others

• Vetted potential candidates, on knowledge of requirements

• Became more knowledgeable in recruiting specialty by taking additional course to better improve candidate selection rate

• Partnered with recruiting account managers, in presenting best candidates for openings, by better qualifying requirements and the specified project details

• Matched potential consultants to various requirements based on interests and experience

• Negotiated rates with consultants on FTE, C2c, W2 basis

• Analyzed market information to present complete inside look at potential opportunities, including cost of living, to better prepare candidates on potential requirements MANPOWERGROUP INC September 2017 -

September 2019

CORE - Recruiting Lead

• Responsible for team management

• Performance tracking and forecasting future requirements

• Designed recruiting pathway to reduce time to fill on hard to fill requirements

• Managing social media and talent engagement pages

• Trained on-site, remote and off-shore resources

• Managed talent partners and assigned Snr Recruiters to continue follow a training pathway to improve ramp up time for recruiters

• Managed marketing services and cut cost for adverts focused on targeted candidates

• Responsible for converting data into descriptive tables to provide additional insight to leadership, on top performing recruiters, markets, requirements as well as overlaying areas of improvement from a recruiting strategy standpoint

• Supported team needs beyond just recruiting

• Piloted multiple new recruiting tools

• Served as a QA during an implementation of new products, tools and role out of new technology

• Managed tickets and provided support of technical issues

• Managed inventory and kept accurate counts of computers and equipment that were being used

• Served as reserve manager to a team of over 120 recruiters and approving PTO, scheduling and running 1 on 1 meetings with individual recruiters either face to face or remotely MANPOWER June

2015 - August 2017

Recruiting Specialist

• Placed ads through job boards such as CareerBuilder, Monster and Indeed

• Used social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to find undiscovered talent

• Assisted in the implementation of a Social Media Training program to allow for greater team involvement

• Developed and manage multiple Facebook pages targeted for certain markets to build a more effective social media sourcing and recruiting plan

• Determined if candidates skills, education and enthusiasm will allow for success in position of interest

• Sell the position to the targeted candidate on benefits, earning potential and potential career growth, to increase the level of interest on the candidates end

• Worked with Project managers to establish a testimonial recruiting plan that would include involvement of current employees

• Spoke on the experience of an active employee in the role

• This would be used to set expectations of potential candidates on the successes and the struggles faced in the position

• Doing so this is going to reduce the dropout rate of candidates

• This will also allow for a greater amount of insight on the end of the recruiters as to where we could improve

• Involved directly and indirectly in training new employees, allowing for new employees to find success and comfort at a faster pace

• Reached or exceeded monthly performance goals, 10 of 12 months

• Increased performance by training and coaching other recruiters in hard to market and source areas FRONTIER AIRLINES July

2013 - May 2015

Reservation Agent

• Assisted passengers in booking new and perspective travel

• Troubleshoot website errors for passengers experiencing website issues

• Assisted in the training and coaching of new hire agents

• Floor walked in assisting newer and experienced agents in navigating computer system

• Assisted in the correction of other agents errors as well as my own on booked reservations

• Provided detailed information to passengers who are dealing with stressful travel situations (ie flight delays due to weather, mechanical and or general flight schedule changes)

• Found alternate flights and routes of travel for passenger misconnecting on flight to complete travel EDUCATION

MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE

2008 - 2010

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PLATTEVILLE

2006 - 2008

ATS

Workday (expert) Bullhorn (advanced)

Salesforce (expert) Beamery (advanced)

Greenhouse (expert)

Icims (advanced)

Avature (advanced)

Bamboo (advanced)

Certifications

• Python Certification

• Google Technical Certification

• Java (Currently attending)

• Advanced Boolean

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