Talent Acquisition Specialist and Project Lead
Resume:
AMANDA DAVIS
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Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
Consultative, strategic, data-driven professional that exceeds goals for hiring while promoting a positive, inclusive environment. Able to navigate competing priorities in complex, matrixed organizations to deliver top talent across technical and non-technical roles. Experience in management consulting and technology industries with the ability to learn new industries quickly. Expertise includes advising stakeholders using talent, market, industry, and competitor research and insights to create sourcing and workforce strategies. Contract Talent Acquisition Specialist, April 2023 – Current
• Worked with F500 AEC Firm, AECOM, to expand talent pools, support recruiting efforts on hard-to-fill roles, develop proactive sourcing pipelines, create talent maps, map target companies by business line and geography, research compete compensation and salaries, and upskill employees across Microsoft technology stack including Teams, SharePoint, and Power BI. (EOR – Artech, April-June)
• Worked with small and medium businesses on a project-by-project basis expanding candidate pipelines by 32%, creating sourcing strategies, growing talent pools and communities by 56%, and improving internal productivity by 33%. (Davis Due Diligence, LLC)
• Created a website, CRM, recruitment marketing campaign, monetized job board, and online learning platform for an outplacement firm resulting in 1100 job postings, 850 job leads, 115 community members, 225 job interviews, and 77 hires in four months. (Davis Due Diligence, LLC)
• Created Power BI reports and dashboards for F100 leadership measuring team productivity and talent pipeline metrics. (Davis Due Diligence, LLC)
• Developed Business Plan for boutique, executive search firm including market research, market analysis, competitive analysis, and location analysis resulting in the approval of $475k in start-up funds. (Davis Due Diligence, LLC) MICROSOFT - Dallas, TX
Talent Acquisition (FTE); September 2017 – March 2023 Talent Sourcer (SearchWizards for Microsoft); May 2015 – August 2017
• Mentored, led, and coached teams of eight to identify, attract and hire talent for Microsoft’s GTM, Services Engineering, and Regulated Industry teams resulting in top team and individual results year over year.
• Full-cycle recruitment of top diverse and compete talent from initial intake to offer across sales, engineering, customer success, and leadership roles for Microsoft’s full technology stack – cloud (infrastructure, security, cybersecurity, data governance), data (SQL, AI, ML, Analytics), apps (Dynamics C+E, F&O, M365), and business intelligence (Power Platform).
• Used internal data to create automated, proactive sourcing pipelines and strategies that improved time-to-fill by 46%, improved pipeline diversity by 46%, and improved submit to offer metrics by 68% in less than six months.
• Consistently exceeded hiring goals by more than 40% by using complex search strings across multiple channels – Google, Bing, LinkedIn, MeetUp, Stack Overflow, Facebook, Twitter, GitHub, and more resulting in 80-100 offers per year.
• Developed strong partnerships with stakeholders by understanding critical business needs, executing on candidate generation strategies, and providing staffing expertise.
• Developed and executed candidate generation strategies of high-quality candidates including talent mapping of compete organizations and translating strategies into action plans using strong cultivation, sourcing, and closing capabilities.
• Maintained appropriate documentation of all activities to ensure policies and legal requirements complied with applicable laws.
• Led and contributed to 6-8 global projects annually to optimize, automate, and improve recruitment strategies, hiring processes, and team productivity.
Awards and Acknowledgement:
• FY21 – Senior Leadership Acknowledgement for identifying gaps in internal recruiting platform and creating Power BI Reports, Dashboards, and Power Apps to overcome deficiencies. Analyzed and visualized data points to create ‘self-serve’, automated sourcing strategies improving overall sourcing efficiency by 36%, time-to-fill by ten days, and submit to offer by 35% resulting in 369 team offers in six months. Shared knowledge across business lines to other talent teams resulting in an additional 500+ offers in Engineering in six months from utilization of strategy and data modeling techniques.
• FY20 – ‘Team Impact Award’ - Led a team of eight Sourcers that grew GTM’s Enterprise Commercial Business Applications Team by 17% (700+ hires) in under 120 days; exceeded all hiring goals by more than 30% across five performance indicators.
• FY19 – Recipient of ‘OneGTA Award’ for successfully leading a global, complex project team tasked with merging three separate talent teams into a ‘ONE GTA’ Model. Delivered Standard Operating Procedures, Process Flows, Stakeholder SLA’s and Contracting Agreements, Desktop Procedures, Job Aids, Learning Bootcamps, Onboarding Material and Checklists, performance expectations and metrics, and clearly defined goals with measurable and actionable outcomes based on user adoption. AMANDA DAVIS
ONESOURCE FOR DELOITTE DIGITAL- Dallas, TX
Talent Acquisition Consultant (Contract); August 2013 – April 2015
• Full-cycle recruiting for Principal/Partner, Director, Associate Principal/Partner roles across Federal agencies. Maintained requisition loads of 35-45 job openings, an average closing date of 60 days, and exceeded metrics in activities in hiring by 100-140% in FY14 and FY15.
• Led a Sourcing Roadmap and Talent Market Mapping Project at Deloitte for US and India sourcing teams from concept through global implementation.
SEARCHWIZARDS FOR ACCENTURE - Dallas, TX
Talent Acquisition Consultant (Contract); August 2010 – Sept 2013
• Responsible for high-volume sourcing and recruitment of passive, technical candidates for consulting and technical roles across multiple industries. Maintained requisition loads of 55-65 job openings, an average closing date of 30 days, and exceeded metrics in activities and hiring by 60 – 140% in FY10, FY11, FY12.
• Key contributor at Accenture in a Senior Executive Research and Knowledge Management Pilot that reduced agency spend by $4.3m within the first six months of implementation.
FRANKLIN ASSOCIATES EXECUTIVE SEARCH - Fort Worth, TX Research Consultant August 1994 – July 2010
• Provided research services for retained search firm to multiple clients for senior level candidates across multiple industries including healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, technology, and consumer products.
• Heavy research of market and industry trends to identify appropriate candidate pool as defined by search criteria. Completed research and executed deliverables by using traditional and non-traditional identification methods.
• Responsible for name generation (including contact details), talent mapping (org charting), and delivering a consistent pipeline of candidates as defined in the statement of work from stakeholders. EDUCATION
Gilmer High School, Gilmer, TX; High School Diploma TJC, Tyler, TX; Classwork, Practicum and Internship completed for degree in Clinical Counseling and Psychology (six hours classwork remaining)
COMPUTER SKILLS
PCR, Taleo, AIRS, SmartRecruiter, Avature, Canva, HubSpot, ReqCloud, TalentNeuron, GitHub, Power Apps, Power Automate, SeekOut, iCIMS Super User, TEAMS Champion, Exelare (CBiz), e-Rec, HireEZ, M365 including OneNote, Excel, SharePoint, Forms, Power BI, Sway, Stream, Planner, Visio, Dynamics 365 Onboarding, LinkedIn Certified Recruiter (exp 2/2020), AppSheet, Additional Training
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