Talent Acquisition Human Resources

BRIAN C. SANDERSON PHR MHRIR

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Career Summary

Human resources professional with well-rounded background specializing in talent acquisition, sourcing, and employer branding. Has developed strong recruitment strategies with keen interest in employee engagement and organizational development.

Professional Experience

DMC Inc., Chicago IL 5/23-5/24

Recruiting & Onboarding Specialist

•Lead full cycle recruitment for a variety of tech solutions roles including full stack application developers, automation and embedded engineers, IT solutions consultants, and business analysts.

•Collaborated with stakeholders for all 8+ hiring locations, receiving frequent accolades from both leadership and eventual hires for diligence and dedication to positive hiring and onboarding experiences.

•Primary onboarding coordinator for new hires, from coordinating travel for training, leading classes, and answering any questions regarding company benefits enrollment, to improve 3+ month retention/improved onboarding survey results.

•Identified efficiency concerns with existing ATS system; lead the research and identification effort to select new ATS system, which would improve hiring efficiency by 80%.

Saolmaith LLC, Chicago IL 1/20-5/23

Executive Search Sourcing Specialist

•Screened, sourced, and organized weekly candidate information for executive suite talent acquisition searches at start-up recruiting firm.

•Point contact between recruiters and external web developers to build out a functional recruitment application that enabled automated candidate matching and reduced sourcing avg. cycle by 5 days.

•Developed algorithm to provide a framework of “weighting” required job skills and candidate alignment to implement DEI best practices and enable more objective hiring.

•Conducted market research with prospective clients to guide efforts in Talent Acquisition.

Entertainment Cruises (“City Cruises”), Chicago, IL 7/18 -11/19

People & Payroll Specialist

•Served as primary point of contact for full-time recruitment; conducted phone screens, interviews, and final recommendations of best candidates to hiring managers for final round interviews.

•Organized all full-time hires in ATS, led new hire onboarding, and ensured new employees were in system for first paycheck with 0% error rate.

•Maintained sliding headcount (50 to 900) based on seasonal employment needs. Terminated temporary employees with special status to ensure new hire eligibility.

•Tracked and adjusted incentives, retroactive payments, and payroll additions.

Critical Skills

Full Cycle Recruitment

Offer Negotiation & Delivery

ATS Troubleshooting

Sourcing & Screening

Employee Relations

Needs Assessment

Campus Recruitment

HRIS

DEI

HRIS/ATS Systems Utilized

Workday

Greenhouse

Boolean

Ultipro

Oracle

Paylocity

Education and Professional Credentials

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Master of Human Resources & Industrial Relations December 2016

Bachelor of Science, Psychology and Sociology Cum Laude, May 2015

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