Kelly Johnston

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Cincinnati, OH 45248

Cell 859-***-**** adcibk@r.postjobfree.com

Talent Acquisition & Recruiting

Senior recruiter with experience in both corporate & agency recruiting. Collaborative and strategic partner with a passion for tackling today's biggest recruiting challenges. Success achieved through building trusted business relationships. I am a professional with a positive attitude, high energy and a strong sense of urgency.

Developed and executed key talent initiatives across varying sizes of companies and types of industries, with proven results. I have built scalable and optimal processes to uniquely support the needs of stakeholders.

Areas of Expertise:

Agency & Corporate Recruiting Campus Recruiting Exceptional People Skills

Project Management Social Media best practices Metric Tracking & Reporting

AIRS Certified ATS & HRIS Systems Strategic Sourcing & Recruiting

Professional Experience:

Meggitt Engine Systems July 2019-April 2020

Sr. Recruiter (Contract)

Sole recruiter for an Aerospace industrial manufacturing facility of approx 550 employees.

Averaged 15 hires per month (contractors & employees) with position ranged from quality technicians, composite technicians, machine operation and engineering technicians.

Partnered with local manufacturing technical schools & colleges in recruiting nee graduates

Managed recruiting database & reporting

Assisted with On-boarding new employees.

Business Review Services May2019- July 2019

Advertising Sales & Freelance Writer Summer Project

Sell advertising space, write articles and manage a direct mail publication including, SEO & Social Media Marketing for an annual publication for North Indy called “Local Business Making an Impact in the Community”.

Encore Technologies, Cincinnati, OH January 2018-May 2019

Sr. Technical Recruiter (Corporate & Agency Model)

Recruited for key accounts in an agency setting.

Manage Encore’s internal corporate campus recruiting program.

Develop relationships with key contacts at Universities & Technical Schools keeping candidate pipeline

Qualify candidates on quality, availability and deliverability

Build strong relationships with candidates through meetings, networking and referrals

L3 Technologies, Space & Sensors Technology Center, Mason, OH

Human Resources & Recruiting (Contractor) June 2016-December 2017

Manage & Transform the Co-Op program into an industry competitive Leadership program, the “Farm Team”.

Managed L3’s corporate recruiting program & partnered with Senior Managers in curriculum development.

Managed strategic sourcing & talent acquisition for niche engineering, sales and operation positions. Managed implementation of project initiatives to support long-term business goals. A key member of the HR team charged with revamping HR & recruiting project initiatives for competitive advantage to include;

Rapport building with hiring managers, expectation setting, daily/weekly debriefs, quarterly review of HM evaluations & analysis on HR/recruiting support experience for aptitude awareness & improvements.

Improve vendor partnerships; Teamed with Program Manager of L3’s Managed Service Provider (MSP) to manage & improve the Vendor Management Systems (VMS) for contingent employees.

Advance candidate & on-boarding experience; Partner with HRIS team to improve application method, transforming to user & mobile friendly experience. Present recommendations to improve candidate first impression; first contact, interview process, on-boarding, benefit overview, 90 day & 6 months check-in for process improvement ideas.

Continuous Improvement; Partnered with HRBP’s on evaluating & recommending updates on 65 HR policies.

Data Analytics; Administer Power BI reporting proving metric reporting from HRIS System. Managed strategic goals to keep division accountable and above target on metric goals. Affirmative Action, & Bowler Chart Reporting.

Brand Improvement; Partner with Marketing to refresh Recruitment Branding and Marketing.

HireMoxie November 2014- June 2016

Senior Account Executive February 2009 – September 2011

Boutique HR & Recruiting agency which provides opportunity to wear many hats. Clients range from small marketing/advertising companies to large fortune 500 companies in the following industries: Accounting/Finance, Mechanical, Electrical and Process Engineering, Direct Marketing, Pharmaceutical, Restaurant, Retail, Telecommunication, Technology and Sales and Marketing Industries.

Responsible for full cycle recruiting (Business Development, Client Management, Sourcing, Recruiting)

Provided high quality client service for all phases and all levels of Recruiting

Client projects range from RPO (Recruitment process outsourcing) to Human Resource Project Management.

Intermediate computer skills: ATS Systems, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Word.

Ensured a smooth transition in the HRIS/ATS roll-over from old ADP to new ADP; executive level recruiting,

Yoh, A Day & Zimmermann Company onsite at GE Aviation

Senior Recruiter September 2011- December 2014

Responsible for RPO recruiting and managing the recruiting process for GE Aviation’s Product Integration Center and Supply Chain groups. This includes but is not limited to recruiting Mechanical, Electrical Design Engineers and Assembly and Test technicians.

Provide strategic support to the business by consulting on the process, compliance and expectation setting.

Responsible for full life cycle recruiting for mid to senior level engineers.

Managed specials project to streamline recruiting across all GE companies.

Assist in stream-lining recruiting process for GE Corporation across all business units resulting in a more efficient practices reducing time to fill as well as significantly improving client and candidate experience.

Harte-Hanks, Inc. (Public Company; HHS; Marketing and Advertising industry)

Human Resource Manager & Recruiter June 2004 – February 2009

Harte-Hanks is a worldwide direct marketing and target media company offering data-driven marketing services to clients in several industries.

A key member of management team responsible for the strategic direction and the total human resource & recruiting function for Harte-Hanks National Markets Organization. Lead a 6 person recruiting team, reduced the average time-to-fill from a 4 to 6 month fill rate to a 1 to 2 month fill rate.

Responsible for the entire recruiting high level sales and management professionals for our five verticals: Financial, Retail, Technology/ Telecommunications, Pharmaceutical and Select Markets (Automotive, Non-for profit and Government).

In the first twelve months of employment, streamlined key recruiting vendor relationships and reduced agency fees from $500K to $200K annual. In the second year reduced an additional 50% bringing the standard payout to recruiters $100K per year.

Grant Thornton (Large Public Accounting Firm)

Recruiter June 2000 – June 2004

Managed key recruiting initiatives including; recruiting department structure development, cost per hire creation, college recruiting seminars, HRIS development, employee referral program, recruiting strategy and processes, Internet/Intranet website development (careers section), relocation policy improvement, applicant & EEOC tracking policy.

Responsible for full life cycle recruiting, utilize the following: internet (resume search and position posting), employee referral, direct recruit, networking, company website, search firms, job fairs (on-line & in-person).

Providyn, Inc. (Small Boutique Recruiting Company)

Recruiting and Corporate Research Consultant August 1997 – June 2000

Database Management: Utilized diverse tracking systems within internal database, maintained database integrity. Created and managed recruiting SAP research project for Big 4 consulting firm and developed a database of web designers and developers for client. Managed database project for major pharmaceutical company.

Education: Anderson University B.A. Major Sociology, Minor Education, 1996

AIRS Certified. ATS systems: HRISon, Bullhorn, Taleo, ICIMS. CATS, Ultipro, Brass Ring/Hire Systems, ADP, Salesforce and VMS Systems include Koncert & Beeline.

*References available upon request.

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