PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Talent Acquisition Leader, QE&A Practice
Cognizant Technology Solutions – Atlanta, GA
Led a team of recruiters focused on Executive-level hiring for Cognizant’s Quality Engineering and Assurance (QE&A) Practice. Cognizant’s QE&A Practice partners with clients to bolster development initiatives, providing reliable support across a range of hardware, software, testing infrastructure, and testing products that ensure test coverage and drive product quality.
- Area Expertise: Test Architecture, Intelligent Automation, DevOps, QA, Program Management, Analytics, Machine Learning, and IoT.
- Hiring Focus: Sr. Managers, Directors, AVP and VP levels.
- Training Programs: Delivered recruitment training for all 150+ Executive Recruitment team, including 35-40 offshore recruiters. SUMMARY
I advise Leadership on HR and TA
digital transformation strategies, and
tech investments by spotting market
trends, identifying gaps in the HR/TA
ecosystem, developing data-driven
insights, forming hypotheses and
synthesizing conclusions into
recommendations.
As a Talent Strategist, I thrive on
solving business challenges and
identifying root causes of complex
issues impacting talent attraction,
sourcing, recruiting, and onboarding.
I apply design-led thinking to
develop actionable and scalable
solutions.
STRENGTHS
• TA market analysis- identifying
migratory trends, patterns
• Advisory consulting - innovation,
strategy & emerging trends
• Design-led thinking, problem-
solving, and consulting
• Analytics and insights storytelling
through data visualization
• Market and competitive intelligence
- analysis and insights
• HR / TA Digital transformation -
technology adoption / change
management
• Workshop facilitation and creative
collaboration
• Recruiter Training & Mentoring
• HR/TA Process Automation
Talent Acquisition Leader, Global
Cognizant, Talent Innovation CoE – Atlanta, GA
As the Head of Cognizant’s Talent Innovation CoE, I led a global team of 12 recruiting specialists with the goal of enabling 160+ recruiters across the Americas to achieve 10K+ annual hires. Our team focused on driving HR and TA transformation initiatives, improving recruiting processes (e.g., CX, D&I, Branding/Marketing), delivering data-driven talent strategies, talent research and pipelining. We partnered with internal stakeholders to understand their pain-points, co-created, designed and developed scalable talent solutions. We delivered talent insights through storytelling and data visualization that influenced decision-making.
12.2016 – 02.2020
Talent Strategy & Planning
- Operation Model & Org Design
- Sourcing Strategy & Approach
- Planning & Forecasting
- Talent Strategy & Delivery
- Process Automation/Optimization
- Diversity & Inclusion Strategy
- Candidate Experience (CX)
Talent Intelligence / Research
- Talent Market Analysis
- Geo / Competitor Mapping
- Talent Persona Mapping
- Diversity & Inclusion - Research
- Talent Recruitment Marketing
- Talent Engagement & Pipelining
- Sourcing Programs
A seasoned TA Leader
& Strategist with over
20 years of experience
delivering results
for top-tier companies
including Amazon,
Capgemini, Deloitte,
EY, and Microsoft.
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MICHAEL MARLATT
People Analytics & Insights
- Storytelling through data
- Performance Dashboards
- Self-service Analytics
- Recruiting Effort-Analysis
- Measurement of Sentiment
Analysis, Employee Experience,
Candidate Experience
HR Technology& Transformation
- HR Tech Benchmarking & ROI
Analysis
- HR/TA Tool Utilization and
Effectiveness dashboards
- Technology Enablement &
Transformation
- Robotics Process Automation
Areas of Expertise & Programs Managed (see page 3 for details): ENTREPRENEURSHIP (2010-2014):
• Founded and launched North America's
first Mobile Recruiting Conference
(MREC) in San Francisco
• Ignited a national discussion on how to
attract and engage talent through mobile
innovation and technology
• Oversaw events of 200-300 participants
in multiple cities including San Francisco
and Atlanta, GA
• Mobile Recruiting “SME” Architect -
regularly consulted with clients nationwide
and delivered talks on how to leverage
mobile technology to attract and engage
talent
• Trained on the topic of mobile recruiting
design, implementation, and best practice
PAST SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
• Sourcecon (2008)
• ERE Expo (2008)
• ERE, Social Recruiting Summit at
Google’s Corporate HQ - (2009)
• SHRM EMA (2010)
• RecruitDC (2010)
• Jobs2Web User Conference (2011)
• Mobile Recruiting Conference (MREC)
(2011-2014)
• Atlanta Social Media Conference
• Atlanta Recruiter Assoc. (Atlanta-TAG)
• Minnesota Recruiter Association
• Seattle Recruiter Association
• Tennessee Recruiter Association
• BrightTALK - "Mobile Recruiting: How to
Balance Innovation and Execution" (2014)
VIEW PAST PRESENTATIONS
https://www.slideshare.net/michaelmarlatt
MOST POPULAR PPT (100K+ VIEWS)
“Future of Recruiting is in the Cloud”
EDUCATION
Appalachian State University (ASU)
Bachelor of Science, Psychology / Prelaw
ASU LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES
- Founding Father & Fraternity President
of Theta Chi (Theta Omega Chapter)
- Student Government, Chief-of-Staff
- Student Government, Senator (2 yrs.)
- Student Ambassador (1 yr.)
- Student Judicial Board, Member (1 yr.)
National Recruiting Lead (ERP & CRM)
Capgemini – Atlanta, GA
National Recruiting Lead for Capgemini’s Telecom, Media & Networks
(TMN) Practice. I managed the full-lifecycle recruiting function for the SAP, Oracle, and CRM. In addition, I supported campus hiring, as well as delivered recruiting training at a national level. 07.2000 – 10.2003
National Recruiting Lead
Amdocs Consulting – Atlanta, GA
Managed full-lifecycle recruiting process as the National Recruiting Lead for the Amdocs Consulting (a new division of Amdocs) Core responsibilities: Sourced, screened and closed all consulting offers. Technical areas of recruiting focus included identifying professional services consultants with Telecom, OSS/BSS, and CRM design, architecture, and implementation experience.
12.2004 – 05.2006
Recruiting Leader, Southzone
Ernst & Young, LLP – Atlanta, GA
Managed a team responsible for delivering full-lifecycle recruiting process for E&Y’s Technology & Security Risk Services (TSRS) Practice for the Southzone. Partnered with EY’s Head of the TSRS Practice in the South. Sourced, and screened IT Auditors, Managers, Senior Managers, Directors, etc.
12.2003 – 12.2004
Principal Consultant & Entrepreneur
(Exbig5 thru Search Wizards, Inc.) – Atlanta, GA
Former Recruiting Consultant, Talent Strategist, Staffing Team Lead, Talent Sourcing SME, and TA Tools/Recruitment Trainer. My contract consulting roles have included a wide range of recruitment activities including campus and experienced hiring, talent sourcing, talent strategy, social media community management, recruiter training, mobile recruiting strategy, design, development, and implementation. Notable Contract Recruiting Assignments:
07.2006 – 01.2015
ExBig5
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MICHAEL MARLATT
Transformation Engagements / Programs (2016 – 2020) In late 2016, the Talent Innovation & Design Lab was launched as a means to drive innovative thinking into our Talent Acquisition organization. This Innovation CoE team helped to radically transform Cognizant’s talent acquisition organization across the Americas. Sample of Programs Managed (Not all inclusive):
Improved Analytics & Insights: Led a project team of TA data analysts responsible for designing and implementing Talent Analytics & Insights capability across the Americas. Transformed disparate and unreliable data reporting from archaic (manually created) files to interactive on-demand dashboards.
Increased Hiring Efficiency through Recruitment Funnel Analysis: Conducted quarterly audits of total recruitment workflow to identify gaps, make recommendations, and improve hiring workflow.
Implemented Candidate Experience (CX) and NPS Survey Tracking: Designed and launched CX and NPS surveys to gauge, track, and measure recruiter performance. The program helped to improve our overall candidate engagement and served as a core KPI for assessing recruiter YEA performance.
Launched Talent Sourcing & Engagement Automation: Introduced new tools to drive recruiting efficiencies by automating candidate sourcing, talent marketing, engagement, and pipelining.
Co-Developed D&I Recruitment Strategies: Designed and developed comprehensive research for Cognizant’s Management Recruitment D&I hiring efforts.
Developed Persona-Based Hiring Analysis for Targeting Top-Talent: Led a Talent Persona mapping program to understand the core competencies and attributes that make up Cognizant’s most successful hires. The information was used to baseline how Cognizant defined quality-of-hire, as well as influenced our talent sourcing and candidate engagement approach.
Introduced Automation to Improve Reference Checking Turn-Around-Time (TAT): Program managed the selection and implementation of automated reference checking solution to enhance the hiring process, reduce bias, and shorten time-to-fill. Improved reference check TAT by 35% (from 7 days to 48 hours). Automation efforts created a new candidate source, improving lead flow by 30%.
Enhanced Job Descriptions powered by AI and Data-Science: Led the team responsible for evaluating, selecting, and integrating a new TA platform for enhancing job descriptions. The goal was to understand candidate search behavior and offer hiring teams guidance for improving job descriptions
(both content and language) to attract diversity candidates. Results: Job description quality improved and overall AI-JD scores increased from 43% to 90%+ within one month of program’s launch.
Established Talent Intelligence Capability for Driving Talent Strategy: Operationalized a scientific approach for delivering Talent Intelligence. Created ability to map industry talent, migratory trends in talent, hot locations for Digital Talent, identify compensation patterns, understand our target audience significantly better through tools like Talent Neuron (GARTNER) and Talent Insights (LinkedIn)
Increased LATAM’s ATS Adoption by 347% through Gamification Program: Gamified systems usage across Latin America to reduce compliance issues and improve data quality and reporting. Achieved a 347% improvement in team’s systems usage within six months of program’s launch.
Reimagined Talent Acquisition Learning: Led a project team responsible for launching “SPARK” - a modernized learning approach for Cognizant’s Talent Acquisition organization. This program included talent intelligence insights, monthly TA Insight newsletters, “5-minute Video-Sprints” covering best- practice on sourcing strategies, talent engagement, candidate experience, TA tools, etc.
Applied Design-Thinking for Talent Acquisition: Design-Thinking principles served as our team’s standard problem-solving and solutioning approach on over 50+ internal recruiting projects. MICHAEL MARLATT
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Accomplishments Across Strategy, Innovation, & Transformation T A L E N T I N N O V A T I O N