Kezon McNeill

202-***-****

advgdh@r.postjobfree.com

Summary of Qualifications

Senior recruiter with experience working in RPO, and corporate environments. Specialized skills expertise identifying Senior Level IT professionals, Health Care IT professionals, for various cleared/non-cleared opportunities throughout the Metro Region. Over 20 years of expertise in full life-cycle recruitment supporting, IT/non-IT functions.

Clearance: Active Top Secret

Experience

Instacart (Consultant)

Senior Sourcer

3/2022 to Pres

Design, develop, and implement strategic sourcing and recruitment strategies to build diverse talent networks

Manage candidates via GEM and Greenhouse for tracking purposes.

Manage over one hundred candidate reach outs per week to build candidate pipelines.

Work with hiring managers to provide strategy insight for identifying talent

The ability to manage programs and strategies that enable our recruiting teams to identify and engage talent, specifically tied to recruitment goals

In partnership with recruiting leadership, track hiring goals, progress, and outcomes to be shared with cross functional stakeholders

Developing and fostering strong partnerships with all internal clients, including our Engineering leadership team, Compensation team, Diversity Equity and Belonging team (DEB)

Be a guardian and champion of our culture and candidate experience

Google (Contractor via Open Source Technical)

Senior Sourcing Consultant

5/2020 to 3/2022

Partner with the leadership recruiter to help drive the search execution process from start to finish

Lead the execution of technical searches, providing outstanding customer partnership, domain talent expertise, and subject matter expertise in the process.

Worked to identify top talent to help drive our diversity and inclusion.

Create job specifications, scorecards and other supporting documentation, under the leadership of the recruiter.

Provide outstanding thought partnership to customers to shape and match the needs of Google and the talent in the market.

Keep track of all aspects of a search and report findings upon closing to continue to grow and update database

Bring efficiency to all searches and apply process where needed ensuring highest quality every step of the way.

Manage an end-to-end inclusive executive search, including identifying and assessing qualified talent, managing customers, engaging with candidates, driving their experience, and partnering with human resources and other stakeholders.

Lend subject matter expertise related to technology to help elevate search results particularly related to current projects and themes. This involves Identifying and tracking the most important technology companies relevant to our space.

Develop and oversee processes for data collection while capturing all critical information in our database.

Open Source Technical INC (RPO)

Supported Govt Customers: (Leidos, Jacobs, Booz, Tenable)

Sr. Recruiting Lead

3/2014 to 4/2020

Develop recruitment and placement policies, systems, and procedures, including strategies and selection techniques.

Provide recruiting support across multiple funded and unfunded requisitions, for both CONUS and OCONUS positions

Utilize sourcing tools and techniques to identify candidates such as online social networking, traditional networking, Boolean searches, and referrals

Provided support to the following agencies and branches of government DOD, DOS, DHS, DOJ, FBI, VA.

Provided sourcing support providing resumes for cleared levels up to Full Scope Poly.

Recruited candidates with cyber experience working for various Intel customers.

Participate in the planning and implementation of all activities related to workforce planning and hiring.

Source various software skill sets to include Java, .Net, Swing, Python develops for cleared and non- cleared roles.

Perform departmental gap analyses and develop recruitment action plans to address competency gaps.

Ensure client satisfaction through a thorough understanding of client goals, objectives and commitments, as well as business challenges and successes.

Averaged six hires per month while carrying a requisition load as high as thirty requirements.

Establish and maintain relationships with hiring managers to stay abreast of current and future hiring and business needs.

Establish and maintain contacts with employment sources, such as colleges, employment agencies, search firms, and trade associations.

Recruit top-level developers, engineers, testers, who brought increased skills and a positive benefit to our company culture.

Lead proposal recruiting for cyber security efforts with various skill sets and clearance levels from Public Trust to Top Secret.

Work with finance department to prepare annual recruitment budgets and monitor expenditures to comply with budgetary limitations.

General Dynamics IT

Sr. Lead Recruiter SME

8/2009 – 3/2014

Serve as a strategic thought partner including collaborating with GDIT executive management to develop and update weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual staffing forecasts.

Provided support to the following agencies and branches of government DOD, DHS, FBI, VA.

Lead proposal kickoff meeting for the recruiting team as point of contact.

Trained staff on updated strategies on attracting talent through various social media outlets.

Worked to develop a better referral bonus program to increase company numbers.

Set the vision for recruitment teams by motivating staff to continually market GDIT to high quality candidates.

Recruited Cyber candidates for roles with various DOD, and Intel customers.

Lead the effort to update SOP's for the entire division, to create better workflow with filling opportunities.

Design, and implement effective, recruiting strategies, and infrastructure for current and future hiring needs.

Averaged five hires per month while carrying a requisition load of twenty requirements.

The HCSD division, a $1.3B organization focused primarily in Civilian, and Federal Health IT Services and hiring over 1000 new employees every year, supports over a dozen federal agencies.

Partners with HR peers in all aspect of human capital work related to employment, including the relevant compensation activities of internal equity and market analysis, succession planning and high-potential development, workforce talent assessment and org development, and performance management.

Ensures timely and accurate communication of employment related metrics to identify issues and trends, from ensuring accurate data entry to data analysis. Advises management on trends and retention strategies.

Provide a strategic framework for focused recruitment efforts including college, diversity, technical and related programs and support the business in executing these strategies

Serve on the Compensation Committee and advise on current compensation trends and developments to ensure competitive compensation opportunities

Partner with HR leadership team to research recruitment technology solutions, evaluate existing solutions and recommend appropriate recruitment investments

The Mac-Fi Group

9/2005 - 8/2009

Recruiting Manager

Conducted Full Life Cycle recruiting for clients who seek high-level cleared/non-cleared consultants.

Worked with clients to develop a better hiring process through, developing various types of interviewing questions.

Created SOP's for the company to use as a standard process for how the recruiting division would function.

Lead the charge for creating more creative ways of identifying talent to come join our company.

Increased production with implementing a referral bonus program that resulted in 45% of our hires resulting from company referrals.

Compiled, analyzes and utilizes Tagged data relating to recruiting, performance and retention to identify opportunities to improve processes and procedures. Coach - provide instruction, suggestions or demonstrations and ensure that task requirements are clear.

Helped client’s streamline there recruiting process to go paperless.

Created job descriptions for advertising in local and national publications.

Provided salary recommendations to hiring managers based on skill level.

Sourced hard to fill openings that are mission critical to client’s bottom line.

Worked with hiring managers to identify strong matches for positions that require cleared/non-cleared consultants.

Presented offers to potential consultants, as well as checking references for candidates under consideration.

Insperity

Sr. Recruiting Lead

10/1999 – 7/2005

Recruited IT professionals for contract and permanent positions for various customers. 35% of the openings I filled required candidates to have current Secret or Top Secret clearances.

Worked closely with hiring managers in identifying the best candidates for openings.

Extended offers to candidates once all background, and reference checks were completed.

Worked on staffing need for clients with specialized needs, such as, CPA, CFO, CEO, and Healthcare professional.

Developed and implement sourcing strategies to stay on top of increased needs for job order coverage.

Trained recruiters in any area they considered themselves needing improvement.

Increased job placements for our region by 30% every year.

Made presentations to clients on our services and the benefits of using our company.

Streamlined our recruiting process so that recruiters could work on multiple opportunities at one time to stay in line with the competition.

Aerotek

Recruiter

8/1998 – 9/1999

Identified candidates for various clients throughout the MD, DC, and VA area.

Identified professionals for short term/long term opportunities in the Metro Region.

Averaged 15 phone screens per day, which lead to hiring 15 hires per month.

Interviewed candidates to access of they were qualified to support our clients.

Identified professionals for short term/long term opportunities in the Metro Region

Voted top recruiter in my office for 3 of the 4 quarters I was with the company.

Education

BA, Business Management, Central State University

Training

Job Diva, iCIMS, Greenhouse, GEM, LinkedIn, Work Day, Taleo, Pro-Hire, JobVite, Bull Horn, Resume Ware, Silk Road, Open Hire, Hacker Rank, CATSONE

Qualification Highlights

Over 20 years of industry experience

Specialized experience in engineering, Healthcare IT, Intel and corporate recruiting.

SME sourcing strategy and process.

Lead diversity program efforts to provide underrepresented candidates.

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