JOHN BALL

Pawling, NY ***** www.linkedin.com/in/mrjohnball 650-***-**** adwoce@r.postjobfree.com

Technical Recruiter IT Talent Acquisition

Resourceful recruiting professional skilled at identifying and placing hard-to-find technology professionals. Proven experience leveraging a diverse array of methods to strategically lure passive candidates. Able to manage full recruitment lifecycles, accurately updating status within applicant tracking systems. Adept at monitoring and assessing key performance indicators (KPIs) related to offer acceptance, data integrity, satisfaction, and other variables. Articulate communicator capable of interfacing effectively with stakeholders at all levels. Infrastructure Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applied Machine Learning (ML) Mobile Development Sourcing Methods

LinkedIn, GitHub, Forums, Meetups, Google, Facebook, Instagram, Career Fairs, Job Boards, etc. Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)

Greenhouse, Lever, GHire

Diverse Technologies

Data Analytics, AI / ML, DevOps, iOS/Android, Node.js, Edge Computing, Marketing, Web Analytics, SEO, LAMP, Rails, Project / Product Management, Quality Assurance, Automation, Test, Reliability, and more. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Facebook 2018-Present

Engineering Leadership Recruiter

Technical Recruiter, Sys/Prod Recruiting Team

Manage technology hiring initiatives for Facebook/Instagram, developing strategies to identify top candidates. Interface with cross-functional teams, planning and implementing a variety of sourcing strategies. Provide critical input, driving implementation of bi-monthly online interview preparation events. Meet with hiring managers and colleagues, assessing metrics and correcting course as necessary. Create guides to address applicant questions, standardizing communication to groups for greater efficiency. Maintain active pipeline, conducting debriefs post-interview.

Achieved offer acceptance rate of 88%+ with candidate satisfaction of 94% while exceeding diversity impact targets (16% URP and 13% benchmark); continually strived to improve recruiting practices for scalability.

Collaborated with recruiters to spur success of online group candidate preparation (Mastering Your EM Interview); spearheaded process innovations, working cross-functionally to create system currently yielding huge time savings.

During first 6 months as contractor for PRO Unlimited prior to joining Facebook as FTE in 2019, received 16 accepts with 83% close rate; drove recruitment cycle forward as a consistent producer.

Participated in numerous special events, including Finance to Facebook, Women Create, Veteran’s Happy Hour, and more; conducted strategic networking activities, communicating with diverse groups to represent staffing team. Additional Accomplishments

Tweaked platform requirements with event staff as nvirtual interview preparation program scaled to support large numbers of attendees; fine-tuning training initiatives in various US regions, planning roll-out in London.

Sifted through commonly asked questions with coworkers, gaining feedback from engineering managers to create QA answer guides for interviewees that set expectations and prepared candidates more effectively.

‘Mastering Your EM Interview’ Statistics: East Coast – 40 OEs / 31 OAs, 511 attendees (383 hrs. saved); MPK – 46 OEs / 37 OAs – 525 attendees (394 hrs. saved); Seattle – 20 OEs, 129 attendees (73 hrs. saved) Gray Scalable 2016-2018

Technical Recruiting Consultant

As a trusted on-site resource, specialized in sourcing and hiring product management, engineering talent, and web/mobile front-end designers. Implemented in-depth recruiting processes for multiple tech startups. Assessed and improved existing recruitment methods. Evaluated and presented performance metrics to senior leadership. Developed sourcing and talent pipelines using various methodologies, including employee referrals, job boards, direct sourcing, outsourced solutions, and social media. JOHN BALL - PAGE 2

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Gray Scalable (continued)

Technical Recruiting Consultant

Played a key role in hiring over 30 engineers for some of New York’s most popular startups; took charge of developing and reporting recruitment metrics to drive improvements in talent acquisition performance.

Leveraged strategic planning skills to identify gaps and focus areas for proactive sourcing; aided companies in establishing best practices for recruitment of hard-to-fill,, specialized IT roles.

Devised efficient, high-touch experience for candidates from application to offer, evaluating skill levels and driving interview/offer processes

Managed reference checks, made compensation recommendations, and successfully “sold” candidates on opportunities; consistently achieved top performance levels. Jibe 2014-2016

Senior Recruiter / Talent Manager

Brought aboard to build technology teams for NY and DC offices for Cloud-based recruiting software company with solution to identify, attract, and engage candidates. Developed greenfield projects to increase potential technical candidate pool, advising on strategy and systems selection. Initiated new networking functions, including meet-up events, public presentations, and an engineering blog to connect with new talent.

Filled 30+ engineering roles for NY, including Node.js, DevOps, Data Engineers, and Test Engineers. Hired 10 Ruby- on-Rails engineers for DC, increasing offer to close ratio 88% by skillfully streamlining processes

Took charge of college recruitment program, coordinating various project aspects, including management of candidate assessments; collaborated with members of US University relations team to drive success.

Promoted to talent manager; overseeing 2 recruitment resources; led weekly meetings with CTO to review various metrics, continuously strategizing to improve talent acquisition processes. Vimeo - An IAC Company 2013-2014

Senior Corporate Recruiter (contract-to-hire)

Provided technical recruiting during startup phase for company in online/mobile video space with 100M unique visitors per month and more than 22M registered users at time. Recruited candidates with full LAMP stack, Scala, and MySQL with a strong emphasis placing iOS and Android developers.

Contributed significantly as Vimeo scaled from a 60-person company to over 150 employees without the use of outside agencies; hired, trained, and supervised junior recruiter who became a top performer.

Placed quality candidates in a variety of roles including Director of Project Management, Project Managers, Site Reliability Engineer, Data Engineer, and Application Engineer.

Hosted Meetups with nearly 70 attendees; events featured product presentations that created a buzz in the video technology community to entice new hires with technical skills that were extremely scarce. Everyday Health 2012-2013

Senior Corporate Recruiter

Identified, interviewed, and hired SEO director and engineers, front-end and back-end website developers, project managers, database developers, managing editors, product managers, video production staff, and camera operators for mid-stage startup internet company targeting healthcare community. Brought aboard due to strong technical placement skills to bring IT recruiting in-house. Participated in active and passive sourcing of candidates. Attended college recruitment events at MIT and Stanford to identify new talent.

Filled 36+ positions with 75% direct hires in just over 6 months; saved firm hundreds of thousands of dollars in external recruiter fees; interfaced with 3rd party recruiters as necessary to bolster staffing success.

Collaborated with HR team on development of best practices for conducting behavioral interviews and participated in generating new orientation model to onboard candidates with greater efficiency.

Played a critical role in devising applicant scorecard to assess candidate alignment with core company values; trained managers to use new tool and document interview outcomes in ICIMS applicant tracking system. JOHN BALL - PAGE 3

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AOL Inc. 2010-2012

Corporate Recruiter

Conducted cost-efficient full life cycle recruitment across three different AOL ventures as contract recruiter at Patch, MapQuest, and City’s Best. Sourced, pre-screened, interviewed, presented offers, and hired technology, creative, and product candidates for open requisitions. Collaborated with hiring managers to create robust job descriptions. Utilized Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing applicant tracking system to monitor and track staffing process.

Identified prospective candidates using a myriad of methodologies; attended career fairs, managed social network activities, coordinated area Meetups, scoured job boards/forums and participated in tech conferences.

Successfully placed developers, infrastructure managers, data engineers, back- and front-end engineers, mobile product managers, QA professionals, sales engineers, UI designers, and sales operations / social media staff.

Recruited hard-to-find professionals for open requisitions centered on technologies including iOS / Android development, Ruby-on-Rails, Scala, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML5, Selenium, GIS, and OpenStreet Map.

Generated salary recommendations based on industry standards, negotiating pay rates to minimize expense while balancing goals of employee retention.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Medialets (now GroupM) 2010

Corporate Technical Recruiter

Brought on board as sole technical recruiter for growing provider of rich media advertising and mobile analytics. Held responsibility for technical recruitment of IT development candidates, utilizing a variety of techniques to attract and hire qualified talent. Established strategies to manage pipeline, using Jobvite tracking and marketing system. Attended area events, conducting networking activities to expand potential applicant pool. The Bachrach Group (TBG) 2008-2009

Manager of Client Services / Technical Recruiter

Earned recognition in 1st year as top salesperson, leading client services with 14 new customers. Placed senior- level candidates in various roles, including Director of Web Analytics, Vice President of Infrastructure, and Director of Application Development. Contributed significantly to revenue as this high-end staffing agency grew. Forstar Resources 2001-2007

Agency Recruiter, VP

Represented boutique consulting and staffing company that provides recruiting services to Fortune 500 firms in the NY area. Consistently earned #1 highest achievement status, receiving quarterly awards from management for outstanding performance.

EDUCATION

Manhattanville College - Purchase, NY

Master of Science Program - Organizational Management Bachelor of Science Degree - Business Management

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