Director, Talent Acquisition

DAVID COHEN

Los Angeles, CA u 310-***-**** u ady31i@r.postjobfree.com u linkedin.com/in/davidecohen

PROFILE

Talent Acquisition leader for consulting and multi-national, Fortune 500 brands. Expertise in high-volume hiring by building successful recruiting infrastructures and processes, articulating metrics, analytics, and partnering with C- suite, HR, and core leaders to exceed their hiring goals and deepen their understanding of the recruitment process. View and evangelize talent as a value creator. Committed to modernizing recruiting, driving change leadership, and introducing and leveraging digital practices that strengthen the employer brand and optimize the candidate experience.

EXPERTISE

® Talent Acquisition Management

® Talent Pipeline Development

® Full-Cycle Recruiting

® High-Volume Recruitment

® Recruiting Team Leadership

® Workforce Planning

® Candidate Sourcing

® Employee Value Proposition

® HR & C-Suite Partnerships

® Data, Metrics & Insights

® Organizational Development

® Change Management

EXPERIENCE

TALENT ACQUISITION STRATEGIES Los Angeles, CA May 2023 to Present While still seeking a Talent Acquisition leadership role, have been providing TA recruiting and consultation services. Service offerings:

® Full life-cycle recruitment of critical executive-level hiring needs.

® TA Strategy and Process Model reviews.

® Best Practices - to ensure faster hires, better quality of hires, candidate experience, diversity, and hiring ROI.

® Review of data, analytics, and hiring funnels.

PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES Los Angeles, CA Dec. 2015 to May 2023 World-class healthcare provider operating 51 hospitals and 1,000 clinics across 7 states, with HQ in Renton, WA. Director, Talent Acquisition: Led talent acquisition for 16 award-winning hospitals and medical centers throughout Southern and Northern CA, collaborating with the CHRO and HR teams to enhance recruiting performance. Drove across-the-board talent acquisition change management initiatives, and provided strategic leadership, mentoring, and direction to a team of 60+ in-office and virtual talent acquisition professionals. Advised C-suite and provided monthly analysis indicating impact against objectives, variances, and hiring performance trends.

® Doubled hires (107%) in SoCal from 3000+ in 2016 to 6,200+ in 2022. Instituted SLAs and brought down the Time-to-Fill metric to 48 days (from 77).

® Increased hires in NorCal by 155% (2018-2022) from 900+ to 2300+ by optimizing databases and digital strategies, and by leveraging automated applicant/candidate assessment capabilities.

® Built a TA DEI program to monitor and improve DEI capabilities and effectiveness.

® Led Transition into Practice (TIP) RN recruitment program to establish a pipeline of resident nurses from nursing schools and colleges. Doubled hires to 1,200 over 12-months in 2022-2023.

® Provided strategic leadership over outsourced and newly automated recruitment model provided by IBM, managing cross-functional relationships with IBM's talent acquisition service delivery teams in the US and Manila, Philippines.

® Brought on-board and developed strong relationship with external vendor (based in Northern CA) that resulted in 60+ critical RN hires, with a 92% retention rate.

® Delivered data-driven reporting and analytics to identify recruitment activity, market trends, and maintained metrics that measured hiring performance vs. goals.

® Key member of the Predictive Hiring team, a talent pipeline tool that anticipated future hiring needs with 95% accuracy.

® Software technologies: Taleo, Modern Hire, Visier, Power BI, PowerPoint, Excel. Page 2

ACCENTURE Los Angeles, CA Jan. to Nov. 2015

Global professional services and consulting firm specializing in digital, technology, strategy, and operation services. $63B annual revenue.

Talent Acquisition Lead: Led a team of 5 in a 1-year contract assignment to create and implement recruitment strategies for Accenture's North America Digital Practice, overseeing recruitment for the Digital Marketing, Mobility, and Analytics Technology Services.

® Increased hires by 67% over prior year

BEACHBODY, LLC Santa Monica, CA May 2013 to Dec. 2014 Market-leading digital fitness and nutrition subscription company. $820M annual revenue. Senior Director of Talent Acquisition: Structured and directed the talent acquisition function during a high-growth period for the organization. Provided leadership to a team of 8 recruiters. Defined and implemented SLAs and metrics, scalable recruiting processes, and methodologies to improve the candidate experience.

® Optimized talent acquisition, increasing hires by 40% over 18 months through brand building and candidate sourcing across social media channels including LinkedIn, Facebook, TweetMyJobs, Twitter, and Glassdoor. EXPERIAN Costa Mesa, CA Mar. 2011 to May 2013

Multi-national data analytics company aggregating information on 1 billion+ people and businesses. $6.6B annual revenue. Director of Talent Acquisition: Oversaw Experian Americas talent acquisition initiatives spanning the US, UK, and Costa Rica, realigning the talent acquisition team, optimizing recruiting processes, and instituting SLAs. Launched an employee referral program with a charitable component, which proved instrumental in boosting referral hires from 24% to 45% in just 9 months. Conceptualized and delivered behavioral Interviewing training for recruiters, HR, and key business stakeholders.

DELOITTE CONSULTING, LLP Los Angeles, CA Nov. 2006 to Dec. 2010 Big 4 provider of audit, tax, and financial advisory services to Fortune 500 clients. Nearly $28B annual US revenue. National Talent Acquisition Lead: Directed the Strategy and Operations Services area, as well as the Financial Services Industry practice. Managed 50+ talent acquisition specialists for the Experienced Hiring division. Conferred with senior leadership to formulate a hiring demand workforce strategy, planning, and forecasting tool.

® Reversed the organization’s negative perception of recruiting and its effectiveness, by accelerating recruiting hires from 200 under plan to 441 total hires, constituting a 320% increase in one fiscal year.

® Drove across-the-board change management, capturing a $1.3M savings by slashing reliance on 3rd party recruiting firms by 80%.

NORTHROP GRUMMAN Los Angeles, CA Apr. 2002 to Nov. 2006 Fortune 500 leader in space, aeronautics, defense, and cyberspace technology. Annual revenue $36B. Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition: Directed the Space Technology’s talent acquisition group in the Production

& Supply Chain area’s Experienced hiring initiatives. Oversaw a team of 19.

® Provided expertise to the Northrop Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCCP), ensuring compliance with nondiscrimination guidelines.

EDUCATION

JURIS DOCTOR (JD) University of West Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (BBA) DEGREE, Marketing Pace University New York, NY

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