Robin Rizzo

Sr. Technical Recruiter & Passive Sourcing Specialist

adzir2@r.postjobfree.com 440-***-****

Talented, customer focused full life cycle technical recruiter and passive sourcing specialist, with a passion for delighting the client and candidate. I consistently deliver “best in house” support by creating strategic passive sourcing pipelines to fill difficult roles. I take pride in my ability to prioritize hitting customer SLAs. Most recent contracts I have supported involved passive identification, sourcing, interviewing and hiring of electrical engineers to help accelerate and deliver clean energy technologies for GTI Energy, as well as multidisciplined engineers within the smart energy heavy automotive fuel cell conversion technologies for Hyzon Motors.

Expert level Sourcing: I create strategic passive sourcing plans utilizing Google Suite X-ray boolean search methodologies, flip search, internet #-tag x-ray mining/social media passive sourcing within Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn Recruiter (w/Interseller & GEM extension tools), Beamery, Hired.com, Github, Indeed, Dice, Hiretual

Engineering recruitment experience: electrical, chemical, paint, quality structural, industrial, production, aerodynamic fluid flow; structural design, controls & instrumentation, power electronics functional safety, communication engineers; robotics; propulsion and combustion, process, quality assurance analysts, R&D, metallurgical and materials specialists, data analytics, automotive, automation, biochemical, continuous improvement, thermo-fluid – most recent engineering contract concentrated on electrical engineering within

Technical recruiting experience: software development engineers (backend, frontend, web development) object-oriented languages; C++, Python, Java, Ruby, Groovy, C#), (SOA or microservices architecture, big data, machine learning, large scale distributed systems, Hadoop, React, pearl, kinesis, SQS, Kafka, component systems, quality analysts, Django, rails MySQL, git, Visual Studio, and flask as frameworks and tools/libraries, DevOps, full form, bops, virtualization, embedded software engineering, digital/analog, web developers, DBAs, IOS developers

Engineering recruitment experience: chemical, electrical, paint, quality structural, and industrial engineers, production engineers, aerodynamic fluid flow; structural design, controls & instrumentation, power electronics functional safety, communication engineers; robotics; and propulsion and combustion. engineers, process engineers, quality assurance analysts, R&D, metallurgical and materials specialists, data analytics, automotive, automation, biochemical, continuous improvement, thermo-fluid

Honor & Award:

Certified Black Belt Sourcing Ninja - Officially awarded Black Belt Certification on December 7, 2015, by completing the Social Talent Black Belt in expert level Recruitment Sourcing.

Sr. Talent Acquisition

LJTP - In-house consultant

Supported GTE Energy (clean energy technologies), Hyzon Motors (fuel cell smart energy) contracts through LJTP

January, 2022 to Present

Technical sourcing and full life cycle to fill electrical engineers, test and commissioning engineers, as well as IOS mobile application developers, backend software developers, functional safety engineers, power and integrated circuit engineers, sourcing specialist, cyber-security specialist, front end development, and other IT and engineering roles as requested

Sr. Technical Recruiter – Amazon (ASCS – eCommerce and Global Corporate) - Contract

June 2021 to November, 2021

This fast-paced environment required me to draw on my knowledge of talent acquisition, full lifecycle recruiting, and passive sourcing expertise to forge dynamic relationships with business leaders, hiring managers and HR business partners to close and hire technical talent. I built and maintained a network of passive candidates through proactive market research, and also earned the hiring manager’s trust allowing me to conduct in-depth screenings as a result of demonstrating anticipation of my hiring manager preferences. I lead the team with 15 SDEII offer accepts with 2nd on team coming in at 9 SDEII offer accepts

Sr. Technical Sourcing Recruiter - 5 years, 1 month (Permanent)

Superior Research & Recruiting Consultant Services

April, 2015 - May, 2021 - (Company closed in 2021)

Supported Superior Research & Recruiting corporate clients (on site) as needed: providing specialty sourcing and full life cycle recruiting.

(Client contracts supported from 2015 to 2020 are broken down below.)

Sr. Corporate Recruiter - Onsite (Contract) through Superior Research - 1 year, 3 months

FirstEnergy Corporation - Akron, OH

I was assigned to help FES/FENOC rebrand and re-build a new standalone commercial nuclear/fossil plant and corporate shared services organization within the unregulated industry. I managed the entire nuclear/chemical engineering and corporate full life cycle recruiting process. I achieved 89% of the yearly hiring SLA goal, 4 months ahead of schedule. I adhered to gov guidelines including diversity recruiting regulations and OFCCP mandates and consistently built relationships with C-level and functional Division Managers to maintain a cohesive and mutual understanding of the present and envisioned growth

Sr. Sourcing Recruiter – onsite/remote (Contract) through Superior Research - 1 year

Sherwin Williams -- The Americas Group - eCommerce Division

I filled 72 open roles to replace staff augmentation thus saving eComm division 68% in overhead through full lifecycle recruiting and passive sourcing. I used market knowledge, social media networking, personal pipeline, cold calling and rigorous follow up with passive and active ATS applicants to build targeted and short-listed slates. I additionally utilized my knowledge of H1B transfers and green card cases to adhere to corporate and government guidelines.

Sr. Sourcing Recruiter – Onsite (Contract) through Superior Research - 1 year, 2 months

Timken Company - North Canton, OH

Full life cycle recruiting and sourcing to fill professional and technical new and existing positions within corporate and manufacturing facilities. Hired 92 employees within 8 months.

Sr. Talent Acquisition and Sourcing Specialist – (Contract) through Superior Research - 9 months

Babcock & Wilcox - Barberton, OH –

As part of the Global Talent Acquisition Team, I lead the full life cycle recruiting and passive sourcing efforts and outreach to ensure delivery and first point of contact with a diverse candidate pool of candidates in support of C level Executives for B&W SPIG Nuclear line of business internationally. Filled 28 roles in Italy, 7 in Germany, and 32 in newly created US headquarters in San Francisco.

RPO Assignment - KellyOCG – Remote (Contract) through Superior Research 1 year, 2 months

Client: Toyota Engineering & Manufacturing Americas - (TEMA)

Talent Acquisition Sourcing Recruiter

One of three senior sourcing leaders managing the passive sourcing functions with a team of advanced technical sourcing recruiters who identified, sourced, recruited and initially screened for all specs and networking contacts to fill the unique and hard to fill roles within manufacturing, skilled trades, professional/financial, operations, engineering and IT disciplines. Filled 98 engineering and leadership roles in 10 months as part of OneToyota project to combine two separate headquarters into one.

Executive Recruiting, Talent and Competitive Research Specialists – 9 years (Permanent)

Superior Research and Recruiting - (Supported Pharmaceutical, Biotech and Life Sciences)

January 2006 to March 2015

Provided retained and contingent agency recruiting and name generation services to corporate clients and retained executive search firms. Researched competitive corporate infrastructures build organizational charts and provide categorized divisional name generation obtained via telephone cold calling.

TS/ATS:

Taleo, SuccessFactors, PC Recruit, Hiretual, Beamery, Amazon Hire, Hiretual, Github, SeekOut, Avature); Greenhouse, expert level using LinkedIn (with Innerseller & GEM extension tools) to create passive sourcing, Avature, SuccessFactors

Education: UNLV – 1982 to 1984

Awarded full ride athletic scholarship

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