Talent Acquisition Human Resources

MICHAEL L. FOREHAND

*******.************@*****.*** • 425-***-**** • Woodinville, WA

www.linkedin.com/in/michaelforehand/

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

An award winning, Sr Talent Acquisition professional with over 19 years of proven results. QUALIFYING SKILLS

Program Development / Execution

Recruiter training / trend analysis

ATS / CRM (Taleo/ICIMS/Workday)

Strategic / Diversity Sourcing

High Volume Pipeline creation

Passive Candidate Engagement

Project / Team management

Highly collaborative

Relationship building

OFCCP compliance Right people, Right skills, Right time RELEVANT EDUCATION

Bellevue University, Bellevue, NE

BS/BA Management of Human Resources 2014

MOST NOTABLE CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Led team in development of OFCCP and DOL utilization goals for Persons with Disabilities (PwD). Invited to sit on National Solar Ready Vets consultation board, Dept of Energy funded. Selected as Panelist Speaker for more than 400 CEO’s on Military Hiring best practices; 1st Lady Keynote. Chosen to be speaker at WA Governor’s Military Transition Program (JBLM) 900+ in attendance. CAREER EXPERIENCE

City of Seattle Feb 2023 – Jan 2024

Police Recruitment Innovation Manager

Created modernization plan for applicant processing; Reduced selection timeframe by 60 days.

Developed high volume talent pipelines that were short, long, and medium term opportunities.

Provided training to team of Candidate Experience Specialist, along with sworn officers to create positive candidate experience, Increased YoY applications for sworn positions. CSL Behring Mar 2022 – Nov 2022

Recruiting Consultant (contract)

Streamline candidate process for high volume hiring in advance bio-pharma manufacturing. Sunrun Feb 2020 – Jan 2022

Recruiting Manager, Military Programs

Responsible for development / implementation of national programs for outreach and engagement of veterans, spouses and transitioning service members, built / led team of remote recruiters.

Reported directly to Sr VP Talent Acquisition; Responsible for C-suite metrics / DoD reporting.

Constructed ground up programs for Veterans, Military Spouses, and SkillBridge program. o Placed over 300 Transitioning service members nationwide. o Reduced turnover in field operations roles by 43%.

Designed and executed communications training for staff recruiter’s and regional and district managers on military communication styles, interviewing techniques.

Developed, executed, and implemented SkillBridge program; Savings of $2.6M through 2022. US Department of Energy recognized as National Best Practice, invited to DoE consulting board. MICHAEL L. FOREHAND

Continued

Hilton Hotels and Resorts Mar 2019- Jan 2020

Sr. Military Talent Researcher (Contract)

Trusted with building national sourcing strategy and campaigns in support of Operation: Opportunity; Hilton’s pledge to hire 25K Veterans by the end of 2025.

Chaired subcommittee for Military sourcing for Blackstone Industries; Rewrote Organization wide playbook o Efforts led to achieving 2020 hiring goal of 20K vets a year early o Network allowed for pipelining of transitioning service members to variety of roles at Hilton Multiple contract roles Oct 2016 – Feb 2019

(Amazon, Alaska Airlines, Honeywell, Providence Health Care) Contract Recruiter / Program Manager

Applied market intelligence; partnered with leadership of struggling but competing airline to transition 80% of their pilots to Alaska as former airline went out of business; kept the Team together!

Tasked by CEO and COO to troubleshoot, streamline, and execute new program for rotary pilots converting to fixed wing in line with FAA regulations developing renewable pipeline of candidates.

Rapidly increased highly qualified flow of pilots by 300% securing 162 hires / 6 Months

Exceptional screening / closing skills led to 96% interview to offer ratio. Sr Recruiter

Provide FLC recruiting for several large hospitals, average req load of 60.

Provide FLC recruiting to a wide variety of hiring managers in the Design (CAD), Quality Assurance and Electronic component space.

Provide Sourcing for Recruiting roles nationwide, to include US recruiters with fluency in eastern European languages for overseas assignments.

The Boeing Company, Renton, WA Jan 2015 – Oct 2016 Contract Recruiter / Project Manager

Designed program for strategic three-tiered approach to DOL / OFFCP utilization goals for PwD.

Leadership selected to manage Int’l staffing project; F-15 support program (Saudi Arabia).

Led team of 6 to implement PwD outreach pilot program in line with OFCCP guidelines.

Assisted with Veteran outreach programs in support of company engineering initiatives.

Utilized public outreach to provide real world training opportunities for Jr. Recruiters. US Air Force Recruiting Service, (Multiple Assignments) 2005 - 2014 Recruiting manager, Trainer, Sr Recruiter / University lead

Led team of 6 medical recruiters; assigned workload / programs using metrics to identify performance trends.

Recruited healthcare professionals in a 7-state region with 48 Universities and teaching Hospitals.

Designed in depth training program to improve team performance and ensure 100% program compliance.

Utilized ATS / CRM to generate production reports, Identify needs, performance / compliance trends

#1 nationally; assigned Biomedical Health programs (Pharmacy, Optometry 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Superior screening abilities led to capturing of 45% of national program scholarships; exceeded $4M.

Recognized with coveted Master Recruiter Award 2009; Top recruiter #1 of 85.

Command selected to mentor struggling recruiters throughout unit; coaching skills dramatically improved overall performance and production of 17 individual recruiters. ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Led maintenance team throughout Afghanistan theatre in support of USAF Special Operations; 2001 - 2002

• Created mentor-ship program pairing local airman with at risk youth, slashed High school dropout rate by 25%. MICHAEL L. FOREHAND

*******.************@*****.*** • 425-***-**** • Woodinville, WA www.linkedin.com/in/michaelforehand/

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