Susan B. Kearns
Pingree Grove, IL 60140
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SUMMARY
Over 25 years of experience in full life cycle recruiting, screening, and placing professionals. Excellent communication, organizational, management and system administration skills.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Accenture-Chicago, IL (December 2009-March 2023)
Associate Manager/Senior Recruiter (promoted to Associate Manager)
●Responsible for managing a team of 6-8 direct reports at times as the lead recruiter for the Accenture Strategy.
●Part of the Finance & Enterprise Performance practice, specifically assigned to the Accenture Strategy. Work closely with Partners and Hiring Managers.
●Directly responsible for full life cycle recruiting/delivery of Enterprise Performance Management technology Digital Finance, Supply Chain, Industry X, T&O, specific candidates specifically but not limited to Project Managers, PMO’s both functional and industry.
●Qualify, screen, coordinate, and administer candidate hiring processes from inception to close.
●Initiate and participate in daily/weekly meetings with Managing Directors, Hiring Managers/Project Managers, Human Resources, Legal and EEO compliance.
●Experience with Workday, Taleo, Beamery and many other applicant tracking systems.
●Manage onshore/offshore collaborators/sourcing team, including outside agencies/vendors.
●Maintain weekly status reports.
Innovative Systems Group-Glen Ellyn, IL (December 2003-February 2009)
Lead IT Recruiter
●Use and maintain the vendor side of Beeline, an online vendor management system. Enter candidate information directly to the client site. Ran weekly/monthly reports for sales staff.
●Systems Administrator for Sendouts, an applicant tracking system. Responsible for weekly status reports, posting, mass email and training new employees.
●Experience with the following vendor management systems; Beeline, E-Works, IQNavigator and Chimes. Responsible for entering candidate information, weekly and monthly status reports.
●Source on Hotjobs, Careerbuilder, Dice, Monster, Computer Jobs and Justtechjobs for qualified candidates to fill open assigned job orders.
●Conduct in person and phone technical interviews, assess and qualify viable candidates.
●Recruit, screen and evaluate prospects, conduct interviews and negotiate compensation packages.
●Reformat resumes, contact references and perform verification of education of qualified consultants.
●Reformat candidate’s resume if not inline with client rules/regulations.
●Coordinate and schedule candidate/client in-person and technical phone interviews for assigned clients.
●Coordinate client job orders, due dates and candidate status with designated account manager and relay updates to recruiting staff.
●Oversee activities for a team of 8 IT recruiters.
●Assist recruiters with resume Word/reformatting problems or with Excel spreadsheets.
●Train/mentor junior recruiters.
●Responsible for all job postings for current open job requirements.
Northern Illinois Technologies, Inc.-Rolling Meadows, IL (September 1988-October 1991)
Recruiting Manager/Sales
●Promoted to Recruiting Manager in 1990.
●Successfully obtained permanent vendor status at Amoco Oil Corporation.
●Responsible for account management for approximately 1 year.
●Recruited, screened and evaluated prospects, conducted interviews and negotiated compensation packages.
●Responsible for all administration and benefits for all outside consultants.
●Recruited and trained all new hires.
Professional references available upon request.