Sales, Recruiting & Sourcing Specialist

AIRS Certified Human Resources professional with eight plus years of experience recruiting for Fortune 500 companies with emphasis in the areas of Healthcare, Information Technology and Hospitality. Strong analytical and problem solving skills, with the ability to make well thought out decisions. Excellent leadership, organizational, and time management capabilities. Outstanding written, verbal and interpersonal skills.

Professional Experience

Hewitt Associates

Marriott International 8/2007- present Virtual Home Office

Senior HR Outsourcing Delivery Analyst

Effectively source large volumes of candidates by the way of targeted internet job boards, user groups, employee referrals, and cold calling for management and hourly positions at seventeen (17) Marriott hotels located throughout Texas, Georgia and California.

Represent Marriott International to the labor force and market the brand as an employer of choice within the Hospitality space.

Proactively utilize Internet sourcing strategies to target and identify candidates for an average of 100+ hourly requisitions at a time. Sourcing efforts have increased applicant flow by over 65%.

Create and post position descriptions to internal and external job boards.

Work collaboratively with Marriott HR partners and hiring managers to ensure that sourcing goals and 85% service level agreement expectations are being met.

Develop and maintain relationships with local colleges, universities, community and government based organizations to build applicant pipeline. Relationships Include coordination and participation in campus job fairs.

Applicant tracking systems utilized: Deploy, Unicru/Kronos, Peoplesoft, Taleo

Computer Sciences Corporation 4/2006-8/2007 Virtual Home Office

Senior Sourcing & Recruiting Specialist

Proactively utilize Internet sourcing strategies to target and identify active and passive mid to senior level candidates for an average of 40 requisitions at a time.

Positions sourced for: Healthcare IT (healthcare consulting, clinical analysts, implementation specialists) Information Technology (DBAs, Developers, Network Administration, Help Desk and Desktop Support).

Utilize various Internet tolls including AIRS Oxygen, recruitment databases, job boards, deep web mining and research directories (ZoomInfo, Hoovers, HotGigs, etc) in order to identify target companies for candidate identification and recruitment initiatives.

Perform initial recruiting functions such as: candidate sourcing; resume pre-screenings; initial screening of candidates to gauge interest; schedule, administer, and track candidate assessments; update and track candidates in Ceridian applicant tracking system.

Created and posted position descriptions and employment postings to internal and external job boards.

Work collaboratively with recruiters in order to keep up to date on the client's hiring needs and skill sets desired for current projects.

IBM 4/2003- 4/2006 Houston, TX

Corporate Recruiter

Provide consistent, reliable support to hiring managers by sourcing, screening and recommending candidates for a wide assortment of consulting and corporate positions.

o Positions recruited for: Administrative, Marketing, IT , Accounting, ERP consulting professionals (Lawson and Kronos), Healthcare consulting professionals (RNs, Physicians, Pharmacists) , Professionals with all types of security clearances.

Advise hiring managers with interpretation of HR policies, how to conduct performance evaluations and handle employment law issues.

Effectively source candidates by the way of targeted internet job sites, employee referrals, cold calling and advertising.

Conduct qualifying phone and in person interviews.

Coordinate complex travel arrangements for candidate interviews nationwide.

Conduct background investigations on potential employees.

Formulate and extend offers of employment.

Administer, maintain and process employee benefits information and forms, to include I-9,W-4, FMLA, COBRA, Health and Dental with extreme confidentiality,

Counsel all levels of employees on work related issues.

Participate in the event planning of local office’s annual company retreat.

Responsible for college recruiting, attending job fairs and placing targeted employment ads.

Knowledge and compliance of employment laws to include FMLA, ADA and Title VII.

Saudi Aramco 4/2001- 4/2003 Houston, TX

Human Resources Coordinator

Responsible for posting new positions (domestic as well as for the Middle East) to the Resumix database and over 50 internet web sites as well as maintaining those postings on a weekly basis.

Execute the new hire process: create personnel files, complete Payroll Action Request forms, administer and track new hire paperwork and benefits forms (I-9, W-4, state withholding forms, benefits enrollment forms)

Point of contact between employees and benefits provider for questions and concerns in relation to medical benefits.

Input employee time and data into Lawson payroll system for 250 employees bimonthly.

Arrange hotel/car reservations, airline tickets, and child care arrangements for candidates to prepare for orientation in Houston.

Create and maintain tracking systems utilizing Access for job postings, updates, closings, accuracy, and candidate information.

Screen incoming emailed and faxed resumes, and follow up with candidates if further information is required, either by email or telephone.

Input and verify incoming resumes and information within Resumix system.

Employee of the month for September 2002.

Education & Affiliations

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, University of Houston

84 hours complete, degree in progress

-AIRS Certification, received June 2007

-Ins and Outs of Behavioral Interviewing, completed March 2005

-Human Resources and the Law, completed Dec 2005

-Organizational Development, completed Feb 2006

-Employee Relations, completed Oct 2007

Advanced proficiency in the following computer applications:

AIRS SearchLab, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook, Lotus Notes, Windows XP, WordPerfect, Resumix, Workforce ERP, PeopleSoft, PeopleClick, ADP, Deploy, Unicru, Ceridian, Internet Explorer.

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