Manny Frank
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
A Senior Scientific Recruiter with Scientific Training, Sales, and Management skills – utilizing new and established methodologies and strategies to increase revenue, reduce costs, improve retention, diversity, on boarding, and streamline hiring processes to create a competitive advantage. I comprise substantial working knowledge of employment labor laws, relocation/per diems, and citizenship status authorization. I possess extensive recruiting experience for Fortune 500 corporations, medium-size and start-up companies. I have staffed and hired for industries and requisition genres which include but are not limited to: Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Engineering, R&D Development, Manufacturing, Clinical, IT, and Healthcare professionals (Nurses, Physicians, and Technologists)
SKILLS AND PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
• People’s Performance improves when I am around. Intrigued by “the process” of learning and growth.
• Dedicated to constant learning. Serves to arm me with new ideas and techniques that I can use to help others and myself.
• “I enjoy listening to people tell me what they do and how they do it.”
• “I’m a constant learner. For me there’s something energizing about the process of getting to a point where I’ve mastered a new skill.”
• “I never give up on anyone. In my heart I know that everyone can find success somewhere – we just have to persevere with them and discover where.”
• “I get a kick out of sharing my ideas or techniques with my colleagues. Knowledge is one of those weird things that you get more of by giving it away.”
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Team Lead, Senior Scientific Talent Acquisition Consultant
The Fountain Group (TFG), Tampa, FL
December 2010 – March 2012
• Senior Scientific Team Lead; oversaw and led a team of 5-7 scientific talent acquisition consultants.
o Promoted after 6 months of exemplary performance.
• Lead Scientific Team by Offering: Motivation, scientific search help, scientific technique and skill explanations, as well as background and confluent viewpoints of overall job function and duties.
• Trained and Aided other managers and recruiters (up to 50 total) with the above objectives related to scientific disciplines and requisition discovery.
o Industries and Department Staffing included:
Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Engineering, R&D Development, Clinical, Manufacturing, Healthcare professionals (Nurses, Physicians, and Technologists), Aerospace and Defense, IT, and etc.
o Clients Included:
Abbott, Bayer, Novartis, Biogen, BASF, Honeywell, Raytheon, Colgate, Pepsi, Diageo, etc.
o Requisitions Orders Included:
Low to Senior Level Scientists (Analytical Chemist, Molecular Biologists, Biochemists, etc.), Medical Directors, Drug Safety - Various Clinical professionals, Engineers, IT, and etc.
• Performed interview coordination, ensuring candidates arrived in a timely fashion as well as prepared candidates for scientific inquiries specific to requisition duties. Obtained candidate interview feedback for TFG, regarding client specific information, job duties, and needed manager contact information.
• Coordinated New Hires for onboarding regarding candidate specific information for documentation purposes.
• Trained employees and managers on scientific requisitions. This included: Search Terms, Scientific Skill/Technique functionalities, conceptual overviews, and etc.
• Utilized BigBiller database to store and tract resumes and candidates by skills and locality. Utilized Boolean Logic for searches in Monster.com and BigBiller databases.
• Networks within client organization and national communities to generate referrals and source qualified candidates as needed.
• Utilize current and innovative sourcing methods including web searches, cold-prospecting, social networking, associate referrals, alumni groups and maintaining contact with candidates in our internal network.
• Experience in cyber sleuthing, utilizing Boolean logic methods and internet searches.
• Consult with hiring managers on setting new requisitions specifications.
• Skilled to study the candidates’ resume beyond the key search words and asking intelligent behavioral based interviewing questions to evaluate their technical skills, education, work history, personality, salary requirements, and abilities based on hiring needs and culture fit.
• Drove recruiting strategy, which included direct sourcing from competitors, Internet sourcing, generating and encouraging employee referrals, job board ad/posting, and working research
• Managed candidates with relocation, visas, background checks, drug screening and etc.
• Use non-traditional, "outside of the box" recruiting methods to reach hard to find candidates.
• Develop relationships with diversity recruitment organizations to increase diverse candidate pool.
• Developed strategies/souring procedures utilizing inventive techniques.
• Provide performance feedback on functional team members to Account Executives.
• Negotiated candidate’s compensation packages.
• Recruited, screened, evaluate and placed Pharmaceutical Professionals with select companies.
• Led the company in New Hires for 3 consecutive quarters.
• Statistics:
o Averaged 4+ hires per month (continuously led the company in monthly New Hires)
o Averaged ~ 10+ interviews per week (continuously led the company in weekly Interviews)
o Averaged 15 - 25 submittals per week (Led the company in weekly Submittals)
University Student and Researcher
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2005 – 2010
• Obtained two Bachelor of Science degrees which included:
o BSc in Biomedical Sciences
o BSc in Psychology
o Minor in Biophysics
• Elected Leader (President and Vice President) in various student and volunteer organizations.
• Performed research at the University of South Florida College Of Medicine which included the operation of molecular and chemical methods/techniques as well as data analysis in support of ALS research.
• Worked at the USF central Library as a paid tutor for 1 year tutoring students in various scientific subject matter, study skills, and test taking strategies.
o Courses tutored included: Organic Chemistry I&II, General Chemistry I&II, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Anatomy and Physiology, Physics I&II, Statistics, and Calculus.
Floor Supervisor (Sales - Telemarketing)
Consumer Sales Solutions LLC, Clearwater, FL
2003– 2005
• Promoted to Floor Supervisor after 6 months of exemplary performance.
• Job Duties included: Training, Sales optimization, Supervision, Motivation, on-boarding, and termination.
• Sole responsibility was to train and teach new customer service representatives how to be successful contributors to the organization and to increase commissions and sales.
• Additional responsibilities included utilizing troubleshooting and problems solving skills in the supervision and management of team. Offered cash incentives “spiffs” to drive production.
• Handled CSR disciplinary actions, warning, and firing for unproductive/unmotivated individuals.
COMPUTERS
• Big biller database, Boolean Logic
• MS Office Suite, (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Boolean, MySpace, Recruiting Blogs, Craigslist
EDUCATION
Bachelors of Science Degree, Biomedical Sciences
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Spring 2011
Bachelors of Science Degree, Psychology
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Summer 2012
Minor in Biophysics
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Spring 2012
Summa cum Laude Graduate
Countryside High School, Clearwater, FL