HR Professional / Recruiter

Christine Romero

***** ********** ****** ********, ** 80241

(h) 303-***-**** (c) 303-***-****

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Corporate Human Resource Professional with 12 years of progressive experience all phases of both Recruiting and A Human Resources Business Partner. Highly effective communication skills include a demonstrated ability to satisfy client needs through relationship building and creative development. Uses outstanding customer relations, negotiation and conflict resolution skills to assess client’s needs and build rewarding business relationships. Dedicated individual with a reputation for consistently going beyond what is required and using personal high standards to achieve results.

Professional Experience

Sun Microsystem Broomfield, Co

Contract University Relations Recruiter (12/07-Present)

Recruit for University Graduate and Intern positions for Human Resources, Finance, Marketing, IT, GCS, and Legal. Partner with managers and Human Resources Generalists to build recruiting strategies, develop strong candidate pipelines and build strong relationships. Continue to drive and support the recruiting process, eg. advertisement postings, resume sourcing and screening, conducting prescreen interviews, and delivering the top resumes for first round manager interviews. Participate in recruitment services for special programs like Campus Recruitment, Internship Programs, Referrals, and Diversity initiatives with the Universities.

First Data Corporation Greenwood Village, Co

Lead Senior Recruiter (4/06 – 11/07)

Recruiter for all Exempt and Director level positions for several key business units: Human Resources, Communications, Procurement, IT, Finance, Legal, Marketing, Call Center Managers and Product. Also partner to recruit for Non Exempt Call Center, Help Desk, and Administrative Support. Proactively working with managers and Human Resources Generalists to forecast hiring demands, deliver recruitment strategies, develop pro-active and real time candidate pipelines based on and in alignment with business strategies, and key initiatives. Manage and execute full recruiting lifecycle: sourcing/candidate generation, cold calling, research, interviewing, closing, negotiation, assessments, and presentation. Creative sourcing to include: direct recruiting, self driven research, references, prospects and referral sources in target companies, boards, and associations, email campaigns, networking internally and externally. Identify and manage 3rd party partnerships and vendors. Scope positions, interviews, short lists, present candidates, negotiate packages included relocation; facilitate on-boarding hand-off. Lead task forces and talent networking events to effectively raise and evangelize talent. Develops reports, queries all talent data bases external exporting data sets to drive talent process. Ensure data integrity and compliance with all employment laws.

Qwest Communications Denver, Co

Human Resources Business Partner (10/03 – 4/06)

Provide generalist support to the IT Division. Responsible for guidance and direction to Management and Union employees concerning all HR related issues, (including Benefits, Compensation, and Employee relations). Develops, interprets, implements and applies employment law and corporate polices related to HR e.g.; organizational and employee development, succession planning, compensation, staffing, employee relations, performance management and corrective action. Act as a change agent in the development of solutions through organizational development and cultural and process oriented perspectives. Lead cross functional and cross business unit project teams. Assist in the development of HR processes. Advise and coach all levels of management in the development of their staffs in addition to assisting the business leaders in their professional development. Partner with leadership to develop strategic goals and plans, and provide solutions and alternatives in support of business unit goals. Consult with management to address root causes of human resources and business performance issues, resolving issues with a systemic approach to improve cycle time and productivity with focus on customer service and increasing revenue.

Analyze processes through use of trending detail to promote effective HR operations through standardization, improvement, simplification, discontinuance or other methods in partnership with the functional owners of the process. Work includes headcount and attrition analysis, analytical support with reorganization work, facilitation of severance packages, and other activities. Provide project management support for business unit-focused initiatives or broader HR functional products as needed.

Qwest Communications Denver, Co

Senior Recruiter (5/98 – 10/03)

Provided highly qualified candidates while managing a complex, multi-tiered hiring process. Worked to enforce fair and legal hiring guidelines as mandated by the E.E.O.C.

Consumer, Retail, Wireless, Call Center divisions: Charged with staffing hourly and management positions. Included screening and selection of candidates, working with leadership to anticipate client staffing requirements, overseeing receipt of job information, and assuring qualified candidate pools are provided in a timely manner. Assisted clients in the selection process (interviewing, screening, and salary negotiation). Improved Leaderships satisfaction dramatically by decreasing number of open positions from three hundred to less than fifty. Personally responsible for researching, procuring, and implementing the current search firm and contract recruiter strategies. Implemented and facilitated new behavioral interviewing process (TSI). Responsible for salary negotiation within prescribed budget restraints. Liaison between Qwest IT and Legal department concerning Visa and Green card sponsorship.

Education

University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO

Skills

Targeted Selection Interviewing Certified, PeopleSoft, Hire.com, Resumix, Brass Ring, Excel, Access, MS PowerPoint, MS, Windows, Internet Explorer, Netscape, MS Word, WordPerfect, Lotus 123, Lotus Notes, MS Outlook, Staroffice.

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