Aaron K. Heltsmith 🏳️‍🌈 Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, US

Hired to establish a formal HR function during a pivotal period of company growth and diversification, ensuring scalable processes and strong employee support to align with the organization's evolving needs.

Talent Consultant - Retained Search - Successfully placed senior-level executives with clients across diverse industries, delivering tailored solutions to meet strategic talent needs.- Leveraged deep market insights and a consultative approach to build strong relationships with both clients and candidates.- Ensured long-term success by aligning leadership.

Chicago, IL, US

VSA’s purpose is to design for a better human experience. As a strategy and design agency, we blend consumer insights and data with human-centered design to activate meaningful, motivating & measurable experiences in an increasingly noisy world. As Vice President of Talent Experience, I oversee Recruiting Strategy and Delivery, Resource Management.

• Miniat Holdings – Recruiting Strategy Consultant
• Optimizing the candidate experience in Taleo and elevating recruiting to incorporate data analytics and reporting; focusing on process workflow and data capture for metrics accuracy; creating custom reports to.
• Building a proactive recruiting team through new hires and training of existing staff
• Partnering with internal communications and marketing to craft Employment Brand and voice of the company Accenture – North American Technology Leadership Recruiting Lead
• Manage Technology Leadership Recruiting for North America, focusing on Sales and Delivery of Application Services, Cloud and “NewIT” technologies at the Managing Director level
• Identify opportunities to streamline and optimize the recruiting, reporting and documentation functions VSA Partners – Talent Acquisition Consultant

Des Plaines, Illinois, US

• SGK is a leading global brand development, activation and deployment company that drives brand performance. By creating brands, selling brands, producing brand assets and protecting brand equities, we help our clients.
• Negotiated contracts and manage vendor relationships with local, regional and international partners to maintain a master vendor list to be used across the business; resulting in a $5M+ reduction of cost in first year
• 20% of leadership’s “high potentials” were recruited within the last four years by internal talent team; over 60% of placements made rate above average in performance management process
• Manage social media presence for global Talent Acquisition team; partnered with Corporate Marketing team in our 2013 rebranding to develop an employment brand in line with our new corporate identity; increasing our.
• Participated in implementation of new global Applicant Tracking System, Kenexa/Brassring (Fall 2013)
• Partner with Global HR Service Center to streamline the onboarding process resulting in an overall better candidate experience

Chicago, IL, US

• The LaSalle Network is Chicago's leading provider of professional staffing and recruiting services. Specializing in accounting and finance, technology services, office services, call center, human resources and.
• Manage the recruitment process for all senior level human resources, marketing a specialized direct hire placements
• Lead all specialized searches that require collaboration across units (Office Services, Accounting and Finance, Technology and Customer Service)Project Manager (10.2005 – 12.2009)
• Manage full-cycle recruiting, including advising and interviewing candidates for up to 25 executive level requisitions
• Provide resume critique and interview preparation for candidates from entry to senior level in the fields of human resources, marketing and general office services
• Write and post job descriptions, using online forums, networking and social media tools to recruit top talent

Bachelor Of Arts, Communication Public Relations

Intermediate Spanish

International Business

High School Diploma