LinkedIn is the largest and fastest growing professional social network on the web with the goal of connecting all the world's professionals. We are building the world's most sophisticated platform, able of serving billions of page views, scaling to over 550 million members worldwide, and developing applications that will improve the way people conduct business at a global scale. As a technical recruiter at LinkedIn I dedicate the majority of my time to supporting our Systems & Infrastructure groups internally. These platform level teams cover areas like Search, Distributed Storage, Hadoop/Spark dev, Cloud systems, Traffic, Data Infra, Ingestion, Data Streaming, Security, Reporting and much more! I also actively support Data Mining/ML, Applications Dev, Mobile, UI, Tools and Performance teams here. I am seeking software engineers who are highly driven and passionate about the products they work on and the companies they work for. If you are interested in learning more about Linked[in] and the opportunities we have available, then please reach out to me. We are hiring across the board!

Workbridge Associates is Jobspring's sister recruitment agency, both companies fall under the corporate umbrella of Motion Recruitment Partners. The two agencies employ the same training, logic and process to successfully source and place thousands of IT professionals in high tech markets around the U.S. and Canada. Within my first year and a half of recruiting professionally I was asked to move to the world's most competitive hiring market and build a team from the ground up. With no candidates, clients, or employees I took on the challenge and within a few months we were a team of five making an impact on the San Jose region. Our team specialized in recruiting and placing C/C++ professionals across the stack including:-Object Oriented C++ developers-Graphics engineers working with OpenGL, visualization, and 3D technologies-Distributed systems/platform developers-Close to the metal firmware/embedded engineers-Network/Security engineers (TCP/IP, IPsec, IPv6, etc.)-Continuous Integration and Build Release engineers Responsibilities for managing our San Jose C/C++ recruiting practice include:-Led from the front by running a full cycle recruiting desk (sourced/placed candidates, built relationships with new clients, etc.)-Sourced and contacted prospective hires for the team internally-Scheduled, conducted and managed all phases of the internal interview process-Organized daily operations of the team and led team spotlight meetings daily-Organized team building events-Met with leadership weekly to discuss team/regional production and strategies to lift it-Helped create and build our local presence for TechInMotion, which now has 66,000+ members nationwide

Jobspring Partners is a professional recruitment and placement agency with operations in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Orange County, CA, and Toronto, Canada. We specialize in technology hiring for both permanent and contract positions, and have made over 30,000 successful technology hires since 1989.We support businesses by placing talented IT professionals in increasingly competitive hiring markets. Our DC office helps highly skilled software developers, network engineers, systems administrators and interface professionals find jobs in growing, technically-advanced companies. We have a unique team-based structure that allows our recruiters to become subject matter experts in all phases of recruiting and placing. My team focuses primarily on Java based hiring within the DMV area, however we also have active candidate pipelines for UI/UX, PHP, Ruby/RoR, C++ professionals.Responsibilities:-In addition to running a full desk (see responsibilities below) I am now responsible for leading recruitment efforts for our team of six-Take part in interviewing and hiring recruiters for our DC region internally as well as help mentor and train new hires-Attend weekly leadership meetings -Design and drive weekly training meetings for the office-Helped build and coordinate our local meetup group "TechInMotion"

Responsibilities:-Sourcing active and passive software professionals via Linkedin, deep web boolean searches, Google, Twitter, Github, Indeed, Dice, etc-Creating a positive, candidate first experience by meeting with all of my candidates face-to-face to get the best understanding of their work, needs, motivators and to get to know them as a person-Research and contact companies (generally cold calling) of all sizes and industry in order create strong and enduring client-side relationships-Work with clients closely to help create sustainable and efficient hiring practices based on current hiring priorities-Negotiate all placement fees and contracts with clients up front-Scheduling all interviews, meetings and start dates -Negotiate final salary, bonus, equity, and benefits packages (or hourly rates) that meet candidate expectations and company budgets