Allison “Allie” Cunningham is TalentSpark’s VP of Client Relations and managing partner. She has 15 years of recruiting experience supporting national recruitments in pharma, healthcare and engineering including time with several Fortune 500 companies. She is a self-professed “recruiting nerd” with expertise in market research and finding unique, hard-to-find talent. She is also an expert in managing large scale hiring ramps across Idaho and nationally. Allie is a Colorado native, former Division 1 track athlete and graduate of the University of Colorado (Sko Buffs). TalentSpark is a Boise-founded, boutique recruiting firm that provides custom recruiting solutions for Idaho-based and other regional companies. Our team has a passion for helping organizations find the talent they need to help their business thrive. We specialize in executive and professional searches, recruitment process outsourced (RPO) and large-scale hiring ramps (project RPO). Whether your hiring needs are large or small, TalentSpark is ready to help.Email: acunningham@talentspark.com

Shire is the leading global biotechnology company focused on serving people affected by rare diseases and highly specialized conditions. These diseases are often misunderstood, undiagnosed and life-threatening. Our 22,000 employees come to work every day with a shared mission: to develop and deliver breakthrough therapies for the hundreds of millions of people in the world affected by rare diseases and other high-need conditions, and who lack effective therapies to live their lives to the fullest.♦Managed recruiting for the commercial team focusing on marketing, sales, and commercial leadership for global and US roles. ♦Led and hired multiple sales hiring expansion across US for multiple product launches

St. Luke's is Idaho's largest health care provider and largest private employer. We are the only locally governed, Idaho-based, not-for-profit health system, with a network of seven full service medical centers, five cancer centers, the state's only children's hospital, more than 100 physician clinics and diagnostic centers and over 12,000 employees serving people throughout southern Idaho, eastern Oregon, and northern Nevada. 09/2014 - 02/2015 - Executive Recruiter; 04/2011 - 09/2014 - Sr. Recruiter♦ Responsible for the recruitment of Clinical Leadership, Hospital Administration, and other Director and above roles for the west region of St Luke's. ♦ Lead Nurse Recruiter responsible for Nursing leadership roles, Emergency, Med/Surg, and clinic RN's as well as partnering with nurse leadership to create recruiting strategy and planning. ♦ Full cycle recruiting including sourcing, recruiting, screening, interviewing, offer generation, and on-boarding process for hospital executives, nurses, clinic management, Information Technology (IT), corporate professionals, nursing support, surgical services and health professionals for St Luke's Health System - West Region♦ Lead recruiter on strategic recruiting projects including new nursing units, new rural health center, implementation team for electronic medical record (Epic), and rehab expansion of over 450 new employees. Created project plan for recruiting team and recruiter assignments/workload. Initial point of contact for issues, questions and provided additional resources as necessary to ensure successful completion of recruiting projects and goals.

CH2M HIll is a full-service engineering, procurement, construction, management, and operations company with 26,000 employees on 6 continents. ♦ Responsible for providing recruiting support to the water, civil and aviation (transportation) division. Partnered with division leadership and locals offices to primarily recruit engineers and project management professionals.♦ Responsible for managing strategic campus relations and building a positive CH2M HILL brand on-campus, manage 6 campus teams, develop strategic recruiting strategies for specific universities, support recruiters by creating a pipeline of top university students, coordinate communication strategy for university relations

♦ Recruited IT, Network/Telecommunication engineering as well as supported corporate functions♦ Develop and implement college recruiting plans for network engineer and residential sales organizations to achieve college hiring goals and increase diversity by creating relationships with universities, professors, career services, and student organizations to attract, recruit and maintain top candidates♦ Increase Qwest’s brand awareness on campus by coordinating all recruiting events, such as career fairs, receptions, and presentations♦ Complete post offer work on new hires including tracking drug and background checks, and archiving job and candidate folders