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Seattle, Wa, Us

- Led initiatives to develop effective passive sourcing strategies for senior software development engineers (SDEIII), while managing customer/partner expectations.- Spearheaded special project team to create a custom manager sell-call tracking process and dashboard, ultimately used across multiple business units to determine the effectiveness of manager sell-calls as it relates to candidate offer acceptance rates.- Conducted sourcing strategy sessions with hiring managers to forecast and develop sourcing plans.- Successfully built and maintained a network of candidates through proactive research and relationship management; conducted in-depth interviews and demonstrated ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high interview-to-offer ratios.- Assessed both technical skills and cultural fit of candidates to determine motivation and fit within the company.- Developed sourcing plans with deliverables, timelines, and a formal tracking process.- Built and maintained an ongoing candidate pipeline to support hiring goals.- Sourced candidates through networking, online tools, internal search engines, Boolean search strings, and platforms such as GitHub, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Recruiter, iCIMS, Hiretual, Beamery, and Hireez.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

• Work closely with candidates, external agencies, headhunters, stakeholders and other human resources professionals in support of Nokia's North America and Canada hiring needs• Manage the flow of candidates through the recruitment process from scheduling interviews, intake calls with Hiring Managers and Recruiters, initial prescreening of external candidates to gather information important to Hiring Managers and other stakeholders are targeting for each requisition, document all internal and external Country to Country transfers (Globally), verbally extend offers to internal and external Candidates between Nokia's organizations in North America and Canada• Use Pay Mix Calculator to find out salary for new hires, promotion calculations for internal employees and track if there is any off-cycle budget to request all necessary approvals from compensation• Work closely with HR Connections organization and Data Management organization to bring new employees on board• Actively consult with managers though intake calls which allow me to gain insight into each position as well as offer an opportunity to educate managers in recruiting strategy and best practices.• Conduct phone, Webex, Microsoft Teams, Jabber meetings and interviews with Hiring Managers, HR consultants, Headhunters, Recruiters, high level executives up C-2.• Conduct strategy sessions with all levels of management to forecast and develop sourcing plans.• Coach managers on the hiring process.• Utilize LinkedIn, Indeed.com, Glassdoor, and other sourcing methods to identify top candidates.• Manage Applicant Tracking in TaleoAt Nokia we create the technology to connect the world. Feel the possibilities of a connected world. Our focus is, and has always been, on people. Join us and use technology to create new and extraordinary experiences in people’s lives: www.nokia.com/careers

Plano, Tx, Us

A third-generation Perot technology services company, GuideIT is expertly positioned to deliver the highest level of optimization, either with newly implemented technology or leveraging your current IT environment. Our team has deep industry expertise in information technology, thus allowing GuideIT to make it easy for our customers to do business with us, and using that investment to create win-win relationships for everyone. Technically evaluated candidates for client job requisitions. Requisitions consist of job openings for Fortune Top 50, 100, and 500 customers. These enterprise environments require a high level of customer facing and technical knowledge in order for customer objectives to be completed. Candidates recruited consist of Software Developers, System Administrators, DBA’s, Solution Architects, Project Managers, and Interim Leadership.• Responsible for sourcing, qualifying and closing IT candidates for contract, contract-to-hire, direct hire opportunities with clients nationwide• Lead daily recruiting calls with the sales team to ensure my team is successful in our daily goals of targeting and securing new candidates • Participate in sales campaigns by cold calling and selling GuideIT services to bring in new clients to the company• Sourcing of candidates is generated primarily by cold calling, following up on referrals and applications, and utilizing CareerBuilder, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google, and Bullhorn• Coordinate interviews between candidates and clients• Responsible for all marketing, advertising and postings of open job opportunities • Responsible for keeping track and calculating monthly bonus for the recruiting team• Track all candidates through GuideIT’s Application Tracking System- JobScience - Salesforce• Technically evaluated candidates for client job requisitions.

Tulsa, Oklahoma, Us

GDH Consulting is an Information Technology and Telecommunications services firm devoted to serving our commercial and government client's needs. Our "Personal Service, Professional Results" approach assures our customers that they are getting our very best performance every time.Nationally recognized for growth and success, GDH Consulting has been featured multiple times in "Inc. 500 - Fastest Growing Companies List" and in "Staffing Industry Analyst's Fastest-Growing Companies List" in 2007, 2008 & 2009 ranking as high as 5th fastest growing firm in the United States.Responsibilities:• Full life-cycle National Accounts Recruiter focused on delivering talent to our largest Fortune 100 clients which include but not limited to Verizon, Cisco Systems, and Dell.• Manage multiple requirements at a time, including but not limited to Network Design & Security, Database Development & Administration, Web Analytics, System Support, etc.• Proficient in sourcing, prescreening, interviewing, career consulting and assignment facilitation • Adept at CareerBuilder, Monster, Dice, and LinkedIn to research potential candidatesI Specialize in placing Top Cisco Systems Talent which includes: UC (Unified Communications), Nexus, Catalyst, SDN, ASA, UCS, Wireless, Security, Data center / DCN, TAC (technical assistance center), HTTS (High Touch Technical Services), AS (Advanced Services) Networking Consultants, ISE, WAAS, Route Switch Engineers,CCIE Data Center, CCIE R&S (Route & Switch), CCIE Security, CCIE Wireless, CCIE Collaboration, CCNP, CCNADevOps, Systems, Infrastructure, Operations: Linux, Windows, Active Directory, RHEL, ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, SUSE, Shell, Bash, Powershell, Nagios, Argus, Zenoss, Ganglia, SolarWinds, Perl, Python, Ruby, Rails, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt / SaltStack, Docker, Kafka, Mesos / Mesosphere, Vagrant, Packer.Cloud, Open source: AWS, OpenStack, Rackspace, Kubernetes.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Delta Dallas provides talent acquisition solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Accounting, Finance, Human Resources and Administration. Delta Dallas brings you the most accomplished and proficient talent for contract work or direct hire placements in administrative, human resources, accounting, and technical positions. Our guarantee means you leverage the strength of vetted candidates who demonstrate the industry acumen and interpersonal skills endorsed by Delta Dallas.Specializing in recruiting top IT talent for the DFW Market and nationwide opportunities. Technologies include: C#, .NET, Java/J2EE, Network Engineers, Business Analysts, QA Testing, Oracle DBA, SAP, SQL/ .Net, UNIX

Tulsa, Oklahoma, Us

Specialize in placing Top Cisco Systems Talent which includes UC (Unified Communications), Nexus, Catalyst, SDN, ASA, UCS, Wireless, Security, Data center / DCN, TAC (technical assistance center), HTTS (High Touch Technical Services), AS (Advanced Services) Networking Consultants, ISE, WAAS, Route Switch Engineers, CCIE, CCNP, CCNA.GDH Consulting is an Information Technology and Telecommunications services firm devoted to serving our commercial and government client's needs. Our "Personal Service, Professional Results" approach assures our customers that they are getting our very best performance every time.Nationally recognized for growth and success, GDH Consulting has been featured multiple times in "Inc. 500 - Fastest Growing Companies List" and in "Staffing Industry Analyst's Fastest-Growing Companies List" in 2007, 2008 & 2009 ranking as high as 5th fastest growing firm in the United States. These accomplishments continue to highlight the growing reputation of GDH Consulting as the top provider in the resource solutions industryResponsibilities:• Full life-cycle National Accounts Recruiter focused on delivering talent to our largest Fortune 100 clients which include but not limited to Verizon, Cisco Systems, and Dell.• Manage multiple requirements at a time, including but not limited to Network Design & Security, Database Development & Administration, Web Analytics, System Support, etc.• Proficient in sourcing, prescreening, interviewing, career consulting and assignment facilitation • Adept at CareerBuilder, Monster, Dice, and LinkedIn to research potential candidates• Professional communication with decision makers and managers to define responsibilities for specific job descriptions.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Addison Group specializes in connecting opportunities and candidates in Administrative, Finance/Accounting, Healthcare, and Information Technology areas. The IT division staffs all levels of information technology, from entry level to highly specialized positions, including:ProgrammersDevelopersProject ManagersNetwork EngineersBusiness AnalystsQuality Testing/AssuranceTechnical WritersC#Java/J2EEOracle DBASAPSQL/.NetUnix

Plano, Tx, Us

• Switched ISP internet services from a T1 to fiber which resulted in a 85% cost savings and reduced business user download times by 60+%, ultimately increasing productivity.• Converted AllMedia’s PBX system to a managed SIP trunk server which resulted in a savings of over $10,000 per year.• Implemented Google Apps which allowed employees to access email and calendar data remotely from any devices. Moving email and calendaring services to the cloud reduced server backup maintenance time to 1 hour per week from 10+ hours per week saving the company over 40 man hours per month. • Reduced help desk support time by 75% after implementing OS training over a two day period for all employees.• Consulted with clients to educate them on email marketing best practices. Post consultation campaigns saw ROI increases of 10+% on average. • Sold and managed email marketing services for AllMedia which included design, development and email delivery services.

Plano, Tx, Us

• Improved AllMedia’s IT infrastructure by converting the company from a Netware 6 server with Groupwise to a Windows 2003 server with Exchange, ultimately allowing Allmedia to support 50 employees. • Implemented a new hardware stack which increased storage and CPU power by 45% to keep up with application processing demands resulting in the ability to store 75GB of client HTML email assets for direct response campaigns.• Created a recurring revenue stream by installing a 3rd party email list management software (Interspire) on internal servers, which increased the P&L revenue line item by 10%. Software was used to send and track both internal and client email lists of up to 1M email addresses. • Implemented and trained employees on VPN and RDP services, which increased remote logins on average by 4 hours/week/employee and enabled 24/7 access to the company network resources which reduced downtime for users to less than 1%.

Plano, Tx, Us

• Developed employee facing interfaces which allowed business users to mine and use CRM data to create financial models, ultimately increasing sales by 5%. Business dashboards were built using HTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL.• Created a custom PHP application which prevented customer mailings from sending to duplicate zip codes based on overlapping radii, resulting in increased campaign response rates.• Designed and implemented a custom application built on PHP,MYSQL,HTML and CSS, allowing clients to track opt-outs when sending email marketing campaigns to third-party prospecting lists.• Developed a process to automate a nightly import and conversion of the order processing database into the website MySQL database, ultimately providing up-to-date datacard listing information.• Developed in PHP, HTML,CSS and JavaScript while maintaining and enhancing the corporate website and assigned projects.