As a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner at PayPal, I am dedicated to spearheading critical P0 hiring initiatives that directly contribute to our strategic objectives and operational excellence.Key Responsibilities:• Project Leadership: Lead multiple P0 hiring projects, collaborating cross-functionally with stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, and timelines.• Strategic Recruitment Planning: Develop and implement tailored recruitment strategies aligned with business priorities, ensuring a seamless execution of hiring plans.• Talent Acquisition Excellence: Drive excellence in talent acquisition practices, leveraging market insights and best practices to attract and onboard top-tier talent.• Stakeholder Engagement: Partner closely with senior leadership and hiring managers to understand hiring needs, provide strategic guidance, and deliver impactful talent solutions.• Process Optimization: Continuously optimize recruitment processes and workflows to enhance efficiency, improve candidate experience, and meet aggressive hiring goals.• Diversity and Inclusion: Champion diversity and inclusion initiatives in recruitment strategies, fostering an inclusive workplace culture reflective of PayPal's values.• Employer Brand Enhancement: Strengthen PayPal's employer brand through targeted recruitment marketing efforts and employer branding initiatives.

As a Talent Acquisition Partner at PayPal, I play a pivotal role in identifying, attracting, and securing exceptional talent across various functions. I thrive on collaborating with hiring managers and stakeholders to understand their needs and deliver tailored recruitment strategies that align with PayPal's mission and culture.Key Responsibilities:• Strategic Recruitment: Develop and execute recruitment plans to attract top-tier candidates globally, leveraging market trends and insights.• Candidate Engagement: Cultivate strong relationships with candidates, ensuring a positive candidate experience throughout the recruitment process.• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner closely with hiring managers to understand hiring needs, provide market expertise, and deliver high-quality talent solutions.• Diversity and Inclusion: Champion diversity and inclusion efforts in recruitment strategies to foster a diverse workforce reflective of PayPal’s values.• Employer Branding: Promote PayPal as an employer of choice through various channels, enhancing our reputation in the talent market.• Process Improvement: Continuously evaluate and refine recruitment processes to optimize efficiency and effectiveness.

Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm. We work with clients to design their organizational structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people and advise them on how to reward, develop, and motivate their workforce. We help professionals navigate and advance their careers.Our 8,600 colleagues serve clients in more than 50 countries. We offer five core solutions:• Organizational Strategy• Assessment and Succession• Talent Acquisition• Leadership Development• Rewards and Benefits

• Lead a team of 10 recruiters in Indianapolis and Philadelphia to support our clients hiring initiatives within Information Technology and Engineering.• Responsible for sourcing, hiring, and training all recruiters.• Helped implement new policies and procedures with both the sales and recruiting teams to better streamline the overall recruiting process. Through those recommendations we have steadily improved internal metrics such as submittal to interview ratio – interview to offer – and finally offer to start ratios.• Perform both weekly and bi-monthly training for all the recruiters which include subjects as: search string training, candidate control, matching candidates to job specifications, candidate interview preparation and post interview compensation negotiation, locking down candidates, professional networking and role plays, etc.• Implemented new policies to further improve candidate experience with Theoris.• Currently using Salesforce as our primary ATS and CRM.• Attend local user group meetings, recruiting event / recruiting training, and job fairs on behalf of Theoris.

Information Technology Recruiter focused on aligning talented individuals with outstanding organizations in Indianapolis, IN. Retaining talent such as Software Developers, Project Managers, Business Analysts and Data focused candidates.• Senior Recruiter responsible for leveraging technical recruiting expertise and responsible for leading a team of entry to intermediate level recruiters across the entire business portfolio • Broad knowledge of programming languages, web technologies, software development process and emerging technologies• Responsible for full life cycle recruiting - hiring manager communication, job description preparation/posting, submit candidates, relationship management, issue resolution, setting process/procedural expectations, coordinating new hire onboarding, etc. • Most recently partnered with an internal business partner to help scale our Software Solutions division, across four external client projects, adding 9 Software Developers (.NET), 2 ETL Developers (Informatica), 2 Solution Architects, 2 Project Managers, and a QA Tester • Develops recruitment strategies to proactively search for a diverse pool of candidates using advanced sourcing techniques including search engines, social networks, job boards, user groups, competitive intelligence, database and direct recruiting techniques• ATS experience including sourcing, tracking, and managing candidate workflow• Provide reports that will track recruitment activity (interview to offer ratios, open requisitions, candidate pipeline, etc.)

• Consults with hiring managers to activate and post requisitions that accurately reflect the duties, responsibilities, education, training, certifications, experience and security classifications required for the positions• Build successful candidate profiles and pipelines, clarify required job skills and competencies and use the best sourcing strategies and techniques for each job category. Will work with others to integrate efforts across functions and organizations to achieve results• Source high quality prospects against niche, hard-to-find profiles or specific requisitions using sophisticated recruiting techniques such as cold-calling, direct sourcing, competitive research, and networking at professional events, and using other sourcing methods• Strong track record of identifying, qualifying and hiring Software Developer, Project Manager, ETL Developer, Business Intelligence, Data Architect, and Quality Assurance candidate skill sets • Actively monitors and builds a presence on professional social networking sites, user groups, and blogs to capture active and passive talent• Responsible for managing external vendor relationships to ensure strong business partnerships. Proficiency negotiating vendor rates and leading the selection process• Provide reports that will track recruitment activity (time-to-fill, open requisitions, candidate pipeline, etc.)

• Perform the full life cycle of business development for freight brokerage services nationally• Prospect, cold call, schedule meetings, perform client needs assessments, sell products and services using consultative sales techniques, overcome objections, negotiate contracts, close sales, and perform general account management• Competitively negotiate rates daily with prospects and carriers• Make more than 100 calls per day prospecting new business, schedule a carrier to move the freight at the highest possible margin, and ensure that the transit of freight is delivered• Collaborate with Office Lead on monthly sales goals, and train on overcoming objection techniques