Don Blessing (Lion) Email & Phone Number

Mississauga, On, Ca

Strategic Human Resources Planning Manager with a passion for aligning organizational objectives with workforce capabilities. With 13+ years of comprehensive experience in talent acquisition, workforce analytics, and organizational development, I specialize in driving impactful HR initiatives that optimize performance, foster employee engagement, and support business growth. My expertise lies in developing and executing robust workforce planning strategies that anticipate and address evolving talent needs. By leveraging advanced analytics and insights, I facilitate data-driven decision-making to ensure the right people are in the right roles at the right time. I thrive in dynamic environments, where I collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to identify and implement innovative solutions to complex HR challenges.Throughout my career, I have demonstrated a commitment to fostering a culture of inclusivity and belonging, championing diversity initiatives that promote equity and opportunity for all employees. I am dedicated to cultivating talent pipelines through effective succession planning programs, nurturing leadership capabilities, and empowering individuals to reach their full potential.Passionate about continuous learning and professional development, I stay abreast of emerging trends and best practices in HR management to deliver value-added solutions that make a lasting impact. I am committed to driving excellence in HR leadership, fostering collaborative relationships, and creating environments where employees thrive and organizations succeed.Let's connect to explore opportunities for strategic HR partnerships and transformative workforce solutions.

Alpharetta,, Ga, Us

Work closely with clients to gain a comprehensive understanding of the hiring needs for each position and meet competitive hiring goals and expectations.Manage the full recruiting lifecycle across a variety of open roles helping clients find, hire, and retain quality talent.Work and form relationships with external management teams to know the ins and outs of their departments and better understand their hiring needs and job specifications.Utilize knowledge of multiple recruiting sources and execute innovative recruiting strategies to find quality candidates and prospects for new business.Business development to new and existing clients. Business development can refer to objective-based calling, meeting with new and existing clients, pitching on new projects, networking lunches and events or candidate floating.Stay active with current job boards, social networks, and platforms to find talent, and plan, create and release job descriptions and announcements.Communicate team vision and goals, Provide support, guidance, and expertise to manager and consultants, Manage headcount, feedback, training, and development for my team

Alpharetta,, Ga, Us

Recruitments, Sourcing, Consulting Manager, IT Consulting, Technical Recruiter, StaffingSuccessfully deployed IT Resources in HCL America (US & Canada), Genpact (US & Europe), Headstrong, Microsoft, Wipro (Mexico), TCS, Deloitte, General Motors, General Electric, Cognizant, NIIT (US & Brazil), etc...Extensive experience in focused strategy planning, execution, measurement, training and advisementManaged staff of Internet researchers/sourcers; Virtual teams of independent contractors & consultantsMajor online presence on social and business networks, search engines, blogs, microblogs and moreBuilt personal database of 2M+ contacts in verticals - IT/IS, Finance, Sales, Healthcare, Govt & moreCreated Recruiting Manuals and dedicated to VDart Team in social media, advanced sourcing and recruiting techniquesCreated Channels - Advanced sourcing program driving talent from 100’s of online communitiesCreated guide for finding active and passive talent onlineAccess to and expertise working with 100’s of social media & web toolsTrained 1000’s on social media tools, strategies and practices via custom webinars & onsite workshopsSpecialized in recruiting IT Candidates/Resources in Across Technologies: ERP (Oracle Applications, SAP, Siebel, Peoplesoft, JD Edwards), Microsoft Technologies, Web Technologies, DBA, Networking, System Administrators, etc

Alpharetta,, Ga, Us

Recruitments, Sourcing, Consulting Manager, IT Consulting, Technical Recruiter, StaffingSuccessfully deployed IT Resources in HCL America, Wipro, TCS, General Motors, General Electric, etc...Extensive experience in focused strategy planning, execution, measurement, training and advisementManaged staff of Internet researchers/sourcers; Virtual teams of independent contractors & consultantsMajor online presence on social and business networks, search engines, blogs, micro blogs and moreBuilt personal database of 2M+ contacts in verticals - IT/IS, Finance, Sales, Healthcare, Govt & moreCreated Recruiting Manuals and dedicated to VDart Team in social media, advanced sourcing and recruiting techniquesCreated Channels - Advanced sourcing program driving talent from 100’s of online communitiesCreated guide for finding active and passive talent onlineAccess to and expertise working with 100’s of social media & web toolsTrained 1000’s on social media tools, strategies and practices via custom webinars & onsite workshopsSpecialized in recruiting IT Candidates/Resources in Across Technologies: ERP (Oracle Applications, SAP, Siebel, Peoplesoft, JD Edwards), Microsoft Technologies, Web Technologies, DBA, Networking, System Administrators, etc

Alpharetta,, Ga, Us

Very good recruiting experience, Source, screen, interview and select qualified applicants for various IT requirementsResponsible for preparing review reports, recruitment reports, and submitting to the ManagementShare the best practices between team membersResponsible for the full recruitment life cycle; including checking references, negotiating pay, issuing offer letters, performing background checks and completing paperwork for internal hiring.Fill IT/Software positions with various clients on contract, contract-to-hire and permanent requirements across the USA.Responsible for W2, corp-to-corp (C2C), 1099 contract negotiations, completing the required documentationHired US citizens, Green card holders, H1Bs, EAD and TN1 visa holdersHand holding all the new employees during the initial period, ensuring employee satisfaction and collecting regular feedbacks on recruited employees.Contributing to enhancement of Automation System in the organization to improve the recruitment processResponsible for database management of all the responses received through various job postings and references, tracking applicants, submissions, ensuring feedback to applicants and team members.

Monmouth Junction, New Jersey, Us

E Business International , Inc. is an US based Recruitment Company. E-Business International provides outsourced recruiting solutions to its clients in the US. Managed complete process through sourcing, qualifying, interviewing, and managing each candidate's profiles, logistics and other areas till the end of the process/project. Screening profiles, contacting candidates checking VISA Status, communication Skills, Current Salary and expectations etc. Speaking to the Employers of H1 Visa Consultants, negotiating their rates & confirmed their availability. Searching the right candidates for the position by understanding the requirement of the client. Sourcing candidates through search engines, job portals, referrals, networking, Google group, LinkedIn, etc. Excellent experience on job portals like Monster.com / Dice.com. / Careerbuilder.com and other free job boards like Gadball, Job Vertise.com etc., Posted Job requirements in Monster, Career-builder, Craig list, Dice etc…and other websites. Actively worked for passive candidates search through LinkedIn, Jigsaw, Hoovers.com and updated their profiles in salesforce.com Excellent and excessive work with IT Requirements like .Net developer, .NET/C#/ASP.NET, HTML,AJAX, Visual Studio 2000/2003/2005/2008, SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008.Java (J2EE, EJB, JSP, Servlets, ANT, Log4j)

Oak Brook, Il, Us

Worked as an IT Recruiter for an US based Company.The main role is to source the candidates resume from the Job Boards like 'Monster', 'Dice', 'Career Builders','Glad Balls'etc.The requirement is provided to the recruiters and according to the requirement the resumes are searched from the Job Boards.Then the candidates are recruited over phone and then their resumes are submitted to the Client with all the details.The daily report is maintained in a database format and then sent to the managers for their review.There is software named 'Send outs' to maintain the database of all the candidates which is been send to clients for their review.Apart from recruitment I work on Lead Generation for Business Development & maintain the leads generated per day in a separate data base.

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Business Administration And Management, General

Diploma In Computer Science & Engineering, Engineering