Lead Recruiting Consultation meetings with Hiring Managers to ensure understanding of roles, expectation management and process understanding. Provide market intelligence to adapt sourcing and recruiting strategies as needed. Source and manage candidates. Conduct phone screens. Extend and negotiate offers of employment.

Provide consulting, sourcing and recruiting services for clients in various industries such as biotechnology, pharma, e-commerce, telecommunication, financial services, non-profit, and language and localization services.• Provide insight on sourcing and recruitment for internal and external roles.• Source, video interview and submit candidates, including those exiting career breaks of at least two years.• Coach candidates on résumé development and interviewing skills.Career coaching to entry- through management-level clients in various industries.

Provide recruitment consulting services in Spanish and in Portuguese to Corbion’s plants in Mexico and in Brazil that entailed elevating the role of recruiting as a strategic partner for the business, establishing leading, modern recruiting and selection practices, developing solutions for recruitment challenges, and ensuring compliance with the recruitment process.• Achieved an overall time-to-fill improvement of 24%.• Created and utilized analytics to identify, explain and address recruiting and selection practices challenges.• Led Hiring Managers to quicker decision times in advancing candidates from one step to another in the selection process and advised them on decision-making regard finalist candidates.• Created training content, and customized and administered existing semi-annual recruitment process, candidate selection and interview training that resulted in markedly improvement compliance with the recruitment process and with company values for the selection process. This also increased consideration of a more diverse candidate pool; and led to HR, Hiring Managers and Interview Teams obtaining needed information from candidates in better and fewer interviews.• Trained local HR teams on Boolean search and use of LinkedIn to proactively reach out to potential candidates.• Improved results received from third-party partners by recommending on engagement, terms of engagement, and disengagement.• Assessed candidates English and Spanish fluency when needed.• Published content on LinkedIn that attracted potential candidates.• Obtained buy-in from Hiring Managers to use LinkedIn to market their open roles.

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I worked for Korn Ferry various times totaling over five years between Feb 2008 and April 2020, a full-time employee and as a contractor. During this experience I served clients in industries such as pharmaceutics; biotechnology; chemicals manufacturing; automotive; food manufacturing and consumer packaged goods; oil & gas; finance and audit; big-box retail; medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment and diagnostic products manufacturing; nonprofit; and military aircraft, defense electronics, precision weapons, commercial and military aerostructures designing, systems integrating and manufacturing.The roles for which I recruited ranged from individual contributors to directors and included consultants, drilling engineers, petroleum engineers, manufacturing managers (production, quality, logistics, supply chain, and health, safety and environment), chemical engineers, big-box retail management, product developers, and health, safety and environmental engineers.In summary, I• Led strategic recruitment meetings/intake calls to ensure successful information exchange and process understanding.• Sourced and managed candidates.• Conducted phone screens and behavioral interviews.• Gathered and analyzed market intelligence to detect successful trends and address areas for improvement.• Extended and negotiated offers of employment.• Led sourcers.Client in automotive; manufacturing; industrial• Rapidly captured status quo after replacing a colleague without notice.• Implemented the established recruiting process across business units, thus standardizing it• Increased Hiring Manager knowledge of and compliance with the recruiting process as well as understanding of the importance of candidate care and its impact on company branding.Client in pharmaceuticals; manufacturing• Established close professional relationships with Hiring Managers.• Increased Hiring Manager awareness of the impact of candidate care on company branding.

Client in biotechnology; CMO/CRO• Achieved a fill rate 40% above that established.• Assisted the Project Manager with RPO launch in Brazil.• Led two Sourcers.Client in chemicals manufacturing• Led a Sourcer in challenging, niche searches.• Increased efficiency and effectiveness of the recruiting process by completely redesigning it.

• Developed and implemented the company’s first recruiting strategy as well as candidate sourcing venues and pipeline for in-person, over-the-phone and video remote freelance interpreters.• Sourced, interviewed and advised on building and hiring decisions of internal talent acquisition team.• Directed Talent Acquisition Specialists daily workflow.• Streamlined workflow for recruiting request and new talent communication.

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• Consulting, research and recruiting services.• Provided career coaching services in an effective and efficient manner aiming at a successful end to job search or career decision.• Issues covered included as career planning, résumé writing, research, marketing tools, networking, interviewing and negotiation.• Advised clients of current HR and recruiting trends to improve their search and networking techniques, and interview performance.• Reviewed résumés.• Taught Portuguese to professionals and their families.

• Received distinctive award from management.• Recruited for clinical and nonclinical roles in Arizona, California and New Mexico at the clerk, supervisory, managerial and director levels for Preferred Healthcare (hospital and home healthcare).• Provided recruiting and recruiting consulting services.

Worked at Talent Reservoir, a Maxwell Drummond company• Baker Hughes (oil & gas): sourced and screened candidates for a diversity campaign to fill contributor, manager and director-level roles, mostly professional engineers, in the operations management, operations support and sales & marketing groups for several upstream product lines.• Assisted in other projects as needed to source and recruit for the roles listed below:o Director, manager and specialist-level roles in global mobilityo Manager and specialist-level roles in expatriate employment tax complianceo Global rotation drillship and semi-submersible Rig Managers

• PwC Canada (professional services)o Responsible for 40% of placements.o Recruited seasoned associates, managers and directors in major capital projects, SAP PM and Workplace Management Systems.o Led two Sourcers.• BNY Mellon (banking and financial services)o Gathered valuable market intelligence that was used to re-direct the strategic recruiting efforts.o Developed SME-level skills and was selected as the team trainer for the CRM utilized.o Drove advertising marketing efforts for the client’s Talent Network, and managed qualification of and reporting on subscribers of the community.• LIDL: recruited civil engineers, project managers and administrative among other roles. Some roles also required fluent German speaking, reading and writing skills.

• Otsuka Pharmaceutical (pharmaceutics and medical device commercialization)o Dramatically increased candidate submission quality feedback received from Recruiters by establishing a standardized communication process.o Sourced and conducted phone screens for nationwide roles in psychotropics marketing and sales.o Promoted to Recruiter within eight weeks.• PwC Canada (professional services): sourced seasoned professionals in major capital projects, SAP PM and Workplace Management Systems.

• Managed a multi-cultural caseload by providing effective career development and job search consulting to outplacement candidates.• Rate of clients engaging in program after contact: 17.65 per cent above company-established rate.• Service evaluations completed: 11.25% above company established target and 10.47% above group average.• Customer satisfaction index: 9.5 per cent above company-established target and 3.05 per cent above the group average.• Candidate involvement in company-sponsored transition-related activities: 21.33 per cent above group average.• Clients served worked in the telecommunications, oil & gas/ energy, government, insurance and construction industries in roles which included project management, sales management, human resources management, project management, executive administrative support and business development.• Awarded for effectively using the company's professional development tools.

• General Millso Recruited for leadership and management roles in manufacturing, quality and health & safety.o Successfully re-consulted Hiring Managers at one of the locations regarding the type of experience required, which led to two hires from an industry initially rejected. Consequently, the contract with this client had to be renegotiated to increase the number of hires.o Developed marketing collateral for the most challenging locations, which increased the locations’ appeal to candidates and, therefore, the number of candidates for those locations.o Participated in Intake Calls that aimed at obtaining essential information from the client related to the roles as well as establishing expectations.• Devon Energyo Presented one single candidate for an accounting management role, who was offered the job on the same day, the very first offer of the RPO.o Almost immediately after this RPO started, Hurricane Ike’s impact on the client led to the cancellation of the RPO.• Becton Dickinson: sourced résumés and profiles for seasoned professionals in product design, development and manufacturing; and marketing and sales.• ConocoPhillips: research project to compile a list of universities that offered PhD programs in chemical engineering as well as the alumni association contacts for those universities who were closer to the pulse of graduates of that program.• Northrop Grumman: researched this client’s direct competitors. Sourced seasoned professionals with security clearance and experience in transportation equipment design, development and manufacturing.• Walmarto Received management special recognition for performance in this research project.o Researched retail candidate sourcing venues, niche job boards and groups.o Sourced candidates with substantial department store experience to work on a new-concept Walmart store.

Client-facing full-cycle recruitment for assigned requisitions in the light industrial, legal, government, banking and cosmetics industries.Advised clients regarding their job requisitions to ensure legal compliance.

Client-facing recruiter managing up to 25 job postings for roles across blue- and white-collar functions in a variety of industries.• Ranked #1 recruiter in a regional team of 11 for consistently achieving a job posting fill rate above the organization’s established Exceed standard.• After only three months, became the recruiter for new hires to job shadow.• Received a perfect score of 10 in customer service and service offering knowledge when secret-shopped.• Implemented initiatives which assisted team to achieve established placement goals. The team subsequently became an example for the other teams and new hires.• Corporate recruiting.

• Client-facing recruiter targeting job postings that matched walk-in English, Portuguese and Spanish-speaking population.• Sourcing and recruiting successes recognized by contractor representing employers and subsequently accepted a position at that firm.

• Assessed and improved English, Portuguese and Spanish-speaking candidate job readiness and referred them to appropriate job postings.• Successfully developed an in-house job order advertising system to increase fill-rate. • Assisted in job fair activities such as advertising, referral, attendance assurance, debriefing and hire confirmation.