Talent Legends is a boutique nationwide search firm that provides recruitment strategy consultations and takes on difficult or confidential technical, accounting, and executive searches for growing United States companies. Since 2011, I've combined independent, contract, RPO, and corporate recruiting and business development roles as a trusted advisor to hiring managers, HR leaders, and candidates.

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Ready to go beyond the limitations of traditional staffing agencies and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) providers? ContractRecruiter offers a fresh, unique approach to accessing the talent you need — when you need it.If you’ve experienced frustration in the past with the lack of quality and results from working with traditional staffing agencies or RPO providers, get ready to be impressed by ContractRecruiter.Our traditional model for providing virtual or onsite contract recruiters gives you advantages such as no conversion fees, and the elimination of co-employment risk. We also offer fully managed solutions that combine the deep resources of an RPO with the accountability and professionalism of contract recruiters who know from the start how to work seamlessly with you and your team.

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Strategic talent acquisition partner - thrilled to return to Orion Talent. My current mission is to find engineers for a leading automotive manufacturer that is hiring for multiple positions. If you are a mid-level or senior-level engineer, or a team lead or engineering manager, and you're looking for a great place to build a career, please contact me. Reach out to me on LinkedIn or at lklein@oriontalent.com to learn more.

Strategic talent acquisition partner providing Recruitment Process Outsourcing / consultative solutions to Accolo and Orion clients. RPO recruiters function as if they are internal corporate recruiters. Tenure as an FTE, 5 years, 11 months. (Contractor part-time from 6/11 to 10/14.)• Recruiting candidates for major North American clients – small, mid-size, large – including Panduit(manufacturing), InsideView (SaaS), Scientific Games (manufacturing), AssetMark (financial services), Best Western (hospitality), Optimas (manufacturing), Granite Construction (engineering) and others, as a fullservice generalist for executive, manager, supply chain, operations, HR, engineering, IT, and accounting roles. Client company revenues range from less than $10M to $3B; employees range from less than 50 to 8,000+.• Worked with new acquisitions (SynapSense, Atlona) at Panduit from 2014-2020 in unstructured, change management environments that required considerable business acumen and emotional sensitivity with leadership, HR, hiring managers, staff, and candidates.• 2020 positions filled – examples, not all: Director, Business & Financial Analysis; Director, Sales; Sr. Manager, FP&A; Director, Make-to-Order Manufacturing; Internal Staff Auditor; Patent Attorney; Senior Oracle Business Systems Analyst; Senior Java Software Development Engineers; Regional Sales Managers in US and Canada; Senior Product Manager; Web Designer/Social Media Specialist.• 2019 positions filled – examples, not all: Product Marketing Managers; Sales Engineers; Engineering Program Manager; Regional Sales Managers; Senior Sales Director; Technical Support Engineer; Mechanical Engineer; Business & Financial Analysts; Java Software Development Engineers; Hardware Test Engineer.• For more details, contact me through LinkedIn.

• Supported Director, Trainer, and outside Consultant (all held MLS degrees) in providing post-graduate training, site surveys, and grant writing support to libraries and museums throughout the Southwest US.• While the rest of the department traveled, I served as front-line, first contact for routine inquiries, training support, and office administration, including complex scheduling, expense reports, and reviewing and editing grant applications from member organizations.• First contact for clients with emergencies such as fires, floods, and mold outbreaks.• Maintained statistics for more than a dozen appendices required by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) included in annual grant reporting – this was a major and time-consuming aspect of this position.• Department was downsized in 6/2014.

Traditional agency recruiting, contract/commission-based recruiting, and corporate recruiting, onboarding, and HR administration. Marketing, business development, sales, researching, developing new accounts, filling jobs, and recruiting for permanent, temp-to-perm and contract positions. Well versed in traditional cold calling, networking, sourcing and referrals, and creative Internet search techniques. AIRS trained in Boolean search 1999; social media, including LinkedIn since 2002. Clients served include (not limited to): Getinge USA, DexMedia, ConnectHearing, Remote Learner, Smith & Nephew, EMD Chemical, Perot Systems (now Dell). Additional part time content development assisting clients with recruitment ad writing, newsletters, technical websites, book editing, and marketing collateral. • Staftek Services (01/01 – 01/02): Established a Dallas office for an Oklahoma company, serviced their existing clients, and opened four new accounts during a recession. (Full time, on site)• iChoose, Inc (09/99 – 12/00): Corporate role as Senior Technical Recruiter reporting to Director of HR & Strategic Staffing for venture capital (Sevin-Rosen)-funded Internet software company. Position included staffing for Software Engineering, Software Quality Analysis, Database Team, Operations, Creative and Usability Group, Product Coverage Group, and Consumer Support Team in a UNIX and NT, Java/C++/Oracle environment, along with assisting HR Director with onboarding, paperwork, and training. (Full time, on site)• Technical Careers of Dallas (02/99 – 09/99): Technical recruiter placing C++ and Telecom Software Engineers, Technical Support, and E-Commerce Consultants (Full time, on site)

Directed pioneering Internet ad writing and posting project for technical search firm, including establishing processes to track and analyze results, resulting in 25% increase in annual profitability to firm, while also working a full desk. Researched niche and major posting websites and tracked results of postings to determine advertising strategy for the firm. The firm focused on finding executives and developers for VC-funded startups. After 6 months, transition to recruiting Technical Writers, Technical Support, Software Developers (C, C++, and Java), Software Managers, IT Managers, and more.