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Greater Pittsburgh Area

Newly created position -- source, network and advertise for rotating equipment engineers for North America, Central and Latin America operations and hourly machinist, welders, and NDE inspectors. Leverage social media, create Boolean search strings, attend College Fairs across U.S. & military events. Create in-house recruitment materials, enhance verbiage and modify informational internet company Careers site. Developed employment branding "Opportunities at Every Turn". Updated Elliott employment application for compliancy in all 50 states. Hired videographer, selected employees, created and directed first Elliott employee testimonial video's "Why Elliott". Implemented and responsible for Elliott Employee Referral program. Reduced advertising costs in 2010 by 50%. Reduced overall reliance on third party recruting since hire by 30% in North America and Canada. Annually compile spreadsheets to report organizations EEO-1 and analyze AAP compliancy. Responsible for ATS comparisons, selection, implementation, training materials, user system training and day to day oversight of global hosted application. Reduced website posting from a manual process to an automated streamlined process. Search method updated to an automated process versus looking at paper resumes, in the thousands. Mapped related ATS & Lotus Notes database fields and create a daily FTP file. Day to day activities consist of: reviewing resumes, resume mining, passive candidate sourcing and networking, working with Hiring Managers to complete in-person (or by phone if not on-site) position profile used for sourcing and job advertisements, phone screening and scheduling candidates for interviews, interview participation, reviewing and classifying resume activity, initiating background checks, creating H1-B job postings, out source and manage agency activities, candidate resume presentation and follow up with the hiring managers and negotiate corporate contract terms for recruitment expenditures.

Global talent acquisitions at all corporate levels with a focus on steam turbines; aerodynamic engineer and engineers with axial compressor experience and industry experience that includes power generation; petrochemical and oil & gas.

Seventh largest AAA Club in the U.S. with 100+ offices in five states and 1400+ employees in addition to 70 plus managers. Stand alone position reporting directly to the Vice President of Human Resources. Daily responsibility: consulting with managers and employees daily on various policy, labor and legal concerns regarding performance, misconduct, references and hiring, salary, inappropriate behavior and requests to terminate. Consultation with HR staff members on employment issues, HRIS system troubleshooting and 401k administration. Governmental reporting and preparation of data for annual 401k discrimination testing including auditing for errors, EEOC-1 reporting, state new hire reporting, calculating 401k vesting and assisting in compiling annual 5500 data. Completion of Pennsylvania UC-45’s and employer questionnaires with documentation demonstrating willful misconduct, filing appeals, attend unemployment hearings, coaching managers on unemployment hearing procedures.

Employed by Sony Electronics and supported over 500+ employees, 2 Human Resource Specialists and a Human Resource Manager. Initially employed thru Topps employment agency as a Staffing Assistant and was converted in March of 1997 as a start up team member as an Accounts Payable Specialist. • Primary focus in Human Resources was to provide administrative support to the department and staff: scheduled interviews, issued public relation announcements, exit interviewed employees, sent offer and rejection letters, generated internal job postings, assisted with new hire orientation, placed new and replacement uniform order requests, handled general employee relations and benefit / 401k issues, maintained personnel files and return to work documentation. • Created organizational charts to track turnover and visually display available positions.• Attended and successfully completed PeopleSoft training to create and generate system reports.

Accounting employment firm providing temporary, temporary to permanent and permanent personnel placement for Pittsburgh area employers. Worked with clients at Fisher Scientific; AT & T Wireless; Mellon Bank; Reed, Smith, Shaw and McClay and West Penn Hospital and was customarily able to charge a 70% mark up on the temporaries hourly billing rate or negotiate fee’s of 1% per $1,000.00 on permanent placement starting salaries. • Recruited, interviewed, tested, referenced checked applicants and placed, coached and indirectly supervised candidates on assignment.• Designed advertisements layouts, recruiting brochures and external employment newsletters to attract applicants and maintain a pool of available placement personnel.