Greg Vernon Email & Phone Number

Jacksonville, Florida Area

Tampa, Florida

• Owned full-cycle recruiting: interviewed, offered, negotiated and closed candidates for assigned requisitions.
• Skilled at identifying new talent and sourcing candidates through various techniques (Internet searches, job boards, job fairs, internal database, networking, and referrals).
• Headhunted superstar Software Engineers, Software Test Engineers, Program Managers, Web Developers, and other senior engineering leaders.
• Developed, drove, and executed comprehensive search strategies to recruit senior and niche candidates in limited candidate spaces.
• Qualified, prepared, arranged, and debriefed candidates through the interview process.
• Successfully placed an average of 2 candidates a month both locally and nationally for contract and permanent positions.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Skilled at identifying new talent through sourcing candidates using several techniques (Internet searches, job boards, internal database, LinkedIn, job fairs, and referrals).
• Performed extensive recruiting for Senior Software/Database Developers with a heavy focus on technologies such as: C# (Windows & UNIX/Linux),.NET, Java/J2EE, SQL Server, and Oracle.
• Responsible for mentoring and providing on-going training and support for new recruiters and serve as a resource for learning and navigating senior technical policies and procedures.
• Effectively recruited IT Professionals in a time-sensitive environment.
• Located potential candidates through internet research, internal database, cold calling, referrals, networking, job fairs, and other strategies.
• Performed reference checks, negotiated terms and rates for each project, coordinated the interview process, extended offers, and closed candidates.

Clearwater/Tampa FL

• Responsible for qualifying and placing professionals in the IT field as part of a national support effort for clients within the Tampa Bay and surrounding area.
• Successfully sourced clients and candidates using several techniques (Internet searches, job boards, job fairs, internal database, LinkedIn and referrals).
• Qualifying, preparing, arranging, and debriefing candidates through the interview process; included conducing phone screens, face to face interviews, administering tests, and completing reference checks.
• Successfully place and closed candidates through rate negotiations both in our local market and nationally for contract and permanent positions.
• Offer full service staffing/solutions for industries including Investment Banks, Insurance Companies, Government, Telecom, etc.
• Added 2 new client accounts non-locally in the Information Technology field through cold calls.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Created & managed relationships with Fortune 500 companies to provide Asset Management Solutions, Staff Augmentation, and Permanent Placement services.
• Developed, expanded, and maintained vendor relationships to gain incremental business.
• Responsible in the addition of new clients by establishing contacts in tough target markets through cold calling, job fairs, email distribution, and social meet & greets.
• Identify revenue opportunities with new and existing customers.
• Structure strategic proposals, negotiate business terms, and close sales transactions.
• Leverage market knowledge and experience to help drive new business and identify revenue opportunities with new and existing customers.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Responsible for qualifying and placing professionals in the IT field as part of a national support effort.
• Skilled at identifying and sourcing candidates using several techniques (Internet searches, job boards, internal database, LinkedIn and referrals).
• Performed extensive recruiting for Sr. Project Managers and Application Developers using the.NET Framework.
• Filtered through and reviewed completed candidate profile/resume and evaluated applicants work history, education and training, job skills. Desired salary/hourly rate, and personal qualifications against open.
• Made initial contacts, scheduled and conducted full cycle interview, met each in-person reference checked and submitted for the matching position.
• Negotiated salaries and hourly rates, extended offers of employment to successful candidates and filled all the necessary paper work after the hire.

Clearwater, FL

• Group One LLC provided and sold an online merchant account to customers to use as a secured credit line. Service and purchases required an initial deposit but would report and build track record of on time payments on.
• Successfully cold called individuals struggling with obtaining a credit line and procured $250 via ACH Debit Withdrawal from customers checking account on first call and presentation of service.
• While at Group One LLC was ranked as #1 Sales Representative 6 months in a row and consistently was in the top 3 among agents for production the entirety of 2 year tenure.
• Production included weeks of 40+ accounts sold, totaling over $10,000 in sales in one week.

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