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I have a passion for learning about different people's interests and careers and that passion fuels my work as a Professional Recruiter for our National Services team. In my current role, I help professionals across the technology and engineering spectrum identify exciting opportunities with Fortune 500 companies nationwide. A few day-to-day responsibilities of my role: - Connecting IT and Engineering professional's career paths with relevant opportunities - this takes a keen ability to ask the right questions and understand the priorities of the person I'm speaking with before making a recommendation - Acting as a resume and interview coach - ensuring that the candidates I work with feel confident in positioning themselves as the best possible fit for the opportunity they are chasing - Providing market consultations to employers; aiding them in defining their best possible recruitment strategy through a mix of data and industry knowledge - Cold outreach via phone calls, emails, and LinkedIn messaging to relevant candidates for active opportunities available with Fortune 500 clients

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Pursuing my love for coaching and mentoring, I took on the Director of Operations role for our Cincinnati market. In this position I oversaw day-to-day operations of the market and provided direct management to our sales and recruiting teams locally. A few day-to-day responsibilities of my role: - Hired and managed a team of 10+ talent acquisition and sales professionals - Led with a philosophy of developing individuals based off of their personal motivators, building trusting relationships, and holding people accountable to their expectations for themselves - Ran daily stand up meetings and allocated team resources according to priority and urgency of tasks - Cleared team member roadblocks and dependencies, ensuring everyone could complete their work effectively - Acted as day-to-day mentor for the sales and recruiting teams, providing training and at-the-elbow coaching to develop their skillsets - Developed overall sales strategy for the Cincinnati/Dayton area - identifying target accounts and acting as an escalation point for supporting current clients - Led the charge on operational process improvements for our team - Oversaw both operational budgets as well as the quarter-over-quarter growth of market revenue

Cincinnati, Ohio

In an effort to challenge my skillset, I took a leap of faith and left behind the comfort of recruiting to sell Brooksource services to clients in the Cincinnati area. My primary focus was selling IT talent services to grocery retailers. In this role, I led with empathy and transparency to establish trusting relationships with client team members and, when relevant, guided them to Brooksource service offerings that would enhance their hiring strategy. This role was brief, but I learned an immense amount by throwing myself into the deep end of sales and learning to swim.A few day-to-day responsibilities of my role: - Established trusting relationships with client team members by bringing empathy and transparency to our conversations - Guided clients on how to best use Brooksource's three key service offerings (staff augmentation, workforce transformation, and professional services) - Quarterbacked delivery efforts once our services were purchased, ensuring the highest level of quality was maintained - Cold outreach via phone calls, emails, and LinkedIn messaging to relevant client leaders, requiring an ability to display value and trust at first impressionI provide a consultative approach to Human Capital needs, providing solutions in Managed Services, Workforce Transformations, and Staff Augmentations/Contingent Labor. I bring along with me multiple years of IT industry knowledge, with a focus in the candidate marketplace.

Cincinnati, Oh

As my skillset in recruiting grew I found a passion for coaching and mentorship which led me to the Recruiting Team Lead role. In this position, I took on player-captain responsibilities, splitting my time between being an individual contributor Recruiter, while also formally taking on leadership and training responsibilities. I was responsible for maintaining my own revenue stream while guiding new recruiters from "new hire" status to "Senior Recruiter" status. During this period, I found immense success as a recruiter, regularly appearing in the Top 10 revenue-generator leaderboard for Brooksource, and spending my last few weeks in the role at the #1 spot.A few day-to-day responsibilities of my role:Team Lead Responsibilities - Led training for new hires in the Cincinnati market, ensuring they had a strong grasp on the foundational recruiting skillset - Provided at-the-elbow coaching and mentorship to the recruiting team - Acted as point of escalation for all delivery issues - Advocated the recruiter point of view when defining operational process changesRecruiter Responsibilities - Connecting IT and Engineering professional's career paths with relevant opportunities - this takes a keen ability to ask the right questions and understand the priorities of the person I'm speaking with before making a recommendation - Acting as a resume and interview coach - ensuring that the candidates I work with feel confident in positioning themselves as the best possible fit for the opportunity they are chasing - Providing market consultations to employers; aiding them in defining their best possible recruitment strategy through a mix of data and industry knowledge - Cold outreach via phone calls, emails, and LinkedIn messaging to relevant candidates for active opportunities available with Fortune 500 clients

Cincinnati, Oh

Cincinnati, Ohio

Managed and operated a Junior Olympic sized pool and its lifeguard staff.

Developed and created marketing content for a Summer 2013 feature film, made sales calls to prospective customers, and worked as a production assistant on a film set.