Karin Arnold Email & Phone Number

Responsible for recruiting hundreds of IT & Software engineers for Fortune 500 companies.Mentor recruiters, both on-shore and off-shore.Screen candidates for potential openings, post jobs, using job board sites as well as social media.Meet with clients to gather pertinent information regarding technical environment to better understand their needs.

- Responsible for mentoring and training all new and existing recruiting staff.- Managed team of 11-18 recruiters both on and off shore.- Responsible for hiring, firing, performance reviews and negotiating salaries for staff.- Interacted with sales team daily to understand needs to properly guide the recruiting team to qualify, prioritize and assign jobs.- Established and implemented recruiting strategies.- Reviewed key metrics quarterly against stated goals.- Instrumental in developing off shore recruiting team, including hiring and training for 3rd shift.- Provided International training via video conferencing and frequent trips abroad.- Planned and implemented strategy for hiring resources from China and India.- Strategized and implemented sourcing group in China.- Key player in hiring off shore recruiters to help grow competitive accounts.- Attended vendor meetings to review company standings both for competitive and non-competitive accounts.- Researched and negotiated pricing with numerous job boards.- Hands on manager, working closely with recruiters and sales team to ensure coverage of openings.

- Key player in the migration of the company from a telecommunications niche market supplier to successfully placing information systems consultants and winning projects in other industries.- Evaluated technical skills, employment history, interviewed, supplied reference verifications and placed information technology professionals at 75+ clients with major Fortune 500 companies in NJ, NY, PA, VA, DC, and GA for long and short term assignments on Client/Server and Legacy systems.- Contributed to a 100% growth of the company.- Sourced candidates from the internet, in-house resume databases and consultant referrals for technical staff openings.- Conducted face-to-face and phone interviews on a daily basis.- Negotiated offers including rate and /salary requirements, benefit coverage and cost, overtime and on-call/cellular availability with consultants in order to pre-close prior to client interviews.- Managed immigration requirements including visa sponsorship.- Determined which positions would be posted and designated responsibility for searches.- Developed a format for standardized resumes and reviewed recruiter’s resumes before being sent to the client.- Hired 280 consultants with skills ranging from entry-level help desk to high level architecture and management on projects varying from short-term contracts to permanent placements.- Top recruiter for the last 4 years.