Kelly Donnelly Email & Phone Number

Reston, Virginia, United States

Verisign’s critical yet mostly invisible role – helping to maintain the security, stability and resiliency of the Domain Name System (DNS) and the internet – can sometimes be overshadowed by more visible aspects of the domain name business. The importance of what we do behind the scenes, however, helps the world connect online every day.Contact me at kdonnelly@verisign.com for current career opportunities.

Fairfax, Va

Mclean, Va

Responsibilities included: • Collaborate with management and HR to provide recruiting support and relationship building to ensure overall team satisfaction while increasing individual business units bottom line.• Source, screen, and interview candidates through a variety of sources. (Dayforce, Successfactors, Jobvite, LinkedIn).• Attend alternate networking activities including career fairs, diversity organizations events, media association conferences and other recruiting events.• Schedule all phone and in-person interviews and coordinate post interview evaluations for every candidate.• Create and extend offers and perform salary negotiations for all hires.• Coordinated onboarding and orientation activities for new employees.Specialties: Full life-cycle recruitment, executive search, marketing, online media, negotiations, human resources, digital media, video content and corporate (HR, Finance, Marketing).

Chantilly, Va

Worked as a remote Full Lifecycle Recruiter responsible for sourcing, screening, and hiring all open positions for the SEI Division. Positions recruiting for include E3 Engineers, RF Engineers, Safety Engineers, Software Engineers, and Analysts.

Reston, Va

Siteworx is an award-winning interactive agency with deep roots in Web content management (WCM), search and analytics solutions, and Web strategy. Responsibilities included:• Lead full lifecycle recruiter responsible for sourcing and screening candidates through a variety of sources.• Supplemented the existing candidate pool with passive candidates that had not been previously contacted.• Spoke regularly with hiring managers to gather requirement details and position changes as well as provided updates on search execution strategy and issues.• Client team manager collaborating with project teams, HR, and finance to ensure responsible hiring and onboarding of new talent.Positions hired for include: Technical Managers, Project Managers, Engagement Directors, Solutions Architects, Java Developers, .Net Developers, Front End Developers, Sr. User Experience Architects, and Content Management Systems Architects.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Worked as a contract Senior Recruiter for a variety of clients including AOL, ICF, and ATK.Responsibilities included:• Sourced and screened candidates through a variety of sources.• Supplemented the existing candidate pool with passive candidates that had not been previously contacted.• Sourced and recruited for hard to identify talent in a deadline driven environment.• Spoke regularly with hiring managers to gather requirement details and position changes as well as provided updates on search execution strategy and issues.• Developed recruiting strategies for targeted talent pools; consistently delivering hard-to-find skill sets to the client ahead of the competition.• Dedicated client talent manager who provided critical relationship management with both contingent team members and client representatives.

Reston And Dulles, Va

Worked as a full Lifecycle recruiter hiring System and Software Engineers, Network Engineers, and Security Engineers for AOL’s Technologies Division.Specific responsibilities included:• Sourced perspective candidates via employee referrals, job boards (Monster, Dice, Hot Jobs, and Brass Ring), technical associations, and cold calls.• Conducted technical phone screens and interviews.• Provided staffing reports and updates to group managers and group executives allowing them to accurately maintain head counts for various groups.• Consistently updated AOL’s Brass Ring tracking system.• Responsible for building and maintaining client/candidate relationships with effective communication to deliver talent against the hiring plans.• Educated managers on policies and procedures involving process improvement and cost reduction for more effective and strategic recruiting methods.• Develop and maintain recruiting partnerships with placement agencies, colleges, job placements organizations, and other networking organizations.• Sourced candidates through the use of resume databases, networking, internal referrals, attending career fairs, diversity organizations, as well as using other recruiting techniques.• Responsible for consistently hiring over 20 employees monthly.

Fairfax, Va

AMS was a leading provider of high tech telecom billing systems and management consulting.Duties included: • Full Life cycle recruiter responsible for hiring junior to senior level professionals by employee referrals, job fairs, internet tools, and contract/retainer employment agencies.• Scheduled interviews and conducted post interview evaluations for every candidate.• Tracked resumes, candidates, and new hires on a variety of systems including Resumix, Excel, RITS (an internal tracking system).• Extended offers and performed salary negotiations for all hires.• Coordinated with HR on onboarding and orientation of new employees.Skills recruited for include, but are not limited to COBOL/Mainframe/JCL/DB2, 3-tiered/client server/C++/OOD/CORBA, and C/UnixAlso involved with the recruitment of Executive Level Telecom Professionals with skills including change management, BPR, strategic consulting, and credit/risk management