Congratulations to Continental for making the Forbes U.S. Top Employer List for the first time! This is a wonderful distinction to know that out of 20,000 American employees polled, Continental is considered a great place to work.Current openings within our Manufacturing Operations:Quality Specialist - Morganton, NCControls Engineer - Morganton, NCHR Specialist - Seguin, TXControls Engineer - Seguin, TXPurchasing Specialist - Seguin, TXElectronics Technician, Seguin, TXFinancial Analyst - Newport News, VALead Material Analyst - Newport News, VA

• Meet with hiring managers to discuss their job openings and discuss a recruiting strategy for their positions. • Train new Recruiting staff and advised teammates regarding staffing policies and procedures. • Assist Staffing Manager with the development of policies and procedures.• Led training sessions with Recruiters and HR Generalists regarding sourcing on LinkedIn, marketing job openings effectively on LinkedIn and other job boards. • Manage the entire recruiting life cycle process and hiring life cycle process. • Update weekly sales recruiting activity reports for Sales Directors and Vice Presidents and other reports as needed.Accomplishments:• Hired 256 people within the past 36 months.

• Led conference calls with Fortune 500 HR Leaders to discuss their hiring needs and identify the skills and work experience necessary to meet their hiring requirements. • Mentored recruiters to improve their interviewing and sourcing skills. • Cold called perspective candidates to discuss new career options for them. • Managed monthly budget to insure customers are billed correctly and to insure the team was meeting its revenue goals.• Maintained monthly revenue and staffing metric reports and presented the numbers to the management committee.• Sourced, interviewed and hired internal recruiters; managed a team of 4 recruiters.Accomplishment:• Cultivated 2 new accounts which led to a 20% increase in long term revenue for our department.

• Source and recruit Engineers and Designers for direct hire job opportunities.• Complete technical interviews with candidates to insure that they meet my customer's requirements.• Negotiate pay rates with candidates and bill rate with clients.

• Source perspective clients by using technical associations, client referrals, internet searches, cold calling and networking with candidates. • Conduct sales calls with Lab / Engineering Supervisors and HR representatives to establish new business relationships.• Gathered information from clients to fully understand their pain points which allowed me to customize our services in order to help our clients meet their staffing needs.• Negotiate long-term contracts with clients as well as individual rates for contract employees.• Represent On Assignment at trade shows, career fairs and association meetings.

• Source and recruit Chemists, Biologists, Engineers and Designers for long term and short term assignments.• Complete technical interviews with candidates to insure that they meet my customer's requirements.• Negotiate pay rates with candidates and bill rate with clients.• Counsel employees regarding professionalism in the workforce and occasionally responsible for terminating employees employment with On Assignment.• Trained new employees on office procedures, recruiting techniques and sales techniques. • Manage day-to-day office activities such as new equipment installations, office supplies and maintaining marketing material.Accomplishment• Recruited and hired over 200 people in 3 years to work in contract and direct hire openings.• Managed an average of 35 contract employees with annual revenues of $1.75 million.

• Sourced, and recruited Civil Engineers, Power Industry Professionals and IT Professionals for contract and direct hire employment opportunities. • Completed technical interviews with candidates to insure that they met my customer's requirements.• Conducted cold calls to engineering supervisors and HR representatives to establish new business relationships.Accomplishments: • Recruited and hired 20 people in 12 months to work in contract and direct hire openings.• Participated in the selection, customization, validation and training for a new corporate recruiting database.

Account Managers are responsible for independently growing their account while maintaining low turnover. Each Account Manager follows the hiring process from sourcing candidates to managing employee / customer expectations for the duration of the relationship.• Responsible for all daily activities for a department with annual revenues of $8 million. • Hired, trained and mentored a team of 4 recruiters. • Conducted cold calls to find customers whose hiring needs were not being met. • Performed follow up calls with past engineering customers to understand their current and future hiring needs. • Network with current customers to gain market share within their organization. • Cold call customers who have published openings to better understand their needs and the structure of their group.• Source, and recruit CAE Engineers, Design and Release Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers, Software Developers, Test Engineers, Product Development Engineers, Buyers, Accountants and Project Coordinators for contract opportunities within Ford, General Motors and DaimlerChrysler Corporation.• Complete technical interviews with candidates to insure that they meet the customer's requirements.• Coordinate contract renewals and negotiate bill rate increases with customers and pay increases with employees.• Speak with employees on a monthly basis in order to insure they are meeting their performance objectives.• Review employees immigration paperwork to determine it is completed correctly.• Developed training program to improve staffing employee’s technical knowledge, recruiting skills, sales skills and communication skills.• Create advertisements for newspaper classifieds, job fairs, and for Internet job postings.Accomplishments:• Grew department from one Account Manager with 15 contract employees to 4 Account Managers with 125 contract employees.• Hired over 250 employees in a 10 year period. • Managed, on average, over $7 million in revenue each year.