Ken Neal (Kn@Srxgroup.Com) Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

• SRX Group is a boutique recruiting firm providing staffing solutions for several corporations both nationally and internationally within the IT, Engineering, Legal, Telecommunications, and Alternative Energy Communities.
• Supervise a team of recruiters and provide training on business development and recruiting techniques and skills, while maintaining a full life-cycle desk.
• Work with top Oil & Gas companies globally to fill niche direct-hire positions; including flow assurance, subsea umbilicals, dynamic simulation, production chemistry, and flexible pipe engineers.
• Manage over 80 IT, Telecommunications, and Engineering consultants at any given time; handling all recruitment, on-boarding, and retention activities.
• Responsible for developing and growing business through cold-calling, networking with, and advertising to corporations and organizations nationally.
• Successfully source and recruit passive candidates using cold-calling, Boolean searches, networking, referrals, business/professional associations, and social media.

• Lucas Group provides prominent law firms, corporations and financial institutions with a source for top attorney talent.
• Manage the full cycle recruitment process from sourcing through offer generation.
• Work on behalf of law firms and organizations, conducting comprehensive searches for talented attorneys through cold-calling, networking, database research, and advertising.
• Research, analyze, and stay abreast of current hiring trends within the legal community in an effort to effectively consult with attorney candidates on their individual career growth and for purposes of developing an.
• Establish, cultivate, and maintain ongoing relationships with hiring managers within law firms and organizations in order to understand their recruitment needs.

• Develop, manage, qualify, and maintain a database of over 500 clients and prospects that is aligned to the business opportunity in the market.
• Build top of mind awareness through effective phone calls and in-person visits, which fosters a consultative relationship and increased business with the client.
• Sell value of Robert Half Legal services to support clients in achieving their temporary, project, and full-time staffing needs.
• Effectively recruit, interview, retain, coach, and develop over 15 candidates weekly to help them meet their professional goals.
• Market the candidate’s skills, knowledge, and abilities to the right law firms and companies so that the best match is made for both client and candidate.
• Work individually and as a team to effectively create and execute a business plan to increase Robert Half legal’s presence in the marketplace and overall profitability of the business.

• Represented a broad range of private individuals, businesses, and organizations in litigation and negotiations involving insurance, personal injury defense, medical malpractice, franchise, construction, contracts.
• Appointed to Firm Recruiting Committee and Standing Committee.
• Researched and drafted briefs, memoranda, discovery, and trial documents.
• Significant deposition experience, including preparing and defending witnesses for depositions, as well as, taking depositions of witnesses.

• Established career education program within businesses and organizations to provide first-hand career exploration opportunities to high school students.
• Marketed the program to over 50,000 high school students through school presentations and mailings in order to recruit those students for the program.
• Organized fund-raising activities and programs to help finance the program.
• Cultivated relationships with community business executives to help support the program.

Jd, Law

Ma, Public Policy & Management

Ba, Criminology