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Chicago, Illinois, Us

Permanent Placements is a full-time, direct placement recruiting firm that focuses on supporting law firms. We hire attorneys, legal assistants, paralegals, and other business services staff. I lead our efforts in major markets along the West Coast and Midwest, advising both candidates and law firms throughout the hiring process. I strongly believe in the power of relationship building in my role as a matchmaker and aim to provide a wholistic picture of the firms, jobs, and candidates I support. I work with Candidates: I aim to build relationships with candidates, helping educate them about different law firms and weigh options in a given market. I help candidates prepare their materials and put their best foot forward, leveraging my law firm relationships to get them into consideration. I handle scheduling, prep candidates for interviews, and advise them through the offer process. I love working with both active and passive candidates! I work with Law Firms:I build relationships with recruiting managers at law firms, helping them understand a given candidate market and how their firm is viewed or positioned in that market. I help develop outreach strategy and assist clients in marketing their firm and jobs to prospective candidates. I provide pipeline data, anecdotal insights, and other analytics that can steer recruiting strategy.

Los Gatos, Ca, Us

Focused on growing capabilities and partnerships in the media and entertainment industries.Infogain is a top-15 global engineering services firm with offices around the world. They offer System Integration and Managed Service capabilities across a portfolio that includes Digital Experience, Cloud Infrastructure, Data Modernization & Artificial Intelligence.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Revel was acquired as a wholly owned subsidiary of Infogain in 2019. I led US Talent Acquisition of the 2 brands (including hiring, operations, and reporting). My Responsibilities Included:Leadership:- Restructuring the recruiting model to support hiring against strategic growth projects and net new opportunities. - Created a Practice-aligned Talent Partner model, enabling recruiters to develop mastery in managing the talent acquisition process.- Established rhythm of business related to resourcing across Recruiting, Practices and Business Development teams.- Piloted the process for enabling offshore hiring, leveraging our India recruiting team.- Work with worldwide recruiting teams across the greater company to optimize recruiting processes.- Managed a team of recruiters supporting all hiring across the United StatesProcess/Account Management: - Help structure the opportunity intake process to handoff opportunities to the recruiting team and free the sales team from administrative work (scheduling interviews, extending offers, etc.)- Streamlined the Opportunity tracking process, creating Microsoft Word Templates and a SharePoint Document Library with meta data that could be pulled into a PowerBI dashboard for reporting.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Insight Global is a premier staffing services firm with locations across the US and Canada. The company has been ranked one of the largest and fastest growing staffing firms in America by The Staffing Industry Analysts. In this role I helped clients hire individuals and teams, advising them throughout the hiring process.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Responsible for placing eligible candidates in positions within the technical field. Screen candidates and match their skill set with open positions to mutually benefit the employer and candidate.Effectively negotiate job offers, rates, and contract terms. Build and manage a network of technical candidate prospects.

Pullman, Washington, Us

Built a client base from scratch, spreading the business to 30 new campuses.Revamped company operations, implementing policies and procedures that are the current standard and documenting it to be compiled in a training manual.Created a calculator that is used by every sales person to price out orders.Customized the CRM system to enable the Sales Team and Upper Management to run reports relevant to sales, commissions, profit margins, lead generation, and marketing data.