Michael M. Stevens Prc, Cssr, Cdr, Csmr, Cir Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Southern Company Gas is a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlanta-based Southern Company (NYSE:SO), America’s premier energy company. Southern Company Gas serves approximately 4.5 million natural gas utility customers through its regulated distribution companies in seven states and more than 1 million retail customers through its companies that market natural gas and related home services. • Talent Acquisition Consultant with Southern Company Gas responsible for providing full life-cycle recruiting services and HR support. • Develops relationship with Hiring Managers and HR partners to implement strategies to meet hiring needs and ensure that hiring is consistent with business goals. • Evaluate candidate backgrounds to match core competencies with key hiring requirements and assess fit. • Advance and execute creative sourcing techniques for a range of positions from skilled labor to manager level positions; techniques include direct sourcing, internet recruiting, networking, utilization of external research, etc. • Integrate diversity into the sourcing and recruiting process.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

I’m a Talent Acquisition Professional focused on recruiting talent in Marketing and Production. I have deep full life cycle recruiting experience in multiple industries and currently work to recruit top talent for the Cox family of companies. At Cox, you don’t just have a job, but the opportunity to grow and advance across many dynamic industries. We’ll work with you to achieve this growth through career development programs and in our commitment to ongoing training and to hiring from within. Want to learn more/ Visit our company page here on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cox-enterprieses, click on the Careers tab, and start exploring!

College Park, Georgia, Us

Non-profit Organization with 29 locations worldwide and over 500 global employees. HR Employment Recruiter and File Manager (8/2011 – Present) • Decreased traditional search fees 90% by designing, implementing and managing a RPO (recruiting process outsourcing) to address burst capacity hiring needs to support corporate growth. • Responsible for entire RPO process from engagement through metrics and project management.• Ensures that corporate recruitment strategies are rolled out globally to create and maintain consistency in business practices. • Created staffing pipeline by developing college relations program. Initial focus in Corporate Office.• Created and taught re-employment strategies for displaced employees.• Responsible for direct recruiting, confidential and executive searches as well as in-line positions.• Reduced spend of background checks by $110K over 3 years by assessment and recommendation of new background check company.• Trained and advised team in negotiation of compensation packages resulting in direct savings to company of $540K over 3 years.HR Employment Recruiter and File Manager (Contract to Hire 5/2011 – 8/2011)• Conducted high volume full cycle recruitment to include requisition creation, hiring manager intake calls, phone interviews, salary negotiation, extending offers and on-boarding while maintaining an average requisition load of 30 plus requisitions.• Improved employee retention and acquisition by creating a brand and value proposition and slowed attrition by 15% during the first 3 months of employment.• Produced up to date affirmative action plans in compliance with hiring initiatives. • Reduced time to hire from 60+ to 15 days, which resulted in shortening overlapped training, by designing policy and leading implementation.• Create and deliver training such as interview & EEO compliance for department managers.

Javelin is a private, for-profit institution. The Certificate is the highest degree at Javelin Technical Training Center. The most common majors are in computer science and engineering. Regional Director • Piloted a new B-to-B staffing business model, which increased the placement of externship student by 45% and job placement by 60%. • Training all staff and campus management team on the new mold and process. Providing performance feedback to campus President and VP of Operations. • Consistently identified and managed a steady pipeline of employment opportunities for student placement.• Coached, mentored and managed a staff of as many as thirteen in three locations to meet and exceed campus and corporate placement expectations for as many as 2,134 students and graduates.• Coordinated events on and off campus for employers and students including: Program Advisory Committee Meetings, Career Fairs, and Graduation Ceremonies.• Managing a staff of 13 CS reps at 3 different locations across the Metro Atlanta area. • Providing performance feedback campus Presidents & VP of Operations.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

With 120 locations worldwide, provide immediate access to highly skilled, pre-evaluated technology professionals for projects, contract-to-hire or full-time hiring needs.Recruiting Manager • Closed 5 orders within the first 7 weeks and received "Top Producing Recruiter" for quarter.• Ranked #1 out of 20 recruiters in the South East surpassing annual quota by 150% as "Rookie of the Year" billing $525,000.• Creating a comprehensive job description based on hiring manager specifications to be used to present to candidates and to post to job boards and internal gateways.• Facilitated the hiring process including screening, interviewing and preparing candidates for client interviews. • Created sourcing strategies to identify and recruit a qualified talent pool through creative and cost-effective methods including but not limited to Cold/warm calling, LinkedIn, Monster, CareerBuilder, internal ATS, advertisements on specialty job boards and professional referrals.• Increased year-over-year revenue by 70% to $125K as a result of streamlined processes and newly introduced software tools.• Built and maintained client/candidate relationships through email, phone and in-person meetings to ensure satisfactory understanding of client needs as well as candidate career goals• Placed high-end technical professionals in the area of Information Technology Industry in contract and full-time positions. • Specialized in Software Engineers/Architects, Database Architects/Developers/Administrators, Network/System/Security Engineers, Web Developers, Quality Assurance/Test Engineers, Technical Program/Product/Project Managers, Development Managers, and Business Analysts.• Performed extensive recruiting for Senior Software/Database Developers with heavy focus on technologies such as: C/C++, (Windows & UNIX/Linux), .NET, Java/J2EE, SQL Server, and Oracle.

Ba, Business Administration

Aas, Information Technology