Nikita Steals Email & Phone Number

Reston, VA, US

Reston, Virginia, United States

Northwest Talent Solutions is a WBENC certified WOSB/WBE. As the only firm of its kind, we blend holistic talent acquisition strategies with DEI solutions and partner with clients within the private and public sectors ranging from start-up to the Fortune 500. We scale the talent landscapes of our clients beyond the talent bar and into brands that will.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

A passionate, committed small business advocate working alongside legislators and speaking truth to power as a voice in U.S. congressional hearings on the requirements and resources needed for ethical small businesses to simplify and scale.

United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Principal Business Partner- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for Amazon's ATS organization where I was the single-threaded DEI leader responsible for building a progressive DEI strategy across global ATS. Key results included the full implementation of my DEI strategy across Amazon WW Consumer.

Herndon, VA

Highly successful global talent acquisition delivery leader responsible for turning around and strategically leading a multi-billion $ book of TA delivery programs including InfraOps (cleared and commercial spaces), DC Delivery & Planning, ISCaP and International Product Management.

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Founder, Co-Owner, and menu designer of Divine12 Cafe, one of Baltimore's former 5-star all-organic, gluten-free restaurants and catering services."Food that Proves You Matter..."

Germantown, MD

• Top-performing Global Head of Talent Acquisition for the Transportation and Government units of this $6.6 billion technology company comprised of 60,000 employees
• Ultimately accountable for formulating strategic (global) TA plans, which resulted in an exceptional turnaround of TA metrics across the globe
• Built and restructured the organizational talent landscape; success was evidenced through drastically reduced time to fill metrics (average of 130 days to less than 40 days on Exempt level and C-level roles; non-exempt.
• Effectively built a TA strategy that aligns to the business and delivers through partnership with HR Shared Services and Centers of Expertise; streamlined off-shored relationships have resulted in 55% increase of call.
• Solid creation and delivery of a Strategic Workforce Plan which has manifested clear, measurable outcomes pertaining to off-shore Resourcing, Talent Development, Social Media Talent Sourcing, Employee Engagement.
• Led the TA function to support the global organization and maximize synergies in a lean cost/lean headcount environment; $700,000 reduction of recruiting firm usage in 2018; $21 million reduction in staffing agency.

www.ascension12.com

• Created recruiting models for Retained Search, Candidate Pipeline Development Search, Engaged Search and traditional Contingency Search, offering clients cost effective and customized solutions to meet hiring goals.
• Created highly effective social media marketing campaigns, resulting in a unique and respected market brand leading to compounded growth over 3 consecutive years,
• Established Ascension12 Consulting within NPAWorldwide and Bountyjobs platforms, offering a uniquely valuable synergy to candidates within niche skill-sets across the globe.
• 100% business development and candidate pipeline building responsibilities, resulting in significant sales, accolades and remarkable growth of this independent professional search practice.
• Top clients included Eurotech, University of MD Medical Center, Highmark, Cargill, Arconic, Raytheon, Sanofi-Genzyme and LivaNova.

Mclean, VA

• Rated "High Performer" for FY13 and "Outstanding Performer" for FY14 and FY15.
• Awarded "Coach of the Year" by the National Recruiting Team by creating exceptional results through the mentoring of new team members.
• Significantly bridged the organizational teaming gap between Experienced Recruiting and HR; created meaningful synergies and established strategic partnerships, which drastically improved operational efficiencies.
• 222 sourced Assurance, Risk and PCS hires in first 18 months of employment; increasing billable hours by 205% from 2014-2015, respectively.

United States, Germany And The Netherlands

• Consulted for senior level functional leaders through various high impact contracts to define competencies for critical roles; effective interviewing and skill set assessment; requisition building; offer.
• Successful execution of full life-cycle recruiting for 26 key Engineering and Technology strategic hires during a major restructure at TE Connectivity.
• Ran a seamless iCIMS ATS implementation 25% faster than average implementation time, drastically increasing the value-add partnership between business line leaders and recruiting operations.
• Delivered high volume placement of Engineering & Technology professionals in the Greater Pittsburgh and New York areas; acquired talent which spiked bank revenue by $11 million in 10 months of contract with BNY Mellon.

Hanover, MD

• Effectively managed the Operations function of a $75 million government contractor specializing in machine tool distribution to the federal government
• Significantly improved cash flow by redesigning the government collections process, sales proposals, quotes and contracts to allow DSO to improve from 94 days' average to 38 days' average in 7 months
• Implemented metrics-oriented billing processes, service and machine start-up/installation processes leading to a customer satisfaction increase of 33% in one year
• Spearheaded all recruiting, hiring and retention activities across the globe resulting in a streamlined and highly effective recruiting program of high performers
• Implemented cross-divisional hiring practices of multiple Phillips Corporation Divisions, both nationally and globally, leading to a world-class candidate engagement process across the globe
• Led the charge of dramatically reducing recruiting firm usage, resulting in $540,000 in cost savings in less than 2 years while meeting hiring objectives with internal resources

• Conducted strategic negotiation to obtain cost savings with national job boards, job fair venues and recruiting firms; thereby establishing a $3 million drop in recruiting cost in 1 year.
• Conducted extensive recruiting training of team which accomplished 108 tight niche SOX and SAS 70 consultants in 2 years, leading the firm to 67% compounded growth in 1 year.
• Provided ongoing tactical support and advice in consistently improving morale and setting growth objectives, thereby supporting a retention rate of 62% or higher for nearly 3 years.
• Reduced agency spend from $2 million to less than 100k in 1.5 years