Founded in 1988, PIC Group, Inc. is dedicated to delivering value by providing Operation & Maintenance, Documentation & Training and Staffing services to the power generation, oil and gas, petrochemical, pulp and paper and manufacturing industries globally. Having the organizational expertise, processes, and procedures to perform effectively anywhere in the world, PIC Group is a global services provider capable of meeting a customers’ diverse needs.The scalability of PIC Group’s offerings ranges from providing a single resource to full care, custody and control O&M service model or extend to full knowledge transfer allowing owners to self-perform O&M utilizing PIC Group tools and standards of performance.PIC Group, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marubeni Corporation, a Fortune Global 500 Company. Marubeni is a major Japanese sogo shosha (international trading company) and the third largest global independent power producer (IPP). PIC Group is a member of the Marubeni Power Asset Management group, a global business unit with over 12GW of generation capacity and EPC for over 100GW of generation capacity.

Lucas James Talent Partners is a talent acquisition services firm located in Chicago, IL. We provide On-Demand Recruiting Process Outsourcing (RPO) & Retained Search solutions to growth-focused organizations that value their people. Websitehttp://www.lucasjamestalent.com

Recruiting specialist focusing on executive search, rec 2 rec, management level positions, and sales. Focused and consultative versus reactionary and "throwing things against the wall to see what sticks". Also available for training sessions on better job descriptions and how to build a superior candidate experience. Recent highlights include working with Challenger, Gray & Christmas on a four month outsourcing project where I assisted more than 100 clients with their job searches, and working with a manufacturing client to put best practices for recruiting in place.

At Goodwill, our mission is a simple one: we put people to work. Every day, thousands of men and women face barriers that make it difficult for them to find work and earn a paycheck to support their families. Sometimes it’s a lack of training or education, limited job skills, or a disability. As Director of Talent Acquisition, I provide strategic advice to executive leadership relating to policies, processes and best practices related to recruiting and retention. I supervise 8 great team members and work with multiple departments to make hiring, onboarding, and retention as successful as possible. We hire more than 1000 people a year. Recent accomplishments include: Reducing time to fill from 60+ days to under 29 daysCreated the first internship opportunity for our IT departmentPersonally recruited and hired 2 VP's and multiple Director's, saving the agency more than 100K in feesLed the opening of 5 new stores, 50+ employees each over a 3 day period.

Managed a recruiting team focusing on line-level, manager, and executive positions across multiple stores in Atlanta and North Georgia.

Randstad is a $22.5 billion global provider of HR services and the second largest staffing organization in the world. From temporary staffing to permanent talent placement to in-house professionals, search & selection, and HR Solutions, Randstad holds top positions around the world and has approximately 31,100 corporate employees working from its nearly 4,700 branches and inhouse locations in 40 countries. Randstad was founded in 1960 and headquartered in Diemen, the Netherlands.In my role, I focused on recruiting strategy from a national level. Attraction, engagement and retention were my primary focus. Sample Projects: 1) Creating a recruiting catalog for the field, describing every vendor that Randstad works with and how to use them, based on source-of-hire data. 2) Updating Randstad's referral program.3) Creating a social media recruiting strategy and accompanying training course

Responsible for training clients on Monster products via webinar or onsite training session, about 70-80 clients per year. Working closely with sales partners, determine client needs and develop overall training strategyPresent (as keynote speaker) on various recruiting related topics at national client conferences. Co-Creator and Co-Presenter of “The Best You – Online, On Paper and In Person” session that was aimed at job seekers during Monsters “Keep America Working” career fairs. Keynote speaker at the Southeast Region of the Electrical Engineers annual meeting and the HIMMS conference.

In addition to executive and sales force recruiting (Claddagh's core competencies) I was fortunate enough to have served in an onsite capacity on two separate occasions, once for 6 months in a dual HR Advisor/Recruiting role and later as a project manager, responsible for establishing the recruiting guidelines and processes that our client would follow. I also acted as overall project manager for two different pharmaceutical sales force hiring efforts, overseeing 200+ interviews and managing the schedule of same.

Staffing Recruiter - worked with multiple clients to provide temp, temp to hire and direct hire placements. My specialty was in finding Executive Assistants.

Army Reservist. Attended Basic Training and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Benning, GA. Attended monthly drills and annual two week deployments to Canada, Iceland and Alaska. Honor Graduate: PLDC (Primary Leadership Development Course)