Philip Plunkett Email & Phone Number

Lutherville-Timonium, MD

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• I am an experienced senior level recruiting and selection specialist with substantial expertise in talent acquisition and retention in high volume, low retention employment environments.Specialties:
• Building structured candidate selection systems
• Direct recruiting using multiple sources (networking, employee referral programs, the Internet, advertising, job fairs, college recruiting)
• Building recruiting campaigns
• Writing interview guides and recruiting ‘How-to’ manuals
• Writing a college internship program and making presentations to make the business case for the use of them.

Baltimore, MD Area

Recruit talent...agents, sales managers and agency heads...for the financial services industry.

• Manager, Recruiting and Selection - Provide hands on recruiting and selection support to field managers in the Career Agency Sales Group's 10 agencies.Partner with agency managers on sourcing, screening, assessment.
• Doubled sales representative applicant flow from 2007 to 2008, and maintained that level of activity through 2010.
• Increased profitability by eliminating the use of third party recruiters for managers.
• Improved the caliber, productivity and retention of new hires by partnering with managers to source, screen, assess, select and on-board sales representatives.
• Built the company's employment brand in local communities by staffing job fairs with local managers.
• Increased referrals of candidates to managers by training them on networking and building professional relationships.

• Senior Recruiting & Selection Consultant (2000 - 2007) - Developed and implemented recruiting and selection tools, processes and systems to aid recruiters and managers nationally in hiring high-quality candidates..
• Contributed to improving employee retention from 10% to 27% by developing and implementing recruiting and selection tools, processes and systems.
• Improved ability to forecast recruiting trends and projections and make better hiring decisions by analyzing recruiting and selection metrics.
• Increased employee referrals by conducting company-wide incentive programs and promoting strategies to increase recruiting activity.
• Influenced recruiters and hiring managers to change behavior to make use of the most effective recruiting sources, increasing agent count, revenue and profit in five consecutive calendar years while reducing recruiting.
• Created candidate profile based on common characteristics of successful employees.

Recruiting Director

Director, Alumni Relations

Executive Director

B.A., Business, Liberal Arts

Education record