Rob Demick Email & Phone Number

United States

Redmond, Washington, US

Currently leading a surge/sprint recruitment effort to find and hire data center Regional Cost Managers and other niche roles in the highest priority hiring initiative undertaken by Microsoft in the past two years.

• Other Experience (Counseling and Human Services)
• Certificated School Counselor serving large student populations and their families while attaining a Ph.D. in Psychology.
• Private business owner in Counseling and Human Services before recruiting career. Education/Hobbies
• BA/Masters/Ph.D. in Psychology - U. of Idaho/Seattle Pacific University.
• Track & Field world class athlete; Scholar-Athlete of the Year title award.
• 4X Ironman triathlete (1.2-mile swim/112 mile bike race/26.2 marathon).

San Jose, CA, US

• Tasked with revamping PayPal's interview process for efficiency, candidate experience, and resource optimization, a 50% time-savings cut was realized throughout all phases of the recruitment process.
• Led talent mapping and strategic recruitment planning with weekly updates to senior business leaders.
• Full desk recruitment for the Honey and Venmo product lines.
• Sourcing, selecting, hiring diversity hires combined with teaching diversity and inclusion best recruiting practices.
• Mentored/Coached junior level recruitment staff.
• Led interview training and sourcing strategies to leadership and stakeholders.

Redmond, Washington, US

• As a consultant, I led the charge on extensive diversity hiring efforts for cloud computing and AI, fostering a surplus of diverse software engineers to catalyze innovation.
• Presented competitive analysis through visualization charts.
• Assisted and helped lead the “Profile Based Hiring” events increasing diversity hires exponentially during a nine-month period. At times, having a surplus of diverse candidates ready to join engineering teams.
• Bi-weekly senior leadership metric oversight and presentation regarding hires for various teams.
• Part of a three-person team planning community outreach programs to discuss AI and Cloud computing for greater impact when strategizing future head count needs.

Bellevue, WA, US

• First Recruiter hired to create the entire recruiting ecosystem along with all executive recruiting efforts.
• Developed a skills-based interview process, optimized business intake meetings, Choose ATS and interview guides, 30-60-90-day check-ins with new hires along with developing entire employment packages.
• Led a scrappy team of four in recruitment for fintech engineers.
• Executive Recruitment.
• Career coaching and counseling to ensure retention for new hires.

Santa Monica, California, US

• Tasked with increasing hiring three-fold for this social media startup. Increased the Engineering Organization by 130% in the first year.
• Collected recruitment data for senior leadership regarding the Bay Area and best to initiate a remote workforce.
• Sourced, interviewed, and negotiated salaries with a retention rate of over 95% during a time in the Bay Area where retention rates were less than 40% for Engineers in most companies.

Seattle, WA, US

• Full desk Recruiter for the Fintech brand of Payments and Enterprise Risk & Security Organizations specializing in workforce planning.
• Top team performer with 79 hires for the calendar year, and a 97% offer acceptance rate.
• International Recruitment for the London and Prague offices.
• Led weekly recruitment metric meetings with senior stakeholders and leaders.
• All onboarding assistance for new employees, increasing employee retention to 96% past the one-year mark and promoted to Executive Recruiting role.

Seattle, WA, US

• Full Cycle Senior Recruiter specializing in cyber security recruiting domestically and internationally.
• Led a successful referral drive for the Payments Platform Organization, increasing the headcount by a respectful 17% for the business quarter.
• Mostly domestic recruiting until asked to set up referral programs for the Australia office.

Seattle, Washington, US

• Hired to assist in recruiting sales professionals of all levels for this series B start-up company.
• Established scrappy recruitment tactics with small to no budget.

Seattle, WA, US

• Full-desk agency recruitment with constant and urgent timelines and KPIs.
• Trained, mentored, and oversaw the recruitment activities of new agency recruitment staff.
• Account Manager for new businesses totaling millions of dollars in revenue.
• Metric development for contractors onsite.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Clinical Psychology With An Emphasis On Organizational Psychology

Ph.D. (A.B.D.), Psychology

Masters, Psychology