Rob Wetzel Email & Phone Number

Bethesda, Md

• Responsible for strategizing and managing executive searches at the VP level and above and managing the direction of our executive sourcing and research team.• Partner with executive management and understand challenges within the various business areas across all channels of LM to provide strategic recruiting plans. • Provide a diverse slate of talent and manage the Diversity FAAP goals.• Train new recruiters around culture, business practices and driving a better candidate experience.• Work with our research group to strategize and build executive talent pipelines.• Member of our Systems Group and provided due diligence to select and implement Avature as our CRM

Reston, Va

• Managed and mentored recruiters geographically dispersed within the Civilian Government Solutions and Strategic Solutions business units.• Partnered with executive management to identify priorities and new potential business in order to provide strategies to identify key talent for IDIQ, Cost Plus, Fixed Price, and Time and Materials contracts and responsible for recruiting senior level management. • Provided best practices within the talent acquisition process to enhance the recruiting activity and to reduce time to deliver qualified candidates. • Developed a Taleo Recruiting survey after influencing management and received 171 recruiter survey results which confirmed several issues I noted earlier that needed to be addressed before upgrading to Taleo’s newest version.• Monitored, managed and utilized data to provide key hiring metrics to build strategic solutions within the recruiting life cycle.

Washington, Dc

• Completed a contract for a minority owned business to identify and implement an Applicant Tracking System; recruited senior level management talent; streamlined their recruiting process.• Completed a due diligence contract for a client who was considering the acquisition of another company. Provided the analysis of this company’s recruiting process and mapped out areas of deficiencies. Provided best-in-class recruiting practices and various ways to improve the functionality of their ATS.

Billerica, Ma

• Responsible for day-to-day recruiting operations in a fast paced, high volume recruiting organization and recruited executive management talent.• Created best-in-class strategies to identify key talent nationally which lowered days to fill by 30% .• Built and implemented a geographically dispersed recruiting team and Talent Management System which was honorably mentioned for two categories at ERE’s Excellence Award ceremony for “Most Strategic Use of Technology” and “Most Innovative Recruiting Process or Departmental Solutions”. • Enhanced recruiting performance; built talent pipelines; built a metrics dashboard to monitor key components in the recruiting life cycle; designed, developed, implemented recruiting tools and resources to streamline the automation of the hiring process which reduced the time to fill by 40%.• Partnered with business leaders and senior HR to deploy strategic solutions which improved the retention rate by 35% for several groups. • Trained recruiters in Web 2.0 technology and was the "go-to-person" for all recruiting issues. • Provided workforce planning analyses to help forecast future talent needs, talent availability, areas of potential talent problems and retention. • Provided due diligence on selection process of ATS which reduced systems costs by 80%.• Designed, implemented, and rolled out the first ATS in the US and Canada which increased ROI and enhanced recruiter performance by 40%. • Implemented several ATS's during my tenure which included Resumix, Peopleclick, and HRsmart.• Reduced the requisition approval process from 2-3 weeks to 1-2 days by modifying and implementing our ATS and hiring process and developed an automated on-boarding process.• Created and implemented a new career website for US and Canada which was recognized as “best-in-class” by Recruiting Roundtable. • Maintain full compliance of EEO and OFCCP regulations.Received several Operational Excellence Awards

Rockville, Md

• Managed contract recruiters to augment the recruiting staff for Technology, Engineering, Finance, Business Development, Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, and Quality departments. • Sold the idea to purchase and to implement GE’s first ATS (Resumix) which increased time to fill by 65%, reduced hiring cycle time and lowered cost per hire by over 30%.• Due to the success of the ATS, relocated the ATS to GE Corporate and rolled out the ATS to all divisions within GE and facilitated all of the training per the request of the CEO (Jack Welch).• Developed a recruiting home page for employment opportunities and developed processes to successfully recruit from the Internet which increased the number of applicants by 35%.• Designed and developed reports to track metrics which streamlined the recruiting process. • Influenced GE Corporate leadership to change the advertisement layout, which enhanced their image and increased reader visibility by 30%.• Initiated an international recruiting plan which was successful in identifying Junior Military Officers (JMO) to meet global recruiting goals. Successfully recruited management talent at the European Military Job Fair at Ramstein Air Force base in Germany which became one of the largest international efforts to identify solid management talent for GE’s management program.Received various achievement awards for implementing recruiting strategies, lowering cost per hire, and for executing the JMO program globally.

• Managed and led a technical recruitment staff. • Developed and implemented an automated tracking system which streamlined the operation of the recruiting process. • Successful in winning a sole source contract with a major telecommunications company to provide technical support to develop and test a new telecommunications switching program.• Won a major contract with the Pentagon to deliver a highly sophisticated security software program which required TS/SBI clearances. • Developed a networking service which increased the recruiting productivity by 35%.• Prepared and presented formal presentations to Fortune 500 companies and to the Federal Government.

• Managed and trained recruiting and sales staff and strategically developed clients in various geographical locations to start up new offices in selected cities. • Successfully responded to RFP’s and identified short and long term contracting assignments for Federal Government and Commercial accounts. • As Director successfully created a Permanent Placement division which was a start-up operation. • Won several annual company trips for achieving over 110% of quota for sales.