Shannon A. Email & Phone Number

Salem, Oregon, United States

While working full time roles I paused the business to commit 100% of my time to my employersI established the company in July of 2012 to assist small and medium businesses with specialized recruiting needs focused in all areas of recruiting and operations as a more cost-effective option and as an extension of their recruiting staff. I created and defined processes to train recruiters and successfully recruited and placed Director and Executive level candidates in a variety of industries. I assisted small recruiting agencies with their efforts to work directly with their clients to fill open positions ranging from VP of Engineering, Director of Infrastructure, SW Engineering and Sr. Managers for multiple companies in Healthcare, Engineering, Technology, Energy and Manufacturing

Portland, Oregon, Us

Cayuse is an Education Research Adminstration SaaS based productHired over 60 people utilizing organic sourcing, LI job postings as well as personal and employee referrals Saved the company over 1.5 million in recruiting fees and eliminated agency usage 100% for all Engineering/Director level positions.Primary Greenhouse Administrator and full site user, which consisted of negotiating new annual contracts, adding/deleting users, running reports for Executives showing all data related to the steps in the recruitment process. Created a job description library under each Executive/Hiring Manager which expedited the process for managers when the need for a backfill/new addition was presented. This process also included branding and editing job descriptions for ease of 15+ Developed all pre-screen questions in Greenhouse for each role based on the requirements which enabled a quicker screening process for recruiters.Met weekly or bi-weekly with VP’s, Directors and hiring managers for project and recruitment priorities in addition to workforce planning to include budgets, marketplace salary information while driving successful recruiting operations that reduced time to hire. Created and implemented TA Playbook with a streamlined recruiting process which included a step by step interviewing guide, hiring manager intake meeting forms, employee referral program forms Owned the recruitment of all IT, Engineering and Executive Management positions with a focus on candidates who had healthcare and scientific backgrounds. I adhered to all compliance requirements with OFCCP/EEO guidelines and laws In addition to all the Executive and technical roles for the company, I supported my team in the recruitment and pipeline building for Sales, Accounting/Finance, People Ops and Product GTM roles

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Company was acquired and I was recruited to Cayuse Worked in a full lifecycle recruiting role which included sourcing, screening, and hiring high performing candidates for pre/post sales and delivery roles across Sirius’s Digital practice. During my 3 month return to Sirius I hired 10 people for roles that had been open for up to 6 months to a year. Please see above experience with Sirius Computer Solutions when they recruited me back for an FTE role while working at Amazon as a contractor.

Mountain View, California, Us

Provided E2E consultative recruiting expertise which included sourcing, interviewing, setting up all interviews and running decision meetings with managersBuilt excellent candidate/manager relationships ensuring the experience was a positive one on both sides and I received excellent feedback via email and slack. In addition, I built a strong level of trust and focused on consistently getting great referrals/hires from the people I interviewed and were subsequently hired.Led thorough hiring manager intake meetings and developed a complete overview of the priorities of the role, skills needed, salary/bonus/RSU’s distribution and setting expectations during the recruitment interview process for managers. In addition, I also held kickoff meetings with interview teams to ensure that they focused on the candidates’ skills and values to be in alignment with both the position and the company goals. I created detailed interview questions for the team to assess candidates within a compliant processCreated all offer details to present to candidates and successfully hired 16 technical leadership Manager roles in the first 4 months of being hired. The candidates hired had strong leadership skills and hands on engineering with AWS, Kubernetes, Microservices, Java, Development, Security, DevOps, Golang, Python, Frontend, Full Stack, Backend, etc. Developed and executed sourcing strategies to focus on WIT, URM and passive candidates with over a 65% response rate on LI. Fully prepared candidates for interviews, tracked candidates through the process with ICIMS and interviewed over 1100 candidates that I added to the database and presented to recruiters for their roles as well. Used Workday and Tableau to track metrics and pull reports and provided tracking spreadsheets that provided managers with data on sourcing efforts, reach outs, interview stage and offers extended and rejected with reasons why.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Worked in a high-visibility full lifecycle recruiting role which included sourcing, screening, and hiring high performing candidates for pre/post sales and delivery roles across Sirius’s Digital practice, with a focus on DevSecOps, Infrastructure, Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), IoT, Security, IAM and senior level corporate roles as well as Federal Government consultants. Provided guidance to non-senior recruiters and served as the company’s Lead recruiter for the Digital, Data, Security and DevOps practice and prepared weekly recruiting pipeline reports and/or reports as requested by management. Worked closely with management to develop and update accurate job descriptions to be used for recruiting and compliance with OFCCP/EEO guidelines and laws. Focused on metrics that included Diversity and Inclusion with percentages highlighting focus efforts to ensure DEI Utilized Diversity.com, LI Advanced searches in groups, WorkplaceDiversity.com and Workforce50 Created forms for all positions to help recruiters and myself conduct detailed intake meetings with hiring managers to gain a full understanding of each role/budget/timeline, etc., before the start of the recruitment process.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Partnered with teams to build effective sourcing and assessment approaches and managed hiring Manager’s expectations, intake meetings and weekly one on ones to drive the process. Successfully recruited passive candidates and assessed both technical skills and culture fit of candidatesBuilt and maintained a pipeline of potential candidates through proactive research and on-going relationship management. Recommended and implemented ideas and strategies in the recruiting processes to help improve the process that fit well within Amazon's mission to deliver the highest quality results to the customer. Delivered an articulated sourcing plan with deliverables, timelines, and a formal tracking process.

Tigard, Or, Us

Heavily recruited for Government entities such as Bonneville Power Administration, State of Oregon and Portland General Electric Focused on building out the new part of the business, specifically focused on Executive and high-level technology roles. Created and documented the new Executive search process and wrote informational blog posts.Worked with high level clients to develop job descriptions as well as conduct intake meetings to determine the top skills needed for each position to successfully fill the roles within 3 submissions. Always presented candidates with a professional candidate portfolio to the client leadership teams

I started with ISITE Design as a contractor through my company SMArt Recruiting, LLC in 2012 and became a full-time employee in October 2013. This was the first time ISITE Design had hired a full time recruiting professional.Responsible for creating, developing and implementing a streamlined recruiting process to ensure more efficiency and time effectiveness in making hires. Successfully built out both the Portland, OR and Boston, MA offices by hiring Executives, Content Management Systems developers, (Adobe AEM and Sitecore) Developers, .NET Developers, Digital Account Directors, Digital Marketing Specialists, UX/UI Designers and senior level engineers. In addition, I developed a revenue producing arm of recruiting by assisting clients with contract and full-time hires when the consulting piece was completed, and the clients needed to manage the systems put in place.Eliminated the need to use outside agencies resulting in a savings of over $500K in recruiting agency fees.

Assisted multiple clients with various recruiting needsCreated strategic sourcing strategies for specific industryWrote professional job descriptions to fit the clients’ needSource, Interview, and recommend top candidates for review as well as created Behavioral Interview training and template developmentCreate and institute reference check questionsWorked one on one with top management to create staffing plans per budget and sales expectationsRecruited for Sales, Marketing, IT, Finance, Administration, Manufacturing, HW/SW Engineering, etcResearched multiple websites geared toward diversity recruiting to enable the hiring of a diverse workforce

Mostly hired Government contractors for selected clients following all requirements and assessments in line with Federal laws and security regulations.Managed candidates, ensuring a higher percentage of closure at time of offers, which resulted in a 90% placement rate.

Chicago, Il , Us

Recruiting ConsultantImplemented Taleo ATS to track and manage candidates as well as job openingsRecruited and hired over 40 FTE in IT, Sales, Marketing and Professional ServicesTrained management on Taleo ATS system to move them away from spreadsheet tracking of candidatesRe-wrote and managed all job descriptionsFacilitated all interview scheduling and panel reviewsDue to budgetary constraints I went contract with them in April of 2006 and by June their hiring needs had dissipated