Tyler Watson Email & Phone Number

Washington, Missouri, United States

Greater St. Louis Area

• Works with Senior Leadership and Sr HR Leaders to develop comprehensive recruitment strategy.• Screens, selects, interviews and evaluates potential candidates including experienced and campus hires.• Identifies recruitment methods such as online recruitment methods, professional organizations, technical programs and universities to target technically skilled individuals requiring highly specific industry certifications.• Ensures compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws related to employment.• Writes and places advertisements and job postings..• Identifies opportunities for participation in job fairs, campus recruiting events and handling employment/agency inquiries.• Promotes equal opportunity employment by analyzing results of outreach efforts and modifying recruitment efforts based on those results. Implements diversity recruitment initiatives and participates in applicable recruitment conferences and outreach efforts.• Communicates hiring process to manager and trains hiring managers on EEO/FCC compliance and monitoring internal compliance with EEO/FCC requirements related to staffing.• Ascertains applicants' qualifications by conducting interviews, tests, and reference checks, coordinates interview schedule with hiring manager and conducts intake meetings and feedback sessions.• Maintains accurate and up-to-date recruitment and applicant files.• Remains up-to-date on latest recruitment technologies, makes recommendations on recruitment sourcing initiatives and advises client groups of latest resources.

2200 Mastercard Boulevard O'Fallon, Mo 63368

• Primary recruiter focused on three large business units within MasterCard. These included Enterprise Security Solutions, Corporate Business Technologies and Advisors Data Solutions or Data Warehouse.• Conducted intake meetings with all levels of management to determine specific needs as well as outline the recruiting process and policies.• Monitored applicant submittals via Workday and pre-screened candidates for potential interviews with various business units.• Educated potential hires on MasterCard’s benefits and other incentives offered to full time employees.• Managed external vendor relationships for positions that require their services.• Clarified guidelines for new hires that required work visa sponsorship's or relocation.• Analyzed internal equity and work with HR Business partners to determine compensation levels for potential offers.• Initiated and monitored onboarding process for new hires.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Responsible for all facets of recruiting for Information Technology, finance professionals, medical practitioners and operations.• Managed 30 + job requisitions at any given time.• Conducted intake meetings with hiring managers to determine scope of role and discuss any other items of importance.• Verified targeted compensation was in line with corporate standards both with the hiring managers as well as potential candidates.• Followed up with applicants both internal and external regarding hiring eligibility and any contractor conversion issues.• Facilitated frequent follow up meetings with hiring managers to discuss state of current openings and to discuss any challenges or obstacles in the process.

Chesterfield, Mo

• Sourced, pre-screened, interviewed, tested, checked references and matched qualified candidates in accordance with customer requirements for permanent and contractual IT positions.• Maintained a significant local network of resources for future openings and referrals.• Responsible for maintaining current consultants which involved resolving any issues related to job performance or any other issues which needed to be addressed.• Facilitated and conducted technical screens to determine if skill sets were a match with requirements set forth by clients.• Interacted with all levels of technical personnel from director/architect level candidates to entry-level graduates. • Attended and spoke at local user group meetings to discuss current needs with members and build local candidate base. • Negotiated contracts and rates with 3rd party vendors for H1 candidates.• Developed compensation packages for consultants that met both the needs of the organization and the potential employee.

• Responsible for all aspects of recruiting IT professionals on both a contract and direct hire basis.• Sourced both local and national candidates using multiple resources including internal databases, job boards, linked-in and other online group resources. • Attended and spoke at local user group meetings to advertise our organization and current openings.• Maintained a significant local network of resources for future openings and referrals.• Trained new recruiters in all aspects of recruitment and HR functions such as background checks and new hire paperwork.• Responsible for maintaining current consultants which involved resolving any issues related to job performance or any other issues which needed to be addressed.• Evaluated and recommended new candidate/sales database for our growing support staff.• Negotiated contracts and rates with 3rd party vendors for H1 candidates.

• Senior recruiter for an information technology consulting company which focused on staffing efforts in web development, project management and infrastructure technologies. • Extensive phone sourcing of candidates which also required meeting daily and weekly call quotas.• Developed and maintained an extensive network of local and regional contacts.• Interacted with all levels of technical personnel from director/architect level candidates to entry-level graduates. • Facilitated and conducted technical screens to determine if skill sets were a match with requirements set forth by clients.• Developed and negotiated compensation packages for consultants that met both the needs of the organization and the potential employee. • Attended local user group meetings to discuss current needs with members and build local candidate base. • Evaluated and recommended multiple online recruiting sites and tools which are still being used in sourcing candidates.• Initiated and maintained contact with local university placement directors and professors in order to identify top notch graduates for placement after graduation.• Coached current consultants on issues that arose at the client site that affected performance.• Relocated desktops and assisted other employees in configuring and using applications.• Point of contact for assisting other employees in the use of in house candidate database.• Advised employees on how to set up and use Exchange email system.• Assisted employees with technical desktop issues, which included hardware and software.

• Senior recruiter for an information technology consulting company which focused on staffing efforts in web development, project management and infrastructure technologies. • Responsible for staffing internal development team with a size of approximately 30 developers.• Extensive phone sourcing of candidates which also required meeting daily and weekly call quotas.• Developed and maintained an extensive network of local and regional contacts.• Interacted with all levels of technical personnel from director/architect level candidates to entry-level graduates. • Facilitated and conducted technical screens to determine if skill sets were a match with requirements set forth by clients.• Developed and negotiated compensation packages for consultants that met both the needs of the organization and the potential employee. • Attended local user group meetings to discuss current needs with members and build local candidate base. • Evaluated and recommended multiple online recruiting sites and tools which are still being used in sourcing candidates.• Initiated and maintained contact with local university placement directors and professors in order to identify top notch graduates for placement after graduation.• Coached current consultants on issues that arose at the client site that affected performance.• Relocated desktops and assisted other employees in configuring and using applications.• Point of contact for assisting other employees in the use of in house candidate database.• Advised employees on how to set up and use Exchange email system.• Assisted employees with technical desktop issues, which included hardware and software.

Multiple consulting companies that focused on staffing technical contractors.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Hs Diploma, General Studies