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.
• 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.

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Multiple consulting companies that focused on staffing technical contractors.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Hs Diploma, General Studies