Western Washington University

Senior Recruiter at OpenSesame

We help develop the world's most productive and admired workforces. With the most comprehensive catalog of elearning courses from the world’s top publishers, we are here to help you every step of the way, from finding courses, mapping them to your core competencies, syncing them with your LMS to increasing utilization and improving your L&D programs. We are as dedicated to the professional development of our clients workforce’s as our own and offer our team members fantastic opportunities to learn and grow including a highly competitive Professional Development program. Our team is highly collaborative, dedicated to excellence and also a lot of fun to work with! Join us!

OpenSesame

Senior Recruiter

Kaufman Hall provides a full range of independent strategic and financial consulting services to help our clients maximize financial success. Our analytical approach is grounded in proven strategic and financial principles and advanced, data-driven modeling techniques. Our commitment is to help clients achieve best practice strategic financial management that produces tangible, measurable, and improved financial results.Find out what we're up to and how we're looking to grow our talented team here: <a href="http://www.kaufmanhall.com/about/career-opportunities">http://www.kaufmanhall.com/about/career-opportunities</a>

Kaufman Hall / Axiom EPM

Recruitment Manager

Urban Airship is revolutionizing the way companies are using to mobile technology by building the smartest, most aware, precise, easy-to-use, scalable, secure and powerful push messaging platform on the planet. I recruit for our Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR and Product teams. If you know of anyone nationally that would be a great fit for Urban Airship, I'd love to meet them!My responsibilities: - Identify position requirements and position competencies to ensure candidates are qualified - Partner with hiring managers to develop and implement rapid, innovative, proactive and effective recruiting strategies related to short and long term recruitment goals in order to source the best talent across all Urban Airship offices - Source and screen qualified candidates, leverages social media, employee referrals and direct cold calling techniques - Manage effective relationship with outside recruiters; negotiates fees - Maintain constant communication with hiring managers; providing updates on recruiting status - Manage candidates seamlessly through the interview process, setting accurate expectations, providing feedback, negotiating and closing all offers - Conduct exit interviews to gather data on the reasons for the employees’ exits

Urban Airship

In a nutshell, Vitamin T provides carefully screened freelance designers, developers and copywriters on a freelance and freelance-to-permanent basis to mid-sized companies and ad agencies. As a division of Aquent, we’re definitely not your typical talent agency. Our staff cares about our industry and makes human connections with our clients and the 500,000+ awesome Talent in our network to make the right match every time. A promise we make with our 110% guaranteeRecruitment focus: Graphic Designers, Web Developers, UX / UI, Project / Account Managers, Creative Directors, Animators, and Illustrators.

Vitamin T

Talent Agent

Urban Airship is revolutionizing the way companies are using to mobile technology by building the smartest, most aware, precise, easy-to-use, scalable, secure and powerful push messaging platform on the planet. My responsibilities:- Identify position requirements and position competencies to ensure a candidate's qualification and team fit- Partner with hiring managers to develop and implement rapid, innovative, proactive and effective recruiting strategies related to short and long term recruitment goals in order to source the best talent across all Urban Airship offices- Source and screen qualified candidates, leverage social media, employee referrals and direct cold calling techniques- Manage effective relationship with outside recruiters; negotiate fees- Maintain constant communication with hiring managers; providing updates on recruiting status- Manage candidates seamlessly through the interview process, setting accurate expectations, providing feedback, negotiating and closing all offers- Conduct exit interviews to gather data on the reasons for the employees’ exits

Mercy Corps works in over 40 countries and employs over 4000 staff members worldwide. We work on a wide variety of programs spanning from Emergency Relief to Microfinance and Civil Society. Manage full life-cycle domestic and international expatriate recruitment activitiesCoordinate with global teams in a fast paced environment (hired 300 staff in 23 country programs)Employ a variety of proactive sourcing techniques including Boolean logic search techniquesDevelop and maintain departmental recruiting tools including templates and systemsProvide advanced salary negotiation techniques and experienceCoach global teams on recruitment process strategy and ideal staff structureCreate and lead trainings domestically and overseas on a variety of staffing topics (trained teams in Kenya and Sudan)Develop pipelines to improve rates of retention and lessen time to hire for technical specialistsTrain hiring teams on recruitment strategy and ideal interview techniques

Mercy Corps

Recruitment Advisor

Managed Full lifecycle recruiting of IT Specialists for local clients (including sourcing, screening, validating, CV

Meridian Technology Group

Information Technology Recruiter

Information Technology Recruiter	Clients Included: IBM, Microsoft, Accenture, and SiebelManaged Recruitment of Business Solution Technology Experts Recruited: Program Managers, Database/System Architects, up to Associate Partner level Technologies included: SAP, Oracle 11i, Peoplesoft – CRM, FI/CO, GL, AR, OM, MM, PP, Netweaver, IS-OIL, PRA, XI, Siebel products, DB2/DBAThe fastest producing employee in company history!

TNGGLOBAL 				Montreal

Sr. Recruiter

Designed an SPSS data file to evaluate the results of a community needs survey Trained staff to input data into SPSS and analyze the results

Community To Community Development

Marketing Research Intern

Created a detailed year long marketing strategy for the membership programConducted marketing research Prepared mailers to invite, remind and thank focus group participantsAssisted in developing promotional materials for special events

Downtown Renaissance Network

Marketing Intern

Developed and conducted trainings for clinical physicians Researched communication techniques Developed Training of Trainers curricula for incoming teen trainersCoordinated with local organizations and clinics Worked with a culturally diverse set of trainers and physiciansPresented training results at annual conferences and workshops such as:  The Reproductive Health Conference in Portland, OR, The University of Washington’s Physician Assistant Training Program (Medex), and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine in Toronto, ON.

Communicating With Adolescents for Optimal Care

Educator

Participated in financial review and quarterly budget reportingHelped organize and run fundraising events

Melinda Conant