Jan 2024 – Sep 2024 · 8 mos · Newport Beach, California, United States · On-site

• Sourcing Recruiter for Hoag Women’s Health Institute - Clinical Nurses (NICU, L&D, LDRP, MBU), Surgery Technologists, Clerical Coordinators, Patient Care Assistants, etc.
• Also:
• Provided sourcing support for perioperative services for Hoag Hospitals, including Sterile Processing Technicians, Surgical Technologists, Operating Room Assistants, Telemetry Technicians, etc.
• Improved evergreen and general recruiting processes, creating data-driven recruiting strategies, enhancing candidate experience, etc.

Jun 2023 – Dec 2023 · 6 mos · United States · Remote

• Sole tech sourcer partnered with multiple recruiters, specialized in sourcing support for hard-to-fill roles in engineering (e.g. filled Sr. Director of Software Engineering role for core value stream to lead 140+ engineers with kudos from engineering leaders for “most diverse, most qualified candidates [they] have ever seen”)
• Owned talent sourcing strategies to reach under-represented groups and advising process improvements in the full recruiting cycle to deliver high-quality, diverse talent in time
• Contributed to new ATS(Workday) implementation and testing and to new CRM selection
• Built a candidate tracker in Excel as a temporary fix until recruiting systems are up and running for data analytics and talent pooling

May 2023 – Jun 2023 · 1 mo

• Atlassian made the tough decision to lay off most of frontend and specialty recruiting as well as most of our TA Enablement partners

Oct 2021 – May 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Fine-tuned the Frontend Engineer evergreen recruiting team as a core member and sourcing specialist, driving the team output to 2-3x goal
• Sourced and hired Frontend Engineers for 5-20 hiring managers at a time (6-18 hires per quarter, some full-cycle)
• Earned trust from engineering managers as a Talent Acquisition (TA) partner by creating more technical, effective screening, calibrating interviews, and ensuring we hire high quality talent
• Piloted multiple recruiting tool adoptions (Seekout, Beamery, Karat), partnering with TA Enablement and TA Analytics teams
• As TA Lead, planned, coordinated and managed Afrotech22 attendees, partnering with the TA Brand team.
• Trained peers in our ‘Core Engineering’ recruiting org and shared best practices in:
• sourcing strategy (creative niche/diversity talent searches)
• candidate/interview data tracking, analysis, and presentation
• effective recruiter screening
• employee referral campaigns
• long-term candidate relationship management

Nov 2020 – Sep 2021 · 10 mos

• As founding member of a new Employee Referral Channel Specialist team in AWS Utility Computing (17,000+ employees), built out new processes and implemented various programs related to the full employee referral cycle
• Owned all employee referrals, campaigns, and business comms for AWS Platform and EC2 organizations (6500+ employees), improving stakeholder satisfaction
• Planned, strategized, and executed employee referral campaigns and managed multiple projects concurrently
• Created new ATS/CRM workflows and trained many recruiters on best practices at Amazon, recruiting tools and techniques (Beamery, iCIMs, Hire, Tableau, HackerRank, Hiretual, SeekOut, LinkedIn, Google X-Ray, Social Media sourcing, referral drives, etc.)

Aug 2019 – Nov 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Tech Sourcer for AWS Platform
• Independently sourced, screened, and prepared candidates to interview for various technical roles within Amazon Web Services (AWS), specializing in Software Development Engineers.
• Effectively managed relationships with business partners in cross-functional teams, and provided recruiting support to 10-30 hiring managers at a time
• Trained peer groups with new CRM implementation, sharing best practices on ATS/CRM management
• (iCIMs, Amazon Hire, Beamery, Tableau), legal compliance (OFCCP, immigration in US and Canada), and niche talent sourcing strategies
• Planned and hosted hiring events, influencing hiring decisions with data
• Created additional sources of talent (passive candidates) through employee referral campaigns, on/ offline networking (career fairs, Meetup, LinkedIn, Blind), and database searches
• Sourced and hired diverse talent for AWS Platform (cloud computing) including:
• Software Development Engineer (backend focus full-stack)
• Front End Engineer
• Systems Development Engineer
• Data Engineer
• Data Scientist
• Business Intelligence Engineer
• Business Analyst
• Sr. Investigation Specialist
• Software Development Manager
• Data Science Manager
• Technical Program Manager
• Technical Product Manager
• Program Manager
• Custom Billing Analyst

Sep 2018 – Apr 2019 · 7 mos · Beaverton, Oregon

• After training in engineering recruiting (software/hardware/firmware/embedded/controls engineers), founded a new healthcare recruiting division in Portland (Nurses, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Medical Assistants, Laboratory technicians/assistants, PhD scientists)
• Sourced, screened, and selected the best-fit candidates for various positions requisitioned by clients, mainly in healthcare and engineering
• Ensured the best-fit candidates are recognized by clients via resume feedback, thorough interview preparation, and presentation of industry/market knowledge to set reasonable expectations
• Provided continued service to contractors and to clients by consistently communicating and by mediating between both parties when needed