Feb 2022 – Aug 2022 · 6 mos

Jun 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Trident Services, Inc. is a consortium of seasoned Human Capital Consultants who have amassed a strong reputation for supporting companies’ early stage, and/or turnaround infrastructure growth needs. Trident team members are engaged to lead or co-lead the insourcing of various Talent initiatives and function as Subject Matter Experts assisting organizations with their Talent
• We work collaboratively as a seamless addition to your organization and represent and nurture your Brand accordingly.
• Each of our Consultants have no less than 15 years of experience as an independent business owners within the Talent Management field; this, coupled with former corporate leadership expertise across most facets of Human Resources has proven to be a huge differentiator for our clients.
• Although our engagements are not exclusive to the Salesforce eco space, we have worked on numerous long-term projects with organizations such as Silverline, Model Metrics, now a Salesforce company, salesforce, and Plative, formerly GSD Company.
• If you would like to learn more about our services, please DM or contact me at ssobieski@tridentservicesinc.com

Aug 2002 – Present · 23 yrs 7 mos

• Talent Management/Recruitment Consultant,
• Progressive talent management consultant with over 15 years’ experience working in diverse organizations from start up, retail, high tech, professional services to manufacturing environments. The first part of my career I was in corporate recruitment leadership roles and then decided to pursue consulting projects in the talent management space. Emphasis is on strategic Talent Acquisition, work force planning, process improvement and employer branding. As a strong project manager, I have the ability to deliver high quality, think out of the box solutions from high volume recruitment, newly created roles to campus recruitment. entry level/c-suite roles
• My consultative approach enables me to build strong client relationships. I pride myself on dedication to customer service, drive for results and my ability to accomplish strategic business objectives through creative tactics.
• Highlights
• Deliver qualified applicants to hiring managers;provide timely follow up regarding applicant flow to market issues.
• Help reduce cost per hire by streamlining processes and procedures to include: hire processes, strategic postings, applicant tracking, requisition management, consistent job description and recruitment metrics.
• Third party integration to include background checking. Career website development/redesign. Recruitment Branding. Compliance with EEOC.
• Strengths include:
• strong client relations, project management, CBI, Predictive Index, full life cycle recruitment, and coaching and mentoring others. Working with start ups and growing organizations. Ability to work across all levels of organization.
• Sample of clients:
• Academy Dietetics and Nutrition
• Standard Process(health & wellness)
• Duluth Trading Company
• Rexnord(manufacturing)
• Plative
• Silverline
• Cabela's
• Datalogix/Oracle
• Amazon
• Cerner Corporation
• Edy's Grand Ice Cream
• Dotomi
• Acco Brands, Inc.
• Hewitt Associates

Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 · 1 yr · chicago, IL

• Director of Recruitment
• Developed and implemented recruiting strategies to reduce cost per hire; grew the organization from 110 to 320 employees within 10 months. Recruiting strategies included: defined, developed and implemented an interactive employment site, identified and targeted industry specific & major Internet boards, career fairs, campus recruitment program. Negotiated recruitment agency fees. Managed preferred vendor list.
• Streamlined and implemented internal processes which included applicant tracking, posting and requisition system, consistent business unit job descriptions and recruitment metrics.
• Augmented recruiting staff with nine experienced contract recruiters to align with business units. Decreased contractors to two and built permanent team of 3.
• Identified a recruitment-marketing agency to assist in establishing an employment brand identity to develop recruitment brochures, collaterals, print ads and “All Star” associate referral program.

Nov 1997 – Jan 2000 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Developed central region recruiting plan with Partners/campus team leads to effectively position Accenture at the tier 1 MBA and Undergraduate schools to hire the best people for full time and summer intern positions.
• Managed the recruiting process to recruit 50 exceptional candidates through the use of pipeline management and yield analysis.
• Monitored and coached executives in adherence to recruiting policies included firm and employment law statutes.
• Built recruiting team from 1 to 5; trained, supervised, evaluated and developed team members.
• Member of a cross-functional marketing and communication strategy team which included negotiating and building consensus to roll out messages, guidelines and new initiatives.
• Represented strategic services on global advertising task force; enhanced employment brand and effectively utilize firm advertising agency.
• Managed central region budget of approximately $1mm.

Jun 1995 – Nov 1997 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Managed strategic and operational aspects of high volume recruiting process for four key university sources. Developed campus business plans, conducted presentations and acted as the Firm’s representative. Responsible for making employment decisions using critical behavior interviewing technique.
• Identified as the project lead to collaborate with three other business units to define and develop a business integration recruiting approach at Northwestern University campus; which yielded 50 hires. Program expanded to include increase sponsorships, faculty development and diversity awareness.
• Achieved 72% acceptance ratio through marketing, assessment and selling of the recruitment cycle in a tight labor market.
• Conducted critical behavior interviewing training sessions to executives across the country.
• Managed special projects; development of a technical career brochure, reevaluated and identified a new advertising agency.

Aug 1993 – Jul 1995 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Chicago Area

• Developed initiatives to enhance and centralize a corporate wide 14 key university relations program. Hiring positions included: Account Executives, Research Analysts and Systems Developers.
• Implemented an effective communication campaign to improve visibility and understanding of the college recruitment program both internally and externally.
• Developed an entry level salary and source analysis plan

Sep 1989 – May 1993 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Managed operations of the on-campus recruiting program involving 150 companies and over 800 domestic and international students, which generated more than 2000 interviews.
• Mentored and advised MBA and undergraduate students in establishing solutions for career growth.
• Conducted workshops to include interviewing skills, market place competition and international opportunities.
• Supervised and evaluated team of two.
• Started on a part time basis; transitioned to full time July 90.
• Positions included career counselor and recruiting coordinator.