Kelly B.

Experience

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  Robert Half International

  Mar 2008 - Nov 2011

  Division Director | Accounting & Finance Recruiting Manager

  Attracting, sourcing, and placing Administrative and Accounting/Financial Professionals in the Greater Houston Area Led a team of motivated recruiters while vigorously recruiting and placing high caliber professionals for Robert Half Clients on a Contract/Contract to hire or permanent basis. Impact direction, training, development, and motivation to the Administrative and Accounting Industry. Created, coordinated, and implemented recruiting strategies to facilitate the client’s needs while ensuring speed to market. Successfully maintained or exceeded revenue growth consistent with RH targetsKey Accomplishments: * Promoted to Division Director of OfficeTeam within eight months of employment, was ranked 8th in the world for sales performance in 2008 and successfully grew our South Houston Office by 20% in a downturn in 2009.* Instrumental in creating and implementing job posting presentation templates and assisting in the efforts to launch the first partnership in the US between a global networking organization and a Staffing Organization. This partnership enabled our top recruiter’s to have access to training on a daily basis, ultimately allowing our team the ability to mine new resources for Top Talent in minutes. Show less

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  LivaNova

  Nov 2011 - now

  Nine years at Livanova, built the North American recruiting team up, managing both in-house and RPO teams to discover and nurture talent across all functions. Experience in all facets of recruiting, such as sourcing, recruiting, closing, candidate experience, diversity, compliance, events, and branding with a strong aspiration to innovate the Talent Acquisition Function! Breaking the norms in recruiting, disagreeing with the status queue, and committing to delivering results. Improving the recruitment experience - both for internal team members and candidates!Supporting extensive process management and process efficiency work, including leading the assessment and re-design of the end-to-end recruiting process along with leading and managing a small team. Led the design and implementation of the current applicant tracking system (Workday Recruit) and other recruiting software tools. Conducted our international User Acceptance Testing. Working closely as a business partner with C-Suit management. Supported full-cycle recruiting from initial recruitment to onboarding for the business. Show less Substantial interaction with hiring managers to determine sourcing strategies and expectations of finding the best candidate. Create interview guides for the hiring team and educate the hiring manager on how to conduct effective interviews. Selected to be part of the LinkedIn’s Recruiter Certificate Group which is responsible for determining topics/speakers for upcoming recruiting events and to thoroughly evaluate new LinkedIn tools. Instrumental in bringing "Performance-Based Hiring" concepts to hiring managers to increase interview accuracy. Convert traditional internal job descriptions into marketing/performance profiles which help candidates get a better understanding of job expectations. Selected to be Project Manager for an electronic New Hire Onboarding solution (TBE) which allows new hires to complete any necessary paperwork before their start date. Created new programs such as SMS text congratulations, new hire lunches, personalized digital welcome sign, hand-written thank you notes, itinerary schedules, and bios for interview team. Assisted in the redesign of our corporate career site. A key contributor to the implementation and selection of a new applicant tracking system (TBE & TEE). Show less Responsible for full life-cycle recruitment of 300 regular full-time hires. Also, filled over 130 specialized hard-to-find technical skilled employees directly to our payroll.Specialize in developing sourcing strategies for the selection process which includes advertising, search engine optimization, pay per click, screening, interviewing, Facilitating post-interview feedback and candidate selection, reference checking, and extending and negotiating the offer. Identify and qualify "passive candidates" through direct sourcing from targeted companies, in-depth internet research (Google X-Ray, ZoomInfo, Conectifier Advanced Boolean Search), social networking (LinkedIn, Facebook, Social Talent, Twitter) and employee referrals. Show less

  • Finance Project Manager

    May 2021 - now

  • Recruiting Manager North America

    Jan 2019 - May 2021

  • Talent Acquisition Business Partner | Sr. Recruiter

    May 2012 - Jan 2019

  • Sourcing Specialist | Recruiter

    Nov 2011 - May 2012