Brian Clayton
Talent Acquisition Leader | Accelerating Hiring Performance & Workforce Readiness | Building Scalable Recruiting Functions
- Role
- Director, Talent Acquisition at INSPIRE
- Location
- Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Brian Clayton
Hands-on Talent Acquisition leader with more than 15 years building scalable recruiting functions and improving hiring performance across high-growth, private equity, and Fortune 500 organizations. Track record leading TA turnaround initiatives, strengthening recruiter effectiveness, improving hiring speed and quality, and enabling workforce readiness through practical, repeatable processes aligned to business needs.Experienced partnering with executive leadership and developing high-performing recruiting teams that deliver measurable results. Background spans technology, manufacturing, healthcare, hospitality, and multi-site operational environments.Specialties: Hiring Performance Improvement | Executive & Hard-to-Fill Search | Recruiter Leadership & Coaching | Workforce Planning | Talent Analytics | Employer Branding | AI-Enabled Sourcing | HR Tech Enablement
Experience
Director, Talent Acquisition
Jun 2024 — Present · Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US
Lead enterprise Talent Acquisition for a high-growth AV technology and hospitality organization, improving recruiting delivery performance and building scalable hiring infrastructure to support rapid operational expansion.• Delivered the first positive hiring velocity in three years and reduce open requisitions 70% through workflow redesign and alignment to workforce planning.• Reduced Time-to-Accept by 38%, strengthening delivery speed and throughput through standardized intake and SLA governance.• Increased qualified candidate engagement 20% and improve hire rate 67% through employer brand modernization and AI-enabled sourcing.• Built scalable recruiting processes including structured intake, interviewing frameworks, and performance accountability models.• Lead and develop the recruiting team, driving performance accountability, capability growth, and consistent delivery execution.• Personally lead VP and Director-level searches, eliminating retained search spend and improving leadership bench readiness.• Implement recruiting dashboards and KPI reporting supporting Finance and Operations forecasting.
Education
Texas State University
MBA
Howard Payne University
BS, Mathematics
Skills
- Program Management
- Employee Relations
- Relationship Building
- Applicant Tracking Systems
- Sales Operations
- Personnel Management
- Internet Recruiting
- Employee Benefits
- Staffing Services
- Organizational Development
- Human Resources
- Building Relationships
- Onboarding
- Technical Recruiting
- Recruiting
- Recruitment Advertising
- Business Development
- Job Coaching
- Management
- Search
- Talent Management
- Cold Calling
- Crm
- Screening
- Hiring
- Deferred Compensation
- Hris
- Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
- Leadership
- Interviews
- Sdlc
- Interviewing
- Talent Acquisition
- Networking
- Training
- Contract Recruitment
- Project Management
- Recruitment Training
- Sourcing
- Lead Generation
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