Richard A.

About Richard A.

Dynamic Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist with 18 years of experience in full-cycle recruiting and talent management, driving hiring strategies across diverse industries with a goal of impact and continuous improvement. Expertise in proactive sourcing, utilizing innovative ATS solutions, and developing metrics to enhance recruitment efficiency. Proven ability to engage passive candidates, significantly reducing time to hire while ensuring alignment with evolving organizational needs. Skilled in fostering collaborative relationships with hiring managers to create tailored recruitment processes that attract top talent. Committed to continuous improvement and building a robust talent pipeline to support organizational growth.\"I synergize the doohickey and innovate the thingee to achieve ultimate engagement.\"

Experience

1. Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

   Ess

   Feb 2021 — Present · Wilsonville, OR, US

   Full cycle recruiting for all internal positions.Vendor management, contract negotiation and review for third party agencies.40% of all positions filled were passive candidates I recruited, including roles like: Program Manager, Client Relationship Manager, Electrical Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Buyer, Commodity Manager.Initially created an Excel tracking sheet for all candidates to track time to hire and source of hire and started the first collection of recruiting focused KPIs for bench-marking and improvement. To enable better tracking and standardize our process I found and implemented an interim ATS (iKrut). This allowed the company to have its first Careers page on its website and gave a basic dashboard and access for hiring managers. Acted as coordinator for the eventual implementation of ADP.KPIs tracked were time to hire, ratio of applicants to phone screens, phone screens to submissions, submissions to interviews, and interviews to hires. Managed an overall reduction in time to hire of 24%.Our only resource at this time was Indeed.Started a quality of hire metric to be tracked outside of the ATS, based on the same 30-60-90 day post hire reviews I implemented at MechoSystems.I implemented an interview feedback framework via Microsoft Forms to be used across the company on all positions to automate collection of interview feedback for hiring managers, which was also usable on any device including mobile phones and tablets.I developed a custom workflow and reporting in ADP to accommodate our existing hiring process and reporting framework.Brought in ISO document 30405 to start developing an ISO compliant process in anticipation of future certification.

Education

• Stony Brook University

  Bachelo, English

  2002

• Stony Brook University

  B.A., English - Education

  1994 — 2002