Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, United States
I'm a strategic talent acquisition leader with 7+ years of experience connecting organizations with exceptional talent across tech, healthcare, finance, life sciences, and consumer sectors. My expertise spans executive search, niche skill set sourcing, high-volume hiring, and recruitment team development. I excel in implementing scalable hiring strategies and leveraging advanced candidate sourcing techniques including Boolean, LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut, and X-Ray searches to identify passive talent. Throughout my career, I've successfully led ATS migrations and implementations (Jobvite and Greenhouse) and worked closely with executive leadership to align recruitment strategies with business objectives. My core strengths include executive search, sourcing top passive talent, recruitment process design, recruitment analytics, and providing hiring manager training. I'm passionate about building efficient talent acquisition systems that deliver exceptional candidates while creating positive experiences for all stakeholders.
● Hired as company’s first and only internal recruiting resource, managing the talent acquisition function as a team of one in a high growth, start-up environment. ● Wrote company’s recruitment process from scratch, beginning from the time an opening is identified to the moment a candidate is onboarded, and provided departmental and hiring manager training according to strategy. ● Reduced time to fill from 50+ days to an average of 29 days within first 9 months, making 133 hires within this timeframe, successfully scaling the company to a headcount of over 200. ● Led successful 6-week ATS migration from JazzHR to Greenhouse, driving immediate improvements in recruiter efficiency and reporting. ● Led the search and piloting of overall recruitment Tech Stack, leading to company’s implementation of SeekOut, LinkedIn Recruiter, and BrightHire. ● Owned all talent sourcing initiatives, consistently filling niche and high-impact roles through advanced Boolean logic and deep passive sourcing. ● Reviewed and streamlined third-party vendor usage, contributing to significant recruitment cost savings and improved ROI. ● Departments supported include Marketing, Engineering, Product, Design, Sales, Finance, IT, Business Operations, and Human Resources.
● Lead national recruitment strategy, overseeing a team of 5 (Director of Recruitment + 4 National Recruiters). ● Own full-cycle executive recruitment—sourcing, interviewing, and hiring key leadership roles. ● Notable leadership hires: SVP of Compliance & Training, Director of Organizational Development, Director of Behavioral Support, Regional Vice President of Support Services, Director of Grant Development. ● Strategic talent advisor to CEO, CHRO, and executive leaders, aligning hiring with business goals. ● Mentor 47 local recruiting coordinators across 60 offices; elevate recruiting effectiveness through training and process optimization. ● Spearhead ATS migration from UKG to Jobvite as Executive Sponsor; drive system enhancements and vendor evaluation. ● Developed and executed advanced sourcing strategies to identify and engage passive candidates, leveraging Boolean search, competitive intelligence, talent mapping, social media, and recruitment marketing techniques. ● Departments supported include Executive Leadership, Fiscal, Marketing, Development, Clinical, Human Resources, and Administrative Support.
● Delivered end-to-end recruitment solutions across industries: Pharma, Manufacturing, Consumer Products, Banking/Financial Services, AEC, Non-Profit, Life Sciences, and Healthcare. ● Sourced passive and active talent using diverse strategies: Boolean search, LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, referrals, and events. ● Advised hiring managers and C-suite on workforce planning and recruitment strategy through regular consultative meetings. ● Achieved a candidate close rate of 93% throughout tenure (candidate submitted to hired) ● Managed and mentored a team of 4 recruiters, driving performance through daily stand-ups and KPI-based coaching sessions. ● Helped build an executive search division focused on senior accounting and finance placements. ● Leveraged data from Salesforce and client ATS tools to improve conversion rates across hiring funnel.
● Audited talent metadata to ensure data accuracy across internal databases. ● Built dashboards and reports using Excel to track talent relationships and data discrepancies.