Tessa Downes

Senior Executive Recruiter - Technology

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

About

Experience

  • LHH (Washington DC-Baltimore Area)
    • Senior Executive Recruiter- Technology
      Feb 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

      We specialize in creating exceptional connections in the IT and Engineering industries. We successfully identify, engage, and recruit top tier technology talent to create an extremely robust candidate pool of active and passive information technology, and engineering professionals. This allows our clients to choose from the best talent in the industry, meanwhile helping candidates grow further in their careers.

    • Executive Recruiter - Technology
      Jun 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 1 mo

  • Specialty Recruiter at ACCU Staffing Services
    Sep 2020 - Jun 2021 · 10 mos

    ACCU is a full service staffing company specializing in Temporary Staffing, Planned Staffing, Project Staffing, Temp-to-Hire Staffing, and Permanent Placements. Since 1979, ACCU has served the Greater Philadelphia Region by providing employment opportunities to local communities and customized staffing solutions to a diverse client base - from local mom and pop shops to national Fortune 500 companies. ACCU integrates the reliability and expertise of a major corporation with the caring attentive environment of a small family business to support both organizational and personal goals.

  • Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist at VAE, Inc.
    Jun 2015 - Sep 2020 · 5 yrs 4 mos

    VAE, Inc. is a full service IT Infrastructure Solutions company focused on building, securing and supporting our clients’ mission critical enterprises. We provide a distinctive array of design, integration and implementation services as well as fully managed service offerings. VAE is at the forefront of leveraging multi-tenant capable technologies and shared IT services to create secure, reliable and cost-effective end-to-end services and solutions. We deliver exceptional infrastructure solutions with extremely talented employees using a client-focused partnering approach. We are a SBA Certified Woman Owned Small Disadvantaged Business headquartered in Reston, Virginia and were recently ranked as the 3rd fastest growing small business in the government market as reported by Washington Technology magazine’s 2011 Fast 50.

  • Front Desk Clerk at Ashburn Village Sports Pavilion
    2015 - 2016 · 1 yr

  • Counselor at Medifast Weight Control Centers
    Oct 2014 - Jun 2015 · 9 mos

    - Interact with members on a daily basis providing guidance/coaching, advice and support for weight loss and wellness success. - Encouraging and educating clients through their weight loss process and long term weight control success. - Developing individualized programs for clients as needed to achieve results. - Performing Health Risk Assessments and offering advice and solutions to reduce health risks as related to their diet. - Helping clients plan for life events and overcoming all obstacles in their quest to finally reach their weight loss goals. - Maintain weekly communication with clients. - Performing activities designed to track improvements in health, including weigh-ins, blood pressure monitoring, pulse rate, measurements, and Body Composition Analysis using In-Body technology. - Meeting personal and center business goals by using sales tactics to bring in new customers. - Conduct weekly inventory audits.