Adam Gezelle

Top focus accounts include:
● Chewy
● Microsoft
● Amazon
● Netflix
● USAA
● NFCU

Among other global creative and tech brands.

• Managed high-volume requisitions in a timely manner to meet client staffing needs efficiently.
• Enhanced recruitment process for faster hiring by utilizing various sourcing tools such as job boards, social media, and social networking.
• Trained junior recruiters on best practices, contributing to overall team success and improved efficiency.
• Streamlined communication between candidates and hiring managers, leading to higher satisfaction on both sides.
• Collaborated with internal teams to address specific recruitment challenges and develop tailored solutions.
• Improved employee retention rates through thorough candidate screening and interview techniques.

• Responsible for integrating career services into student’s academic experience through initiatives such as job fairs, guest speakers, career core classes, workshops, internships, mock interviews, and the portfolio process
• Initiated and cultivated employer relationships to locate job leads for students and alumni, Practicum projects, and future staffing needs and identified opportunities for employer interaction with CDIA
• Assisted in the procurement and monitoring of internship sites
• Advised students in developing personal marketing strategies to secure jobs and negotiate fair compensation packages
• Participated in campus organized career fairs, open houses, student presentations, campus related events, graduations, and award ceremonies
• Conducted graduate exit interviews with students prior to program completion that included counseling and instruction in portfolio selection, interviewing, and resume preparation

• Assisted in establishing Randstad’s initial creative staffing presence at Discovery Communications’ corporate headquarters
• Served as the sole onsite creative recruiter responsible for identifying, testing, reviewing, orienting, and educating professionals for various positions within the organization
• Worked directly with senior Discovery executives across all networks, both nationally and internationally, including recruiting interactive/new media professionals for Discovery UK and package designers for the product development divisions in California and New York
• Represented Discovery’s recruitment initiatives at local leading design institutions including VCU, Corcoran College of Art & Design, UMBC, University of Delaware, and MICA

• Developed an in-depth knowledge of the creative process by successfully identifying, attracting, and utilizing hundreds of design professionals within the Washington metro area
• Worked directly with leading area design, architectural, communications, and advertising firms, as well as associations, to identify solutions for creative staffing needs
• Demonstrated an in-depth understanding of the creative services industry by identifying and efficiently recruiting various creative professionals including graphic designers, information architects, multimedia specialists, web and print designers, copywriters, video producer/editors, art directors, creative directors, and web content managers
• Consulted with the corporate marketing division to conceptualize and develop marketing collateral highlighting creative services
• Fostered and negotiated new business relationships, while also managing the recruitment and retention of more than50 design professionals on a weekly basis
• Enhanced the organization’s reputation by participating in speaking engagements, serving on panels, reviewing portfolios for leading creative education institutions, and hosting lecture series