Amanda Davis

• Utilized creative sourcing strategies and recruitment branding to identify, engage, attract, and hire top talent across GTM, M&O, and Engineering business units for Microsoft's cloud & Infrastructure, data & AI, Dynamics 365, and productivity suite of products.
• Posted positions on alternative job boards, created media, and researched alternate sourcing channels to attract diverse talent pools improving diverse hiring by 15% across the GTM organization
• Achieved hiring goals above expectations ranking as a consistent top performer managing req loads of 45-50, and averaging 100+ individual and 1200 team offers annually.
• Utilized creative sourcing strategies and recruitment branding techniques to identify, engage, attract, and nurture top talent improving team response rates by 26%.
• Planned and executed recruitment hiring and networking events for technology-specific candidates. Managed budgets of up to $200k per event reducing cost per hire by 18%.
• Developed and implemented sourcing research and campaign strategies to meet current and future demand resulting in a bench of 600+ 'ready-to-offer' candidates across eight core and common roles and four technology domains at any time.
• Utilized SharePoint to create TA Enablement team site housing new hire onboarding, standard operating procedures, and self-serve L&D resources resulting in 37% improvement in time-to-fill for GTM.
• Analyzed talent consumption-related data and prepared quarterly business reports for senior leadership. Recommended and implemented hiring strategies improving external hiring and consumption by 36%.
• Partnered with Fusion Development Team as GTM Citizen Developer to create tools, processes, dashboards and reporting to improve productivity using Power Platform resulting in 7k hours savings and reallocating $14m in resourcing spend to other budget areas annually.

Contract Talent Advisor | SearchWizards for Microsoft | 2015-2017

• Organized employee events, networking and hiring events for up to 300 people managing budgets of $200k.
• Organized event facilities, speaker sessions, catering and vendor contracts, food and beverage selections, team-building activities, and audio-visual arrangements.
• Oversaw event logistics, venue scheduling, hotel and accommodations.
• Planned and coordinated registration and transportation to facilitate smooth execution of event activities.
• Tracked payments, balances and registrations for events.
• Utilized internal databases to prepare and distribute guest lists, electronic invitations and registration processes.
• Helped with end-to-end event planning process through meetings, walk-throughs and day-of execution.
• Held event kick-off meetings, prepared hiring squad playbooks, scheduled hiring and interview intakes and debriefs, conducted weekly office hours, coordinated and submitted all necessary candidate interview information to scheduling coordinators.

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• Executive Research and full-cycle recruiting responsibilities for Principal, Director, and C-Level Executives supporting multiple service offerings in the commercial and Federal space for Deloitte and Accenture.
• High-volume sourcing and recruitment of passive technical candidates. Maintained req loads of 35-45 job openings and an average closing date of 40 days consistently exceeding metrics in activities and hiring by 60 - 140%.