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Hannah Reeder

Jackson,TN

Summary

Conscientious and proactive Aerospace Specialist, bringing exceptional knowledge and skills gained during 20+ years of United States Air Force and civilian combined experience and 9+ years top Aerospace & Defense full cycle recruitment and sourcing. Bringing proven leadership, team building and articulate communication skills dedicated to accomplishing demanding targets.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Talent Acquisition Specialist 3 /Full Cycle

Vertex Aerospace - V2X
07.2022 - Current

Aerospace & Defense

  • Full cycle recruitment of 241 candidates hired by sourcing externally within eight months.
  • Manage full-cycle recruiting process for technical, engineering, and cleared positions, ensuring smooth and positive candidate experience.
  • Drive offer process - including neg salaries, extending offers, and closing candidates.
  • Conducts interviews to recruit prospective employees and refers job applicants to specific job openings adhering to compliance requirements.
  • Coordinate, travel, and attend hiring events, job fairs, and military installation events.
  • Strategize with TA Managers, HR Business Partners, and Recruiters to stay apprised of current business dynamics
  • Develop and sustain effective working relationships with hiring managers, strategic leaders, and HR throughout recruitment process.
  • Defines and executes recruiting brand, sourcing, and retention strategy to attract employees supporting short- and long-term business needs; oversee recruitment module.
  • Help to ensure candidate diversity in prospective hires.
  • Proactively engage with hiring managers to identify staffing needs.
  • Conducts competitive mapping, collects market intelligence, completes reports, and analyzes hiring trends that will strengthen our strategy; builds pipelines that anticipate future needs.
  • Proactively source candidates, screening and presenting as appropriate. Implement creative and targeted search/marketing strategies to help recruiting be more successful in pipelining both active and passive candidates, including managing internet job postings, utilizing social media and creating compelling ads.
  • Drive recruitment process through online Applicant Tracking System (ATS), including consistently moving candidates through workflow.
  • Utilize knowledge of external talent and business landscapes along with current recruiting techniques to network and build pipeline of qualified, diverse talent.
  • Responsible for timely maintenance, updates, and posting of information to appropriate sites or department, such as job boards and employment sites.
  • Gather detailed interview feedback from hiring managers to identify, determine and select most qualified candidates.
  • Utilize required systems to track candidates, workflow, sourcing data and screening information.
  • Build relationships with candidates and serve as the "face of Vertex" to candidates and new hires.
  • Track effective recruiting trends and make recommendations based on recruiting data.
  • Develop knowledge and insights into business requirements to both anticipate and ensure fulfillment of open positions in quality and timely manner.
  • Participate in and lead variety of recruitment projects and initiatives as business requires.
  • Provide advice and coaching to hiring managers and colleagues throughout recruitment process.

Talent Acquisition Specialist 3 / ADS

PDS Technical Services
08.2021 - 06.2022

Aerospace & Defense

  • Perform full-cycle recruiting process for technical, aviation, and cleared positions.
  • Generated specific Aerospace & Defensed candidate pool for career opportunities through strategic placement of advertisements, evaluation of applicant credentials, and conducting initial interviews and pre-screening assessments.
  • Followed up with notable applicants sourced via industry-specific pipelines, events and job fairs.
  • Leveraged social media platforms and online job boards to advertise open positions and engage with potential candidates.
  • Operated and maintained applicant tracking and candidate management systems.
  • Maintained filing system of current, prospective and future positions. Used Boolean searches to develop applicant portfolios for expected openings.
  • Tracked candidates and pushed for feedback on disqualifications, time-to-fill statistics and other variables.
  • Conduct interviews with candidates via in-person, Skype, or telephone to ensure the candidate is a fit for the role.
  • Maintain and followup with candidate onboarding process.

Independent Aerospace Recruiter / Sourcer

Self
01.2014 - 12.2018

Aerospace & Defense

  • Help determine possible vocations and build application documents. Develop and maintain strong working relationships with executives, HR team and hiring managers to foster partnerships that produced consistent results.
  • Lead workshops for job seekers to provide information on job searching, application completion and resume building.
  • Work with job seekers to determine job targets based on skills and personality.
  • Evaluate resumes, interview and present qualified candidates to hiring managers and solicited feedback to refine recruiting strategy.
  • Review employment applications and background check reports to facilitate hiring process.
  • Build network and social connections for job seekers.
  • Assisted clients in building successful job search strategies.
  • Counseled clients one-on-one regarding current situation, desires, aptitudes, education and employment history.
  • Developed targeted strategies to locate and onboard specific candidate types, meeting short- and long-term business objectives
  • Developed lists of qualified candidates for corporate hiring managers
  • Verified applicant references and employment details..
  • Sourced and screened candidates for aviation roles and worked with hiring managers to coordinate interviews, offers and onboarding.

Production Planning Engineer

Lockheed Martin
02.2019 - 08.2021
  • Perform the make, buy and or Bill of Material planning activities associated with Manufacturing Resource Planning transactions.
  • Perform one or more multiple manufacturing activities within various manufacturing functions.
  • Maintains production systems integrity to drive inventory optimization to minimize cost.
  • Expedites and optimizes material flow through the supply chain to meet customer requirements.

Munitions Specialist

General Atomics
12.2018 - 08.2019

Contractor

  • Responsible for flightline munitions security, accountability and reporting
  • Assembled, disassembled, tested, and loaded variety of munition items
  • Performed weapons pre/thru/post-flight and periodic/phase inspections
  • Installed and modified parts and assemblies
  • Conducted operational and functional testing

Sr. Recruiter / Armament Logistics

Global Aerospace Logistics
05.2014 - 12.2018
  • Worked with recruiting teams and human resources representatives to accomplish hiring objectives.
  • Wrote executive job descriptions and lists of qualifications for client companies.
  • Generated specific candidate pool for career opportunities through strategic placement of advertisements, evaluation of applicant credentials, and conducting initial interviews and pre-screening assessments.
  • Compiled and produced qualified candidates' information for hiring manager review and liaised between parties to coordinate formal, management interviews.
  • Direct, develop or perform logistics management operations that involve planning, coordinating, or evaluating the logistical actions required to support a specified mission and weapons system.

787 Aircraft Specialist

Boeing
03.2011 - 04.2014

Aircraft Weapons Specialist

United States Airforce
07.2002 - 02.2011

Education

Legal Studies - Family Law

Purdue Global University

Health And Fitness

Ashford University
San Diego, CA

Business Management

Ashford University
San Diego, CA

Skills

  • Full Cycle Recruitment
  • Aerospace & Defense
  • OFCCP and EEO employment law
  • Military / Commercial Aviation
  • UKG/ Bullhorn / ATS / Salesforce
  • Cold Calls / Boolean Search
  • Requisition Creating
  • Hiring manager collaboration
  • LinkedIn Recruiter/ Career Builder / JSFirm / Monster / Zoom Recruit / Indeed
  • Community Networking
  • Interview Training
  • Strong communication
  • Portfolio assessment
  • Developing client strategies
  • Strong negotiation
  • OSHA requirements knowledge
  • Proficient in MS Office / Teams

Security Clearance

  • Active DoD Top Secret Level

Timeline

Talent Acquisition Specialist 3 /Full Cycle

Vertex Aerospace - V2X
07.2022 - Current

Talent Acquisition Specialist 3 / ADS

PDS Technical Services
08.2021 - 06.2022

Production Planning Engineer

Lockheed Martin
02.2019 - 08.2021

Munitions Specialist

General Atomics
12.2018 - 08.2019

Sr. Recruiter / Armament Logistics

Global Aerospace Logistics
05.2014 - 12.2018

Independent Aerospace Recruiter / Sourcer

Self
01.2014 - 12.2018

787 Aircraft Specialist

Boeing
03.2011 - 04.2014

Aircraft Weapons Specialist

United States Airforce
07.2002 - 02.2011

Legal Studies - Family Law

Purdue Global University

Health And Fitness

Ashford University

Business Management

Ashford University
Hannah Reeder