Jamaal Evans
Houston,Texas
Summary
As a dedicated professional, I possess more than a decade of experience in the field of recruiting and leadership. I am proactive and adaptable, with a diligent and creative approach towards meeting an organization's hiring objectives. With a strong team player mentality and a self-motivated nature, I excel in marketing, optimizing processes, fostering successful recruiting teams, and maintaining positive relationships with stakeholders.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Recruiter (Remote/Contract)
Sunnova Energy
Houston, TX
08.2022 - Current
- Recruiting talent for multiple position in the renewable energy space.
- Maintaining a fast paced, high requisition load.
- Sustaining a candidate pipeline through an applicant tracking system.
- Strategic sourcing. (LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, job boards and other social media platforms)
- Performing pre-screens, scheduling interviews, providing offers, onboarding and initiating background checks, drug screens and personal records.
- Collaborating and keeping a relationship with HR and management to understand and ensure all hiring needs are being met.
- Attend job fairs at University campuses to network with potential candidates and build relationships with engineering interns.
Full Cycle Recruiter (Remote/ Contract)
Next-Step Recruiting
Frisco, TX
04.2022 - 08.2022
- Sourced, recruited and pre-screened management and sales associates.
- Helped create attractive job requisitions.
- Maintained a fast-paced 30 to 40 requisitions load.
- Used the applicant tracking system "iCIMS" and hunted for candidates on LinkedIn, Indeed and Monster.
- Built and maintained relationships with area leaders and store managers to identify and ensure all hiring needs are met.
- Explained job duties, compensation and benefits to potential candidates.
Senior Recruiting Manager (Hybrid)
Permian Basin Proppants Inc
Frisco, TX
11.2016 - 12.2021
- Recruited corporate and hard to fill engineer positions in the oil and gas and renewable energy space.
- Oil and gas construction projects, Powerplants, Gas & Pipeline Engineering, Mechanical engineering for bio fuels and other clean energy.
- Managed, lead and developed a team of recruiters for a fast paced full cycle recruiting process.
- Helped design, streamline and direct the recruitment processes and procedures. Resulting in meeting company goals and reducing time to fill by 20%.
- Managed a team of recruiters to successfully fill 100 open positions in 6 months.
- Executed end-to-end recruiting and hiring lifecycle operations for the company. Including job definition, candidate sourcing, evaluation, selection, management/tracking, interview logistics, selection, and job offer
- Worked with hiring managers to developed long-term and short-term staffing plans to meet mission requirements, human capital losses, change in competencies, career development and reorganizations.
Lead Recruiter
Integral Care
Round Rock, TX
05.2014 - 10.2016
- Developed and executed a target sourcing strategy, resulting in a 30% increase in the number of qualified candidates.
- Grew the companies clinical team by 44 positions in 4 months.
- Lead, managed and maintained a small team of 8 recruiters.
- Collaborated with management and HR professional to streamline the company's recruitment process.
- Negotiated job offers and salary packages
- Built and maintained a strong candidate pipeline using applicant tracking systems.
- Experience using Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), LinkedIn, Indeed and Job boards.
Technical Recruiting
Blue Bonnet Trails
Round Rock, TX
06.2012 - 04.2014
Proppants
- Trained and developed newer recruiters in successful strategies for interviewing and qualifying candidates.
- Analyzed market trends and identified areas where improvements could be made in the hiring process.
- Collaborated with human resources teams to mitigate risks and verify regulatory compliance.
- Provided full lifecycle recruiting of qualified candidates holding active clearances for the IT field.
- Highly successful in identifying candidates, utilizing unique sourcing techniques for niche skills as required by our clients.
- Represented company at job fairs and professional networking events, sourced, pre-screened, and conducted interviews of cleared candidates to ensure they are fully qualified, established a pipeline and maintained relationships with qualified candidates and contacts.
- Expert knowledge on job boards and recruiting processes such tools as Monster, Clearance Jobs, and CareerBuilder.
- Posted positions using a job aggregator and quickly and effectively develop boolean search strings to optimize key candidate searches.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Criminal Justice / Juvenile Justice
PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY
Skills
- Full Cycle Recruiting / Talent Acquisition
- Strategic Sourcing
- Onboarding Process Development
- Interview Process Design
- Team & Time Management
- Analytical Skills
- Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
- Proficient Computer and Software Skills
- Collaborating and Communication
- Leadership Skills
- Analytical Skills
- Relationship Building
Accomplishments
- Achieving a high volume of successful hires within a tight timeline.
- Developing and implementing a new recruitment strategy that results in a significant increase in quality hires.
- Mentoring and coaching junior recruiters to help them reach their full potential.
- Contributing to the overall success of the organization by hiring top talent that drives business growth and innovation.
Timeline
Senior Recruiter (Remote/Contract)
Sunnova Energy
08.2022 - Current
Full Cycle Recruiter (Remote/ Contract)
Next-Step Recruiting
04.2022 - 08.2022
Senior Recruiting Manager (Hybrid)
Permian Basin Proppants Inc
11.2016 - 12.2021
Lead Recruiter
Integral Care
05.2014 - 10.2016
Technical Recruiting
Blue Bonnet Trails
06.2012 - 04.2014
Bachelor of Science - Criminal Justice / Juvenile Justice
PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY
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