John McClafferty

Talent Consultant (Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist) (2020 to Present)

• Working directly alongside Hiring Managers from a variety of industries to source & select talent for open roles while providing guidance on recruitment best practices based on current economic conditions.
• Recruiting talented professionals for interim & permanent job openings by sourcing on job boards, posting new requisitions, scheduling & conducting in-depth interviews, administering skill-based testing, skill marketing, matching, and interview prep.
• Leads mass recruitment projects for multiple clients for initiatives such as Non-Profit Grant-Based Hiring, pandemic-related Contact Tracers & Temperature Takers, and large-scale staff augmentation during the Mortgage Industry boom.
• Advising Sr. Leadership on best practices within the ATS/CRM (Bullhorn), and a burgeoning AI system (TextKernel), while creating positional best-practices that have been used across the organization (for candidate skill-marketing & job posting).
• Accomplishments:
• Multi-time Champions Club Member & All Star (production award based on Gross Profit Generation).
• Produced client billings worth over $1,000,000 in revenue for multiple years (accounting for up to 50-75% of total branch production).
• Recognized as a Top 5 Practice Area Recruiter within the organization (HR, Financial Services).
  

Branch Recruitment & Sales Manager (2019 to 2020)

• Led a team of (8) Recruiters & Business Development Managers while acting as a producing Sales Leader.
• Responsible for organizing individual & team production goals, performance evaluations, new hire orientation & training, skills development, and team strategy for execution of both short & long-term initiatives.
• Trained new colleagues on both Sales & Recruitment techniques that emphasized simplicity during the 1st three months, resulting in the successful onboarding of (4) staffing professionals within a 1-year span.
• Ran weekly & monthly meetings discussing operational & strategic initiatives (such as Associates on Assignment (Payroll Updates), Best Practices, Training Initiatives, and other items.
• Developed an expanding book of business by making 30-50 daily cold calls to prospective clients, creating mass-email correspondence in mail merge for marketing, and conducting an average of 10 weekly onsite client visits to pitch our services.
• Accomplishments:
• Achieved a 72.51% increase in avg. Monthly Revenue within 1 year of leading the team
• Led our team to the placement of over 100 Temporary Associates on Assignment (AOA) for the 1st time in branch history by organizing recruitment processes for volume clients, standardizing operational procedures, and focusing on quality control for existing placements.
• Spearheaded a Healthcare Practice Area segmentation for the branch by establishing a new cost center with dedicated team members, developing a healthcare-focused recruitment strategy, and implementing a sales strategy to build out new client relationships.
  

Recruiter (2017 to 2019)

• Proactively sourced a high-volume of prospective candidates by utilizing LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, CareerBuilder, and other job boards for active and future openings.
• Developed industry-best practices centered around attracting talent to openings (including candidate-centric job postings, informative job overviews, and outreach email templates that quickly allowed prospective talent to rapidly engage with the organization).
• Hand-selected by the Vice President to train over colleagues on Interview Preparation in a regional skill-improvement workshop resulting in better overall candidate preparation and job closure rate.
• Accomplishments:
• Awarded the Top Revenue & Gross Profit Generating Rookie Recruiter at the branch while exceeding (Advanced) production metrics laid out for new employees by 8.68% in Year 1 & 52.78% in Year 2.
• Generated over $300,000 in Gross Profit in 1st full year resulting in being named to the Champions Club.

• Planned & facilitated events & activities for residents that included fitness, live entertainment, games, & activities while accounting for seniors with differing levels of capability
• Accomplishments:
• Developed & improved fitness & activities offerings for Seniors that resulted in an overall increase in resident event participation
• Led the implementation of the Alter-G (an Anti-Gravity Treadmill) & improved overall usage by informing residents of the benefits of using the physical therapy-focused device.

• Enforced state & local laws / ordinances, handled interpersonal disputes, de-escalated potentially violent encounters, and wrote detailed reports of activity that were subject to court proceedings
• Accomplishments:
• Graduated Cook County Police Academy at the top of class (incorporating overall classroom grades, firearms training, physical fitness, and final assessments).