Keith Nemeth
Senior Talent Acquisition Professional
Plano,TX
Summary
Versatile Talent Acquisition, Executive Search, and Sales Leader bringing 20+ years of experience leading recruiting and sales teams of 50+ in Fortune 500, mid-size, start-up companies. Covering large and small markets in industries including BPO, IT, Manufacturing, Logistics, Aviation, Real Estate, Banking, and Healthcare. A strategic problem-solver, change manager, and visionary executive with success implementing plans to meet current and future needs. Key expertise in recruitment.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
VP of Recruiting Delivery
Ztek Consulting
05.2021 - Current
- Lead a team of 20+ hybrid on-shore/off-shore Talent Acquisition leaders & Recruiters filling 8000+ high-volume and professional level roles per year for a$4.2B organization with 90,000 global employees
- Established reporting, KPIs, recruitment, policies and processes, coaching, and supporting development
- Retooled end-to-end recruiting process; incorporated Experience Managers resulting in decreasing attrition levels from 110% to 82%
- Collaborate with business and HR leadership on workforce planning to develop and implement a real-time Talent Acquisition Strategy
- Provide consultative support to hiring managers and leadership on talent acquisition process, including interviewing skills, assessment utilization, available tools and resources
- Direct offshore recruiting team on overall strategy for sourcing candidates from relevant networks, online and internal databases, employee referrals, and passive candidates through network and research
- Lead project initiatives from initial concept through final implementation
- Interface with all areas impacted by project including executives, business lines, vendors, and internal technology resources
- Defined customer satisfaction metrics and initiated plan to improve internal and external customer satisfaction
- Created recruiting dashboard” for reporting and presenting on monthly and quarterly recruiting goals and metrics.
Director of Permanent Search
Adecco USA
Dallas
01.2019 - 03.2021
- Hired and developed high-performing sales teams in permanent search markets, achieving last place of all regions to #1 in the company, generating $2M+ to ~$3M in revenue growth across a diverse portfolio of clients
- Led a team of full desk recruiting consultants across multiple states, specializing in Manufacturing, Logistics, Commercial RE, and Administrative direct hire and executive search
- Managed 25 direct reports, gaining expertise in new market development, hiring, and developing
- Established Sales and Recruiting alignment, focusing team members on market verticals to achieve growth
- Successfully launched a Commercial RE/Construction vertical and increased annual revenue from $0-$1M in 2019
- January ‘19 – 4 direct reports/18 Indirect reports - $2.1M in fees FY 2018
- July ‘19 – 4 direct reports/22 Indirect reports – $2.9M in projected annualized fees
- December '19 – 7 direct reports/21 Indirect reports- $3.1M in fees FY 2019
- FY '19 – Retained 83% of Search Consultants, top 10% of the company for retention.
Director of Global Talent Acquisition
Dallas
05.2014 - 09.2018
- Conduent/Xerox – Virtual, Led a team of 20+ senior recruiters responsible for filling 2500+ positions per year for Professional and Management level recruiting, for a $4.5B organization with 68,000 employees
- Led the delivery and execution of “best of class” Talent Acquisition strategy, transforming from transactional recruiting to a business that considers its long-term talent needs, prepares for talent gaps, and strategically rotating talent for their development and the company's best utilization
- Created and implemented strategic sourcing and employer branding strategies that allowed teams to build pipelines for social media presence, partnering with academic institutions, talent mapping strategies, and creating a list of high-performing organizations
- Worked with key business executives to forecast talent needs and create and execute on staffing plans to meet those needs.
Director of Talent Acquisition
Vertex Business Services
Dallas
08.2012 - 02.2014
- Advanced diversity hiring by 25% and cut average cost per hire by over 40%
- Created and defined innovative and scalable recruiting solutions to drive talent acquisition of 800+ permanent positions per year
- Recruited for all executive level roles for the company, mainly IT, Sales, and Executive
- Led a committee to identify and implement new ATS (HRM Direct) and integrated with HRIS
- Built Vertex Careers website for external job seekers, and an internal career mobility site for employees
- Developed and implemented an outsourced staffing model (RPO) to automate, standardize, and ensure compliance for applicant intake and screening of 800+ nonexempt/hourly positions annually
- Outsourced high-volume recruiting resulting in increased hiring and manager productivity
- Moved transactional recruitment outreach, first-level screening, and candidate scheduling tasks to a vendor
- Collaborated with department heads to manage resource allocation and recruitment budgets
- Created and designed new reporting metrics allowing business leaders to better understand skill shortages and recruitment requirements.
Managing Partner — HR Executive Recruiting
Lucas Group
Dallas
07.2011 - 08.2012
- Hired specifically to design, build, and manage an HR Executive Recruiting team, servicing a client base across multiple states
- Working for a recognized leader in revenue generation, surpassing targets by 20% and individually bringing in more than $300K while running a 360 desk
- Sourced, hired, developed, and mentored new hires
- Sold HR Executive placement services in DFW, sourced, and recruited candidates for client roles
- Built innovative recruitment programs to support diverse clients in multiple verticals and locations
- Established recruiting and sales metrics including pipeline scorecards, time to fill, and quality of hire
- Evaluated the effectiveness of sourcing strategies and recruitment techniques
- Full P&L responsibility of $2M.
Director of Talent Acquisition
Dal-Tile Corporation Corporate Headquarters
Dallas
09.2009 - 06.2011
- Defined and executed recruiting strategies, commanding a $2M+ budget with a team of 5 recruiters
- Developed an effective up-front screening process that helped Dal-Tile reduce time to hire by 18%
- Directed talent acquisition programs, strategies, tools, and resources including Corporate, Distribution, and Manufacturing
- Fostered partnerships with C-suite and stakeholders to align on staffing initiatives, strategize on succession planning, and manage talent for key positions
- Responsible for recruiting and filling executive-level roles, mainly IT, Finance, and Marketing
- Developed and implemented strategic staffing plans for a joint venture in China and Inner Mongolia.
President/Owner
métier, Inc
Boca Raton
03.2003 - 08.2009
- Oversaw Staff Augmentation Preferred, list and conducted periodic vendor performance reviews.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
Kaplan University
Skills
Relationship Managementundefined
Affiliations
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida Society Human Resource Management National Association of Personnel Services Association of Executive Recruiters DFW Texas Recruiters Network
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Timeline
VP of Recruiting Delivery
Ztek Consulting
05.2021 - Current
Director of Permanent Search
Adecco USA
01.2019 - 03.2021
Director of Global Talent Acquisition
05.2014 - 09.2018
Director of Talent Acquisition
Vertex Business Services
08.2012 - 02.2014
Managing Partner — HR Executive Recruiting
Lucas Group
07.2011 - 08.2012
Director of Talent Acquisition
Dal-Tile Corporation Corporate Headquarters
09.2009 - 06.2011
President/Owner
métier, Inc
03.2003 - 08.2009
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
Kaplan University
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