Kevin Cronen

• Developed recruiting processes that are compliant with company policies and employment laws.
• Provided guidance to managers regarding interviewing techniques and selection criteria.
• Ensured compliance with federal, state, local regulations pertaining to the hiring process.
• Conducted interviews to assist management in selecting most qualified candidates.

Managed full life-cycle recruitment process for 40+ International Tax openings ranging from Senior to Director level.

• Fast paced environment with 4-6 placements per month.
• Designed and executed talent acquisition strategies to enhance organization visibility.
• Consulted with hiring managers to further understand business requirements and inform pipeline development.
• Built robust pipeline and diverse pool of candidates to meet current or future hiring needs.
• Identified talent management priorities and goals and collaborated closely with human resource personnel.

Managed full-life-cycle recruitment process for 25+ Software Developer, Engineering, Data Scientist and IT roles at varied levels.

• Sourced, screened and ushered well-qualified candidates through the ID interview process to fill open positions.
• Communicated duties, compensation, benefits and working conditions to potential candidates, enabling solid understanding of job expectations.
• Negotiated candidate salaries and prepared employment contracts.
• Planned and executed recruitment events to bring in area candidates.
• Trained and mentored newer recruiters in successful strategies for interviewing and qualifying candidates.
• Increased recruiting network by leveraging industry contacts and internet mining resources, including CareerBuilder, Indeed and LinkedIn.

• Managed recruiting processes for more than 25 Software Development Engineer openings at any given time.
• Built and leveraged professional network connections which provided continuous and relevant applicant sources across diverse industries and experience levels.
• Kept company in compliance with EEO and OFCCP requirements.
• Conducted interviews to ensure solid Technical and cultural alignment between client and candidate.

Staffing Agency for the CPG Industry

• Lead all account management and sourcing efforts for 30+ clients.
• Assisted in closing $300k of new business for 2019.
• Wrote new standard operating procedures for the companies client acquisition, account management, sourcing and hiring processes.
• Wrote new marketing material as well as internal/external communications.
• Represented Executive Suite at all events.

Global Fortune-500 Consumer Goods Company

• Managed the full cycle recruiting processes for all levels of Marketing, Human Resources and Supply Chain openings.
• Advised managers on organizational policy matters, OFCCP Regulations and recommend needed changes.
• Hosted Unilever job fairs and hiring events onsite and remote.
• Compiled, modeled and analyzed key metrics on recruiting strategies and candidates.

Fortune-500 organization providing outsourced office services to legal, financial and technical organizations globally.

• Helped set new SOP's for the recruitment process and brought the company up to par with OFCCP Regulations.
• Rolled out the new, highly communicative recruitment plan to the company and trained employees on processes and procedures.
• Managed vendor relationships.
• Brought several new, creative sourcing techniques to the company which have resulted in 50+ new hires to date.
• Assisting with new retention initiatives.
• Organized and ran all job fairs, campus recruiting and virtual events.
• Recruit and source for sales/marketing personnel, ranging from Regional Sales Representatives to Vice President Marketing/Sales level.

World renowned school and Residence for developmentally disabled children.

• Full life cycle recruiter for all areas of company, including clinical, education and residential.
• Using a high tech, high touch approach with my hiring manager's I've been able to fill many of the aged requisitions here in a short amount of time keeping agency costs low and boosting the morale in HR.
• Maintained a 30+ requisition load.
• Organized and ran all job fairs, campus recruiting and virtual events.

Global Fortune-500 medical device and fine chemical organization

• Full life cycle
  recruiter within the Global Chemicals Division focusing on manufacturing, R&D, IT, lab, operations, Regulatory and marketing/sales verticals.
• Concentrated on engineering, chemist, scientists, operations management and outside sales functions.
• Maintained an average requisition load of 35 while managing to keep my time to fill below 60 days.
• Using a high tech, high touch approach with my hiring manager's I was able to successfully fill over 70 positions during my tenure with Thermo Fisher.
• Trained and educated hiring personnel in behavioral based interviewing.

World leader in the consumer package goods industry Full life cycle recruiter for the sales/marketing and R&D functions.

• Quickly fed a pipeline for 50 open marketing sales positions and filled them within my six month contract while keeping a time to fill of under 45 days.
• Used my strong sourcing skills to seek out R&D personnel and keep agency costs low while filling 20 openings.
• Trained and educated hiring personnel in behavioral based interviewing.

Wireless communications service provider

• Full life cycle recruiter for the engineering, sales and IT functions.
• Managed talent acquisition for the Fair Lawn, NJ facility.
• Used my relationship with local schools (NJIT, Steven's Tech, Rutgers, Drexel, UPenn, and NYU) to keep a strong pipeline of fresh talent.
• Used my strong sourcing abilities to fill over 30 engineering and technician positions.

Provider of home, business, auto and flood insurance

• Full life cycle recruiter for the IT, sales and service center functions.
• Assisted the company through a complete IT Department re-organization.
• Assisted in retaining all current personnel while sourcing for new Java Development talent.
• Transitioned 25 employees ranging from the Analyst to Director level while also recruiting for their Virginia Customer Service Center.

Fortune-500 specialty chemical, aerospace and electronic controls organization

• Full life cycle recruiter for the engineering, IT and supply chain/procurement functions.
• Using a high tech, high touch approach I was able to overturn a previously strained relationship with engineering hiring managers to make 20+ hires.
• Closed 25 hard to fill process engineering positions while simultaneously managing the IT and supply chain openings as well.
• Lead recruiting events for engineering at the Morristown, NJ Headquarters which resulted in hiring 10 entry level process engineers.
• Targeted a struggling competitor for a hiring event which resulted in 30+ hires, company-wide.

Fortune-500 financial/investment services and real estate company.

• Full life cycle recruiter for the investments and annuities divisions on all functions.
• Initially brought on to source for hard to fill positions within IT in order to bring down agency costs.
• Was promoted to full life cycle recruiter in 2009 after receiving 100% customer satisfaction ratings.
• Successfully managed 35+ openings in all functions ranging from analyst to director level.
• Participated on the ATS transition team; we transitionsed vendors from Hodes to Taleo.) Worked with both companies on the transition and helped to build the new system to company specifications.
• Assisted in all object oriented development sourcing efforts (Java, J2EE, C, C++, etc.)

Fortune-500 healthcare, medical device, and consumer package goods organization

• Sourcing consultant for the quality and sales functions within all 250 operating groups of J&J.
• Successfully managed the sourcing efforts on a requisition load of 50+ openings nationwide.
• Represented J&J at the ASQ and NSBE hiring event.
• Both resulted in 20+ hires.
• Trained in DDI Behavioral Based Interviewing which I continue to use and teach to hiring teams.
• I was able to fill 140+ positions during my 1 ½ years with J&J.

Fortune-500 specialty chemical, electronic control and aerospace organization

• Sourcing consultant for the R&D, IT, Marketing/Sales and Legal functions.
• I, along with my team integrated the first Talent Acquisition Team into Honeywell.
• We created all processes and rolled out new initiatives to the entire Specialty Chemical organization.
• I successfully closed all of the Specialty Chemical "hard to fill" openings bringing agency usage to 0%.