Mike Rueckert
McKinney,TX
Summary
Highly experienced Talent Acquisition Leader and award winning Account Executive with unique experience including five years in corporate recruiting and leadership along with 14 years of technology staffing and services sales. Thrives on new challenges and building long lasting relationships to provide the best customer experience possible with clients, internal customers and candidates. Extremely competitive and persistent to become a trusted resource and advisor regarding human capital management while providing outstanding service.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Team Lead
Korn Ferry
11.2022 - 10.2023
- Led transition of talent acquisition team from internal Turnitin employees to Korn Ferry RPO
- Responsible for leading a team of four comprised of two recruiters, a sourcer and a recruiting coordinator
- Designated ATS (SmartRecruiters) administrator responsible for executive dashboards to monitor performance
- Personally filled 52 global technology, product and marketing positions in 10 months to include VP, Director, Manager and IC level roles in NoA, EMEA, APAC and LATAM.
- Coached team members in recruiting techniques necessary to find the top 10% of talent utilizing LinkedIn, SeekOut, hireEZ, Handshake, FaceBook and Instagram.
- Evaluated progress of employee and company goals through weekly 1:1 meetings utilizing various metrics and analytics
Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition
Turnitin
01.2021 - 11.2022
- Transitioned to Turnitin through its acquisition of ExamSoft to lead an onshore/offshore team of five comprised of two recruiters, two contract sourcers and a recruiting coordinator
- Introduced metrics via ATS reporting to track team performance against SLAs such as intake, posting, time to fill and diversity of candidates
- Personally filled 81 global positions within technology, product, marketing and finance to include VP, Director, Manager and IC level roles throughout NoA, EMEA, APAC and LATAM
- Designated talent acquisition immigration specialist working with the legal and compliance department to ensure proper immigration policies are established
- Authored an extensive global labor market analysis to determine specific markets for technology hires resulting in a savings of over 30% as compared to the US market
Director, Talent Management
ExamSoft (acquired By Turnitin)
05.2018 - 12.2021
- Recruited by CTO to replace an underperforming technology department
- Worked closely with organizational leadership to develop an EVP and hiring strategy to attract and retain a higher level of talent
- Implemented position approval process to streamline hiring process from creation to onboarding
- Responsible for working with immigration attorney on visa transfers, renewals and conversions.
- Created a standardized job description format and repository for future positions
Senior Sales Executive
NTT DATA Services
04.2017 - 05.2018
- Single staffing salesperson for Dallas market also responsible for managing two junior recruiters
- Utilized and expanded network to create business development strategy to identify key stakeholders
- Successfully added JCPenney, RealPage, TitleMax, Citi, Examsoft, Lanyon, Omnitracs and TEKsystems as clients
- Partnered with NTT DATA managed services division to cross-sell the brand as a complete IT solutions provider
Senior Account Executive
MATRIX Resources
12.2014 - 04.2017
- Responsible for acquiring new logos and expanding IT services within existing accounts
- Brought in over $800k in gross margin annually while managing multiple high-profile accounts
- Grew American Airlines over 123% over 12 month period
- Signed BBVA with over $300k in annual billing
- Signed Santander with over $150k in annual billing
- Expanded Southwest Airlines through the introduction of SOW managed services and agile coaching
Senior Account Manager
TEKsystems
08.2004 - 11.2014
- 8x contest winner - 2006-2013
- Consistently billed over $4m resulting in over $1.2m gross margin annually
- Designated Airlines/Transportation vertical leader in Dallas with responsibility for Southwest Airlines, American Airlines and BNSF
- Partnered with Barclays to build out a Center of Excellence in Plano and facilitate the move of over 50 Barclays employees while adding another 113
- Signed Toyota while adding over $250k in gross margin and establishing TEKsystems as a preferred vendor.
- Mentored two junior recruiters which led to their promotion to account manager
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Economics
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX12.1992
Skills
- Team Leadership
- Global Recruitment
- Applicant Tracking Systems
- Talent Acquisition Plans
- Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
- Interviewing and Prescreening
- Talent Management Systems
- Work Authorizations
- Customer Relationship Management
- Business Development and Planning
- Cold Calling
- Sales Quota Achievement
- Strategic Selling
- Enterprise Sales
- Account Management
- Strategic Business Planning
- MacOS, Windows
- Google Workspace, Office 365
- Slack
- ATS/CRM - SmartRecruiters, Salesforce, BullHorn, JobDiva, WorkDay, Taleo
Timeline
Team Lead
Korn Ferry
11.2022 - 10.2023
Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition
Turnitin
01.2021 - 11.2022
Director, Talent Management
ExamSoft (acquired By Turnitin)
05.2018 - 12.2021
Senior Sales Executive
NTT DATA Services
04.2017 - 05.2018
Senior Account Executive
MATRIX Resources
12.2014 - 04.2017
Senior Account Manager
TEKsystems
08.2004 - 11.2014
Bachelor of Arts - Economics
Southern Methodist University