Senior Recruiter with 15 years of full-desk recruiting experience across multiple disciplines and industries. Recognized as a leader in the staffing of high-level and hard-to-find permanent and contract hires for large management consulting firms across North America. Strong track record in strategically aligning talent management goals with business objectives to ensure organizational effectiveness. Excellent at building relationships with internal and external clients. Proven leader who thrives in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.
Hi, I’m
Monica Kareem
Senior Recruiter
Smoke Rise,GA
Summary
Overview
16
years of professional experience
6
Certificate
Work History
The Kardel Group, LLC
Director of Talent
02.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with division leaders, vendors, candidates, and other team members to create partnerships that yield success, predictable results, and credibility
- Perform targeted research, conducted full-life-cycle recruiting of candidates
- Recruit and source candidates for C-level roles for large Start-Up firm
- Responsible for managing 20+ requisitions, conducting interviews, providing candidate assessment and hiring recommendations, offer generation, and onboarding
- Completed talent acquisition and management for 20+ internal and external placements
Daugherty Business Solutions
Senior Talent Consultant
10.2021 - 02.2023
Job overview
- Exceptional full desk recruiting production with ability to leverage passive/non-traditional tools to identify talent pools utilizing LinkedIn Recruiter/Seekouts/iCIMS and other x-ray search tools
- Source and hire across all Daugherty capabilities: Software Architecture and engineering, Data and analytics, Business Alignment, and Delivery Leadership (including Sales Leadership roles), across multiple geographic locations all while supporting talent consultant onboarding
- Completed talent acquisition and management for 20+ internal and external placements
- Provide actionable data insights to drive market strategies and identify and escalate recruiting road-blocks
- Work across Daugherty teams to execute strategy (MarCom, D&I committee, Daugherty University)
- Support junior members of team
- Ability to develop relationships that result in a significant referral network (Due to recession, company went through a layoff)
Various Contract Roles
Senior IT Recruiter
12.2014 - 10.2021
Job overview
- Provided recruiting services to augment client’s internal resources
- Interviewed candidates using different interview methods and approaches.
- Sourced and selected applicants for technical positions within the company.
- Used Boolean searches to develop applicant portfolios for expected openings.
- Built strong relationships with internal and external candidates to ensure excellent hiring experience.
Deloitte
Senior IT Recruiter
03.2019 - 10.2021
Job overview
- (Contractor thru TargetCW) –, Lead full-desk recruiting of Oracle ERP and Cloud Engineering (AWS/Azure/GCP) candidates for Deloitte's Management Consulting practice
- Collaborated with hiring managers to clearly define core accountabilities of positions and to outline expectations for recruitment processes to source and select the best-qualified candidates for each position
- Partnered with sourcing team and recruiting coordinators as well as outside agencies to select, screen, interview, and hire candidates aligned with business needs within the Oracle and Cloud Engineering Service Lines (developers, architects, infrastructure, networking, data)
- Performed extensive recruiter screen and if qualified, scheduled tech screens and initiated Hirevue interview sessions
- Consistently Top-Performing team member who strives to provide amazing candidate experience as well as being the #1 Brand Ambassador for the company
- Attended/Facilitated Interview Day sessions: review resumes of each candidate with the panel prior to interviews and commence with a debrief session where hiring decisions were rendered
- Communicated interview decisions negotiated offers with candidates and generated written offers
- Worked with the legal and immigration teams to process visa transfers, perform rehire eligibility checks, Nepotism, and PPMD referrals in order to expedite employee referrals as needed
- Ensured data integrity within Applicant Tracking System (ATS) – AVATURE (formerly TALEO)
North Highland
Senior Recruiter
01.2019 - 06.2019
Job overview
- (Contractor thru Talentwave, Led full-desk recruiting of Business Analysts and Project/Program managers for Affiliate/Managed Service accounts in the consulting practice
- Duties included sourcing, selecting, screening and submitting candidates aligned with business or project needs across the firm or within a client organization
- Established and maintained a professional rapport with candidates in the event they are qualified, but not selected for the position for which they have been considered
- Successfully sourced and screened prospective candidates for anticipated or future needs so as to build a pipeline of qualified talent possessing industry or specialty expertise within specific regions, markets or organizations
- Prepareed recruitment reports and metrics in keeping with established processes
- Ensured data integrity within the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) – BULLHORN
Accenture
Senior Recruiter
05.2018 - 10.2018
Job overview
- (Contracted twice thru BC Forward) - North American Leadership Recruiting Manager
- Led full-desk recruiting of Managing Director level candidates for the Technology entity in the consulting practice
- Collaborated with hiring managers to clearly define the core accountabilities of the position and to outline expectations for the recruitment process to source and select the best qualified candidates for the position
- Successfully executed diversity and inclusion strategies in an agile environment, exceeding diversity sourcing initiatives at 75% or greater based on the role
- Developed and executed strategies from candidate generation/sourcing to offer negotiation and on-boarding while coordinating work with onshore and offshore sourcing resources
- Proposed process improvements and innovation to recruitment work products, services, and processes
- Established weekly metrics and candidate tracking
- Consistently evolved industry knowledge by actively participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining and growing personal networks, and participating in professional organizations as well as staying abreast of labor market developments (compensation and hiring trends, competition strategies, skill specializations), new technological trends and new industry/talent competitors and share knowledge internally
- Ensured data integrity within the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) – TALEO and AVATURE
Infosys Consulting Inc.
Senior Recruiter
12.2014 - 05.2018
Job overview
- (Contractor thru CompNova), Senior Lead Talent Acquisition
- Responsible for managing the requisition process, conducting interviews, providing candidate assessment/hiring recommendations, offer generation and onboarding (full-desk recruiting)
- Developed and maintained strong working relationships with leaders of the division, vendors, candidates, and other team members to create a partnership that yielded success, predictable results, and credibility
- Performed targeted research and conducted full life-cycle recruiting of candidates
- Recruited and sourced analyst to partner level for all every vertical and horizontal within the Management Consulting Division including: Retail, CPG & Logistics, FSI, Healthcare, Energy, CME, Enterprise Strategy & Architecture, Big Data & Analytics, SAP/Oracle, Digital, OCM and SCM
- Routinely placed the highest number of candidates per month, compared to peers
- Achieved 125% of targeted quarterly hiring goals resulting in 27 hires in FY2016 and 35 hires in FY2017
- Recognized as expert in keeping an active pipeline of candidates warm
- Responsible for training colleagues on the Applicant Tracking System (Kenexa)
H & A Consulting
Healthcare IT Practice Manager
01.2011 - 01.2014
Job overview
- National business development and account manager serving clients’ EMR/HIT contract consulting and permanent staffing resource needs: EPIC, Cerner, McKesson, MEDITECH, Siemens, GE and Allscripts/Eclipsys, ICD-10, and Meaningful Use
- Developed successful relationships by establishing master service agreements with over 20 healthcare systems and system integrators since 2012
- Generated $1.3M in billing revenue in 2013 (15 consultants, 7 permanent placements)
- Planned, forecasted, and developed sales strategies for west coast and northeast territory: cold calling, networking, attending conferences, leveraging proprietary databases
- Full-desk recruiting that included sourcing, screening, interviewing, reference/background checks, and salary negotiations
Summit Tech Consulting
Vice President
01.2008 - 01.2011
Job overview
- Provided customers and candidates with an overall solution to technology problems via staffing solutions and stayed abreast of technological and business trends
- Developed new business with CFO’s, CIO’s and IT personnel for hospitals implementing electronic medical records (EMR) software with the purpose of establishing a master service agreement, securing job orders, and placing highly specialize consultants on-site to implement software
- Superior recruiting, negotiation and closing skills, ability to steer situations to desired outcome
- Sourced, interviewed, qualified, and hired full-time and hourly healthcare consultants to support the staffing needs of client base
- Recognized networker with the ability to recruit candidates for hard-to-fill job orders Page 1 of 3
Education
University of PhoenixPhoenix
MBA from Marketing
University Overview
GPA: 4.0
Indiana University - Purdue University IndianapolisIndianapolis, IN
Bachelor of Science from Psychology
University Overview
Skills
- Microsoft Office Suite/Google Workspace
- ATS: Avature, TALEO, iCIMS, Sendouts, Kenexa/BrassRing, MaxHire, Bullhorn, CEIPAL
- VTC tools: Blue Jeans, GTM, WebEx, Zoom, MS Teams, Hirevue
- Search: LinkedIn Recruiter, Seekout, Social Media apps, Internet Research
- Job Boards: Monster, Dice, CareerBuilder, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, The Ladders, eRecruit
- Recruitment and retention strategies
- Client relationship management
- IT market understanding
- Candidate Sourcing
- Interviewing
- Talent assessment
- Offer negotiations
- Superb leadership skills
- Pre-Employment Screening
- Talent management
- Recruitment
Certification
- Back End Engineering Recruiter Certification Program
- DevOps Engineering Recruiter Certification Program
- UX Design Tech Recruiter Certification Program
- Front End Engineering Recruiter Certification Program
- Product Management Tech Recruiter Certification Program
- Tech Recruiting Tactics Tech Recruiter Certification Program Tech Recruiter Certification
Timeline
Director of Talent
The Kardel Group, LLC
02.2023 - Current
Senior Talent Consultant
Daugherty Business Solutions
10.2021 - 02.2023
Senior IT Recruiter
Deloitte
03.2019 - 10.2021
Senior Recruiter
North Highland
01.2019 - 06.2019
Senior Recruiter
Accenture
05.2018 - 10.2018
Senior IT Recruiter
Various Contract Roles
12.2014 - 10.2021
Senior Recruiter
Infosys Consulting Inc.
12.2014 - 05.2018
Healthcare IT Practice Manager
H & A Consulting
01.2011 - 01.2014
Vice President
Summit Tech Consulting
01.2008 - 01.2011
University of Phoenix
MBA from Marketing
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
Bachelor of Science from Psychology
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