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Monica Kareem

Monica Kareem

Smoke Rise,GA

Summary

Senior Executive 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.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Executive Recruiter

The Kardel Group, LLC
10.2014 - Current
  • 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

Senior Talent Consultant

Daugherty Business Solutions
10.2021 - 02.2023
  • Exceptional full desk recruiting production with theability 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
  • Work across Daugherty teams to execute strategy (MarCom, D&I committee, Daugherty University)
  • Ability to develop relationships that resulted in a significant referral network (Due to the recession, company went through layoff)

Senior IT Recruiter

Deloitte
03.2018 - 10.2021
  • (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
  • Ensured data integrity within Applicant Tracking System (ATS) – AVATURE (formerly TALEO)

Senior Recruiter

Accenture
05.2017 - 10.2019
  • (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
  • 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

Senior Recruiter

North Highland
01.2018 - 06.2018
  • (Contractor thru Talentwave, Led full-desk recruiting of Business Analysts and Project/Program managers for Affiliate/Managed Service accounts in the consulting practice
  • 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
  • Prepared recruitment reports and metrics in keeping with established processes
  • Ensured data integrity within the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) – BULLHORN

Senior Recruiter

Infosys Consulting Inc.
12.2014 - 05.2017
  • (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
  • 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)

Healthcare IT Practice Manager

H & A Consulting
01.2012 - 01.2014
  • 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

Vice President of Business Development

Summit Tech Consulting
01.2008 - 01.2012
  • 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

Education

MBA - Marketing

University of Phoenix

Bachelor of Science - Psychology

Purdue University

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
  • Workforce Planning

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

Senior Talent Consultant

Daugherty Business Solutions
10.2021 - 02.2023

Senior IT Recruiter

Deloitte
03.2018 - 10.2021

Senior Recruiter

North Highland
01.2018 - 06.2018

Senior Recruiter

Accenture
05.2017 - 10.2019

Senior Recruiter

Infosys Consulting Inc.
12.2014 - 05.2017

Executive Recruiter

The Kardel Group, LLC
10.2014 - Current

Healthcare IT Practice Manager

H & A Consulting
01.2012 - 01.2014

Vice President of Business Development

Summit Tech Consulting
01.2008 - 01.2012

MBA - Marketing

University of Phoenix

Bachelor of Science - Psychology

Purdue University
  • 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
Monica Kareem