Patricia Simmons

• Managed, built, designed, and optimized end-to-end process for internal and external career matching service, facilitating Microsoft engineering hiring events.
• Led highly effective support team that facilitated Microsoft's hiring needs.
• Achieved significant increase in Engineering Talent consumption and hiring rate, with 25% increase in 2021 and further 40% increase in 2022.
• Successfully developed and managed effective TA Operations program, resulting in HM interest rate of over 85%
• Contributed to success of technical recruiting and talent sourcing team, increasing their number of hires and offers accepted by average of 100-150%
• Identified opportunities for more efficient and scalable program deployment, leading to improved hiring and candidate experiences and increased demand for program service.
• Streamlined processes and gained efficiencies to ensure smooth integrations and functions.
• Managed and resolved escalations in daily operational processes to support hiring managers in extending offers.
• Prepared communication plans and presented project status updates on process improvements, standardization, and automation efforts to leaders and stakeholders.
• Monitored metrics, identified trends, and utilized reports, dashboards, and analytics to proactively address issues and achieve desired outcomes.
• Managed routines including process compliance, audits, bi-weekly touch-base meetings, best practice sharing, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Cultivated strong business relationships with clients to increase overall experience, satisfaction and retention rates.
• Coached team members on productivity strategies, policy updates and performance improvement plan to accomplish challenging goals.

• Served as diversity consultant, advising and collaborating with recruiting partners and hiring managers to meet diversity goals.
• Developed sourcing strategies to proactively build and deliver robust pipeline of diverse senior and principal technical engineering talent.
• Enhanced diversity hiring: Developed and executed diversity sourcing initiatives, leading to 40% increase in diverse hires.
• Increased offer acceptance rate: Optimized candidate engagement strategies, leading to 40% increase in offer acceptance rate for top-tier Hardware Engineer candidates.
• Participated in intake meetings and feedback sessions with recruiters and hiring teams.

• Established and nurtured effective partnerships with hiring managers, recruiters, and fellow talent sourcers to align recruitment efforts and achieve shared goals.
• Developed effective sourcing strategies and built dynamic talent pipeline.
• Utilized various sourcing techniques and online platforms to identify potential candidates.
• Enhanced employer brand: Developed and executed employer branding initiatives, including enhancing and promoting company's Glassdoor company page, resulting in 25% increase in positive brand perception among candidates.
• Increased candidate pool: implemented sourcing strategies that resulted in 30% increase in number of qualified candidates in talent pipeline.
• Provided regular updates on market intelligence and sourcing campaign effectiveness.
• Leveraged tools like Phenom CRM, LinkedIn, and job boards for talent acquisition.

• Automotive Dealer Services Full Cycle Recruiter specializing in recruiting for SEO & Digital Marketing professionals as well as other services.
• Expanded talent network: "Established and nurtured strategic relationships with industry professionals, resulting in 30% increase in referrals and expanded talent network.
• Developed and executed strategic candidate engagement initiatives leading to 25% increase in offer acceptance rate for top-tier candidates.
• Increased recruitment metrics: "Achieved 15% improvement in key recruitment metrics, including time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, and candidate satisfaction scores.
• Improved retention rates: "Implemented talent retention strategies resulting in 15% reduction in early-stage turnover among new hires.
• Participated in sourcing events and networking activities.

• Served as a member of the Sourcing and Pipeline Development Team, involved in seeking candidates for Digital Marketing, SEO, and a variety of different levels of IT and HR positions.
• Reduced time-to-fill: Implemented streamlined sourcing and screening processes that reduced time-to-fill positions by 30% on average.
• Improved candidate quality: Implemented targeted sourcing methods, resulting in a 20% increase in the ratio of qualified candidates to interviews.
• Enhanced collaboration with hiring managers and recruiters by strategically planning and analyzing staffing requirements to efficiently fill open positions.
• Leveraged job boards, referrals, social networking platforms, and conducted targeted cold calls to identify and engage with top-quality candidates.
• Acted as brand ambassador to educate candidates on culture, career growth, benefits and advantages of working for company.