Rebecca Macmillan

Hired on to hire and lead future recruiting team in start-up of US office of UK based renewable energy recruitment agency.

• Currently acting as Sr Recruiter working on contract and permanent contingent requirements within US offshore wind development and other renewable energy projects

Responsibilities:

• Attracting passive candidates, in heavily under skilled Offshore Wind industry
• (95% or more of the talent in the industry is passive and not looking)
• Providing thorough qualification to identify candidate’s relevancy to requirement, establish the candidate’s motivation and interest for this position and other relevant opportunities
• Using DE&I training to attract and retain diverse talent pool, using DE&I related language and interview techniques to reassure candidates that they will be treated equally
• Managing candidate expectations and providing consultative support to help them through interview process
• Providing interview preparation and tips
• Acting as account manager for global leading renewable developer to grow account and company profits, by building trust and acting as a true partner
• Acting as a brand ambassador via LinkedIn to attract candidates, clients, and market LSP Renewables in US market
• Staying up to date with industry news, and trends such as latest project developments in permitting, supply chain, and cost

Achievements

• Launched Women in Renewables LinkedIn group that grew to over 200 members within a week
• Launched “The Breezy Bulletin” a daily new bulletin with the top stories about US Offshore Wind
• That quickly became noticed by client’s senior leadership who gave spontaneous feedback to Country Manager
• Helped win business opportunities by building strong relationships.

• Transferred to Toronto to set up and manage Canadian office
• Performed business development, account management and full life cycle recruiting and developing FPG’s reputation and brand awareness in Toronto
• Responsibilities: Full desk recruiting, providing candidate and client management focused on sales, PMO and product development roles across telecoms and tech industry (startups to fortune 500 companies)
• Internal talent acquisition including candidate attraction, interviews, salary negotiation and overseeing on-boarding
• Setting strategies, standardizing communications, and streamlining the step-by-step talent acquisition recruiting process
• Training new employees with recruiting and FPG training including on-going training and coaching on the sales floor
• Point of escalation for all clients and candidate issues
• Working with marketing to produce material related to local job market, hiring trends, technology business news and co-authoring company blog
• Business development to bring on and retain new clients
• Account management building trust and rapport to bring on repeat business and obtain exclusivity on requirements

Achievements:

• Billed $282,972.65 in perm revenue from January to July 2022
• Overachieved President Club Target by 100%
• Achieved first Toronto MSA signing
• Achieved first two permanent placements in Toronto market
• 96 total placements for the year of 2021.

Business development, account management and full life cycle recruiting for telecoms industry in a variety of different technologies including cyber security, application development, PMO, sales, and product development.

• Responsibilities: Internal talent acquisition including candidate attraction, interviews, salary negotiation and overseeing on-boarding
• Working with marketing to produce material related to local job market, hiring trends, technology business news and co-authoring company blog
• Ensuring business is compliant with all legal requirements
• Client development and account management
• Exceeding annual target by end of Q2.

• Overachieved on individual sales/recruiting goals, and then promoted to Team Lead
• Started by recruiting on wireless network roll out contract positions, before being moved to senior level permanent hires including SaaS tech sales, cyber security, and executives

Responsibilities:

• Helped build “Gatta-versity” internal 6-week training for new employees coming into MatchTech and Networkers globally and provided voice over for several chapters
• Helped win RPO business that was worth over $1,000,000 in revenue a year
• Built business proposition, helped co-manage account at times attending c-level meetings as needed
• Helped with assigning staff to RPO
• Sat on site as needed and held client email and privileges to internal HR systems including the ability to post jobs and review all applicants
• Building strong client relationships and account development
• Team leadership and mentor to new recruiters
• Working contract and permanent recruiting (as needed)
• Managing talent acquisition including candidate attraction, interviews and offers
• Utilizing Bullhorn, Monster, Dice, LinkedIn, Meetups, and technology specific networking events to attract candidates and building a network of c-level executives and other high-level decision makers
• Company “LinkedIn guru” and go to for anything related to LinkedIn or Recruiter, utilizing my own account to market company, roles, and our expertise
• Accomplishments: Achieved interview request on second day, that ended up in being first permanent placement on first resume sent to client
• Set company record for the fastest placement of new employee
• Hold company record for the most starts within one month
• Hit annual quota within first quarter of 2018
• US Recruiting highest biller 2018, 2019 and 2020 surpassing quota each year
• Hold record of highest value deal
• President's Club 2018, 2019 (half one and two) and 2020 (first half, second half was cancelled due to COVID)
• MVP (Employee of the month) June 2017 and September 2018 (first double winner).

Transferred to set up US operations

Responsibilities:

• Lead Account Manager across multiple accounts recruiting for a variety of contract and permanent positions within telecoms, data centers and oil & gas
• Performed all internal talent acquisition including candidate attraction, skills assessments, interviews, and salary negotiations sticking to budgets applied by the UK
• Performing on-boarding for new employees (internal and field) including building contracts, performing background tests and drug screenings
• Developed 2 RPO’s (managed services within Ericsson US, negotiated with client and candidates to drive maximum profits for company)
• Total RPO’s were responsible for over $3,000,000 in revenue a year)
• Managing contractor expenses booking travel arrangements including flights, rental cars and hotels
• Negotiated company “special rates” with Hertz and Marriott hotels
• US office fire marshal

Accomplishments:

• Achieved first ever US placement
• Helped develop partnership with Ericsson from tier 4 VMS supplier to preferred tier 1 supplier in less than 6 months
• Consistent US number one biller year on year
• Global top 3 biller year on year
• Negotiated and priced two managed services that are still in place today generating over $3,000,000 in revenue.

• Recruited telecom professionals on various RPO accounts including Ericsson, MBNL, 3, and Talk Talk
• Utilizing tools such Citrix Database, LinkedIn, CV-Library to attract and search for top level candidates.

• Full cycle specialist recruiting focusing on Regulatory Affairs professionals working on clinical trial studies within the UK
• Attended 6 week intensive “360 training academy” and past top of class
• Helped candidate through entire recruiting process
• Secured new clients and built strong relationships
• Used various recruiting tools including LinkedIn, CV-Library, Monster and internal database to find qualified candidates
• Attended industry events and pharmaceutical company open days
• Attended 'Introduction to Regulatory Affairs' to broaden understanding and ability to communicate with clients and candidates.