WENDY RICHARDSON
Austin,Texas
Summary
Hardworking Senior Recruiter offering 26+ years of experience in IT, Financial Services, Marketing, Medical, Executive, Engineering, Call Center, Nursing, Government, University and Business Operations. Adept at sourcing, screening and sorting candidates for relevant openings. Knowledgeable about assessment, interviewing and onboarding processes.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Recruiter, Talent Acquisition Business Partner
Medtronic
11.2022 - 01.2024
- Partner with hiring managers to develop job specifications/requirements competencies, make salary recommendations and negotiate starting salary with candidates.
- Work with leaders in software engineering function to understand current and future needs building strategic plan to recruit best talent for the organization.
- Evaluate job experience, education and training, skills knowledge and abilities and other data pertinent to identify best talent for the team.
- Source candidates, manage workforce demands and develop networks to ensure constant flow of qualified candidates using various tools such as social media career fairs, agencies and recruiting contractors
- Phone screen and conduct interviews to recruit prospective employees
- Manage applicant tracking system and use other tools to support hiring process.
- Ensure excellent candidate experience throughout recruiting process.
- Identify bottle necks in recruiting processes/systems and determine how to remove, improve or solve them.
- Partner with internal Stakeholders i.e., HR Business Partners, Finance, Talent Management, Total Rewards, Immigration team as required.
- Presented employers with up to 20 top candidates each month.
Senior Recruiter, Talent Acquisition Business partner
BAE Systems
05.2023 - 09.2023
- Partner closely with the assigned business area to build a sourcing and recruiting strategy to attract active and passive candidates
- Serve as a subject matter expert on market trends, supply, and demand in different geographic areas
- Develop innovative ways to source candidates and develop sustainable talent pipelines to reflect the common candidate profiles to fill positions
- Maintain a strong network of industry contacts for potential sourcing and hiring
- Ensure appropriate talent pipeline management to include campaigns
- Attend hiring team meetings to provide status updates on job openings and gain full understanding of staffing needs
- Manage requisition portfolio and apply best practices related to compliance, adherence to processes and system requirements
- Ensure exceptional hiring manager and candidate experiences
- Proactively communicate with leaders and teammates with a focus on solutions and impact.
Senior Recruiter, Talent Acquisition Business partner
AMD
08.2021 - 04.2023
- Full cycle recruiting for individual contributor level up to senior director level roles
- Support various teams including product and test development, silicon design, IT (infra and security), supply chain/procurement, sales ops, marketing, and finance and engineering
- Successfully filled over 100 positions in less than 1 year
- Partner with managers throughout recruiting process to strategize on job description, sourcing, interview process, comp package/offer negotiation
- Created and executed recruiting strategies that identify, qualify, and hire highly technical talent
- Communicate technical job roles to candidates at all levels
- Trusted adviser to management on identification, selection and offer process
- Utilizes multiple sourcing techniques to identify top technical talent
- Lead the recruiting process from sourcing to final offer
- Manages metrics locally with understanding of global impact
- Able to work with global talent acquisition team to pull together one message for recruiting.
Senior Recruiter, Talent Acquisition Business Partner
Flextronics
10.2015 - 08.2021
- Drove Full lifecycle recruiting as individual contributor while managing team fulfilling technical and non-technical needs.
- Successfully managed an average of 80 open positions while remaining under 45-day time-to-fill metric.
- Leveraged LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, CareerBuilder, Job Fairs, for global sourcing efforts while managing candidates through HRsmart, Bullhorn, and Workday for ATS processes
- Built relationships with HRBPs, Senior Leadership and Hiring Managers to understand business needs and challenges to expedite hiring process.
- Developed and implemented talent identification projects in alignment with strategic business initiatives to ensure timely talent availability
- Assigned requirement allocation across recruiting team based upon business unit and skill set alignment while maintaining proper division of labor.
- Completed quarterly site visits to all Flex campuses to provide usability training to hiring managers throughout Workday ATS implementation
- Ran weekly staff management sessions with HRBPs across Flex domestic footprint on a weekly basis to discuss forecasting, escalations and recruiting strategies
- Drove recruiting KPI programs covering quality, time-to-submit, time-to-fill, ultimately driving employee retention initiatives through quality hiring.
Senior Talent Advisor-Contract
Charles Schwab
02.2015 - 10.2015
- Handled complex and/or volume of open positions with Participant Services which required a strong understanding of business issues
- Screened qualified candidates to work with Participant retirement plans
- Conduct phone interviews
- Processed candidates through background and drug test
- Extended verbal offers
- Provided class hiring for Austin, TX, Richfield, VA, and Phoenix, AZ, Participant call center for brokers to acquire their series 7 and 66 licenses
- Worked in partnership with managers to get requisitions filled in a timely manner
- Managed workflow through an in-house system
- Initiated and monitored background checks and drug tests
- Utilized Taleo and MS Office Suite software.
Corporate Recruiter (Financial Services)
EZCORP
01.2013 - 01.2015
- Worked with hiring managers to create complete job descriptions and assisted with analyzing correct compensation
- Developed and leveraged local relationships with agencies such as federal/state employment offices, regional colleges, professional associations, and other placement offices
- Used recruitment methods that included applicant tracking system (ATS), job fairs, internet job boards, social media, networking, and direct recruitment to ensure all staffing goals are met
- Owned EZCORP College and veteran recruiting programs
- Screened all prospective applicants using prescribed company screening and assessment tools to ensure appropriate decisions are made
- Scheduled all interviews
- Presented qualified candidates to hiring managers for further consideration, used good judgment as well as shared well justified recommendations
- Prepared offer letters and coordinated all related new hire paperwork
- Coordinated with all involved departments to make sure new hires have everything they need to be productive by their start date
- Built service-oriented customer relations by providing high quality customer service, being responsive and ensuring that customer issues are resolved promptly and accurately.
Recruiter
OneWest Bank
06.2009 - 01.2013
- In charge of hitting goals including 100+ candidates recruited, screened, and on-boarded each quarter
- Maintained a 98% talent acceptance rate with 0% turnover rate in the last three quarters
- Credited with a 95% conversion placement
- 87,000+ earned for One West via the Texas Back to Work Program
- Managed full life-cycle recruitment for Call Center, IT, Financial Services, Sales & Marketing, Business Analysts and Legal professionals
- Partnered with Hiring Managers to address staffing needs, understand position specifications and develop a recruitment strategy
- Developed recruiting plans including print and internet advertising, direct mail, job fairs while tracking responses and effectiveness of advertising and monitoring recruiting budget
- Coached Hiring Managers on behavioral interviewing techniques, diversity hiring and OFCCP compliance
- Extended formal offer while negotiated salaries to include bonus structure
- Addressed any onsite client issues quickly and efficiently to maintain the highest level of client satisfaction.
Assistant Corporate HR Recruiter
H.L. Chapman
01.2006 - 01.2009
Manager/Corporate Recruiter
NorthPoint Communications
01.2001 - 01.2005
Corporate Technical Recruiter
Nokia Inc
01.1998 - 01.2001
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
Texas State University
Austin, TexasAssociate of Arts - Business Marketing
Heald Business College
San Jose, CaliforniaDiploma - Pharmacy Technician
Silicon Valley University
Fremont, CaliforniaAssociate of Science -
Ohlone College
Fremont, CaliforniaSkills
- Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)
- PeopleSoft
- ADP
- Taleo
- ESIQ
- ICIMS
- HRSmart
- Workday
- Seek Out
- Eightfold
- CRM tools Sourcepoint
- Success Factors
- Applicant Tracking system for sourcing candidates
Reading, Cooking, Traveling and Dancing
I enjoy reading the last top sellers. Cooking is what gets our family together to find out how each of our day has gone. Traveling allows me to experience someone else's culture and how they enjoy their work and families, Dancing just moves the soul! Let the music guide you and fill the rhythm of the beat!
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Quote
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Timeline
Senior Recruiter, Talent Acquisition Business partner
BAE Systems
05.2023 - 09.2023
Senior Recruiter, Talent Acquisition Business Partner
Medtronic
11.2022 - 01.2024
Senior Recruiter, Talent Acquisition Business partner
AMD
08.2021 - 04.2023
Senior Recruiter, Talent Acquisition Business Partner
Flextronics
10.2015 - 08.2021
Senior Talent Advisor-Contract
Charles Schwab
02.2015 - 10.2015
Corporate Recruiter (Financial Services)
EZCORP
01.2013 - 01.2015
Recruiter
OneWest Bank
06.2009 - 01.2013
Assistant Corporate HR Recruiter
H.L. Chapman
01.2006 - 01.2009
Manager/Corporate Recruiter
NorthPoint Communications
01.2001 - 01.2005
Corporate Technical Recruiter
Nokia Inc
01.1998 - 01.2001
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
Texas State University
Associate of Arts - Business Marketing
Heald Business College
Diploma - Pharmacy Technician
Silicon Valley University
Associate of Science -
Ohlone College