Senior Recruiter

Senior Recruiter — Apex Talent Partners

Chicago, IL | January 2021 – Present

• Directed full-lifecycle recruitment for 4 distinct business units, filling 85+ corporate and technical roles annually while reducing the average time-to-fill from 42 days to 31 days using Greenhouse ATS.
• Pioneered an employee referral program that increased referral-based hires by 35% in 12 months, saving $120,000 in agency recruitment fees and reducing average cost-per-hire by 18%.
• Led a team of 3 recruiting coordinators to standardize interview rubrics, increasing candidate satisfaction survey scores by 22% and improving candidate-to-offer conversion rates by 14%.
• Partnered with 8 department heads to construct diverse talent pipelines, increasing the representation of underrepresented groups in the candidate slate by 40% across mid-to-senior levels.

Recruiter — Vertex Solutions Group

Chicago, IL | June 2016 – December 2020

• Managed end-to-end recruitment for 60+ open positions per year across sales and marketing departments, maintaining a consistent candidate feedback loop within 48 hours in Greenhouse.
• Sourced and engaged passive candidates using LinkedIn Recruiter and custom Boolean searches, converting 28% of outreach messages into first-round phone screens and securing 15 key hires.
• Negotiated compensation packages and relocation agreements for 45 candidates, aligning offers with market salary data and achieving a 92% offer acceptance rate over a 24-month period.
• Optimized job board distributions and career page content based on traffic analytics, improving application quality and reducing reliance on external contract sourcing by 25%.

Full-lifecycle recruiting, Talent pipeline development, Executive search, Candidate sourcing, Sourcing strategies, Behavioral interviewing, Candidate experience management, Diversity recruiting (DE&I), Offer negotiation, Greenhouse ATS, Workday HCM, LinkedIn Recruiter, Talent analytics, Vendor management, Employer branding

Enterprise ATS Migration

Role: Lead Recruiter & Project Owner

Tools: Workday HCM, Greenhouse, Slack, Excel

Led the 6-month migration of hiring pipelines from legacy systems to Greenhouse, training 45 hiring managers and reducing database duplication by 38%.

Diversity & Inclusion Hiring Initiative

Role: Talent Acquisition Lead

Tools: LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, Tableau, Zoom

Overhauled candidate sourcing frameworks to require diverse interview slates, which increased the hiring of underrepresented talent by 45% in 12 months.

• Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) (2021)
• Professional in Human Resources (PHR) (2018)

• Affiliations: Active member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
• Volunteer Work: Career mentor for local workforce development programs (2020-present)
• Availability: 2 weeks notice