Bobbi S.

Starr Enterprises is a consulting firm specializing in recruiting for various technical disciplines, including Information Technology, Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Application Development, Telecommunications and Data Communications. • As a college recruiter, hired approximately 60 contractors from various colleges to sell wireless internet services. Also hired more recruiters to cover more colleges. • As a Recruiter/Sourcer, performed research on client prospects and sourced pipeline candidates. Placed individuals on contracts and in full time jobs throughout the USA. Gathered intelligence on skill locations and candidates who practiced these skills. Clients included SAP America, IBM, Abbot Labs, etc. • Recruited candidates to fill technical position for state agencies. Placed candidates at various multi-national Fortune 100 companies-including Accenture and EDS. • Recruited candidates to fill positions in VMS client • Performed “overflow” recruiting by working with colleagues at other companies to fill numerous job orders they had no time to work. • As an agency recruiter, called candidates and prequalified them based on interest and technical skills. Formatted resumes and notified candidate of status when it changed. Clients included EDS and Perot Systems. Position involved all levels from technology and call centers to c-level executives. • As a Corporate Recruiter, performed these functions within the HR department. Sourced technical and non-technical candidates, Pre-qualified them and forwarded resumes to managers. Prepared offer letters and presented verbal offer to the candidate. Arranged delivery of hiring materials by FedEx. • As a Corporate and Agency wrote and posted job requisitions onto job boards and other venues. Followed up with hiring managers and kept track of candidates in the interviewing queue. Notified candidates if they were not selected. Kept records in a job applicant tracking system. • Used old and new school methods to recruit/source candidates for difficult to fill positions. These positions included skill sets that were not normally found in the same candidate. An example would be finding a COBOL programmer who knew C#. • As an Agency and as a corporate recruiter, performed reference checks and background check paperwork. • Recruited C++, C#, AIX Admins Oracle DBA, SQL Server DBAs, Telecom Switch technicians, call center customer representatives, etc. • As a business developer, developing rapport with high level and HR directors of various prospects, including but not limited to: Wal-Mart, FedEx, Mary Kay, AutoZone, Deloitte and Touché, Albertsons, Kroger's, etc. • As a consultant, set up IT Department and client base for clerical and call center staffing firm who wanted to start in technical recruiting. • Performed business development and recruiting for company specializing in staffing of startup companies. Skills recruited for include AIX System Administrators, Java RUP specialists, Desktop support, call center customer service representatives, fiber optic engineering and telecommunications. Non-technical recruiting includes attorneys, accountants, human resources personnel, financial officers, executive level personnel and some biomedical personnel. • As a consultant, staffed entire eCommerce department until the new owners from Mexico privatized the company. They proceeded to lay off 17 out of 31 VPs. • Worked with company based in California to assist in recruiting efforts for permanent placements. • Recruited and placed technical professionals experienced in C++ on UNIX engineers, mainframe programmers, AS/400 developers, AIX Systems Administrators, Oracle DBAs, technical support, call center customer service representatives. • As Vice President of Operations, placed 20 contractors in various IT and Telecom assignments.