Dea Smith 290 Stacey Common
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510 657-0235 Fremont, CA 94539
deasmith@yahoo.com
Overview:
Over ten years experience as a recruiter in a variety of industries and functional areas. Consistently met or exceeded goals and maintained high quality relationships with coworkers, candidates, and hiring managers.
Education:
- B.S. Information Systems Management, University of San Francisco
- HR Certification, University of California, Santa Cruz Extension
Experience:
8/03 to present
Visa USA 4/05 to current
- Sr. Recruiter with responsibility for a variety of client groups. Consistently accepted additional responsibility exceeding expectation of hiring managers, supervisors and support team.
- Successfully fill open orders, maintained high quality relationships with vendors, mangers and coworkers. Consistently a top producer in the staffing department with high manager survey results.
- Effectively participated in turn-over to new contingent workforce program model.
- Assumed additional responsibilities to fill full-time openings within a variety of departments
- Related tools and training include PeopleSoft, Icarian, Airs, and Workstream.
San Jose Museum of Art, Visitor Services Representative –8/04 to 8/05 (part-time)
- Maintained solid visitor relationships while monitoring the artwork in this new program
- Answered questions, engaged viewers, participated in art enrichment programs
- Sold memberships and played a part in event activities at the Museum including very popular Cultural Exposure programs and Member night gallery openings.
- Pursued educational enrichment in drawing, architectural model making and other classes
Volunteer – on going
- Mid-peninsula Regional Open Space District – Nature Center Host - 2002 to current
- Pro-Net Training and Development (Experience Unlimited) 2004 to current
Whistle Stop Antiques Co-Operative, Sunol, CA - Merchant part-time 09/03 to current
France Telecom R & D
5/02 to 08/03
- Managed all sourcing, including employee referrals, college relations, interns and direct hires.
- Managed agencies for specialized R&D positions in the telecommunication industry.
- Creation of processes for good hiring practices and candidate selection.
- Evaluated software solutions for ESS and MSS capability as well as candidate tracking and HR reporting features.
ResourceSmart
Contract Recruiter 11/95 to 05/02
- Established best practices with hiring managers while maintaining excellent relationships with candidates.
- Developed effective active and passive staffing strategies, candidate flow, and diversity recruiting for technical and non-technical candidates.
- Set expectations with managers and created successful processes in a team setting and as an individual contributor.
- Provided leadership in the selection and implementation of HRIS solutions.
- Past clients include Intuitive Surgical, Adobe Systems, Altavista, KLA-Tencor, Resumix, KPMG Hexel, Kestrel Solutions, and several dot.com's.
Agency Recruiting
11/93 to 10/95
- Recruiting support for account executives providing technical and system professionals for contact and full-time placement in Health Care, Banking and other institutions.
- Activities included research, advertising, recruiting, interviewing, wage negotiation, resume and contract preparation.
Additional Experience :
- Participated in software development projects as a Business Systems Analyst, Project Leader and MIS Manager supporting users of financial and manufacturing systems in manufacturing environments.
- Brought users to high competency levels in multiple systems through leadership, effective procedures and strong relationships
- President, Fremont Terrace Home Owners Association
Affiliations:
- Commonwealth Club of California
References Available on Request
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