IT & Engineering Recruiter/Strategic Sourcer

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A Recruiter’s Recruiter! Monica has soup to nuts knowledge and hands-on experience. She has several years of cold calling, developing internet sourcing and boolean techniques, recruitment strategies, pre-screening, interviewing, conducting competitive intelligence, research, staffing and placement. Throughout the years, Monica has partnered with hundreds of executives, hiring manangers, candidates, and HR professionals to build teams for major corporations in the technical marketplace. She is proficient in MS Office; Powerpoint, Excel, MS/Word, ACT, multiple ATS systems from Taleo, Irecruitment, Resumix and others. She owns both PCs or MAC systems.

Monica recruits across the globe! Her roots are in Chicago, Illinois where she started her career as a generalist recruiter. She earned an honorable discharge in the 80s as a Marine Corps Sargeant. Her military occupation was Human Resources and Recruiting. Due to market demand, she evolved into a specialist in Engineering & IT technical recruiting to meet client requirements. Clients were early UNIX with AT&T Bell Labs, Rockwell International, Northrop, and McDonald’s IT department to name a few. Monica learned the development process from concept to completion. Studied technical roles and job descriptions, ad campaigns, and spearheaded career fairs. She connects and knows the geography, how to converse – the lingo, and understands the importance in career leveraging. Since 1990, with almost two decades in California’s Silicon Valley, Monica has successfully tracked and analyzed the challenges and changes in recruitment. Her clients have design centers in Maryland, New York, Colorado, Texas, Canada, Ohio, and Washington. Well-read, she knows the sources for recruitment, and the technical landscape.

Monica has more than 15 years as an in-house recruiter. She understands the fast pace and keen sense of urgency necessary to recruit the hard-to find and hire candidates. As an independent staffing consultant, her clients range from platform and search technology at Yahoo, .NET SQA at Microsoft, B2B at Saba and Autodesk, Compilers at Hewlett Packard, IC Microprocessors at Sun Microsystems, DVDs at Reel.com, computer software at , Evite at IAC/Ask.com, MPEq, Set Top Boxes at VLSI Technology, Healthcare at Kaiser Permanente’s IT division (KPIT), compilers and E-services at Apple and other growth oriented organizations. She has experience in internal employment issues from, H1B, F1, TN immigration, internal equity in compensation, to relocation processes that are necessary to secure technical resources. She has often filled positions without agency support, however knows how to solicit, collaborate and manage agencies. Monica Parker has stayed the course through varying economic times. She is a solid player in the recruitment industry.

Monica is a time-saver! Hiring manager’s consider her a top resource with a strong work ethic, integrity, dependability, and follow through. Most clients hire her for 3 months and retained her for over 12 months because of her value-added interpersonal skills, attention to details, likeability, tenacity to find and recruit the best individual contributors and technical managers across the nation. She offers sound and proven advice, accountability, negotiating skills to assure all parties through to the on-boarding process. Her areas of recruitment have ranged from Analysts, Business Intelligence, Software Architects and DBAs in IT, software and middleware, Quality Assurance and hardware design in Engineering, Product Marketing, Supervisors, Leads, and Manufacturing design of large scale systems and software.

New times - New technology – new techniques! (ttyl)

There was a time when faxes, paper files, and pens were the tools of the trade. Now, Monica uses her cell phone, blackberry, and computer for contacting, e-mailing and texting candidtates. Keeping up with the technology, she has sourced, recruited and staffed senior software developers and architects with experience in JAVA, AJAX, Javascript, Ruby On Rails, XML, XSLT, Spring, Hibernate, Perl or Python, Linux, AIX, UNIX based systems. Servicing in the areas of Distributed parallel and multi-tier systems Web Services, Certified Project Managers, Solution Consultants, Process Improvement PMs, ITIL, COBIT, Six Sigma, Agile Methods, SCRUM Masters and Directors. Recruiting and staffing design engineers with ASIC, Verification, SRAM, SERDES, RTL, DFT, Synopsis, FPGA, logic, Board level, physical design, RF analog design, and IC, microprocessors design engineers, Monica knows the differences in their functional responsibilities. Strong sourcing, recruiting, pre-screening, interviewing, project management and communicative skills in the following areas:

• Internet Sourcing and cold calling
• Developing staffing strategies
• Conducting Behavioral Interviews
• Participating in executive staff meetings (Partnering)
• Pre-screening and pre-qualifying candidates
• Gathering and developing specifications
• Technical Recruiting and negotiating salaries
• Debriefing candidates and managers
• Working with various Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)
• Closing to insure candidate starts/on-boarding processes
• Generating Weekly and Bi-weekly Status Reports

She works hard and plays hard! On weekends, Monica Parker is affectionately known as Sista Monica – www.sistamonica.com. She is a blues, soul and gospel singer. Monica’s stage name is Sista Monica www.sistamonica.com. Since 1992, she has been compared to Etta James, Mavis Staples and Aretha Franklin. Her CDs are located on www.cdbaby.com, www.itunes.com and other e-tailers. She is a member of Society of HR Management SHRM and certified in OFCCP Compliance – 2008. Her undergraduate at Indiana University Northwest towards a B.A. in Business with emphasis in Marketing Management. Monica is a member of the Recruiter’s Network.