Gene Leshinsky

Current

Sr. Technical Recruiter at Onward Technologies
Proprietor at ResumeSalvage.com (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

Sr. Technical Recruiter at LoganBritton, Inc.
Technical Recruiter at Softworld, Inc
Technical Recruiter at Total Technical Services

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Education

Boston University
Brandeis University

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Gene Leshinsky ’s Summary

Craigslist Best Practices for Recruiters

1. Create an account. An account is free and will allow you to track your ads. This will also allow you to preserve your job descriptions and easily repost ads next time you have a similar position.

2. Edit the Job Description. If the job description given to you by your client is 5 pages long, cut it down to a paragraph or two. Most people won’t read the whole description, nor will most candidates have the whole skill set, you will be missing out on many candidates if you don’t edit the job postings.

3. Know your categories. Discover what jobs get the most replies in what categories. I know that posting a really obscure skill set on CL (Salaselogix, Tivoli) will probably not yield many results, while posting an ad for “Help Desk”, I will be inundated with qualified professionals.

4. Free Posts. Know where to post for free. Boston charges, but Worcester doesn’t. Most candidates will commute from the cities around Worcester to Boston.

5. Cross post. Even though CL looks down on this and you agree not to do it; you still ought to. Change small things about your ad and post to two or three categories. This is easier if it’s free. Also post in free categories such as Gig’s. You never know who is lurking there.

6. Search in the Resumes! There are some very talented people who post their resumes on CL and lot’s of recruiters who don’t know about them. Search other city sites for candidates who may be willing to relocate.

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7. Managers! If you are a manager and your recruiters are not regularly using Craigslist, you are crippling their candidate pipelines. Promote Craigslist use!

Gene
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Gene Leshinsky ’s Specialties:

Recruiting, Project Management, Internet Marketing, E-Commerce, Affiliate Marketing, Social networking, open to al invitiations and business proposals

Gene Leshinsky ’s Experience

Sr. Technical Recruiter

Onward Technologies

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2007 — Present (10 months)

• Recruited to assist clients in full cycle staffing of internal projects.
• Critical involvement in prospecting new business
• Piloted new ATS system for the business unit
• Investigate new ways of recruiting in the Web 2.0 Environment
• Developed an extensive LinkedIn network with over 10 million in the 3rd degree
Proprietor
ResumeSalvage.com (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)

February 2005 — Present (3 years 6 months)

ResumeSalvage provides resume consulting, resume blog setup, and interview management advice.
Sr. Technical Recruiter

LoganBritton, Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2007 — September 2007 (5 months)

• Recruited to assist solutions group in full cycle staffing of internal projects.
• Created functional business process change through introduction of SharePoint Server
• Gathered requirements for implementing the SharePoint server as an applicant tracking system.
• Took over the management of VMS accounts.
• Interfaced with internal project managers and architects to refine and gather requirements and deliver technical candidates.
• Quickly acquired knowledge base for industry specific technical recruiting skills
• Participated in client visits and relationship building with candidates.
• Recruited Data Warehouse/ETL Architects, Developers, and Business Systems Analysts that had expertise in technologies such as Ascential DataStage, Informatica Powercenter, Cognos, Microstrategy, Teradata, DB2, Oracle, SQL, DataFlux, Netezza, Snow– Flakes and Star schemas, flat files, hints, hash files, and Business Intelligence concepts,
Technical Recruiter

Softworld, Inc

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

May 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 1 month)

• Built up $15,000 GP weekly spread and over 35 placements in the first 12 months.
• Reference, Source, and Place contract personnel into a wide vertical of IT positions.
• Mentored Jr. Recruiters in requirement selection, sourcing, technological savvy, and work ethic.
• Post jobs to boards such as Monster, DICE, SCGUILD, Craigslist, News groups, Social Networking sites, and DevBistro.
• Use direct souring techniques such as referrals and reference checks.
• Source candidates from databases such as Monster, Careerbuilder, Craigslist, HotJobs, SCGuild, LinkedIn, and the Internet.

Project Critical Care Staffing:
• Led the full implementation of a fully functional web services application (website) for a Nursing recruiting start-up Critical Care Staffing (now defunct).
• Coordinate with the stake holders, gather requirements, asses best development strategies, and deliver the project on time and under budget.
Technical Recruiter

Total Technical Services

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

August 2005 — May 2006 (10 months)

• Reference, Source, and Place contract personnel into Engineering, Manufacturing, and IT positions.
• Heavy use of iSimply Recruit Applicant Tracking System(ATS) for entering candidate information, tracking submittals, interviews, starts and searching for previously sourced candidates.
• Post jobs to boards such as Monster, Careerbuilder, Net-Temps, SCGUILD, Craigslist, and DevBistro.
• Source candidates from databases such as Monster, Careerbuilder, Craigslist, HotJobs, Net- Temps, and American Job Bank.
• Use direct souring techniques such as referrals, reference checks, and career fairs.
• Attend career fairs and prospect institutions such as ITT, MIT, Northeastern, Massosoit, Wentworth, and United States Army, Navy, and Air Force.
• Utilize AIRS tactics to source passive candidates from Google, Yahoo, MSN.

Gene Leshinsky ’s Education

Boston University

MS, Computer Information Systems, 2007 — 2009 (expected)

Course work:

CS782 - Enterprise Information Systems Strategy, Technology & Management
CS625 - Business Data Communications and Networks
CS699 - Data Mining and Business Intelligence
CS669 - Database Design and Implementation for Business
CS632 - IT Project Management
CS520 - Information Structures(Java)
CS601 - Web Development Languages
CS695 - Network and Computer Security for Business(In Progress)
Brandeis University

BA, History, 1999 — 2003

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Gene Leshinsky ’s Interests:

Recruiting, business development,working out,

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