Mark Howard

Current

• Board Member at End of The Rainbow Foundation
• University Relations Manager at Intuit

Past

• Candidate Generation Recruiter - Sourcer at Intuit
• Name Generation Specialist - Search Research at Intuit
• District Executive at Boy Scouts of America

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Education

• Golden Gate University
• California State University-Chico

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Human Resources

Mark Howard’s Summary

As University Relations Manager at Intuit I develop and execute Intuit’s strategy to build a strong employer brand on campus. The university relations team and campus teams build durable relationships, and position Intuit as the premier innovative growth company on campus. The role of the University Manager is to plan, attract, and close top talent from targeted universities using a high touch and low resource process.

Strategic Developments:
Target university tier's
Assessment methodology
Candidate experience
Campus alumni teams
Knowledge management
Diversity pipeline
Career’s website development
Career’s interactive micro-site development
Intuit early career strategy team

I am also the founder and chairperson of an Intuit diversity network, the Next Gen Network (NGN) a growing 500+ member, executive sponsored network with branches in Mountain View, Tucson and San Diego. NGN focuses on early career, Gen Y employees and their unique needs (Social, Development, Innovation) transitioning from university life to a corporate environment.

Recipient of Intuit's Vision, Impact and Partnership award

Mark Howard’s Specialties:

Networking within business organizations, alumni, communities, and individuals to create a high caliber diversified talent pipeline.

Mark Howard’s Experience

• Board Member

  End of The Rainbow Foundation

  (Philanthropy industry)

  January 2009 — Present (7 months)

  The End of The Rainbow Foundation is in the process of becoming a non-profit organization established for the purpose of supporting and developing local Afro Ecuadorian communities in particular La Concepción, in the Mira River Basin of Ecuador. The End of The Rainbow Foundation focuses on sustainable development projects including eco-tourism, conservation, health, education and organic farming which are designed to improve the quality of life for the people living in these communities.

• University Relations Manager

  Intuit

  (Public Company; INTU; Computer Software industry)

  December 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

  As University Relations Manager at Intuit I create the strategy to build our on campus brand at top Universities across the United States and Canada. I focus on competitive research, networking with University Staff and running our internship program to build buzz on campus and recruit top talent.

• Candidate Generation Recruiter - Sourcer

  Intuit

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; INTU; Computer Software industry)

  August 2007 — December 2007 (5 months)

  As part of Intuit's Candidate Generation team I networked within social and business networks to bring passive job seekers to Intuit mostly in the web marketing and human resources fields.

• Name Generation Specialist - Search Research

  Intuit

  (Public Company; INTU; Computer Software industry)

  January 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 8 months)

  As part of Intuit's Candidate Generation Team I network within social and business networks to bring passive job seekers to Intuit. I sourced and managed over 19,000 passive candidates now housed in our Name Generation Database. I have helped to create our mergers/acquisitions and outplacement strategies for Talent Acquisitions as well as our develop our geographic target data.

• District Executive

  Boy Scouts of America

  (Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  August 2005 — January 2006 (6 months)

  Executive Consultant in charge of all Boy Scout operations within San Jose, Campbell, Santa Clara, Los Gatos, Monte Soreno, and Alviso. Job function included creating an executive committee, Fund raising, Membership, Volunteer Recruitment and Training in support of 2000+ youth members, 300+ volunteer leaders and 86 functional units.

Mark Howard’s Education

• Golden Gate University

  MS , Human Resources Management , 2007 — 2010 (expected)

  Courses:
  Organizational Behavior
  Employment Law
  Performance Management
  Human Resources Management
  Managing People in International Settings
  Training and Development
  Managing the Employment Function
  Strategic Human Resources Management

• California State University-Chico

  BA , Sociology , 2003 — 2005

  Student Leadership Team - Newman Center
  Research Team - Experiential Education (Sociological/Statistical Research)

Additional Information

Mark Howard’s Groups:

National Eagle Scout Association (NESA)

•    Linked:HR (#1 Human Resources Group)
•    LION™ Worn with Pride! [Choose wisely ... ] < BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS >
•    OpenNetworker.com
•    Eagle's Nest--Eagle Scout Award Recipients
•    California State University, Chico Alumni
•    Global University Recruiting Forum
•    Boston College TechTrek West

Mark Howard’s Honors:

Eagle Scout (1998)
Vision, Impact, Partnership Award (Intuit 2007)
HR Innovation Award, HR Symposium, Traci Wicks and the Intuit Candidate Generation Team (2008)
California Polytechnic Workplace Diversity Award (2009)

Mark Howard’s Contact Settings

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• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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