Paul Westmoreland

Current

Principal Consultant at WorldLink Search Solutions Pty Ltd

Past

Director - Research, Sourcing & Innovation (Consultant) at Xpand Group Pty. Ltd.
Director, Strategic Recruitment Sourcing (Consultant) at HRX
Manager, North America Sourcing/Recruiting; Global Talent Strategist at Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (former Motorola SPS)

Sourcing / Recruiting Manager, North America at Freescale Semiconductor
Research, recruiting, mgmt, competitive intelligence, strategy, biz d, tools, trace, paralegal, etc at various

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Education

The Evergreen State College

Recommended

21 people have recommended Paul

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Staffing and Recruiting

Paul Westmoreland’s Summary

Sr. recruiting and software technology professional with 13+ years of global, traditional and Internet experience. Have worked in corporate staffing (Large Fortune 500 and smaller companies) as well as RPO, contingency, retained, corporate and unbundled search. Roles from technical recruiting (IT, software, internetworking, telecom, engineering); sourcing/recruitment team build and management; software innovation and product management; global talent strategy and execution; vendor selection/mgmt; go-to-market service.

Architect/director of sourcing centres in RPO, agency and corporate settings; invention / commercialisation of web mining technology.

HIGHLIGHTS
• HIGH IMPACT recruitment professional, with record of recruiting or sourcing difficult to find, high impact talent, or high volume sourcing/recruiting on short notice.
• ARCHITECT of numerous, highly successful sourcing and recruitment organizations in agency, corporate and RPO settings.
• NOMINATED for Distinguished Talent Permanent Residency in Australia, for work in recruitment and recruitment technology.
• TOP 6 WINNER, Worldwide Boolean Strings Master competition 2008, sponsored by eGrabber for RecruitingBlogs.com.
• Have TRAINED over 1000 recruiters and sourcing professionals, authoring original content to share Internet recruitment and phone sourcing techniques; training delivery has been through online webinars and in person at conventions around North America.
• INVENTOR of SimplifySearch names-generation and market mapping/research technologies (going to market in '09).
• CO-INVENTOR www.salesflag.com and Nouvatec Research Platform
• AIRS Summit speaker 2004: "Building a Talent Pool - Tactics and Strategies for Talent Pipelining".
• ERE presenter, March 2006, San Diego: "Corporate recruiting v. Direct: How Freescale Semiconductor beat years of tradition to transform from old to new."
• ERE author in 1998/1999

Paul Westmoreland’s Specialties:

Helping companies achieve shareholder value by providing powerful recruitment solutions; revamping recruitment processes to meet strategic talent needs; reducing overhead and advertising spend; inventing and customising technology solutions to meet need.

Global regions including but not limited to North America, Australasia, SEA, Asia and India. Industry expertise includes IT&T, semiconductor, various services, consumer, medical, some academic.

Paul Westmoreland’s Experience

Principal Consultant

WorldLink Search Solutions Pty Ltd

(Staffing and Recruiting industry)

February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)

WorldLink Search
February 2007 - April 2007
Recruitment/Business Development
* Semiconductor recruiting for companies in India

Xpand Group Pty. Ltd.
April, 2007 - December, 2008
Director of Research, Sourcing & Innovation

WorldLink Search Solutions Pty Ltd
Recruitment Technology Product Architect
Project Sourcing, Names Generation & Research
January, 2007 - Present

(see below)
Director - Research, Sourcing & Innovation (Consultant)

Xpand Group Pty. Ltd.

(Staffing and Recruiting industry)

April 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 9 months)

Xpand Group is a SARA Legend, award winning Digital Media and IT recruitment company based in Sydney. Primary RPO at Yahoo 7 and PSA talent supplier to companies including Dell, Microsoft and Fairfax Digital. Created and launched the Xpand Research & Sourcing Centre, covering Oceania, New Zealand and South East Asia.

• Supported recruitment needs for Xpand throughout Oceania
• Sourcing, leads gen for and market research for strategic client acquisition or service, talent pipelining, internet or phone campaigning, direct competitor sourcing, deep internet research, cold call prospecting, networking, ATS search.
• Created the Research & Sourcing Centre, hiring and developing a team comprised numerous national and international staff and 1 manager across Australia and Singapore.
• Defined the Centre’s role competencies and requirements; developed induction, training and career dev. Monitored workflow and processes to ensure quality and results.
• Developed and promoted a team manager as part of exit strategy.
• Created appraisal, PM/KPIs, and balanced score card systems aligned to employee development, rewards and incentives.

Other responsibilities
• Helped business development staff by creating strategic, pipeline strategies for prospective or active client needs.
• Improved upon names generation software tools; tools also perform market research on companies and industries; output goes to screen and spreadsheets (provisional patent submission pending – www.simplifysearch.net).
• Developed recruitment sourcing training programs. Extensive and web based, with a workshop feel. Trained company staff on how to use the Internet with phone to find people and source; how to do this with business development; and how to conduct market research/analysis to help present proactive recruitment strategies when approaching prospective clients or meeting client needs.
Director, Strategic Recruitment Sourcing (Consultant)

HRX

(Privately Held; Human Resources industry)

July 2006 — December 2006 (6 months)

HRX is a leading RPO in Oceania, providing service to clients like Nestle, University of Sydney, Tenix Defence & Bank West. It competes with companies like Talent2 and Alexander Mann.

Role and Achievements
• In launching the Strategic Sourcing center, performed direct sourcing of academic, IT, finance & banking, software and corporate functions professionals. This involved deep internet research, phone research and cold calling, ATS search, and other methods.
• Recruited, hired, trained, developed and led the team of 10 - 15 direct reports and contractors, promoting 3 staff to team leads.
• Developed aggressive sourcing strategies to meet client needs and HRX goals, focused on sourcing talent from a variety of disciplines globally and across Oceania.

Other responsibilities
• Defined, streamlined and documented Centre workflow and process, and created recruiting management tools to track effectiveness, work-load balance and real time KPI measures.
• Located, evaluated and recommended new recruitment technologies to help HRX and its clients.
• Supported other divisions within HRX to provide competitive research and market mapping.
Manager, North America Sourcing/Recruiting; Global Talent Strategist

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (former Motorola SPS)

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Semiconductors industry)

April 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 4 months)

* Traveled throughought AP & India to provide talent sourcing strategy and training to region recruitment staff.
* Advised Freescale business lines with global talent sourcing strategies.
* Identified talent needs for world regions and assisted the recruiting groups with search strategy and team building.
* Participated in industry benchmarking events as well as roundtables/forums to share and obtain best practices.
* Represented Freescale as AIRS Summit speaker, an ERE speaker, & CareerXroads think-tank participant.
* Mentored global recruiting teams.
* Large, complex recruiting project management.
* Authored the global Vendor Rules of Engagement.
Sourcing / Recruiting Manager, North America

Freescale Semiconductor

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Semiconductors industry)

August 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 6 months)

* Transformed & Managed the North America recruiting team, supporting a North America, semiconductor employee base of 8,000 people.
* Team placed approximately 1500 exempt semiconductor professionals in NA & overseas over 18 months.
* Reduced retained search placement of executive hires from 80% to less than 50%.
* Increased head-hunted placements from direct competitors by 30%.
* Reduced recruitment cycle times from 67 days to 45 days.
* Increased % of openings filled internally from 38% to 65%.
* Reduced outside agencies from 20% of hires, to 8%, saving millions of $ overall. Increased spend toward the best vendor partners.
* Reduced agency list from over 50 vendors, to less than 15 preferred.
* Created reporting tools to provide real time req status updates and req load balance between recruiters.
* Global recruitment technology selection and vendor negotiation: Reduced recruitment resource spend (including advertising) by over 30%.
Research, recruiting, mgmt, competitive intelligence, strategy, biz d, tools, trace, paralegal, etc

various

(Staffing and Recruiting industry)

January 1993 — April 2004 (11 years 4 months)

Please call or email for details. Background includes recruitment & sourcing, sales, management and program development, in a variety of settings including contract, retained & corporate.

Paul Westmoreland’s Education

The Evergreen State College

BA , Legal studies (ILContract) and music theory/composition , 1989 — 1993

Activities and Societies:

Elected ASB Student Body President - SPSCC

Interim "Student Governance President" - Evergreen (through governance transition)

Founder of S.A.C.R.E.D. (Student Alliance for Constitutional Rights & Equal Determination)

Additional Information

Paul Westmoreland’s Groups:

Blue: The DallasBlue Business Network (25,000+ members)
AIRS Diversity Recruiting Forum
Executive Suite
LinkedSEO
Networked Recruiter (34,197+ total network) 3rd Largest Recruiting and HR & 2nd Largest Agency Group
HRinIndia
India HR Forum
Ruby on Rails
Sourcers Guild
Internet Technology Hub
Oceania & AP Professional Search Forum
CV Sourcing Consultants & CV Sourcers.
Open Source Universe
eRecruiting
MagicMethod (Telephone Name Sourcing)
Django
Innovative Recruitment Forum
The Executive Search Group
Recruitment Consultants and Staffing Professionals (30.000+)
Search Engine Land
Big5Hire - Passive Recruiting Search Engine User group
Recruitment Process Outsourcing
Digital Breakfast
Indian Telecom Industry
Rich Internet Applications (RIA)
Software Testing in Financial Services
RoR (Ruby on Rails) Open Source Network
Arabian Gulf Recruiters
Software tester group
Global Asia Network
Boolean Strings
RF/Analog/Mixed signal circuit design & product/test engineering
MedCareerVillage