Greater Atlanta Area
- Current
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- Senior Contract Corporate Recruiter at PathWays Consulting Inc. of GA
- Past
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- Principal Corporate Recruiter at SunGard
- Senior Corporate Recruiter at Kaplan Higher Education, a division of Kaplan Inc.
- Contract Recruiter at Intellisync
- Owner at PathWays Consulting Inc. of GA
- Senior Corporate Recruiter at Daugherty Business Systems
- Sr. Corporate Recruiter at AG Consulting/ADP
- Senior Corporate Recruiter at AG Consulting
- Senior Recruiter at AG Consulting ADP
- Recruiter at KCM
- Recruiter at CompHealth
- Education
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- Occidental College
- Occidental College
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Shirley Schafer’s Summary
Versatile, senior level Recruiter with more than ten years of experience in developing and delivering effective recruiting strategies within self-directed, multi-tasking environments. Diverse industry experience fulfilling talent acquisition requirements in Information Technology, software development and project implementation; Executive positions for an industry leader in education; Healthcare; Accounting; Engineering; and technical sales people. Trained and experienced in Targeted Selection (Behavioral Interviewing) techniques.
A record of utilizing insightful skills to identify appropriate candidates resulting in successful closures, retention, and job satisfaction. Skilled in maintaining complete ownership and accountability for filling business critical open positions. Adept in building effective relationships with hiring managers and understand the core business and their talent needs. Effective within an onsite or virtual environment. (Corp-to-corp, 1099, or employee; full or part-time)
Shirley Schafer’s Experience
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Senior Contract Corporate Recruiter
PathWays Consulting Inc. of GA
(Human Resources industry)
November 2008 — Present (9 months)
Full-cycle contract recruiting services in information technology, technology sales, human resources management consulting, accounting, and healthcare. Multi-tasking responsibilities include: identifying open positions; working closely with executive level hiring managers to define job requirements, developing candidate profile, and consulting on compensation structure; prepare appropriate job advertising; direct, indirect, and internet sourcing for candidates; creating and placing online advertising at targeted career sites; participating in targeted career fairs, college career fairs, and professional meetings; managing relationships with third party recruiters; screening and qualifying candidates; shepherding candidate through interview process, negotiating compensation and closing candidate, referencing; as well as mentoring staff on recruiting process. Available for onsite or virtual recruiting assignments. (Corp-to-corp, 1099, or employee; full time or part-time).
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Principal Corporate Recruiter
SunGard
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; SDS; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2008 — November 2008 (10 months)
Full-cycle corporate recruiter within a Shared Services structure, hiring for diverse staffing needs: accounting, investments, information technology skilled, sales, marketing, training, and consulting, Multi-tasking responsibilities to implement first internal corporate recruiting service for iWorks business segment: identifying open positions; working closely with executive level hiring managers to define job requirements, developing candidate profile, and consulting on compensation structure; direct, indirect, and internet sourcing for candidates; creating and placing online advertising at targeted career sites; managing relationships with third party recruiters; screening and qualifying candidates; shepherding candidate through interview process, negotiating compensation and closing candidate, and referencing. Remote supervision. 97% closing success rate. Position eliminated in Georgia.
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Senior Corporate Recruiter
Kaplan Higher Education, a division of Kaplan Inc.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WPO; Education Management industry)
November 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 2 months)
Initiated and implemented a full-cycle recruiting program fulfilling executive positions for post-secondary education industry leader. Working directly with executive level hiring managers, identified recruiting needs and developed processes and procedures. Implement national recruiting program and improve recruiting efficiency for more than 70 campuses nationwide as well as corporate executive management offices. Additionally, responsible for managing relationships with outside temporary employment agencies; third party recruiting vendors; as well as maintaining and utilizing internet jobsites – general and profession specific. Reduced third party recruiter fees 48% in first year. Position eliminated in Georgia
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Contract Recruiter
Intellisync
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year)
(purchased by NOKIA) (ADR: NOK): Enterprise, OEM and Named Account Salespersons; Technical Sales Engineers; Software Developers/Engineers and Quality Assurance; Technical Writers, Systems Administrators, Network Engineers, Technical Implementation Consultants, and Product Managers for a suite of products to synchronize and distribute data via wireless/mobile devices. On-site responsibility for fulfilling the full cycle recruiting needs of 8 hiring authorities (Manager and Senior VP level) at Alpharetta location. Conducted local college campus recruiting. Self-directed with only remote supervision from San Jose headquarters. One year, onsite assignment.
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Owner
PathWays Consulting Inc. of GA
(Staffing and Recruiting industry)
February 2001 — October 2005 (4 years 9 months)
Full-cycle contract recruiting in all aspects of information technology, technology sales,and healthcare. Multi-tasking responsibilities include: identifying open positions; working closely with hiring managers to define job requirements, develop candidate profile, and consulting on compensation structure; direct, indirect, and internet sourcing for candidates; creating and placing online advertising at targeted career sites; participating in targeted career fairs, college career fairs, and professional meetings; screening and qualifying candidates; shepherding candidate through interview process,negotiating compensation and closing candidate, referencing; as well as mentoring staff on recruiting process.
Clients include: Intellisync, Chesapeake Netcraftsmen LLC, Daugherty Business Systems, IBM Business Consulting, Mohawk Industries, Cancer CarePoint, Encore Medical Staffing -
Senior Corporate Recruiter
Daugherty Business Systems
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2000 — 2003 (3 years)
Responsible for executing the entire talent acquisition process for highly specialized consultants proficient in creating full life-cycle, custom, software solutions for clients. Primarily portal, E-commerce (J2EE and .Net), data warehousing (data architects, decision support (DSS) report development), and client/server projects requiring highly skilled software engineers, business analysts, project managers, data analysts, quality assurance testers, and enterprise or technical architects as well as other non-exempt professionals.
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Sr. Corporate Recruiter
AG Consulting/ADP
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1995 — 2000 (5 years)
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Senior Corporate Recruiter
AG Consulting
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1995 — 2000 (5 years)
AG Consulting is a subsidiary of ADP (Automatic Data Processing, Inc.) Responsible for recruiting highly compensated, full time, permanent consultants with well developed skills in Strategic Planning, Change Management, Shared Services Solutions, Business Process Analysis and Re-engineering for Human Resources functions of well recognized National and International corporations. In addition, applied technical recruiting skills to hiring of Project Managers, Technical Architects, Database Administrators, as well as technical and functional implementers of ERP software (PeopleSoft, HRizon, SAP, ADP’s E-Solutions, and Oracle) for Human Resources and Financial processes. Self-directed, regional office location with only phone supervision by Hiring Authorities originally headquartered in San Francisco. AG was ISO 9001 certified.
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Senior Recruiter
AG Consulting ADP
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1995 — 2000 (5 years)
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Recruiter
KCM
(Staffing and Recruiting industry)
1994 — 1995 (1 year)
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Recruiter
CompHealth
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
1990 — 1994 (4 years)
Physician locum tenens and permanent recruiting.
Shirley Schafer’s Education
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Occidental College
BA , Chemistry , 1958 — 1963
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Occidental College
ba , chemistry , 1958 — 1963
