
Leading Recruitment and Sourcing Consultant, Speaker, TopLinked.com (30,000+) shally@arbita.net
Greater Atlanta Area

Leading Recruitment and Sourcing Consultant, Speaker, TopLinked.com (30,000+) shally@arbita.net
Greater Atlanta Area
IMPORTANT PLEASE READ: Due to LinkedIn's limit of 30k first degree connections I am unable to accept new connections at this time. However I am working on pruning my network so I will be able to add you soon. Please send me an invite but be patient as I go throu this process. Meanwhile e can share networks via the CyberSleuths Group so please join:
https://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/742/47ED820E8D6B/
Recruitment consultant, sourcing strategist, and speaker. Founder of JobMachine, Inc. (now Arbita, Inc.) the premier provider of Sourcing Consulting Services and Research Training. Built sourcing organizations at over 200 companies like Microsoft, Google, Coca-Cola, Cisco and Motorola. Instrumental in architecting centralized recruitment models. Reputation as an authority in Internet search, and a pioneer in recruitment research. Frequently contributor to top industry forums and often requested speaker at leading conferences.
Blogs: http://aces.arbita.net/blog and...
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Full Bio: http://aces.arbita.net/shally.
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Rules of Contact:
1) Cultivating a positive and mutually beneficial network is my goal.
2) I can NO LONGER accept all invitations (see above).
3) I DO NOT forward requests from strangers unless they are compelling and demonstrate clear benefit to the recipient.
4) If we aren't close please craft thoughtful and detailed requests. I respect my connections and won’t bother them with frivolous ones. In return I promise to only send you relevant, well written requests.
5) As one of the top 20 most connected people I get many requests. If you aren’t getting through on a time-sensitive one email shally@arbita.net with a reminder and I’ll expedite.
6) Shally is a male name (see endorsements). If you refer to me as "her" that's could be why your request wasn't forwarded.
CheatSheet Author (http://aces.arbita.net/products/cheatsheets), Talent Recruitment Strategist, CyberSleuth, Researcher, Sourcer, Recruiter, Trainer, Consultant.
NOTE TO RECRUITERS: I love to help but may not be able to forward your requests due to conflicts of interest so please call prospects directly or use InMail. If you need ideas on how to contact them directly email me and I would gladly help.
(Public Company; COKE; Consumer Goods industry)
August 2010 — Present (2 months)
Teach Arbita, Inc. curriculum on CyberSleuthing (sourcing) and Recruiting. Consulting on recruitment strategy, social media and recruitment marketing, recruitment architecture, vendor selection, and global strategy.
(Public Company; LUV; Airlines/Aviation industry)
August 2010 — Present (2 months)
Teach Arbita, Inc. curriculum on CyberSleuthing (sourcing) and Recruiting. Consulting on recruitment strategy, social media and recruitment marketing, recruitment architecture, vendor selection, and global strategy.
(Public Company; B; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)
June 2010 — Present (4 months)
Teach Arbita, Inc. curriculum on CyberSleuthing (sourcing) and Recruiting. Consulting on recruitment strategy, social media and recruitment marketing, recruitment architecture, vendor selection, and global strategy.
(Public Company; NOC; Defense & Space industry)
May 2010 — Present (5 months)
Teach Arbita, Inc. curriculum on CyberSleuthing (sourcing) and Recruiting. Consulting on recruitment strategy, social media and recruitment marketing, recruitment architecture, vendor selection, and global strategy.
(Public Company; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2010 — Present (9 months)
Teach Arbita, Inc. curriculum on CyberSleuthing (sourcing) and Recruiting. Consulting on recruitment strategy, social media and recruitment marketing, recruitment architecture, vendor selection, and global strategy.
(Public Company; MKC; Food Production industry)
November 2009 — Present (11 months)
(Public Company; FRA:ADS; Sporting Goods industry)
October 2008 — Present (2 years )
Teach JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting in Europe and United States. Consulting on recruitment strategy and architecture.
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — Present (2 years 9 months)
As EVP Arbita Shally is also Chief CyberSleuth of the Arbita Consulting and Education Services group (formerly JobMachine). The consulting group empowers companies to align their recruitment marketing initiatives with their staffing goals and business objectives. Recruiter and sourcer development is the cornerstone of the ACES methodology based on the belief that dynamic and continuously-educated recruiters and sourcers are the foundation and primary drivers of successful recruitment marketing initiatives. The group's education programs are supported by a medley of consulting services designed to help companies streamline their recruitment process, bolster their recruitment marketing infrastructure, improve their sourcing efforts, including organizational structure, strategy and tactics and continuously improve their interactive recruitment marketing campaigns from search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing (SEM) to job board advertising and beyond.
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — Present (2 years 9 months)
Teach Arbita, Inc. curriculum on CyberSleuthing (sourcing) and Recruiting. Consulting on recruitment strategy, social media and recruitment marketing, recruitment architecture, vendor selection, and global strategy.
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
January 2005 — Present (5 years 9 months)
Give keynote presentations, breakout sessions, general sessions, workshops and master classes on a variety of sourcing, recruitment, social media, marketing, and human resources topics at all ERE Conferences, Fordyce Forum, #socialrecruiting summit, and SourceCon.
(Public Company; RCI; Telecommunications industry)
May 2010 — July 2010 (3 months)
Teach Arbita, Inc. curriculum on CyberSleuthing (sourcing) and Recruiting. Consulting on recruitment strategy, social media and recruitment marketing, recruitment architecture, vendor selection, and global strategy.
(Privately Held; Real Estate industry)
May 2010 — June 2010 (2 months)
Teach Arbita, Inc. curriculum on CyberSleuthing (sourcing) and Recruiting. Consulting on recruitment strategy, social media and recruitment marketing, Search Engine Optimization, recruitment architecture, and global strategy.
(Public Company; tivo; Consumer Electronics industry)
July 2008 — June 2010 (2 years )
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting. Consulting on recruitment strategy and architecture.
(Privately Held; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
May 2008 — May 2010 (2 years 1 month)
Teach JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing (sourcing) and Recruiting. Consulting on recruitment strategy and architecture, vendor selection, and global strategy.
(Public Company; IACI; Internet industry)
February 2008 — February 2010 (2 years 1 month)
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting. Consulting on recruitment strategy and architecture.
(Public Company; HOT; Hospitality industry)
May 2007 — September 2009 (2 years 5 months)
Teach Arbita ACES (http://aces.arbita.net) curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting. Consulting on sourcing and international recruitment strategy.
(Public Company; KELYA; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
July 2008 — July 2009 (1 year 1 month)
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting. Consulting on recruitment strategy and architecture.
(Public Company; VOL; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
May 2008 — May 2009 (1 year 1 month)
Teach JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting. Consulting on recruitment strategy and architecture, RFP response design and support.
(Public Company; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
December 2007 — March 2009 (1 year 4 months)
Teach JobMachine.net Sourcing Ledaership curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting at Regional Conferences
(Public Company; NOK; Telecommunications industry)
September 2008 — February 2009 (6 months)
Taught JobMachine CyberSleuthing Curriculum
(Public Company; PBI; Business Supplies and Equipment industry)
February 2008 — February 2009 (1 year 1 month)
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting. Consulting on recruitment strategy and architecture.
(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)
November 2008 — December 2008 (2 months)
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TSO; Oil & Energy industry)
August 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 5 months)
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting. Consulting on recruitment strategy and architecture.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TKTM; Entertainment industry)
April 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 9 months)
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting. Recruitment and sourcing strategy consulting.
(Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Insurance industry)
October 2008 — November 2008 (2 months)
Taught JobMachine CyberSleuthing Curriculum
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VAR; Medical Devices industry)
September 2008 — November 2008 (3 months)
Taught JobMachine CyberSleuthing Curriculum
(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2008 — November 2008 (4 months)
Taught JobMachine Curriculum
(Public Company; ORCL; Computer Software industry)
May 2008 — November 2008 (7 months)
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting to Asia Pacific Recruiters.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GSK; Pharmaceuticals industry)
September 2008 — October 2008 (2 months)
Taught JobMachine Curriculum
(Public Company; AWI; Building Materials industry)
August 2008 — September 2008 (2 months)
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting. Consulting on recruitment strategy and architecture.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RIMM; Wireless industry)
June 2008 — July 2008 (2 months)
Taught JobMachine.net Sourcing Ledaership curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting. Consulting on recruitment strategy and architecture.
(Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Accounting industry)
June 2008 — July 2008 (2 months)
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting. Consulting on recruitment strategy and architecture.
(Public Company; ATMI; Semiconductors industry)
February 2008 — May 2008 (4 months)
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting. Consulting on recruitment strategy and architecture.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Investment Management industry)
October 2007 — January 2008 (4 months)
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting. Consulting on recruitment strategy and architecture.
(Staffing and Recruiting industry)
October 1996 — January 2008 (11 years 4 months)
The focus of JobMachine’s practice is to add value to our customers sourcing and recruiting teams by helping them build organizational capabilities around sourcing and research. We have advised and/or trained leading multi-national organizations like Microsoft, Google, Coke, Cisco, Motorola, Disney, Dell, Genentech, Wal-mart and many others. Our primary services are:
- Building or re-engineering centralized sourcing teams
- Developing global sourcing and research strategies
- Training recruiters on how to get results from Internet search in ten minutes or less
Visit: http://www.jobmachine.net/shally or call (877) 293-3541
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BRCM; Semiconductors industry)
December 2007 — December 2007 (1 month)
Trainer recruiters on CyberSleuthing techniques.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; DNB; Information Services industry)
November 2007 — November 2007 (1 month)
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SDX; Food & Beverages industry)
October 2007 — November 2007 (2 months)
Keynote speaker at national conference. Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ADS; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2007 — October 2007 (1 month)
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ANSR; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2007 — October 2007 (2 months)
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UNM; Insurance industry)
August 2007 — October 2007 (3 months)
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MIR; Utilities industry)
September 2007 — September 2007 (1 month)
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)
August 2007 — August 2007 (1 month)
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SAI; Defense & Space industry)
April 2007 — April 2007 (1 month)
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; XRX; Computer Networking industry)
April 2007 — April 2007 (1 month)
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ABN; Financial Services industry)
March 2007 — April 2007 (2 months)
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting.
(Staffing and Recruiting industry)
2006 — 2006 (less than a year)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
April 2005 — 2006 (1 year )
Manage the Research arm of the Strategic Talent Acquisition and Research Team (START).
- Created a centralized research team dedicated to creating a passive candidate talent pipeline
- Innovated and implemented both passive and active candidate sourcing and lead generation strategies for the recruitment of talent into Microsoft's major businesses initiatives world-wide.
- Taught and mentored fellow recruiters, sourcers, and researchers.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DIS; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
2005 — 2005 (less than a year)
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WMT; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
2005 — 2005 (less than a year)
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; GOOG; Internet industry)
September 2004 — April 2005 (8 months)
Engaged in confidential Strategic Sourcing projects working remotely from Atlanta. Strong focus on recruiting experienced Software Engineers and developing a Talent Pipeline. Establishing a centralized sourcing model including training, testing and implementation of advanced technology, and building a sourcing tool kit.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CCE; Internet industry)
September 2003 — September 2004 (1 year 1 month)
Corporate Recruitment and Human Resource Strategy. Manage all recruitment activities for over 700 managers hiring for clerical to upper-management positions within Corporate departments in a 74,000 employee company. Creatively staff between 35 and 60 simultaneous open requisitions utilizing multiple resources ensuring a dynamic and aggressive recruitment process while supporting Company objectives. Fulfillment of staffing needs with high quality, diverse candidates at minimum cost and maximum speed while following related policies and practices including EEO/Affirmative Action tracking. Consult with Department managers regarding department needs and forecasting opportunities, provide high levels of communication between hiring managers and HR leadership. Track and measure staffing success via cost of hire, turnover analysis, cycle time, other metrics. Oversee employment partners: print advertisement, online job posting and resumes, and staffing.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Internet industry)
April 2000 — July 2002 (2 years 4 months)
Project managed tactical ad-hoc recruitment engagements as needed throughout the organization. Lead virtual teams for urgent projects resulting in 50 high-level individual contributor and 12 leadership positions hires. Perform competitive intelligence research and analysis for confidential projects. Efforts resulted in a 2.5 million dollar reduction in recruitment costs. Develop classroom training curriculum, program, and online educational portal. As Senior Consultant collect, analyze and disseminate recruitment intelligence for the Research and Operations division of the Talent Acquisition Organization. Strategic and tactical sourcing of Systems Engineers, Account Managers, Regional Managers, Directors and various technical positions within the Service Provider Line of Business (SPLOB). Lead technology resource for the recruitment organization. Manage 11 junior analysts in the collection of information and publication of internal Intelligence Portal tracking 88 competitors.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Semiconductors industry)
October 1999 — April 2000 (7 months)
Strategic sourcing project manager with Global Talent Supply (GTS)
Responsible for setting strategy and action plan to recruit high-level technical candidates on a project basis for urgent business needs.
Responsible for as many as 17 different software engineer requirements at a time, submitting an average of 11 candidates per week.
Averaged 2 candidates presented for every candidate phone interviewed.
Drove results to achieve reduction of time-to-hire to a record three weeks.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
October 1999 — November 1999 (2 months)
Taught JobMachine.net curriculum on CyberSleuthing and Recruiting. At the time the company was called InterAct Commerce Corporation, later it became Best Software and its now part of Sage.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
April 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 7 months)
- Devised CertifiedStaffingTM Model including candidate sourcing methods, Internet search techniques, interviewing, testing, standard hiring process, new hire package, compensation plans, bonus structures, review plans, presentation to hiring manager and full process ownership.
- Worked a full desk in a Professional Services Organization. Created, developed and managed relationships with major Fortune 500 clients.
- Responsible for leading first branch expansion for the company and training recruitment team.
- Turned 12% net profit after second quarter of operations and 50% in last quarter. Developed pipeline meeting $250,000 quarterly revenue objective, generating $70,000 recurring monthly revenue, in addition to other collected fees. Produced 37 engagements at all technical levels.
- Deployed as one of three consultants for the company's first international consulting engagement with American Express in Mexico, Argentina and Brazil.
(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
March 1997 — April 1998 (1 year 2 months)
- Team Lead: developed, trained and mentored 4 technical recruiters in a high volume, high- level,
contract placement and contingency search firm.
- Responsible for all aspects of recruiting and placement from candidate sourcing, cold calling, phone screening, interviewing, negotiations, reference checking, presentation, coaching, making offers and closing deals.
- Placed 50 candidates in 12 months, generating over $160,000 in net income and breaking 5 corporate records. Managed 25 simultaneous contractors. Reached High Achievers level, becoming #2 recruiter (out of 32) in company.
- Trained and mentored team of 4 recruiters.
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; International Affairs industry)
September 1994 — December 1996 (2 years 4 months)
Posted to the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua, Central America. Designed and implemented successful alternative economic activities under unsupervised, adverse conditions while serving as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer. Projects include:
- Technical Assistance to The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
- Managerial and Strategic Support to Coopeminas cooperative
- Training, Consulting and Instruction
International Business 1992 — 1993
B.S. , International Business , September 1989 — March 1993
Dual Science degree: International Business and Management Science. Concentrations included Human Communication (Intercultural, Non-verbal, neurolinguistic programming) and Information Systems. Graduated with two languages: Spanish and Japanese. International Economics semester abroad in Sydney, Australia.
Physics , Physics Scholar Program , 1989 — 1989
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SCIP, Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, Human Capital Institute Member of two HCI Thought Leadership Panels, RecrutiersNetwork, Electronic Recruiters Exchange, ERE, Elite CyberSleuthing, CyberSleuthing, JobMachine, Human Resources, SHRM, Employment Managemwnt, Employment Technology, Recruitment Management, EMA, HRCA, Thought Leadership Institute, HCI