Todd Davis

Current

Senior Recruiter and Trainer at The Cobalt Group

Past

Principle at Perpetual Sourcing LLC
Technical Recruiter at Volt Information Science
Senior Business Aligned Recruiter, Senior Candidate Generation Recruiter and Internet Recruiter at Microsoft

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Education

Reinhardt College

Recommended

17 people have recommended Todd

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Staffing and Recruiting

Websites

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Todd Davis’s Summary

Experienced Staffing Professional- a senior level talent acquisition specialist with 12 years of experience who is known for advanced talent generation techniques, cold calling, network building, name generation and sourcing plan development and implementation, candidate interviewing and evaluation, offer generation, presentation and closing.

Todd Davis’s Specialties:

Passive candidate lead development, contact and management (pipelining), cold calling, full cycle recruiting, negotiating, closing, sourcing team building and management, sourcing strategy development, implementation and measurement of effectiveness, leveraging CRM technology for staffing, recruiting organization and information management, talent assessment and interviewing

Todd Davis’s Experience

Senior Recruiter and Trainer

The Cobalt Group

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

September 2009 — Present (3 months)

tdavis@cobaltgroup.com
Principle

Perpetual Sourcing LLC

(Human Resources industry)

January 2005 — September 2009 (4 years 9 months)

A staffing consulting and technology company

Perpetual Sourcing LLC is a staffing consulting company providing candidate generation and full candidate recruiting life cycle services.

The Perpetual Sourcing CRM (Candidate Relationship Management) brings best practice sales pipeline building concepts that are well proven in the sales world and applies them to recruiting. The Perpetual Sourcing CRM delivers a proven methodology and supporting technology solution that helps staffing teams deliver greater value to business stakeholders. Perpetual Sourcing LLC transitioned 100% of the operations to Intelestream Inc., a Chicago based (CRM) Customer Relationship Management consulting firm.

The Passive Candidate Connection was an online recruiting research company and leads database.

Client List-

Wetpaint, Staffing Lead
August 2008 - August 2009, Seattle, WA
Lead the recruiting efforts for Wetpaint a “Web 2.0 startup developing a leading social publishing platform that enables anyone to build a rich online community around their passions and interests.”

Yahoo!, Senior Full Cycle Recruiter
March 2007 - August 2008 (1 year 6 months), Bellevue, WA

Starbucks, (Full-Time and Consultant) Candidate Developer/Senior Recruiter
January 2006 - March 2007 (1 year 3 months), Seattle, WA

Google, Technical Sourcer (Consultant)
August 2006 - October 2006 (3 months), (Kirkland, WA)

Google, Lead for the Centralized Sourcing Organization for Diversity Staffing
January 2005 - February 2006 (1 year 2 months), (Kirkland, WA)
Technical Recruiter

Volt Information Science

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VOL; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

October 2004 — January 2005 (4 months)

Sourced, screened and presented Senior Software Design contingent staff professionals for Microsoft.
Maintained recruiter client relationships with Microsoft managers.
Continually developed a pipeline of qualified candidates for future needs.
Managed and scheduled interviews.
Extended offers and negotiated rates.
Senior Business Aligned Recruiter, Senior Candidate Generation Recruiter and Internet Recruiter

Microsoft

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

February 2000 — November 2003 (3 years 10 months)

Full Cycle Recruiter for MSN which included sourcing candidates, screening candidates, presenting candidates, managing interview loops, extending and negotiating offers. Started at Microsoft as an Internet Recruiter and was responsible for candidate generation for various teams.

Todd Davis’s Education

Reinhardt College

B.A. , Liberal Studies , 1994 — 1999

http://www.reinhardt.edu

Additional Information

Todd Davis’s Websites:

My Online Calendar

Todd Davis’s Interests:

Sourcing, cold calling, diversity recruiting, competitive intelligence, people, workforce planning, training, teaching, leading, growing, developing, encouraging people to be their best, technology, charity, faith, search engine technology, PC Games, guitar, football, MMA, computers, Mars Hill Church Seattle

Todd Davis’s Groups:

Contributing Author ERE

Arbita CyberSleuths
Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) - OFFICIAL GROUP FOR THE ORGANIZATION
AdMonsters
SourceCon2010
Web 2.0
Recruiting Animal Show
Linked:Seattle
Online Advertising Professionals
Web Analytics Professionals (+5000 web analytics members) Join now!
Casual Games
Web Standards
WSG
Startup Specialists
Advertising Professionals
Yahoo Employees and Alumni Group
Online Marketing Network
Social Media Marketing
User Experience
Openreq.com (Recruiters & Staffing Professionals)
212NYC
Media Buyers/Planners Network
Corporate Recruiters. #1 Group for Corporate Recruiters.
Social Media Advertisers (socialAdv.com)
Media & Entertainment Professionals
INTERACTIVE & DIGITAL MEDIA GROUP
Data Miners
Video Gaming Industry Executives
Javascript
CSS Designers & Developers
Starbucks - Current and Former Employees
Ad Operations Professionals
Online Advertising Group
NorthWest Recruiters Association (NWRA)
Staffing Management Association - Seattle
Boolean Strings
Java/JSP Web Professionals
Seattle Java Users Group (SeaJUG)
Social Media Club Seattle
Game Media and Fansites
Twitter for Sourcing and Recruiting
JavaScript Discussion / Jobs
VentureLoop