Todd Davis

Current

Staffing Lead at Wetpaint

Past

Talent Acquisition Specialist (Consultant), Bellevue WA at Yahoo!
Founder/Consultant at Perpetual Sourcing CRM
Candidate Developer/Senior Recruiter (Full-Time and Consultant) at Starbucks Coffee Company

Founder, Creator and Owner at The Passive Candidate Connection
Part-time Technical Sourcer (Consultant) at Google
Lead for the Centralized Sourcing Organization for Diversity Staffing at Google (Consultant) at Google (Kirkland, WA)
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

10 people have recommended Todd

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Staffing and Recruiting

Websites

Todd Davis’s Summary

•Senior level talent acquisition specialist known for advanced talent generation techniques, cold calling, name generation and sourcing plan development and implementation.
•Proven ability to drive full cycle recruiting including negotiating and closing offers.
•Experience sourcing and hiring for mission critical positions.
•Set and managed hiring manager and team expectations and delivered on pre-established goals and objectives.
•Expertise in the development and delivery of sourcing training (Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!).
•Pioneer in leveraging CRM technology for staffing, building and managing a passive candidate pipeline. Including the development of a CRM passive candidate workflow, Lifecycle of a Lead used by Intelestream in the Perpetual Sourcing CRM.

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

Staffing Lead

Wetpaint

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year)

Currently lead the staffing efforts at Wetpaint, a Web 2.0 startup developing the leading social publishing platform that enables anyone to build a rich online community around their passions and interests.
Talent Acquisition Specialist (Consultant), Bellevue WA

Yahoo!

(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

March 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 6 months)

Acted as a senior full cycle recruiter, including recruiting strategy development and implementation, in Yahoo!'s Bellevue, WA office for the DataOS and the YOS / Web Services teams.
Founder/Consultant

Perpetual Sourcing CRM

(Human Resources industry)

May 2007 — April 2008 (1 year)

Transitioned 100% of the operations to Intelestream Inc., a Chicago based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) consulting firm that offers solutions related to business processes and CRM technology while remaining as a consultant in regards to the staffing workflow I developed for the application. http://www.intelestream.net

The Perpetual Sourcing CRM 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 will help your staffing teams deliver greater value to your business stakeholders.
Candidate Developer/Senior Recruiter (Full-Time and Consultant)

Starbucks Coffee Company

(Public Company; SBUX; Retail industry)

January 2006 — March 2007 (1 year 3 months)

Designed, developed and implemented a candidate development and talent pipeline model leveraging Sugar CRM.
Founder, Creator and Owner

The Passive Candidate Connection

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

May 2003 — October 2006 (3 years 6 months)

Founder, Creator and Owner of The Passive Candidate Connection, an online recruiting research company based in Kirkland, WA. Responsibilities include research and lead generation, site administration and content development, sales (inside and outside), project management, business development and overall business administration.
Part-time Technical Sourcer (Consultant)

Google

(Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

August 2006 — October 2006 (3 months)

Produced a 1,500 person pipeline of women computer science graduate students for Google Diversity recruiting.
Lead for the Centralized Sourcing Organization for Diversity Staffing at Google (Consultant)

Google (Kirkland, WA)

(Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

January 2005 — February 2006 (1 year 2 months)

Lead for the Centralized Sourcing Organization for Diversity Staffing at Google.

Responsibilities included the development and implementation of an industry leading sourcing organization for Diversity Staffing at Google, including team organization and development, technology and tools development, metrics and analysis and advanced sourcing training.
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

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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