Thomas Spero

Current

Director of Recruiting at BRI/TechReps

Past

Director of Recruiting at BRI (Builders Recruiting, Inc.)
Recruiting Director at KB Home
Director, IT Recruiting at Steven Douglas Associates

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Education

Spackenkill

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Staffing and Recruiting

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Thomas Spero’s Summary

Highly qualified Director of Recruitment with over 12 years of recent recruitment experience, including IT, Sales, Operations, Purchasing, Mid-Level and Executive Level Management. Expert in developing, implementing and executing proactive sourcing and recruitment strategies to fill openings at all levels within organizations, both Nationally and Internationally. Specifically successful at partnering with department heads and hiring managers to develop and achieve recruitment initiatives and motivating team members to achieve those initiatives.

Hired, trained, and motivated a team of 12 recruiters while developing a successful start-up boutique recruitment firm providing contingent and contract placements for multiple Fortune 500 companies
Developed and Introduced a full–service Recruitment Process Outsourcing program for a leading technology company, generating over $2M in revenue within 18-months
Successfully trained and managed a team of virtual recruiters, without previous homebuilding experience, to staff one of KBHome’s fastest growing divisions
Established a Junior Military Officer (JMO) recruiting process for a Fortune 500 Company, resulting in over 75 management level hires within 12 months.
Designed and implemented a College Campus Recruitment Program to attract exceptional students for both full-time and summer internship positions

Thomas Spero’s Specialties:

12 years experience recruiting in the technology and construction industry. Working independently, as part of one of the largest boutique firms in South FL and in-house for one of the largest home builders in the country.

Thomas Spero’s Experience

Director of Recruiting

BRI/TechReps

(Staffing and Recruiting industry)

January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

Re-focused, trained and lead team in expanding recruitment expertise to include the ability to successfully recruit for full-time, contract IT professionals after the need for home building staffing failed to meet business demands due to the economic downturn.
Accomplishments:

Managed a team of 6 recruiters to ensure that a solid strategy was developed, strong pipeline built and clients needs were met without fail
Partnered with Senior Executives and Division Heads to develop specific plans/recruitment initiatives to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality candidates, both in the US and abroad
Regularly consulted with recruiting counterparts and HR business partners to develop “search strategies” to proactively recruit for active and passive senior level candidates
Developed an RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing) program for a leading technology company that provided a creative and efficient solution to their hard-to-fill recruitment needs
Worked with technical hiring managers on difficult positions, creating out-of-the-box strategies to meet their demands and personally recruiting on hard-to-fill requisitions as needed
Negotiated contracts for all 3rd party vendors including all major job boards, recruiting partners and back office operation vendors
Researched and Implemented new Applicant Tracking System
Managed all aspects P&L and long-term and short-term budgeting responsibilities
Director of Recruiting

BRI (Builders Recruiting, Inc.)

(Real Estate industry)

June 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 8 months)

BRI (Builders Recruiting,Inc.) 6/2005 – 1/2007
Director of Recruitment

Recruited, hired, trained and motivated a team of staffing professionals to provide high-quality candidates to Home Building clients throughout the Southeast. Established relationships with 15 of the Top 25 Homebuilders in the US, resulting in over $1.5M in revenue in 18 months.

Accomplishments:

Managed, motivated and developed a team of 12 recruiters responsible for high-volume, relationship oriented, recruiting
Researched, implemented, and trained team to apply creative recruiting techniques in order to excel at meeting client needs and differentiate their candidates from others
Analyzed fundamental recruiting functions such as new hires, recruiting cycle time and offers-to-acceptance ratio. Worked with recruitment team and clients to improve any metrics in order to distinguish our services and candidates
Assisted in recruiting for hard-to-fill, high priority, positions as needed
Negotiated contracts for all 3rd party vendors including all major job boards, recruiting partners and back office operation vendors.
Managed all aspects P&L and long-term and short-term budgeting responsibilities
Recruiting Director

KB Home

(Public Company; Real Estate industry)

January 2003 — May 2005 (2 years 5 months)

Virtually managed a team of recruitment professionals working as an off-site RPO provider for one of the nation’s largest homebuilders. Worked with Executive Management in developing and implementing strategic recruitment plans throughout the organization’s aggressive corporate expansion into the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic US

Accomplishments:

Developed a staff of 10 recruiters responsible for Land Acquisition and Development, Construction, Finance, Sales and Marketing, Purchasing, Administrative and Technical Personnel, responsible for filling 30 - 60 requisitions each month
Managed all recruiting efforts to include: sourcing, qualifying, screening, interviewing, negotiating offers and checking references. Regularly met with Regional/Division Presidents and Executive Management teams.
Assisted in recruiting for hard-to-fill, high priority, positions as needed in order to maintain an acceptable time-to-fill, exceeding both CRI and KBHOME standards
Established a JMO (Junior Military Officer) recruitment process and standard for the State of Florida that proceeded to be implemented throughout the organization
Implemented college recruiting program consisting of job fairs, executive lecture series and summer internships
Developed and implemented candidate sourcing and evaluation processes that supported the organization’s commitment to diversity
Established a network of contacts and third party vendors and business partners to help identify and source qualified candidates. Negotiated and reviewed any third party contracts as they pertained to staffing
Regularly met with team members to ensure they were using all resources fully, were satisfied with their performance and to discuss ways to improve based upon client’s need and feedback
Developed an “on-boarding” process to make sure that new hires had a positive experience beginning employment with the organization
Director, IT Recruiting

Steven Douglas Associates

(Privately Held; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

March 1998 — December 2002 (4 years 10 months)

Partnered with Account Executives to source, interview and close hard-to-find candidates for multi-level technology positions throughout the United States. Recruited mid- to senior-level highly
technical candidates, including Software Developers/ Architects, Pre-sales Engineers, Linux Administrators, Network Engineers as well as Executive Level IT Management.

Accomplishments:

Responsible for management of full recruiting life cycle of both contract and permanent employees, resulting in a division with the highest number of placements/fees on any given month
Developed an internet recruitment strategy that was rolled out to all divisions within the organization
Worked with account managers to obtain detailed job descriptions and managed information upload to all major job boards for over 50+ new openings each month
Built and maintained relationships with clients and candidates in order to build trust, ensuring a higher level of deliverability to the client and a higher level of performance upon arrival from the candidate
Regularly recruited on hard-to-fill openings, making sure client’s needs were met and exceptional candidates were provided for open requisitions