Clay LaFargue

Current

• Director of Recruiting at OC Recruiting, Inc.

Past

• Sr. Engineering Recruiter (Contract) at Emulex
• Sr. Technical Recruiter (Contract) at Broadcom
• Senior Technical Recruiter at Futuretech Staffing

• Technical Recruiter at The Ontario Group
• Personnelman at US Navy

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Education

• Orange County Business College

Recommended

9 people have recommended Clay

Connections

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Industry

Staffing and Recruiting

Websites

• My Website

Clay LaFargue’s Summary

Professional technical recruiter with 14 years of experience. Specialist in [hard to find] talent and expert networker. I like to "bring people together."

Email me at: clay.lafargue@oc-recruiting.com

 Recruiting from sourcing to close covering skill sets in Semiconductor, Information Technology (Software & Infrastructure), Pharmaceutical and Consumer Electronics

 Senior management and executive level communication. Superior in winning hiring manager trust and respect

 Possess the ability to make critical analysis about candidate's character and background; able to probe deeply to elicit an intuitive judgment of their capabilities and fit for the requirement

Clay LaFargue’s Specialties:

Well versed in the following technologies:

Hardware: Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Ethernet, PHY, Bluetooth, ISCSI

Software (semiconductor): Firmware, Device Drivers, L2-L3 Networking, TCP/IP Engine Off-Load, Storage

Software (I.T.): Web 2.0, AJAX (XHTML & CSS), Javascript, C#, SQL, J2EE, Java, C++

ERP: Oracle, SAP, Hyperion, Peoplesoft

Clay LaFargue’s Experience

• Director of Recruiting

  OC Recruiting, Inc.

  (Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

   Lead/oversee recruiting operations. Establish core business model for successful business acquisition and competitive advantage. Consult with hiring managers on technical needs. Adviser on high-level issues in strong competitive technical market.
  
   Command the drive and ambition in hunting down high level talent. Negotiator from sourcing to close.

• Sr. Engineering Recruiter (Contract)

  Emulex

  (Public Company; ELX; Computer Hardware industry)

  April 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 8 months)

   Wholly own Fibre Channel over Ethernet and Firmware Storage/Networking Business Units for San Jose operations. Recruited ASIC, Verification, Firmware, etc engineers (individual contributor to executive level).

• Sr. Technical Recruiter (Contract)

  Broadcom

  (Public Company; BRCM; Semiconductors industry)

  April 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 7 months)

   Owned business units in Ethernet Controller, Manufacturing Operations and Media PC product groups. Partnered with engineering hiring managers.
  
   Managed a heavy volume requisition load of 40+. Partnered with HR Business partner on misc issues. Closed candidates in ASIC RTL, Bluetooth Eng's, Firmware (Ethernet Controller), Test Engineers, Product Engineers, High-speed Board Designers, Director of Product Marketing, etc.

• Senior Technical Recruiter

  Futuretech Staffing

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  March 2000 — June 2004 (4 years 4 months)

   Full life-cycle recruiting covering skills in Information Technology and Semiconductor and industries.

• Technical Recruiter

  The Ontario Group

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 1993 — December 1999 (6 years 11 months)

   Recruited Information Technology professionals

• Personnelman

  US Navy

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; USN; Military industry)

  July 1988 — October 1990 (2 years 4 months)

  Duties in Human Resources

Clay LaFargue’s Education

• Orange County Business College

Additional Information

Clay LaFargue’s Websites:

• My Website