Michael Holland

Last updated February 15th 2012
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Michael Holland

1282 Prominent Dr
Brentwood, CA 94513 USA

(925) 234-2192

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Objective 

Recruiting technology guru looking for position to support a dynamic recruiting team.

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Work Experience 

Sr Sourcing Analyst

Concord/San Francisco, CA

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

October 1, 2010 - Present


  • Research, document, and compare recruiting tools, agencies, job boards, social networks, SEO, SEM, and other recruiting technologies
  • Managed a quarter of a million dollar budget for recruiting tools
  • Analyse recruiting sourcing strategies and present options for improvement of job seeker quantity, quality and diversity.
  • Develop outreach strategies for military/veteran, diversity and disabled job seekers
  • Present customized sourcing solutions to hiring managers, directors and recruiters
  • Responsible for contract setup and negotiation for recruiting tools and technologies, and agencies.
  • Developed and maintained database to track vendor research, ranking, contact information, and events.
  • Compose monthly newsletter articles about sourcing technologies, recruiting process tip and spotlight articles for award winners.

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Program Manager / Staffing Consultant

Concord, CA, USA

Pacific Gas & Electric Company

March 1, 2008 - October 1 2010


Provide recruiting operations technical program leadership in support of the 30+ person, high-volume recruiting function of this Fortune 200 corporation.
  • Implement technical solutions to meet the business requirements of union, professional, college, MBA and Executive recruiting teams
  • Develop technical requirements and configuration proposals for Taleo's Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
  • Manage the implementation of system updates, optimizations and configuration changes
  • Research, recommend, manage, and measure all technical recruiting tools including but not limited to Taleo, Monster.com, Broadlook, AIRS, Smashfly, Dice.com, Infogist and LinkedIn
  • Develop and maintain MS Access and web-based solutions to maintain recruiting-related content such as job seeker correspondences, job description templates, prescreening questions, employment testing, candidate self-scheduling
  • Analyze the recruitment lifecycle and determine metrics to measure performance of recruiters, sourcers, hiring mangers and candidates
  • Document detailed hiring process and system configurations using Microsoft Visio
  • Create and present ATS training materials for recruiters and managers
  • Develop user acceptance testing (UAT) scripts for each ATS release

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Staffing Consultant

Concord, CA

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

October 1, 2007 - March 1, 2008


  • Document the professional recruiting process from end to end using Visio.
  • Created recruiting process binder containing an appendix of all recruiting emails, templates, forms and terminology with definitions.
  • Review recruiting tools and provide objective comparisons.
  • Provide recruiting tools recommendations for annual budget spend.

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Sourcer / Staffing Consultant / Recruiter

Concord, CA

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

August 13, 2007 - October 1, 2007


  • Source candidates using open web search (Boolean), social networking, blogs, user groups, and sourcing tools such as Infogist.
  • Cold Call, screen and evaluate job seekers against job qualifications, present qualified, screened and interested candidates to recruiters
  • Created Boolean job seeker search training and presented to recruiting team

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Contract Sourcer

Mountain View, CA, USA

Google, Inc.

November 2006 - August 2007


Key member of a large sourcing team at Google, searching for Software Engineers, System Administrators, Network Engineers and Project Managers from mid to senior experience level.
  • Leveraged domestic and international sourcing techniques to develop candidate pools from countries such as United States, Ukraine, Belgium, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Russia and Poland
  • Utilized social networking tools such as Facebook, Doostang, Hi5, xing, eacademy, Ryze, Visual Path, Zoominfo, Myspace, Plaxo, Bebo, Friendster, Orkut and Linkedin (where I currently have over 16,000 direct connections)
  • Sourced directly from industry blogs, user groups, forums, trade shows, career fairs and open houses, as well as paid and unpaid job boards
  • Trained new and experienced sourcers on technology, tools and resources-

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Contract Sourcer/Recruiter

Campbell, CA, USA

Duran Human Capital Partners

October 2006 - November 2006


Completed intensive six-week sourcing/recruiting training course taught by industry leading experts.
  • Attained in-depth knowledge of technology; including industry relevance and usage
  • Studied and practiced the screening, profiling, interviewing and pre-sale of candidates
  • Became highly proficient in the use of boolean search strings, job boards, social networking sites, user groups & forums, US patent searches, and Google groups

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Education 

Sonoma State University, Rhonert Park, CA, USA
Business Administration

 

Sourcer/Recruiter Certification

October 2006 - November 2006

Duran Human Capital, Campbell, CA
Human Resources

 

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