martin burns - 2014 resume
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Resume of a Global Talent Acquisition Leader, with experience in both start-up, established corporate, and recruitment agency settings. Recruitment experience from both corporate as well as agency; public speaking experience and leadership and major international talent acquisition conferences; highly regarded manager.For the most up-to-date information, please visit my LinkedIn page, at: www.linkedin.com/in/martinburnsTRANSCRIPT
MARTIN BURNS
7 Pearl St, Belmont, MA 02478 Mobile: 617.851.7277 [email protected]
www.linkedin.com/in/martinburns
TALENT ACQUISITION LEADERSHIP
• Recognized at a global level as a recruitment thought leader, quoted in industry publications and sought after for private consultation and public speaking engagements
o Recent Appearances Include: ERE 2014 (San Diego), iRecruit Expo 2014 (Amsterdam), HireClix Recruitment Media Day (Boston)
• Frequently sought out by journalists as a recruitment subject matter expert (interviews have appeared on online, in podcasts, and in print publications such as the Boston Business Journal)
• Member of global M&A teams, actively involved in acqui-‐hiring • Global traveler, with extensive knowledge of both the US and Netherlands business and
recruitment cultures • Regularly asked to consult and offer endorsements of emerging recruiting technologies • Highly regarded blogger behind the multiple-‐award winning blog “Good to Know”
http://recruiter.wordpress.com, winner of Top 25 HR Blogs in the World (HR World) • Ranked in top 50 Recruiters on Twitter by The Recruiters Lounge
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Director, Global Talent Acquisition -‐ Mobiquity, Wellesley, MA/ Amsterdam, Netherlands February 2013 to present Mobiquity is a rapidly scaling player in a new category: mobile service providers. Forrester thinks this line of business will hit $32 billion by 2018. The company has scaled from 95 employees at the beginning of 2013 to close to 400 as of spring 2014, and has opened offices on 3 continents in that time. Created talent acquisition department -‐ strategy, process, and team -‐ from scratch
• Hired, onboarded, manage and train best-‐in-‐class talent acquisition team o Blend of talent acquisition specialists, coordinators, sourcers, and ops professionals o Manage distributed Talent Acquisition team members, across three continents (multiple
centers in the United States, as well as Europe and India) o Team is incredibly innovative, self-‐propelled, and ethical
• Partner closely with executive team, functioning as trusted-‐advisor; report directly to C-‐level • Assessed acquisition targets for caliber of potential hires • Heavily involved in integration of newly acquired companies
o Tasked by executive team with leading cultural and HRIS system integrations o Lived two weeks per month in the Netherlands during major acquisition
• Travel globally extensively, and relocate as-‐needed for short term burst-‐hiring initiatives • Implemented Jobvite applicant tracking system • Created all recruitment processes (requisition system, offer letters, etc) • Designed and launched new, mobile-‐centric career site • Increased quality of hires (took 90-‐day turnover from 20% to 2%); reduced cost-‐per-‐hire by 60%;
increased speed-‐to-‐hire by 300%
Principal Consultant/ Sole Proprietor – Talent MatchUp, Belmont, MA January 2010 -‐ February 2013 Human capital and talent acquisition consulting and contingency recruitment
• Direct Recruitment: Performed talent searches for clients in the greater Boston area • Retained for two years as Senior Recruitment Consultant by Magenic, Inc. • Product: Assisted recruiting product start-‐ups in developing product features, positioning, and
roadmap, as well go-‐to-‐market strategy, copywriting, and evangelism to industry • Technology Assessment: Advised clients on best uses of recruitment technology (ATS selection,
job distribution channels, candidate assessment software, etc) Recruiting Manager -‐ ZoomInfo, Waltham MA July 2006 – January 2010 Leading source for business information on people and companies, which utilizes a highly sophisticated, artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology to pull data from the Web and then create comprehensive profiles on professionals and companies.
• Created recruiting department from the ground up • Reported directly into the executive team, and partnered closely with managers and leaders
across the organization • Selected and implemented ATS system • Became HR and employment law subject matter expert • Initiated and managed all recruitment vendor relationships • During growth push in second half of 2007/ Q1 2008:
o Hired 44 employees, at an average cost of $900 per employee o Full design and implementation of major expansion of company headquarters.
• During company contraction in 2008 and hiring slow down, took over product marketing for recruitment products after Recruiting Products Marketing Division laid off
Senior Executive Recruiter -‐ Gardner Resources Group, Wellesley, MA July 2005 – July 2006
Consultant -‐ Premier Agendas/ School Specialty, Bellingham, WA October 2002 – July 2005 Principal Executive Recruiter -‐ CPS, Inc, Boston, MA September 1997 – October 2002 EDUCATION St. Lawrence University, Bachelor of Arts, English/ Writing, 1993
• Holton D. Robinson Fellow; Semester Abroad (University of London); Dean’s List; High Honors Graduate
• Founder of campus Amnesty International Program; co-‐founder of University Coffee House. Worked 20+ hours per week throughout enrollment in support of education.