Tiara Cortez's Resume (Last updated November 16th 2009)

Staffing Professional and Graduate Student seeking a dynamic organization where I can assertively manage strategic recruiting activities, fully utilize client-oriented skills and accept increasing staffing challenges

Recruiting Disciplines:
Engineers, Individual Contributors and Leadership roles including: Research and Development; Product Test Engineers; Firmware and Software Engineers; Hardware Design Engineers; Mechanical Engineers; Strategic, Technical and Product Marketing Managers; Application Engineers; Sales; Field Application Engineers; Business Planners; Systems Administrators

Research and Networking:
LinkedIn; AIRS SearchLab; Boolean Searches; Job Boards; BrassRing Job Fairs; Alumni and Industry Trade Shows; Professional, Local Government and Community Networking events

Immigration Disciplines: Non-Immigrant Visas: H1B, TN, L1A/L1B; Immigrant Visas: PERM/Labor Certifications, I-140, I-485/AOS, EAD, A/P

ATS Tools: HireDesk, iRecruitment, Google ATS, Webhire, PeopleSoft, Restrac, BrassRing

Other skills: Behavioral Interviewing; Windows and Macintosh environments; MS Office Suite (Outlook, Power Point, Word, Excel), Adobe InDesign 2.0

Languages: Japanese (beginner); Spanish (beginner)

Synaptics, Inc. (contracts through DSI and Duran HCP)
Technical Recruiter
1/2008 - 12/2009

Full-cycle candidate management. Partnered with hiring managers through hiring process: candidate sourcing, interview process, salary negotiations, relocation to hire.

Passively sourcing Research Scientists, Applications Engineers, Verification Engineers, Mixed Signal Design Engineers, Program Managers, Product Test Engineers, FAEs, Mechanical Engineers, Technical Marketing

• Experience sourcing from networking sites, blogs, user groups, forums, trade shows, career fairs and open houses, as well as paid and unpaid job boards
  

• Identifying resumes and pre-qualifying passive candidates by conducting technical interviews
  

• Candidate engagement and courting: managing candidates' expectations through Synaptics' interview process

Google (contract through Duran HCP)
Technical Sourcer/Recruiter
3/2007 - 1/2008

Technical Sourcer and Front End Recruiter for the Google.com Engineering (Site Reliability) Team, passively sourcing Software Engineers, Unix/Linux System Administrators, Engineering Project Managers for Google offices, worldwide

• Experience sourcing from networking sites, blogs, user groups, forums, trade shows, career fairs and open houses, as well as paid and unpaid job boards
  

• Identifying resumes and pre-qualifying passive and active candidates by conducting technical interviews
  

• Candidate engagement and courting: managing candidates' expectations through Google's interview process
  

Duran Human Capital Partners (Duran HCP)
Technical Sourcer
1/2007 - 1/2008

• Completed 4 week intensive, hands on High Technology focused Sourcer/Recruiter training program, which included Federal and State Employment Laws, Immigration Laws, interviewing skills, high technology terms, industry marketplace, and advanced sourcing and research skills
  

• Practiced interviewing techniques and role playing exercises to enhance skills and abilities to source passive candidates
  

• Utilized Staffing and HR resources such as ERE.net, Staffing.org and SHRM.org to supplement topics covered in class materials
  

• Mastered a variety of techniques including, internet Boolean searches, job boards, alumni sites, Google groups (Usenet), US Patent searches, social networking tools, etc.
  

• Assisted recruiters in actively sourcing candidates to fill job requisition for existing clients/employers involving varied levels of client/employer contact
  

RRLS
Business Development Manager
9/2006 - 1/2007

• Proactively create, build and manage company relationships with large corporate clients, through cold contacts
  

• Creatively expand brand recognition through industry trade shows, mixers and associations
  

Quest EM, Inc.
Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Business Development Manager
10/2005 - 9/2006

• Co-Founder and Owner of Quest Educational Magazine: Honoring Filipino-Americans... One Issue at a Time
  

• Editor-in-Chief and Business development: Writer, Editor, brand recognition and awareness of Quest Educational Magazine within the Filipino community and local businesses, with monthly circular, collateral and an on-line presence with site and blog
  

• Recruiter of contributing writers, advertisers, profit and not-for-profit affiliate organizations
  

• Create and design monthly publication layout using Adobe InDesign
  

NEC Electronics America
Immigration and Relocation Specialist
11/2002 - 12/2005

In addition to my responsibilities as Staffing Specialist:

• Primary company contact for all Immigration issues with foreign nationals, their managers and Immigration Law Firm and Relocation Vendors
  

• Advise foreign national employees and their managers of crucial Immigration issues
  

• Ensure all foreign nationals with working visas (H1B, L1B, TN) are current
  

• Process Permanent Residency with foreign nationals (LC, I-140, I-485, EAD, A/P)
  

• Coordinate quarterly Immigration "Brown Bag" (FAQs) sessions

NEC Electronics
Staffing Specialist
9/2000 - 10/2002

• Interviews: schedule coordination and candidate interviews; Exit Interview and Reduction in Force support
  

• Job Fair coordination: HR tradeshows and industry job fairs to observe and analyze booth and recruiter attributes, qualities, and techniques
  

• Conduct comprehensive I-9 audits yearly
  

• NEC Temporary Employees processing
  

• New Hire Orientation Coordinator, including field new hire support
  

• Department Budget
  

• Employee Referral Program Administrator
  

• Job postings via the intranet and internet using PeopleSoft and Webhire
  

• Santa Clara Recreation Committee Member (1/03 to 12/04)
  

American Century Investments
HR Coordinator
11/1999 - 8/2000

• Conducted reference checks, employment and degree verifications; coordinated drug screen tests for new hires
  

• Benefits presenter in New Hire Orientation
  

• People Soft and Restrac administrator for Mountain View Site
  

• Execute new hire, transfer and termination communication including offer, welcome and negate letters
  

• Collect all new hire paperwork; create and maintain all site personnel files
  

• Chairperson of "Mutual Friends" and Safety Team member
  

• Site ticket administrator (SF Giants, Stanford football, Villa Montalvo, Santa Cruz, Monterey Bay Aquarium)
  

• Coordinated on-site vendor visits (Fifth Avenue Fitness, Costco, Sprint PCS)
  

Nortel Networks
Executive Assistant to the Director of Product Marketing
3/1999 - 10/1999

• 8/2003 NEC Rapid Recognition Award
  

• 2/2001 NEC Rapid Recognition Award
  

• MS, Organizational Development, University of San Francisco (05/2010 (expected))

• Introduction to Business in the EU; Cross-Cultural Management, Ramon Llull University (12/2009 - 1/2010)

• Talent Acquisition Graduate, Technical Sourcing and Recruitment, Duran Human Capital Partners (2/2007)

• Generalist Certification, Human Resources Management, San Jose State University Professional Development (9/2000)

• BA, Social Science, San Jose State University (12/1998)

Excellent references from managers, clients and peers upon request