James Frederick

First chair recruiter at Hammerhead. Responsible for developing and executing new recruiting processes to ensure scalability, transparency with hiring managers, a stellar candidate experience and DE&I. Recruited for Software, Hardware, Marketing, Operations, Product and Design teams.

Responsible for end-to-end recruiting from candidate sourcing to offer negotiation for our retail, real estate, design, product and finance teams. -Created, implemented and led a scalable recruiting process that grew our retail team from 20 to 180 in under 6 months. -Partnered with a team of store managers to ensure pipeline health and accountability for their respective store’s recruitment efforts. -Managed a $2,000+ monthly recruiting budget divided between 22 retail locations. -Maintained a 30%+ response rate by identifying top talent and creating compelling outreach content. -Ensured hiring managers were kept up-to-date on the health of their roles by communicating candidate activity on a weekly basis. -Negotiated and closed offers for associate to director level roles.

Played a key role on the Talent Acquisition team overseeing the full cycle of recruitment from passive sourcing of candidates to interviewing and training. -Managed and lead on-campus recruitment strategy for 11 schools resulting in 150 applications and 40 hires. -Created and executed on a data driven, passive candidate recruitment strategy that lead all recruiters by 15% by streamlining the workflow and implementing techniques to better match candidates to roles and provide compelling information to drive applications. -Trained/Developed 12 new hires/contractors on passive candidate sourcing strategy that has been responsible for >50% of new hires YTD. -Reformed and managed internal referral program that is responsible for 30% of the new hires YTD by rebranding and creating compelling calls-to-action to increase referral volume. -Talent Acquisition Marketing Liaison-Lead branding, content and marketing deliverables across TA function ensuring the candidates were provided with the most up-to-date and captivating information.

-Work with Account Executives to make sure assignments were done in a timely manner and the clients remained pleased. -Assist the Social Media Engagement team with daily monitoring and content creation. -Organized and analyzed daily reports through social media software Simply Measured and Google Analytics. -Lead quality assurance checks across client social media channels and websites.

-Research and cultivate leads for potential advertisers. -Create advertising campaigns for SMBʼs through SEM, SEO, behavioral display advertisements, re-marketing display advertising, mobile display advertising, and directory advertising. -Manage accounts and monitor campaign analytics to ensure the campaignʼs performance and the clientʼs satisfaction.

Assist customers and maintain store appearance.