Maggie Becker

Swoon is an award-winning staffing agency with an innovative method to recruitment. This has earned us a proven track record of placing the best and brightest talent with temporary and direct-hire opportunities at Fortune 1000 companies throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Australia. We live by our mantra “Listen. Place. Care.” To us, it is essential that we listen to our clients’ and candidates’ needs and put in the legwork to make sure that our placements are always a perfect match. We form relationships, not just connections, and we pride ourselves on our contractor care initiatives.

Recruiter: March 2018 - July 2020 New Business Sales Account Executive: June 2016 - March 2018 - Responsible for over 2,000+ candidate interviews across multiple disciplines to assess potential matches and competency for current and future clients and prospects - Managed 30+ simultaneous individual job requisitions and full-cycle recruiting process in a client facing role - Successfully placed 300+ candidates in both short and long-term freelance positions as well as full time positions locally, regionally, and nationally across UX, UI, CX, Product Management/Owners, Project Management, Copywriting/Content/Social Media, Front-End Developers, Account Service, Design, Art, and Creative Direction, Marketing, Video Production, Media, PR, Communications and more - Managed communications and negotiations between both internal account representatives and direct end clients to establish strong partnerships with client contacts and candidates to enhance account growth and achieve successful candidate placement - Timeline and interview scheduling and management, candidate rate and salary negotiations, client and account contract negotiations - Led team meetings to establish team goals and help train new team members locally and regionally - Clients and industries include but are not limited to: corporate marketing departments, full service advertising agencies, Fortune 50, 100 and 500 companies, non profits, financial firms, healthcare institutions and pharmaceutical companies, universities and more

- Developed new business locally and regionally turning prospects into increased business for an Emmy Award Winning video production and post studio - Planned and made live sales presentations and facilitated project based client meetings including negotiation of project estimates for both production and post-production - Grew, maintained, and leveraged a network of influencers and referrals - Project work included full large scale six figure size project scope development and management of projects including both production and post production, color grading, VFX, editing, 2D & 3D animation, 360 Degree Immersive and more - Clients / Brands Include: Rodgers Townsend, Brewer Science, Anheuser Busch, Purina, Checkmark Agency, H&L Partners, Missouri Tourism, Bayer/Monsanto, Spectracide, United Way of St. Louis, Ole Miss, American Eagle Credit Union, Tide, El Jimador Tequila

- Managed, executed, and assisted in brief writing, timelines, estimates, budgets, scope of work, and internal meetings - Communicated between creative teams and client to effectively complete projects and achieve brand success - Coordinated with the creative and account teams to ensure all project schedules were accurate and up to date - Utilized Google Analytics to analyze reporting of client social media pages, coupon redemptions, and website visits

- Negotiated rates for print and on camera (SAG/AFTRA and non-union) projects to manage budgets and maintain integrity of talent rates - Managed projects from start to finish working closely with clients for quick turnaround from bid to final booking - Maintained close attention to detail and strict organization to manage and book over eighty projects per quarter - Communicated clearly, openly, and effectively with in house development team to progress talent’s marketability - Developed new business with clients locally, regionally, and nationally increasing business by 25% within first year of employment - Key Clients / Brands Include: Anheuser Busch, Sprint, Energizer, Ameren, Enterprise, New Balance, Scrubs and Beyond, 90 Degrees West, Bruton Stroube, Avatar, Antidote, Coolfire Studios

- Pulled from talent roster and handled all booking details to hire talent for local, regional, and national projects - Facilitated maintenance of talent rates and financial records for talent payment - Reviewed talent submissions and determined representation status in addition to organizing present roster - Coordinated logistics for in house casting and audition sessions for clients Clients Include: Kohl’s, BonTon, Harley Davidson, Sears, & G.E.

- Advised residents regarding personal and academic concerns - Facilitated resident conflict meetings, ensuring effective resolution - Monitored and enforced building policies and procedures- Fostered building-wide community for 700 residents - Designed, marketed, and implemented weekly building-wide social events and educational programs - Developed specific programming directed at residents’ performance interests - Educated residents on their futures in performance and the progression of their careers

- Industry desk experience - Scheduled actors for auditions from casting agencies - Pitched actors to L.A. casting agencies - Auditioned new talent

- Built profit-loss reports on individual productions - Created and managed benefit event for theatre funds - Assisted directing team with casting of theatrical productions