Rachael De La Torre

As a strategic recruiter for Kforce, I specialize in connecting top-tier IT professionals with innovative enterprise clients across the South Florida market. I take pride in my ability to match not just skills—but people—with the right environments to thrive. • Partner with hiring managers to identify and understand immediate and long-term staffing needs • Source, screen, and interview top IT talent to ensure technical qualifications and cultural fit • Guide candidates through the hiring process with clarity, empathy, and transparency • Administer skills assessments, manage reference checks, and ensure compliance with hiring policies • Coordinate interviews and provide feedback to both candidates and hiring teams • Communicate company values, benefits, and opportunities during the screening process • Maintain strong relationships with clients and candidates to meet ongoing staffing goals 💡 Areas of Focus: • Infrastructure, Security & Cloud Roles • Techno-Functional & Business Systems Analysts • DevOps, Data, and Application Development Talent 🔑 What I bring to the table: • Consultative hiring support for clients scaling fast • A deep network of vetted, high-performing tech professionals • A human-first, “people before placements” mindset 🤝 I believe in making hiring less transactional and more transformational. Let’s build strong teams, together.

Helping innovative companies build high-performing tech teams—one meaningful match at a time. I specialize in uniting IT professionals—Project Managers, Business Analysts, Application Developers, and Systems Engineers—with forward-thinking organizations across a variety of industries. My approach blends strategic recruitment with a people-first mindset to drive results and long-term success. • Partner with hiring managers to identify and understand immediate and long-term staffing needs • Source, screen, and interview top IT talent to ensure technical qualifications and cultural fit • Guide candidates through the hiring process with clarity, empathy, and transparency • Administer skills assessments, manage reference checks, and ensure compliance with hiring policies • Coordinate interviews and provide feedback to both candidates and hiring teams • Communicate company values, benefits, and opportunities during the screening process • Maintain strong relationships with clients and candidates to meet ongoing staffing goals

Recruit Licensed Life, Health & Annuities Insurance Agents in the State of Florida. Screen candidates over the phone to determine their career goals and give them information about the position and invite them in for a face-to-face interview if I feel that they have hard and soft skills of which they can utilize within the organization. Utilizing the use of job networking websites such as LinkedIn, Career Builder, Indeed, Monster etc, in order to determine valuable candidates that are searching for employers. Train & Manage agents to grow their skills and experience. Responsible for filling out and submitting agents’ contracts to a direct marketer to have ability to transact insurance. Deal directly with clients over the phone to make sure they are satisfied with the customer services and policies our company has provided them and their family with.

Recruited talent to grow the team and company; screening candidates over the telephone and conducting face-to-face interviews. Ttrained and mentored the newer agents and taught them company values, products and systems. Contacted over the phone as well as face-to-face a minimum of 100 employers of small, mid-ranged and larger companies on a weekly basis to set up an appointment to present them with a service that I could offer their company and their employees. • Conducted many follow up calls to build strong rapport with clients. • Prospected on a daily basis for future business. • Set up full Section 125’s for businesses. • Enrolled employees in the workplace with voluntary life & health benefits that fit their families’ needs.

Determined customer’s needs and wants and strategized on how I could creatively and uniquely satisfy those customers. Responsible for answering the phones throughout the department and solving problems or issues that needed to be resolved. Marketed growing my business to make customers want to shop with me personally. Developed a large customer database and relationship within the short time I was employed due to my effort and excellent interpersonal skills.

Part-time College Intern. Assisted with trade show events and merchandised clothes within the showroom of the agency. Participated in general office duties including mail outs, filing, photocopying, emailing and communication with clients over the phone and email.

Part-time College Intern. Brainstormed ideas for an effective and appealing window display for the public. Responsible for ordering materials for mannequins, window slogans, props and other necessary materials. Worked and occasionally supervised a team of 6-10 students to implement and bring the window to display ideas to life.

In charge of the customer service counter at the store. Responsibilities included scanning food items for the public to purchase, working with the lottery machines, and answering the stores telephone main line. Multi-tasking based position. Problem solving on a daily basis, both on the phone and in person. Trained and managed other cashiers during shifts in 4-8 hours periods.

Part-time College Intern. Worked with the head visual merchandiser and worked with mall boutique storeowners to make the mall more visually appealing. Responsible for coming up with creative and unique ideas that would make the stores within the mall stand out and draw customers in.

Full-time College Intern. Assisted with a diverse amount of administrative duties; handling shipping & receiving, photocopying and filing, and helping with purchase orders and merchandise invoices. Styled multiple photo shoots to help brand the newly emerging company. Assisted with the production of the products that were sold: headbands, bows, and other hair accessories. Attended a trade show events presenting product benefits and features.

Summer Intern. Created and executed marketing strategies to increase sales. Managed and distributed advertising and promotional materials direct to the public, sometimes door to door. Created a full marketing strategy titled: "Just Show Up" (full marketing plan attached below) Results from hard work & dedication of the creation and executions of the tasks increased sales in Fort Lauderdale a total of 8%.

Business graduate.