Blake Jones

• Recruited for top Fortune 500 companies from various industries. • Placed candidates at: Bank of America, Gateway First Bank, Fiserv, Truist Bank, ADP, The Home Depot. • Experience with hiring both full time employees and contract consultants. • Maintained 20+ consultants on billing. • Pipeline includes Project Managers, Network Engineers, Go Developers, Cloud Engineers, Business Analysts, Oracle/SQL DBAs, Java Developers, .Net Developers, Machine Learning Engineers Data Analysts, Hadoop Developers, Big Data Developers, Financial Analysts, Product Designers, UI/UX, Cloud Developers, and more. • Experience working with a variety of Work Authorization Visas: GC-EAD, H4-EAD, L2-EAD, H1B, OPT-EAD, etc. • Rate negotiation, rate calculating, gross profit calculating. • Spread increase every month. • Headcount and company gross profit growth YOY with no prior staffing experience. • New business development. • Effective communication and relationship building. • Mentored junior recruiters on best practices. • Partnered with off-shore recruiters to prepare candidates prior to client interviews. • Managed consultant onboarding process - including: Submitting I9, scheduling fingerprinting and drug screen, shipping/ordering equipment, managing start date, etc. • Worked with third party vendors to source and place C2C candidates.

Leadership Teams: - Early College High School Teachers: providing education for secondary students that are accepted into the program for specific college preparation courses - School Policy Committee - AP Biology Curriculum Committee - New Teacher Mentor

Sales Specialist -Developed strong, positive relationships with Apple customers and business clients. -B2B Sales with SMB local businesses -Strategic assessment of customer needs to provide exemplary service with sales and support -Strong knowledge of current/past Apple technology including iPod, iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac, Apple TV and Apple software suite. -Software/Service Sales for AppleCare and Joint Venture -Provided technical support for software and hardware troubleshooting. -Facilitated personal and group trainings for new/previous customers on products and software. Visual Merchandising Lead -Led a team of 8-12 team members to complete all Apple displays at the retail location (Southlake) -Evaluated and delegated tasks for project completion -Provided support for any visual marketing needs

Minor: Biology & Mathematics