Carolyn Bertsch

Established and successfully operationalized the Sourcing Function at Guild Education to provide a diverse slate of talent across hard-to-fill roles; Hired, onboarded, and managed a team of 4-7 sourcers. • Designed and implemented a new sourcing workflow in line with Guild’s existing recruitment process to provide sourced candidates the best candidate experience • Defined sourcing structure, scope, alignment to key business functions • Established CRM talent pipelines and data collection practices to enable nurturing talent leads at scale • Collaborate with recruiting directors to understand demand and business priorities to develop strategic staffing plans • Manage sourcing assignments to meet current and future business needs based on criticality and impact • Develop members of the sourcing team through effective engagement and communication, transparent feedback discussions, driving accountability and managing performance • Establish, track, and analyze DEI metrics and sourcing funnel KPIs to measure teams’ productivity and provide insights into impact • Run weekly sourcing jams and diversity sourcing sprints • Built Sourcing team competencies map for Associate through Staff to drive career progression

Established the Technical Sourcing Function at CBS Interactive, ViacomCBS; hired, onboarded, and managed a team of 3 other technical sourcers. Sourced technical talent to power ViacomCBS Streaming Services! This includes Paramount+, our paid streaming service (formerly CBS All Access), and Pluto TV, our free streaming service. • Built new Avature CRM, implemented new workflow, and realigned 5,000+ leads to 25 profile pipelines • Create and manage talent pipelines to support forecasted business demand • Demonstrated success in recruiting passive candidates for hard to fill roles including at the VP and SVP levels, as well as confidential searches • Work closely with hiring managers and business leaders, in partnership with recruiters to execute hiring strategies from intake to close • Conduct phone screens to assess technical baseline, compensation expectations, sponsorship needs, and overall fit for teams • Provide diverse slate of qualified talent for hiring managers to review • Deliver a cohesive and excellent candidate experience • Leverage advanced search methodologies to find unfindable and/or underrepresented talent through peer regression/reverse engineering¬¬¬ teams, flip search, patent searches, self-identifying social media indicators (hashtags and emojis), scraping niche online community • Create, maintain, and activate a network of passive candidates through thoughtful engagement and building candidate rapport through trust • Provide direction and advise business leaders, HRBP partners, and recruiters on labor market data, market intelligence and emerging trends • Regularly track, analyze, and share pipeline data • Build complex custom reports in Avature for tracking and insights to share with stakeholders