Christie Peake

• Manage the end-to-end campus and early professional recruitment process for various Federal Consulting service lines and business units, including posting job descriptions, sourcing cleared candidates, conducting interviews, and extending offers. • Develop and implement recruitment strategies to attract top talent, including utilizing various recruitment tools and channels such as job boards, social media platforms, and hosting career fairs with top Universities. • Collaborate with service line focals and partners to identify early professional staffing needs and requirements, ensuring a thorough understanding of job descriptions and qualifications. • Build and maintain strong relationships with hiring managers, candidates, and external partners to effectively communicate recruitment updates and ensure a positive candidate experience. • Ensure compliance with all federal and state employment laws and regulations • Stay up-to-date on industry trends and best practices, actively seeking to improve recruitment strategies and sharing knowledge with the team. • Manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment, maintaining a high level of organization and attention to detail. • Demonstrate strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a focus on building and maintaining positive relationships with candidates and hiring managers. • Successfully recruit for a high volume of positions, meeting or exceeding hiring targets. • Participate in cross departmental collaboration with HR on various projects. • Work on several work streams for our summer internship and accelerate programs. Writing and editing communications for each program and creating social media challenges which brought about more engagement with interns and students from previous years. • Obtain multiple credential and digital badges throughout each year, broadening my education in consulting, cloud, SAP, and Talent Acquisition.

• Assisted C-suite executives and leadership with hiring hard-to-find, passive talent by negotiating an agreement between PenFed and the candidate while considering business needs. • Focused on roles within the Finance, Legal, IT, Consumer Lending, Mortgage, Global Fixed Assets, and PenFed Realty departments within PenFed. • Conducted in depth intake meetings with hiring managers to gather information on the job requirements, the timeline of hiring, and discuss the implementation of a successful recruiting strategy for the particular role. • Built and maintained relationships with candidates, hiring managers, and other HR business departments to support the strategic goal of providing and retaining a highly skilled workforce. • Worked with HRBPs and the hiring managers to create job postings that are accurate, engaging, and compliant. • Recommend if certain roles will need pre-screening Gallup assessments to narrow the candidate pool. • Conducted in-depth screenings and assess potential candidates for qualifications, level of interest and compensation requirements. • Reviewed resumes and schedule interviews with qualified candidates through Microsoft Teams or Blue Jeans video conferencing. • Worked closely with Talent Acquisition Coordinators to verify employment, education, and determines credit eligibility. • Performed searches for qualified candidates according to relevant job criteria, using computer databases, networking, Internet recruiting resources, cold calls, social media, recruiting firms, and employee referrals. • Built and maintained a proper pipeline of talent. • Worked with PenFed’s immigration attorney when hiring in H1B transfers. SME in this immigration process.

Apex Systems provides organizations with scalable IT staffing and services solutions to address critical gaps in their current workforce and augment workforce management strategies. Complementing our staffing solutions with deliverable-based services enables us to also help organizations drive better business performance. We serve Fortune 500, mid-market, and emerging companies in all major industries, including financial services, business services, consumer industrials, technology, healthcare, government services, and communications. With over 65 locations throughout North America and a candidate pipeline of more than 14 million, we are equipped to serve our clients wherever needed. Apex combines with parent company ASGN Incorporated to be the 2nd largest IT staffing and services firm in the U.S. In addition, Apex earned Inavero’s Best of Staffing® Client Diamond Award and Best of Staffing Talent Award for providing superior service to clients and job seekers. Visit www.apexsystems.com to learn more and view our current job openings.