Dean Da Costa

I have over 15 years in the Staffing, HR, and Training world. I have won numerous awards, to include the prestigious Microsoft Gold star award twice.

Summary of Qualifications
• Over 15 years of Staffing, HR, Training, Resource Management and Project Management experience in Fortune 100 companies. Consistently recognized for my commitment, hard work, and can do attitude. Over 20 years of Management experience, having created, and led staffing teams. More than 10 years of HR and training.
• Expert in “Lean Recruiting”. Ability to analyze recruiting models resulting in decreased time to fill ratio, budget spend, ROI and increase productivity. Highly experienced in A-Z recruiting, employment law and more.
• Experienced in managing for full life cycle recruiting. Experienced recruiting for various verticals including Agency/ Contingent, Retail, Technical/IT/Engineering/Telco(Developers, PMs. Testers, Architects and more), Banking/Finance, Creative, Military/Government, Biomedical/Biotech, Sales/Marketing, Gamming, Healthcare/Medical, Consulting, Linguistics, Executive, College, HR, Legal, International, Call Center, Corporate recruiting and more. Niche and high volume recruiting professional. Expert in behavioral interviewing, Looklisology, and BTOS.
• Experience managing recruiting budgets and all vendor relationships, Expert in most HRIS, ATS and staffing systems to include selection, implementation and maintenance.

Achievements
• Created, planned, and organized a staffing program that exceeded the company’s needs in an ever-changing business environment by raising staffing/sourcing levels 75% while cutting recruiting costs 50% and recruiting time 62%. Trained recruiters and hiring managers in sourcing and interviewing techniques that resulted in an increase in hiring of 75%.
• Recipient of 2 Gold Stars from Microsoft. Gold Star is to recognize, reward, and retain high–performing employees within a given organization. I received the Gold Star for hiring 100+ professionals, in a single year, and being recognized as a sourcing SME, this allowed the business to execute on its strategic plan.
• Exceeded all hiring goals by hiring over 100+ professionals worldwide, which was over 200% of goal. Averaged exceeding goal by 90% during career.
• Recognized staffing thought leader who is a Subject Matter Expert in sourcing and sourcing techniques such as; boolean, strings, x-raying, flip searching, ASA, Social Networking/Media, WEB 2.0, SEO, TSO, peeling back, job boards, and more. Expert in staffing matrix, reporting, OFCCP, AA compliance, requirements gathering, pipeline building, and more.