Leslea Scott

President & Chief Talent Officer

Hire Virtue

Jun 2025 - Current (1 year 3 months)

As President & Chief Talent Officer of Hire Virtue, I bring more than 20 years of global talent leadership experience to steer the organization’s strategic direction, expand its market presence, and deliver high-impact talent solutions to businesses nationwide. In this dual role, I am responsible for leading the full scope of Hire Virtue’s service offerings, including Executive Search, Direct Hire, Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), Hiring Events, and Corporate Training Programs. I oversee the design and execution of tailored talent acquisition strategies that support organizational growth, optimize hiring outcomes, and advance equity and inclusion in the workplace. As President, I drive business development, strategic partnerships, a

Director of Recruiting, Utilities Segment

Primoris Services Corporation

Mar 2022 - Jun 2025 (3 years 4 months)

• Designed, built, and led the talent acquisition team and strategy for the largest segment within Primoris. • Authored and directed fiscal operations for recruiting initiatives, managing a $1.3M budget with zero overruns. • Reduced Time-to-Fill from 273 to 3 days, improving operational hiring velocity across all lines of business, hiring a total of 10,906. • Responsible for hiring key executive roles on behalf of our CEO, COO, and CFO; maintaining a 100% retention. • Develops, cultivates, and maintains stellar relationships at every level of the organization vertically to the C-Suite. • Drove transitioning military and veteran recruitment, which increased by 12% besting the other segments within Primoris. • Ensured a strong partnership wit

Senior TA Business Partner

Witt obriens

Jul 2021 - Mar 2022 (9 months)

• Promoted to lead and support the TA efforts for Cadre Management and Government Solutions projects for the organization with a strong focus on leadership and support function roles. • Led the Talent practice, strategy, and execution for the FEMA Infrastructure and Government Solutions business supporting the U.S, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands. • Reduced TTF from a staggering 183 days to 29.1 days across all lines of business, both Corporate and Government. • Responsible exclusively for 142 total hires to the Witt O’Brien’s organization between Q3-Q4 2021 that includes every employment classification (i.e., exempt, non-exempt, skilled trades, engineering, professional, leadership) • Responsible for leading aggressive hiring projects

Senior Recruitment Consultant

Witt obriens

Nov 2020 - Jul 2021 (9 months)

Served as a professional Sr. Recruitment Consultant for leadership and operational roles on an advisory basis.

Manager, Talent Acquisition, Western Hemisphere - Pipeline Performance, & ZCL/Xerxes CPS USA

Shawcor

Oct 2020 - Jul 2021 (10 months)

• Responsible for developing and leading the recruiting function, strategy, and execution within the Pipeline Performance division for all levels of recruitment services for the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and LATAM. • Reduced Time-to-Fill from 148.3 to 43.19 days, optimizing recruitment for engineering, commercial, and operational roles. • Saved the business over $3.8M in agency fees for fixed/variable roles within the last 24 months. • Responsible for managing to the advantage of our business agency partnerships by negotiating and ensuring our partners understand the quality of service and resources we require. • Promoted a culture of quality over quantity in recruitment and leveraging the internal function to exponentially improve in placing t

Recruiting Manager, US & Western Hemisphere

Shawcor

Aug 2018 - Oct 2020 (2 years 3 months)

Senior Talent Manager

FlexTek Resources

Mar 2018 - Aug 2018 (6 months)

• Partnered with clients and account managers to strategically identify high-potential candidates for various roles. • Developed the strategy, marketing efforts, and set expectations based on the type of requisition, skill set, and TTF requirements. • Led, coached, and developed a small team of entry-level talent professionals, advising in strategies, metrics, and best practices when approaching new and aging requisitions. • Advised on the management of recruitment tools to reduce cost, and getting the best ROI from effective marketing verbiage, job role description, and review of all candidates in the recruitment funnel. • Promoted “out of the box” approach to mining candidates, and pipelining beyond traditional job boards and databases.

Senior Talent Advisor, Northern/Southern California Region

Waste Management

Nov 2015 - Dec 2016 (1 year 2 months)

• Leveraged resources effectively using a variety of sourcing tools and programs including job boards, social media, attending job-related events, and networking to build talent pipelines. • Attracted and engaged top talent to career opportunities by providing information related to compensation, benefits, policies and procedures, to ensure the candidate experience is positive and informative. • Negotiated and extended offers of employment to selected candidates. Facilitates the offer and pre- employment processes to ensure a smooth on-boarding experience. • Handle the RPO vendor management relationship.

Manager, HR, Talent Aquisition & Strategy

Capital Staffing Group

Jan 2015 - Aug 2018 (3 years 8 months)

• Lead Advisor to clients on the formulation and administration of plans and policies for human resource activities. • Served as Change Management subject matter expert, leading change initiatives to meet business, schedule, budget goals and focus on people side of change; to include processes, technology, systems and organizational structure. • Partnered with leadership and hiring managers to plan and assist with recruitment needs. Manages small teams and projects. • Developed revises and implements human resource policies and procedures. • Developed talent strategy and recruitment processes and RPO vendor management. • Advised corporate best practices and policy for talent benchmarking, assessment and interviewing in conjunction corporate

Talent Acquisition Manager, North America

COSENTINO

Jul 2014 - Jan 2015 (7 months)

• Led the Talent Acquisition efforts in US & Canada using a strategic approach to identify, attracting and on-boarding top talent based on the unique needs of the organization. • Managed the US based talent acquisition team the TA planning and strategy, workforce segmentation, employment branding, candidate audience, relationship management, metrics and analytics. • Served as business partner with HR, leadership and hiring managers to identity the hiring plans/talent needs for the organization. • Developed and led employment branding improvement strategies to articulate, image, corporate culture, mission, reputation, products and services.

HR Manager, US Corporate & Distribution HUBS Texas & Virginia

COSENTINO

Jan 2014 - Jul 2014 (7 months)

• Served as partner and consultant to the corporate business unit as a "Subject Matter Expert" on human resources-related issues for 300+ EE. • Communicated all HR related issues inter-departmentally and to the business as required. • Participated in leadership/staff meetings and attends other meetings and seminars. Maintains business unit organization charts. • Interpreted labor law and determines impact on human resources policies and procedures; and DOT compliance matters according to the FMCSA. • Managed on-boarding/off-boarding of employees, including personality profiling Thomas & Birkman. • Ensured Timely processing of new hires into ADP HRB and SAP HCM. • Ensures compliance with employment related laws (EEOC, OSHA, Wage and Hour, et

Senior Recruiter

COSENTINO

Apr 2013 - Jan 2014 (10 months)

• Partnered with HR Director, leadership and hiring managers as the "Subject Matter Expert" on sourcing tactics, technologies and all subtle forms of both the art and sciences of networking and talent engagement. • Managed a requisition load average of 80 positions, ranging from direct labor to executive level, with a focus on high value IT positions and DOT regulated commercial operators. • Reduced time to fill ratio from 92 days average to 27 days. • Handled New Hire On-boarding & Acclimation working in concert with Training & Development team. • Developed and executed diversity candidate sourcing strategies base on market research and workforce data analysis. • Maintained a cost conscience culture by using creative sourcing strategies to

Corporate Recruiter

COSENTINO

Nov 2012 - Apr 2013 (6 months)

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