Thomas Jones

Talent Engagement Partner, Military Community Recruiting

Zscaler

Mar 2024 - Current (2 years 5 months)

Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partner, Veterans/Sourcing Recruiting

Palo Alto Networks

Sep 2021 - Feb 2024 (2 years 6 months)

Created and managing the Veterans/Military recruiting program in support of Palo Alto Networks diversity goals. Partner with Talent Acquisition leaders, recruiters and hiring managers to strategize and promote hard to fill tech roles to the military and diverse communities. Source and track resumes from career fairs, Veteran events, conferences, various job boards and social media. Promote the use of the CRM (resume management tool) to the talent acquisition team and hiring managers and track ROI from events. Advise and provide training for recruiting teams on how to source and locate top diverse and veteran talent. Create strategies in support of programs for new and existing positions nationwide. Launch recruiting campaigns for prog

Manager, Veterans/Sourcing Recruiting (Seeking cleared IT, Engineering and Intel candidates)

Peraton

Jul 2017 - Sep 2021 (4 years 3 months)

Responsible for driving cleared recruiting and Veterans programs, hiring events and strategizing with recruiters and hiring managers to fill positions and pipelines. Researched and connected with diverse organizations and military bases nationwide to develop a military and diversity candidate pipeline in support of current funded and unfunded opportunities in the Intel, DOD and cyber career fields. Provided oversight and management of a team of three professional veteran/diversity/sourcing recruiters with combined experiences of over 40 years. Created diversity recruiting strategy based on Peraton's diversity hiring goals. Established networks in diverse communities via social media, career fairs and employer panels to positively impact

Talent Acquisition Business Partner

Northrop Grumman Corporation TS

Apr 2016 - Jun 2017 (1 year 3 months)

Partner with client-facing lead recruiters and hiring managers to understand the hiring needs, build targeted sourcing plans and meet the organization’s veterans and diversity goals. Network with individuals to uncover and source passive candidates for work in the DOD and Intel arenas. Strong use of social networking tools and sites such as LinkedIn to fulfill the company’s goal of providing diverse candidates for all manager and above roles. Used professional networks to source candidates for active requisitions. Review RFPs and statements of work to set or target recruiting objectives for hard to fill highly cleared. Use social networking mediums to promote employment brand messaging that drives traffic to open roles by establishing

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Veterans Recruiting Program Manager/College Recruiter/ Sr Recruiter

CSRA Fomerly CSC

Apr 2006 - Apr 2016 (10 years 1 month)

Provided full life cycle recruiting/sourcing support to all programs in CSC's Global recruiting efforts. Conducted presentations and other events in support of CSC's veterans and wounded warrior programs. Attended over 80 job fairs per year, open houses and other internal, external recruiting events, TAP, ACAP (military employer panels). Facilitated veteran workshops assisting our veteran wounded warrior communities in salary negotiations, resume writing, mock interviews how to work a career fair. Provided full life cycle recruiting and sourcing support to government contracts worldwide with technical positions ranging from Computer Scientist, Software Engineers, Database Managers, Developers, Solutions Architects, Various Intel position

Sr Staffing Specialist

KBR

Sep 2005 - Apr 2006 (8 months)

Provided recruiting support to a Product Service Line(s) or Business Unit (s). Collaborated with the embedded HR Professional and the business managers to understand the current workforce, immediate staffing needs and extended human resources forecast in the DOD and commercial space. Attended staff meetings and met with hiring managers on a regular schedule. Met with HR Professional on regular schedule to develop and maintain a knowledge base of the existing workforce and HR Plans. Contributed to the development of personnel requisitions and developed both a reactive and proactive recruiting strategies. Developed and cultivated a network in the industry that greatly affected the ability to successfully complete recruiting. Assignments.

Recruiter/Military Police

US ARMY

Dec 1984 - Sep 2005 (20 years 10 months)

Established and maintained contacts in designated recruiting area in order to generate interest, leads and enlistments into the US Army. Conducted telephone prospecting, area canvassing and other lead generating activities in assigned area. Led recruiting teams of 2-5 army recruiters effectively developed and implemented a high school and college recruiting program. Presented formal and informal presentations to various schools and civic groups concerning the US Army mission/role, history, programs, features and benefits and various enlistment opportunities. Administered Enlistment Screening Test (EST) to all applicants prior to Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) testing as deemed appropriate. Established and maintained

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