WOODY L GARRETT

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Director of Talent Acquisition

May 2021 - Sep 2021 (5 months)

●Hired to rebuild the TA team, establish a scalable TA strategy to support aggressive HC growth (>30%). ●Improve the talent engine to increase the volume, quality and diversity of our candidate pipelines. ●Align both FTE and Contingent Workforce (TIP) recruiting teams to operate within the same partner-based support delivery model; deployed TIP recruiting team into Greenhouse to manage and track all contingent/freelance hiring activity. ●Increased the teams sourcing production by over 150% within the first 30-days across Sales, Product and Design talent pools. ●Increased the overall recruiting teams' monthly hiring capacity by over 25% within the first two-months. ●Rebuilt the sales recruiting team with the capacity to deliver sustaine

Director of Talent Acquisition

Vectra AI

Oct 2019 - Mar 2021 (1 year 6 months)

●Hired to setup an inhouse recruiting team, increase hiring quality and hiring speed, while establishing interview best practices and reducing recruiting costs in order to scale. ●Delivered 114 hires in 2020, including 24 engineers and 60 enterprise sales reps across 15 countries. ●Decreased average time-to-fill by 10+ days by rebuilding recruiting workflows, added automation tools (Airtable, Greenhouse API's), and trained hiring teams on setting up efficient hiring processes across high volume hiring teams. People/HR Partnership Responsibilities: ●Managed HC forecast between dept leadership and finance team to ensure constant alignment ●Built the company's first job structure and established compensation framework; introduced Compa-Rat

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Director of Talent Acquisition

SaaS/Tech Startup Builder

Oct 2017 - Sep 2022 (5 years)

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Director of Talent Acquisition

Zenefits Inc

Oct 2017 - Mar 2019 (1 year 6 months)

Five-month sabbatical to manage a major construction project on my San Mateo home. Zenefits, Inc. Human Capital Mgmt (HCM) SaaS startup based in San Francisco, CA (Oct, 2017 – Mar, 2019) Director of Talent Acquisition ●Rebuilt a small and mighty recruiting team that delivered 197 hires in 2018, including 71 engineers and 63 sales reps across 4 offices. ●Hiring Speed - Opened new office with fully staffed sales teams in less than 3 weeks; delivered on each of the last 6 sales hiring campaigns with minimal lead times. ●Fully recovered engineering staff from a 39 person deficit within 4 months in SF and YVR. ●Diversity and Inclusion - Championed an initiative that drove an increase in the number of women hired into technical roles by over

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Human Capital Mgmt

Zenefits Inc

Oct 2017 - Mar 2019 (1 year 6 months)

-Rebuiltteam that delivered 197 hires in 2018, including 71 Engineers and 63 Sales Reps across 3 states and 2 countries -Created/launchedemployer re-branding strategy. -Sharplyreduced Cost per Hire by over $8,000. -LedDiversity campaign that increased engineering team diversity by 102% in 3 quarters.

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Director of Talent Acquisition

Sunrun Inc

Jun 2012 - Jun 2017 (5 years 1 month)

●Led all Talent Acquisition efforts that scaled Sunrun's workforce from 150 to 4,200 employees in 5-years. ●Created a nationally distributed staffing model and grew my team from 2 to 61 (including 5 managers), while managing to a $5.7MM annual recruiting budget. ●Launched a hiring campaign targeting our competitors, taking 63 top producing sales reps that delivered 4730+ new customers annually; directly increasing Sunrun's market share in the US by 2.4%. ●Drove the execution of multi-state hiring campaigns that allowed Sunrun to expand business into 23 states. ●Created a nationally distributed staffing model and built the

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Director of Talent Acquisition

Sunrun Inc

Jun 2012 - Jun 2017 (5 years 1 month)

●Lead all recruiting efforts that scaled Sunrun's workforce from 150 to over 4,200 in 4-years; with 8,589 hires since 2012. ●Grew recruiting team from 2 to 61 in size (including 5 managers) while managing to a $5.7MM annual recruiting budget. ●Drove the execution of multi-state hiring campaigns that allowed Sunrun to expand business into 23 states. ●Created a nationally distributed staffing model and built the solar industry's most effective recruiting team as measured by Time-to-Fill; Quality of Hire; Cost per Hire; Recruiter Monthly Productivity metrics; Hiring Efficiency Ratio; and Team Engagement Scores. ●Set the strategic direction for all recruiting programs including Diversity & Inclusion (Woman Leaders and Veteran outreach), Emp

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Engineering Recruiter (Contract)

Mar 2012 - Jun 2012 (4 months)

●Hired into the Applications Engineering team, recruiting Front-End Developers, Performance Engineers, and applications Engineers. ●Trained and mentored a team of three Sourcers to help drive better accuracy in talent pipeline generation efforts. ●Developed and implemented recruitment strategies and programs focused on talent generation and candidate sharing across all recruiting teams. Reason for Leaving: Recruited to join Sunrun in a leadership position

Engineering Recruiter

Mar 2012 - Jun 2012 (4 months)

Senior Technical Recruiter

Tesla Motors

Feb 2010 - Mar 2012 (2 years 2 months)

Senior Technical Recruiter

Tesla Motors

Feb 2010 - Apr 2012 (2 years 3 months)

●Top performing recruiter within Tesla's engineering (powertrain) recruiting team for five consecutive quarters with respect to Total Number of Offers approved by Elon Musk; Total Number of Hires, and Hiring Efficiency (Time to Fill rate and Average Salary). ●Improved engineering teams' Time-To-Fill averages by 15 days by improving hiring process inefficiencies. ●Strengthened Tesla's employer brand recognition within targeted talent pools through social networking avenues and 'buzz-generating' campaigns across academic and professional institutions. ●Responsible for rapid delivery of elite caliber technical talent across Tesla's powertrain engineering organization, including: Architecture (motor design, overall power/control systems desi

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Lead Technical Recruiter

AOL Time Warner

Oct 2007 - Jan 2010 (2 years 4 months)

●Bebo.com (Social Networking site acquired by AOL in '08) (Oct, 2008-Jan, 2010) ●Truveo.com (Video Search Engine acquired by AOL in '07) (Oct, 2007-Jun, 2008)

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Lead Technical Recruiter

AOL Time Warner

Oct 2007 - Jan 2010 (2 years 4 months)

Bebo.com (Social Networking site acquired by AOL in '08) (Oct, 2008-Jan, 2010) ●Bebo's only dedicated full-cycle recruiter, responsible for executing on all hiring objectives within short timeframes ●Consistently generate multiple high volume, high quality talent pipelines that support a req list of cross-functional job profiles primarily through the use of aggressive hands-on sourcing efforts. ●2008-'09: Within the first 2-months, successfully hired to 100% of Bebo's Q4/2008 growth plan across both engineering and tech Ops teams (in support of the mission-critical 2.0 site launch in Q1/2009). Truveo.com (Video Search Engine acquired by AOL in '07) (Oct, 2007-Jun, 2008) ●Dramatically decreased hiring Time-to-Fill by more than 18 days, a

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Technical Recruiter, Partner Solutions Org

Google Inc

Jun 2006 - Jun 2007 (1 year 1 month)

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Technical Recruiter, Partner Solutions Org

Google Inc

Jun 2006 - Jun 2007 (1 year 1 month)

●Solely responsible for supporting the Sales Engineering teams; initially considered the least successfully hired profile within PSO, averaging ≤1 hire per quarter when I started. ●Hired 4 SE's per quarter for three consecutive quarters (highest output of any PSO recruiter). ●Grew the Sales Engineering team (US) by 50% in less than 12-months; and moving from the top of PSO's "business critical hires" list to the very bottom from the time I started to the completion of my contract. ●Consistently generated a high volume, and high quality pipeline of candidates under very tight timelines and strict hiring requirements ●Designated as the search expert for Sales Engineering teams (company-wide) because of keen understanding of the ideal tale

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Senior Recruiter, R&D

Mercury Interactive, Inc.

Nov 2004 - Jun 2006 (1 year 8 months)

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Senior Recruiter, R&D Americas & Global Services Operations

Mercury Interactive, Inc. (acquired

Nov 2004 - Jun 2006 (1 year 8 months)

●Successfully achieved R&D headcount growth requirements (CA & WA teams) 1-month ahead of Q1 plan, which led to increased responsibilities of four additional client organizations (IS/IT, Technical Support, Managed Services, and Professional Services). ●Drove highly visible and successful deployment of Mercury's first college recruitment program while training and coaching the new junior college recruiter into the role. ●Initially hired to lead aggressive recruitment initiatives within Mercury's key R&D teams including IT Governance Reason for Leaving: Company acquired by HP

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Senior Corporate Recruiter/Technical Recruiter

EFI SERVICIOS S.A.S

Jul 2000 - Oct 2004 (4 years 4 months)

●2004: Through first nine months (3Q's) had hired 101 US Employees, 81 Contractors/Temps, spanning a multi-state staffing coverage area (satellite offices in WA, AZ, MN, PA, NJ). ●Praised by executive management as achieving one of the biggest cost savings areas company-wide by driving annual recruiting costs to less than 50% of annual budget; despite steady hiring targets and increasing recruitment demands such as supporting new business units (via M&A's and new product initiatives). ●2002-2003: Hired 257+ highly skilled employees (average salary ~$85k) & contractors across every functional group and constantly achieved beyond industry standards in Cost per Hire, Time to Fill, Acceptance Rate, as well as Hire Efficiency Ratio, managed ex

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Sr. Corporate Recruiter/Technical Recruiter

WOODY L GARRETT

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