Folarin King
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Director of Talent Acquisition
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Director of Talent AcquisitionSoLo FundsJan 2021 - Current (4 years 6 months)Built ground-up recruiting and interviewing programs, including outreach templates, job description guidelines and templates, candidate experience guidelines, interview stages, question pools and scoring matrices, and offer processes. ● Spearheading programs for onboarding and performance management. ● Building Talent Acquisition roadmap, hiring and training recruitment professionals. ● Applicant Tracking Systems - vetting, configuration, administration. ● Professional Employer Organization - vetting, configuration, administration. ● Utilizing events, job boards, and sourcing campaigns to reach talent communities. ● Identifying and managing partnerships with conferences, professional organizations, and external vendors that engage t- D&I Recruiter | Program ManagerRiot GamesDec 2019 - Jan 2021 (1 year 2 months)● Identified and managed partnerships with conferences, professional organizations, and external vendors that engage diverse talent communities. ● Partnered to analyze diversity pipeline data, monitored and reported the diversity recruiting hiring metrics, and proposed solutions to bottlenecks and roadblocks. ● Sourced and interviewed prospects and presented them for current and future openings. ● Built and deployed internal training for talent acquisition and stakeholder teams around the language of inclusion and recognizing and removing unconscious bias. ● Utilized events, job boards, and sourcing campaigns to reach underrepresented talent communities. ● Developed different ways to build diverse talent pipelines. ● Frequent marke
- Technical RecruiterRiot GamesAug 2019 - Dec 2019 (5 months)● Sourced to build a network of potential candidates, sourced, sent personal outreach and built recruiting plans to bring top talent on-board. ● Handled recruitment from first sourcing calls all the way to offer letters. ● Advised business units on recruitment best practices. ● Led recruitment projects and process improvement projects. ● Partnered with our hiring managers across multiple teams to help grow their teams, help manage potential unrealistic job specs or wishes, and used data to prove tactics.
- Technical Recruiter IISynergisSep 2018 - Sep 2019 (1 year 1 month)● Clients included Google, LinkedIn, Apple, Cisco, and Softbank. ● Developed a pipeline of highly qualified candidates by tapping into a variety of different sources, from candidate databases, networking events, and referrals, to social media channels. ● Maintained strong relationships with qualified IT talent in order to fully understand their motivations, and matched them with the right client. ● Ensured successful placements by consulting with candidates on navigating the interview process; negotiated pay and position expectations; and communicated regularly with employees to monitor and maintain satisfaction.
- VRecruiterVSL HoldingsSep 2017 - Oct 2018 (1 year 2 months)Supported the CEO in establishing and maintaining new client relationships and growing existing client relationships. ● Pipelined candidates from databases, networking events, referrals, and social media. ● Led special programs including customer feedback program, creative asset creation, employee handbook, and team training sessions.
- Business Development SpecialistAnswerLabJan 2016 - Oct 2017 (1 year 10 months)Partnered with front-line sales to conceptualize and write strategic marketing proposals in response to client RFPs and direct proposals, responsible for SOA/SOW creation and updates. ● Developed account strategies for new and existing accounts in partnership with Leadership Team, managed post-sales activity by focusing on product knowledge planning and execution, training and reporting. ● Developed new sales and research presentation formats, worked with internal teams on presentation deck creation and deployment. ● Partnered with leaders on development strategies related to market expansion, brand projection, new client acquisition, and brand awareness resulting in 3 consecutive quarters of 115%+ revenue growth. ● Supported
- ARecruiter | Account ExecutiveAdvanced ClinicalAug 2013 - Dec 2015 (2 years 5 months)Account management of several of the largest bay area Pharmaceutical and Medical Device accounts and grew yearly revenues by 130%; acted as point of contact, processed orders, responded to RFPs, generated new business, established contact with new stakeholders within client organizations. ● Spearheaded projects to build awareness with clients and industry, executed internal and external directives and SOPs to drive profitable growth. ● Uncovered immediate needs of target market through leads and follow-ups, cultivated business with cold calls. ● Sourced and recruited viable candidates and clients to augment the recruitment team's efforts, negotiated offers and closed candidates.
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- CertificationUniversity of PennsylvaniaJan 2021 - Mar 2021 (3 months)
- B.S. Information Systems SecurityITT Technical InstituteJun 2010