Suzanne George

Location
chicago, IL (US)
Work Category
Human Resources
Interests
Business partnerships, Job opportunities, References, Ways to stay in touch
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About Me

A Highly Trained and Experienced Professional – Background includes excellent leadership, analytical, research, and communication skills coupled with enhancing and leveraging business acumen.

Interpersonal and Organizational Skills Refined through Experience – Demonstrated abilities in training and coordinating teams while utilizing planning and time management principles to achieve goals and complete projects accurately and on time.

I am currently an Executive Recruiter in the Loop and represent Chicago's top tier Financial firms (from Hedge Funds, Private Equity, Asset Management, Investment Banking to name a few).

If you are willing to keep your options open or hear about exciting opportunities that I am currently working on, do not hesitate to connect with me.

Work Experience

  • Mar 2006 - present
    chicago, IL (US)
    Executive Recruiter
    GES
    ·Execute full life-cycle recruitment including name generation, phone screens, behavioral based interviewing, testing, reference and background checks, negotiating the offer, closing the candidate, successfully placing qualified candidates and facilitating new hire paperwork.
    ·Consistently advise and counsel employees on areas of discipline, policy and procedures, motivation, and development to ensure an efficient and productive quality work environment.
    ·Work with Executives, focusing on Financial Services, Information Technology, Office Support, Sales/Marketing verticals and strategies in order to secure specific and place qualified candidates.
    ·Prospect candidates through multiple channels of recruiting including cold calling, attending career fairs, networking, researching client competitor personnel and employee referrals.
    ·Strong ability utilizing internal proprietary software database, Staff Suite and client’s applicant tracking system, Taleo.
  • Jan 2005 - Jan 2006
    chicago, IL (US)
    Sr. Account Executive
    CareerBuilder.com
    · Established new clientele relationships with the President and Vice Presidents of large staffing/recruiting companies in the Northeast and Midwest.
    · Prepared marketing material and presentations for business development meetings with prospective clients.
    · Experienced keeping personal and corporate information confidential.
    · Consistently analyzed the organizational structure to develop strategic solutions, which enabled the increased growth rate of revenue.
    · Recognized as Rep of Quarter for consistently incrementing over revenue goal.
    · Scheduled, coordinated and conducted meetings and conference calls with key decision makers.
    · Determined the need that each customer had and sold the benefit of Careerbuilder.com to C- Level Executives of the company.
  • Jun 2004 - Dec 2004
    chicago, IL (US)
    Account Executive
    CareerBuilder.com
    · Committed to a high level of phone activity (100 cold calls per day, 2 hours of phone time) in order to generate leads and new business opportunity.
    · Grew base of business to over $500,000 within 6 months by identifying key decision makers and establishing new business relationships
    · Responsible for lead sourcing, appointment setting, selling the solution and closing deals.
    · Determined the need that each customer had and sold the benefit of Careerbuilder.com to C-Level Executives of the company.

Education

  • 1999 - 2003
    Bachelor's - Business Administration, Marketing; Certificate in Entrepreneurial Studies
    University of Illinois at Chicago