Bret Hollander

Bret Hollander
POB 34495
Bethesda, MD 20817
(Cell) 301-365-2663
bret.hollander@gmail.com
Blog: www.netrecruiter.net
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/netrecruiter

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Over 14 years of high-volume, full life-cycle recruiting and sourcing services in both a corporate and agency environment, specializing in Information Technology professionals. Demonstrated expert in leveraging both computer technology and best practices to source and recruit passive candidates to fill immediate and contingent hires.

EMPLOYMENT

NETRECRUITER, Bethesda, MD
Principal Recruiter, May 1997-Present

Provide recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) services for Information Technology (IT) companies nationwide. Recruiting services include: Candidate Search, Interviewing, and RFP Support.

Career Highlights:

- Conduct weekly target searches of both passive and active candidates, contacting over 5,000 individuals electronically. Formulated a variety of scripts and autoresponders that greatly increase the response rate.
- Maintain a resume database of over one million professionals in the areas of IT, Intel, finance/accounting, sales, biotech, and engineering. Continually added over 2,000 passive and active candidates each month.
- Implemented and managed a passive sourcing and screening strategy that identified over 10,000 college-degreed educators to fill 1,300+ full-time seasonal positions for the 2007-08 program year.
- Lead the development and implementation of all recruitment strategies, programs, and processes and was a strategic business partner with company hiring managers to attract and hire “A-list” players.
- Supervised a team of five recruiters and orchestrated a successful government contract recompete at the National Security Agency, requiring 362 highly cleared IT professionals with signed contingent offers, within a 62-day window.
- Reduced time-to-hire by 80 percent, averaging less than five business days from initial candidate identification to formal offer delivery and acceptance.
- Developed and taught hundred of classes from 1997-02, instructing over 7,000 recruiters and HR professionals nationwide and at the University of Virginia. Performed as a nationally recognized keynote speaker and lecturer for conferences such as Computerworld, NACCB, SHRM, and NACE.
- Consulted on the ongoing development of numerous online job posting portals such as: Net-Temps, Monster, Dice, FlipDog, HotJobs, America’s Job Bank, Recruiters On-Line, Techies, ComputerJobs, Job Options, and authored numerous white papers on effectively posting jobs on Internet newsgroups, listservs, forums, and industry specific association sites.
- Prospected, penetrated and developed relationships with 70+ new clients, resulting in a doubling of revenue for each consecutive year over three-year period from 2004-07.
- Developed, nurtured and maintained relationships with an existing client base, producing an average 20% increase new business per client per year, from 2002-07

Partial List of Clients Supported

ACS Government Solutions Group, Rockville, MD (Information Technology)
Adventist Healthcare, Rockville, MD (Medical/Office Support/Biotechnology)
Allstate Insurance, Fairfax, VA (Sales and Marketing)
American Management Systems, Reston, VA (Information Technology)
Applied Data Systems, Inc., Columbia, MD (Engineering)
Apptis, Reston, VA (Information Technology)
ALTA IT Systems, Gaithersburg, MD (Accounting/Finance)
BAE Systems, McLean, VA (Information Technology)
Boeing Aerospace, Anaheim, CA (Information Technology)
Booz Allen Hamilton, McLean, VA (Accounting/Finance/Office Support/Corporate)
C2 Portfolio Essentials, Dulles, VA (Information Technology)
CACI, Fairfax, VA (Information Technology)
Computer Sciences Corporation, Falls Church, VA (Information Technology)
COMSAT Laboratories, Clarksburg, MD (Engineering)
Data Systems & Solutions, Reston, VA (Information Technology)
Deloitte Touche, McLean, VA (Information Technology)
Detica, Falls Church, VA (Information Technology)
Digiflight, Sterling, VA (Information Technology)
Edge Technologies, Ft. Meade, MD (Information Technology)
Exceptional Software Strategies, Linthicum, MD (Information Technology)
e-Management, Silver Spring, MD (Information Technology)
Envision EMI, Vienna, VA (Education/Direct Marketing)
Fannie Mae, Washington, DC (Accounting/Finance/Information Technology)
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Annapolis Junction, MD (Engineering/Information Technology)
Gene Logic, Gaithersburg, MD (Biotechnology)
Georgetown University, Washington, DC (Medical/Information Technology, Legal)
Human Genome Services, Gaithersburg, MD (Biotechnology)
Innolog, McLean, VA (Security/Quality Assurance)
Inverness Technologies, McLean, VA (Training/Military)
Laguna Ventures, Inc., McLean, VA (Information Technology)
MACOM-Linkabit, McLean, VA (Engineering)
Mantech International, McLean, VA (Accounting/Finance/Information Technology)
MarLaw Systems Technologies, Inc., Silver Spring, MD (Information Technology)
Marriott International, Bethesda, MD (Information Technology)
METRiX Technologies, Rockville, MD (Information Technology)
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (Engineering)
MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA (Information Technology)
National Security Agency, Ft. Meade, MD (Linguists)
National Wildlife Federation, Reston, VA (Accounting/Sales and Marketing)
Octo Consulting (Information Technology)
OGSystems, Herndon, VA (Information Technology)
OmniSystems, Vienna, VA (Information Technology)
QinetiQ/DTRI (Information Technology)
SAIC, McLean, VA (Information Technology)
Smartnet, Frederick, MD (Information Technology)
Smartronix, Stafford, VA (Information Technology)
Smiths Aerospace – Fairchild Defense, Frederick, MD (Information Technology)
TEOCO, Fairfax, VA (Information Technology/Engineering)
Van Dyke Technologies, Annapolis Junction, MD (Information Technology)
WANG Corporation, McLean, VA (Information Technology)

International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC
Systems Engineer, February 1990- May 1997

Was primary tester and evaluator of all new software that was integrated on user desktops. Developed and wrote hundreds of macro routines to facilitate users of word processing and spreadsheet software using products such as WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3. Provided Tier 3 support on an MSDOS platform and then eventual migration to Windows 95.

U.S. Peace Corps, St. Kilts, West Indies
Volunteer, Financial Advisor to the Ministry of Health & Community Affairs, 1987-1989 (2-year tour)

Oversaw a grassroots small business-lending program targeted at host nationals unable to secure conventional business loans. Supervised and mentored a staff of eight host nationals, ranging from loan officers to administrators. Coached the Caribbean Olympic Track & Field squad from St. Kitts and Nevis. Developed and conducted computer classes on Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect, DOS, and PC hardware maintenance.

Technical Writer/ Systems Engineer, Various contractual assignments, 1979-87
Flight Security Officer (0-1), US Air Force, Ellsworth AFB, SD, 1977-79

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION

B.A., Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Certified Recruiting Trainer, 1996
AIRS Certified Recruiting Specialist, 1995
Microsoft Certified Engineer, 1993
WordPerfect Certified Resource and Authorized Trainer, 1990
Licensed Realtor, State of Maryland, 2003-2007

PUBLICATIONS

The Recruiter’s Bible, 7th printing, May, 2007 (100,000+ books distributed)
Cutting Edge Tools for Internet Recruiting, 4th printing, January 2009
Advanced Internet Recruiting Strategies, 5th printing, March 2003

RECENT ENGAGEMENTS

Panelist – “Finding Your Purple Squirrel” – RecruitDC – May 2010
Featured Speaker – “Cutting Edge Tools for Internet Recruiting” – NoVA SHRM – August 2009
Webinair Presenter – “Creative Sourcing of Intel Candidates” – MOAA/TROA – May 2009
TAP Instructor – “Transitioning from Military to Civilian – Job Search Strategies” – Jan-Apr 2009

ASSOCIATIONS

Moderator, Staffing Alliance of Maryland Employers, 1999-2004
Member, Staffing Alliance of Virginia Employers, 1997-Present
Member, Society for Human Resource Management, 1997-Present
Steering Committee, Employment Management Association, 1997-2001
Member, Washington Area Recruiter’s Network, 1997-2000

REFERENCES

James Hollister
Director of Recruiting, NetStar 1
Provided recruiting services to Jim’s former company, ACS GSG, for nearly 3 years.
(240) 499-2842 | james.hollister@netstar-1.com

Gary Cluff
Corporate Recruiting Manager, MITRE Corporation
Teamed with Gary in developing the Certified Recruiting Specialist Certification, as well as almost two years of classroom HR training.
703-689-3458 | gary@cluffassociates.com

Debora Peda
President, The Josef Group
Teamed with her company since 2002 in split fee contingent recruiting.
518-355-8686 | dpeda@thejosefgroup.com