Matt Driscoll
| Headline: | Recruiter |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Interested in: | Consulting opportunities, Meeting new people, Offering Expertise, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities, Providing services to startups |
| Schools: | Worcester State College |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | ArcSight |
| Position: | Director, Global Recruiting |
| Time period: | October 2007 - Present |
| Description: | • Responsible for all facets of ArcSight’s global recruitment & operational recruitment programs |
| Employer: | VeriSign |
| Position: | Director, Global Recruiting |
| Time period: | October 2005 - June 2007 |
| Description: | - Successfully took underperforming recruiting department and rebuilt it, ensuring key partnerships, visibility, execution and customer service goals were satisfied
- Responsible for all facets of VeriSign’s global recruitment & operational recruitment programs - Recruited and built a strong team utilizing a cross-functional recruiting strategy in order to effectively influence VeriSign’s growth and success, while minimizing voluntary turnover - Successfully built strong relationships quickly with key operational and strategic partners - Driven to ensure that the company values are integrated into what we do every day and hold those accountable who don’t display those values - Lead by example and leverage performance manage tools with quarterly goals for all levels - Reward and recognize top performers with stretch goals, while managing out those who don’t perform and/or compromise the team’s values - Responsible for the direction and creation of our employment branding campaign “Make Your Mark” - Hands on management of Executive Search & Research function, partnering directly with VeriSign’s Executive leadership team - Manage a proactive “direct sourcing” recruiting team of 30+, consisting of a senior recruiting managers, lead recruiters, senior recruiters and a name generation researchers - Possess strong management and leadership skills. Built a collaborative team that retains a strong reputation and is focused on providing proactive / consultative recruiting support - Spearheaded Internal Mobility program for employees impacted by VeriSign’s corporate restructuring - Initiated the automation and streamlining of numerous recruiting processes leveraging existing and new technology - Drive talent assessments and leveling throughout acquisitions - Full responsibility for creation, forecasting and operations of a $3.9 million annual budget |
| Employer: | Adobe Systems |
| Position: | Manager, Global Talent Operations |
| Time period: | January 2000 - October 2005 |
| Description: | Talent Acquisition
- Responsible for global talent acquisition & operations - Directly manage the North American Talent Operations team - Managed Adobe's college recruiting programs (MBA, New Grad, and internships) - Possess strong management and leadership skills. Built a collaborative team that retains a strong reputation and is focused on providing proactive / consultative recruiting support - Provide foundational programs and leadership to India, EMEA and APAC global talent partners - Collaborate with executive and senior management to build and drive executive recruiting strategies - Partner with divisional controllers to ensure our team is in line with quarterly and annual headcount growth and initiatives - Represent the Talent team as a part of Adobe's acquisition team - Facilitator for New Managers orientation - Manage an overall budget of 1.7 million - Restructured team in 2000 to better align with Adobe's high growth model. - In 2000, managed a team of 14 recruiters to fill over 1,000 requisitions in North America. Since then, the team consistently fills 450-500 requisitions annually, within 60 days to fill and with <4K cost per hire - Project Manager for the 2003 Fortune '100 Best Companies to Work for' project. Significantly exceeded company goals by moving the company ranking from #36 to #5 - Assisted in the creation and rollout of ITT (Interviewing for Top Talent) for managers and employees - 2002 'Founders Award' nominee Talent Operations - Manage Adobe's 'candidate experience' consisting of employment branding and collateral, Adobe.com/jobs website, interview process, background check, and offer approval and delivery - Partner with corporate marketing to build and deliver new employment branding collateral (Simply better) - Manage global temporary workforce (ABE - payrolling and contractor compliance and Manpower - temporary recruitment) - Responsible for Adobe's global internet sourcing strategies (ZoomInfo, Hotjobs, LinkedIn, Monster, research, etc.) - Manage global technology systems - Transitioned from Webhire in 2002 to a global solution using Hire.com - Continual Focus and passion for streamlining and automating processes - Manage Adobe's employee referral program - Responsible for 20+ million dollar budget - Provide monthly and quarterly metrics for executive team - Manage Adobe's presence at industry specific job fairs and trade shows - Manage all employment advertising (web, print, broadcast, radio, environment) - Launched Adobe's first internal opportunities website to drive internal growth |
| Employer: | Adobe Systems |
| Position: | Lead Recruiter |
| Time period: | January 1999 - January 2000 |
| Description: | - Recruited back into staffing and promoted to lead the recruiting function
- Supported various teams as an Talent Consultant (Marketing, Information Systems, Finance, Legal, Human Resources, Facilities, Sales and Engineering) - Reporting to the Director of Staffing, provided leadership and mentoring to a growing team |
| Employer: | Adobe Systems |
| Position: | Human Resources Generalist |
| Time period: | June 1998 - January 1999 |
| Description: | - Promoted into a generalist role to support the G&A divisions
- Provided recruiting, employee relations, organization design and management consulting for the team leaders |
| Employer: | Adobe Systems |
| Position: | Senior Corporate Recruiter |
| Time period: | October 1997 - June 1998 |
| Description: | - Hired as the first 'regular' employee to provide recruiting support
- Provided recruiting support to Marketing, Finance, Legal, Human Resources, Facilities, Sales - Consistently overachieved recruiting goals with 50+ requisitions |
| Employer: | Wall Data (acquired by NetManage) |
| Position: | Sales Recruiter; Human Resources Representative |
| Time period: | October 1995 - October 1997 |
| Description: | - Responsible for providing continuous sourcing and recruitment for the Worldwide Sales team
- Designed and implemented a closed-loop staffing process to end agency dependency - Interviewed all potential candidates and personally verify past employment / education - Acted as a positive advocate representing and selling the company - Spearheaded the company's first of many career fairs throughout North America - Decreased recruiting fees by 50% in 1996 and 35% in 1997 - Created internal / external job posting process via our intranet / internet pages - 40% of New Hires were President Club recipients - Provided consistent employee relations support for the North American Sales team - Provided sound judgment and solutions for Regional Management - Designed and implemented 'Position Competencies' for North American Sales - Conducted and tracked exit interviews for North American Sales - Managed the Executive receptionist, stock administrator and the front office staff - Reduced sales turnover by 25% in 1996 by hiring top talent |
| Employer: | Interstate Hotels (Marriott Hotels) |
| Position: | Human Resources Manager; Human Resources Assistant |
| Time period: | August 1993 - October 1995 |
| Description: | - Partnered with Human Resources Director to actively recruit and support existing employees
- Provided employee relations support, management development training - Conducted exit interviews and verified past employment for all applicants - Administered OSHA compliance, Worker's Comp. and all unemployment claims - Facilitated monthly orientation class for all new hires - Administered all benefits enrollment, communication and education including: 401K retirement plan, health insurance, leaves of absence, sick and vacation requests - Wrote and produced monthly employee newsletter (HR NEWSFLASH) - Managed all communication boards, recognition awards, and employee events - Chairperson of the Safety Committee and actively volunteered in within the community - Mentored the Human Resources Assistant - Active member of the Quality Team ('93 and '94), elected chairperson '95 - Employee of the month for July '94 - Employee of the year finalist 1994 |
EDUCATION
| University: | Worcester State College |
| Degree: | Industrial Psychology, BSc |
