Looking For My Next Opportunity

The small consulting company I have been working for has finally felt the hit of the economy and I am now on the market again. I am available immediately for positions in Washington or Oregon and open to travel or relocation elsewhere.

Jordan Shaw
336 7th Ave S.
Kirkland WA, 98033
(541) 912-9555
jordanmshaw@comcast.net

Mr. Shaw is deeply passionate and energetic throughout all phases of the recruiting process. He is constantly striving to provide a premium client and candidate experience. He is technically sound and experienced at leveraging job posting sites and generating a pipeline of referrals. Mr. Shaw is experienced in cold calling C-level individuals and building loyal relationships. He is personable and customer facing. He thrives in the process of closing and negotiating. Mr. Shaw is a social networking expert featured on many top recruiting web sites and with a personal network of thousands. He is constantly innovating and updating the recruiting process in order to provide a unique and ‘top quality’ experience. Mr. Shaw leads Recruiters through out the Northwest by managing vast networks on TalentBar, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
Professional Experience



02/08 – Present Technical Recruiter, Covestic, Kirkland, WA

Covestic is a project based consulting company providing Business and IT leadership into many Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo, T-Mobile, WaMu (JP Morgan), Safeco (Liberty Mutual). Complete lifecycle technical recruiting resource through sourcing, screening, interviewing, negotiating, and closing. Available 24/7 to candidates and clients. Responsible for all phases of recruiting process for Senior level Consultants in the following fields; developers, architects, SDET, QA, sales executives, CA Spectrum, SharePoint, Salesforce.com, program managers, project managers, business analysts, ITIL, business intelligence (BI) Cloud Developers and Architects, Windows Infrastructure –VDI consultants, Wireless User Experience Managers, Systems Engineers Tier 2 and 3, SCOM and MOM Engineers.

·Owner of Microsoft and Rest of World vertical
·Hired numerous complete project teams for high level “stealth” projects at Microsoft
·Increased company’s reach on hard to find targeted niche job boards and blogs.
·Proactively headhunting candidates to fill target roles.
·Owner of pilot project that generated relevant candidate database of 2k
·Re-define and improve current recruiting process
·Created and owned a LinkedIn, Facebook, and other social networking pages for Covestic, Inc.
·Networked and marketed Covestic through Twitter
·Created, developed and marketed a recruiting video to post on YouTube, FaceBook and other social networks with zero budget



04/08 – Present Principal, Pacific Northwest Networking, Kirkland, WA

Pacific Northwest networking is a networking group that spans across LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Eggsprout. With approximately 1k members, ‘PNW’ networking gives people a platform to networking themselves to their next business opportunity, career move or working relationship.

·LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=1548057&trk=anet_ug_grppro
·Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=49189756441
·Eggsprout: http://pacificnorthwestnetworking.eggsprout.com/
·TalentBar: http://www.talentbar.com/group/seattlerecruiters



08/06 – 02/08 Staffing Associate, Microsoft – Search Wizards, Redmond, WA

Search Wizards is a leading global provider of Selective Recruitment Process Outsourcing providing core recruiting functions for fortune 500 companies.

·Candidate hiring process from Boolean searches on job boards to phone screen.
·Partnered with Central Sourcing team members weekly to find top sales and marketing, SDE, SDET and PM candidates for Microsoft. Generated approximately 250 targeted resumes and conducted 20 phone screens a week.
·Project Manager for multiple “Blitz Days”, consisting of 5 recruiters sourcing for 5 positions each, generating 200+ resumes and reaching out to all qualified candidates in a 24 hour period.



08/04 – 08/06 Recruiting Coordinator, Microsoft - Spherion, Sammamish, WA

Spherion provides integrated staffing solutions to meet the evolving needs and priorities of companies and job candidates.

·Provided the highest quality interview experience for every candidate through planning and managing the interview day, monitoring the interview loop, providing guidance to interviewers and serving as advocate for the candidate and Microsoft.
·Generated multiple best practices guidelines. Displayed a supreme ability to manage time effectively and maintain the highest level of quality work. Trained and mentored 5 colleagues.
·Project Manager for project partnering with Kelly Services and involving 17 Spherion / Kelly employees spanning the length of 3 months.


06/03 – 08/03 Intern, S.A.W.E.R.A., Beaverton, OR

Recommended by professor for grant research and writing internship located in Beaverton, Oregon for a non-profit agency around helping abused women. I was a cold calling / networking machine. Identified and applied for relevant grants, built a time line for applications after I was gone and presented findings to the board of Directors. Passionate about causes that affect the community and found this to be an eye opening experience I truly grew from.

Education/Certification
·Bachelors of Arts, Sociology, University of Oregon, Graduated 2004