b'Deb Hester\n866-324-0705\ndeb@debhester.biz\nhttp://www.debhester.biz\n\nProfile:\n\nOver 25 years experience in candidate recruiting.\n\nExperience includes sourcing, screening and\n\ninterviewing, coordinating with hiring managers through evaluation processes, reference checking,\nnegotiations and offer letter preparation. Sourcing background includes internet sourcing \xe2\x80\x94 beginning\nwith comprehensive AIRS training \xe2\x80\x94 social media, traditional cold-calling, networking, personal RSS /\nblog and referral programs. Successfully developed, trained and managed in-house and telecommuting\nsourcing teams for large IT consulting firms and Deb Hester & Associates. Industries most familiar with\ninclude public relations, advertising, energy, engineering, high-tech, pharmaceutical, manufacturing,\nresearch, health care and seniors. Past presenter on Internet sourcing techniques at Seattle\xe2\x80\x99s Employee\nManagement Association conference.\n\nCareer History:\n\nDeb Hester & Associates\n3/27/09 \xe2\x80\x93 present\nOwner\n\nDeb Hester & Associates is a recruiting consulting firm. We provide individual contributors or teams of\nexperienced recruiters to meet client needs.\n\nSource, interview and place candidates for firms involved in the energy sector, traditional engineering and\npublic relations. Clients include Text 100 (technical and energy PR), M Booth (consumer, corporate\ncommunications, fashion, travel and wine and spirits PR), Coyne Public Relations (healthcare, consumer\nelectronics, automotive and family entertainment PR and Digital Media Strategists), ETC Group (energy\nefficiency services) and ZETEC (nuclear power test equipment manufacturer). Support clients on a\ntelecommuting basis, providing everything from writing / editing initial job descriptions through to\nnegotiations and offer letters.\n\nAvailable for client meetings in the greater Puget Sound area or, as\n\nneeded, remotely. For a complete listing of services offered, see my website.\n\nDevine Tarbell and Associates\n4/29/08 \xe2\x80\x93 3/27/09\nContract Recruiting Consultant\n\n\x0cDevine Tarbell and Associates was a national consulting engineering firm focusing 80% of their project\nwork on hydropower projects. The other 20% of their work was with other renewable energy projects\nincluding wind, tidal and in-stream energy generation. At the end of 2008, DTA merged with HDR to form\nHDR | DTA, a division of HDR continuing to do energy generation-related engineering consulting projects.\n\nInitially hired to help get stalled recruiting re-energized in Northwest Region. This included reviewing\nexisting posting respondents, the development of local recruiting methodologies and the evaluation of\nrecruiting sources. Once NW recruiting was progressing, work expanded to include assisting other DTA\noffices in the US and Canada with their recruiting efforts and developing improved sourcing techniques\nfor the company.\n\nKey accomplishments included:\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\nDeveloping a leads list of over 14,000 appropriate potential candidates. This included all levels of\ncivil, mechanical, structural and electrical engineering consultants; environmental engineers and\nfish biologists; and CAD / design consultants.\n\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\nCold calling against the leads list.\n\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\nScreening and presenting 248 appropriately-skilled engineering candidates.\n\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\nCoordinating with hiring managers, running reference checks and assisting with offer letters for\nnew hires primarily on the west coast.\n\nDeb Hester & Associates\n10/16/04 \xe2\x80\x93 04/29/08\nOwner\n\nSource, interview and place candidates for consulting, high-tech and pharmaceutical firms throughout the\nUS. Clients have included Devine Tarbell & Associates, HDR, Amazon, Starbucks, eNom, Ascentium,\nThe Cobalt Group, A-Star / Global Recruiting, StreamBase, DataClarity, and ICOS (through NW\nRecruiting Professionals).\n\nBEST Consulting / Venturi Technology Partners\n7/1997 \xe2\x80\x93 2000, Recruiting Manager\n2000 \xe2\x80\x93 10/15/04, Internet Recruiting Consultant\n4/1/04 \xe2\x80\x93 10/15/04, Candidate Sourcer\n\nBEST Consulting was a regional IT consulting firm providing individual contributors as well as complete\nin-house IT consulting projects.\n\nThey had 10 consulting offices throughout the Northwest and\n\nMinneapolis. In 1997 BEST had just joined the Personnel Group of America, a holding company for\nsimilar regional IT consulting firms.\n\nPGA was later renamed to Venturi Technology Partners and\n\nmanagement was brought under one umbrella. Venturi was purchased by COMSYS in 2004.\n\n\x0cJoined BEST as a senior recruiter and was quickly assigned to develop, manage and train a\ntelecommuting sourcing team. Developed contracts, policies and compensation programs. Hired and\ntrained staff. One year later, picked up additional responsibility for the in-house sourcing team. Managed\n12 \xe2\x80\x93 15 staff members including sourcers and recruiting administrators.\n\nIn 2000, took an opportunity to work part-time from home. Provided on-going support for recruiting site\nand posting distribution service selection, evaluation and maintenance. Gathered and maintained data to\nprovide statistical analysis of successes / failures of recruiting sites used. Reported recruiting site ROI to\nmanagement on a monthly basis.\n\nResolved vendor problems in a timely fashion.\n\nRecommended\n\npurchases and negotiated fees. Mentored personnel in recruitment advertising, candidate evaluation and\nrecruiting systems. Published a monthly newsletter, which helped communicate research findings to\nrecruiting department.\n\nContributed research support for special projects \xe2\x80\x94 for example, how to do\n\nbusiness with the federal government.\nWas asked in 2004 to help Venturi\xe2\x80\x99s Portland office find, prescreen, reference check and schedule skills\ntests for candidates for hard-to-fill job openings. Working part-time, sourced and presented a total of 170\nquality candidates in the first six months of assignment.\n\nPacific Mountain Workforce Consortium\n8/18/2003 \xe2\x80\x93 6/1/04\nSenior Employment Specialist\n\nThe Pacific Mountain Workforce Consortium is responsible for administering the Workforce Investment\nAct with its partner, the Workforce Development Council, in five Washington state counties:\n\nGrays\n\nHarbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific and Thurston.\n\nWhile telecommuting part-time for BEST / VTP, accepted another part-time job to support the federal\nSCSEP program for the Consortium. Counseled 55+-year-old seniors trying to move off of subsidized\nemployment and find work in the private sector.\n\nActivities included:\n\nCertifying seniors for program\n\nenrollment; skills, knowledge and personality profile assessments; job readiness training and mentoring\nwith special emphasis placed on senior issues; placement, monitoring and coaching at temporary\nsubsidized work sites; job search assistance for permanent placement in unsubsidized jobs; and\ncoordinating support services benefits for those needing extra help removing roadblocks to employment.\nActivities also included recruitment, training and monitoring of host sites providing subsidized\nemployment. Seniors\xe2\x80\x99 work interests varied widely and included environmental research, construction,\noffice administration, teaching, retail, food preparation, information technology, HR, manufacturing,\nautomotive maintenance, accounting, law enforcement, commercial fishing, transportation, social services\nand general maintenance.\n\n\x0cSucceeded in moving 23% of enrollees off of this subsidized employment program and into permanent\npositions in some of Washington\xe2\x80\x99s most economically depressed counties.\n\nSource Services\n1/1995 \xe2\x80\x93 6/1997\nDedicated Client Recruiting Team Manager\n\nSource Services was a nationally respected permanent placement and IT consulting firm, formerly known\nas Source EDP. In 1997 / 98 it was sold to Kforce.\n\nDeveloped a sourcing team chartered to pull candidates from all of Source Services\xe2\x80\x99 offices for\npresentation to Microsoft. Selected and trained team members, developed policies and procedures,\ncoordinated with all Source Services offices, screened and presented candidates to Microsoft recruiters\nand solicited permanent placement opportunities from Microsoft personnel.\n\nWas promoted to manage the branch sales efforts to technically oriented accounts.\n\nMicrosoft\n12/1994 \xe2\x80\x93 12/1995\nStrike Team Member\nMicrosoft\xe2\x80\x99s Strike Team was comprised of a group of sourcing specialists supporting recruiting throughout\nthe company. We managed permanent placement agency agreements, conference scheduling and all\nother prospecting and sourcing activities.\n\nResearched, selected, coached and managed the candidate submittal process for over 200 permanent\nplacement agencies.\n\nDeveloped contracts.\n\nReviewed candidates.\n\nRan quick candidates submittal\n\ncontests. Also sourced and interviewed selected candidates in creative disciplines.\n\nCRU / Chameleon Creatives, Inc.\n1985-1994\nOwner / President\n\nChameleon Creatives (formerly CRU) was a temp and permanent placement agency for commercial\ncreatives. For some clients CCI also provided full-service advertising, marketing and/or public relations\nservices.\n\n\x0cProvided all management and leadership support of agency including the development of policies and\nprocedures, obtaining financing, running the books, selecting and training staff, setting the creative\ndirection for the company\xe2\x80\x99s advertising, key project management, sales and sales mentoring.\n\nWeyerhaeuser Company\n1980-1985\nInternal Communications Consultant\nWeyerhaeuser is one of the country\xe2\x80\x99s largest forest products companies.\n\nDuring 1980-1985\n\nWeyerhaeuser ran logging operations; land management; pulp, paper, box, door and lumber mills as well\nas real estate development. In 1985, Weyerhaeuser attempted to turn all of its overhead functions into\nprofit centers and began selling various IT services outside the company.\n\nInitially provided support to about half of the IT organization. Responsibilities were expanded to cover the\nentire department after reorganization. Provided internal communications support and consulting for\nWeyerhaeuser\xe2\x80\x99s 500-person Information Systems department.\n\nSupported management\xe2\x80\x99s internal\n\ncommunications efforts through seven in-house newsletters and various white papers, employee forums,\nemployee attitude surveys, communications committees and the updating of the employee handbook.\n\nUnited Computing Systems\n1978-1980\nTechnical Support Specialist\n\nUnited Computing Systems was a computer timesharing vendor and IT consulting firm owned by United\nTelecommunications. They were sold to CDC in 1980.\n\nConsulted with accounts on applications and systems use. Provided programming and documentation\nsupport, supported sales activities and trained customer personnel. Developed and maintained a large\naccount base and consistently increased billings, exceeding monthly quotas by as much as 269 percent.\nReceived multiple sales awards and membership in UCS\xe2\x80\x99s outstanding performance club.\n\nIngersoll Rand Research\n1976-1978\nResearch Programmer/Analyst\n\nIngersoll Rand Research was the 400-person research branch of Ingersoll Rand. In the 70s Ingersoll\nRand produced industrial equipment and rotary engines.\n\n\x0cWrote and maintained programs for mine modeling, database management, regression analysis,\ndigitizing, plotting and payroll. Consulted with and trained engineers on the use of available hardware\nand software.\n\nVanNote Harvey and Associates\n1975 \xe2\x80\x93 1976\nOffice Manager\n\nVanNote Harvey and Associates was a 3-office civil engineering consultancy in New Jersey with projects\nin waste water management and site development planning. Managed a staff of 4 in charge of reception,\nspecification preparation, library maintenance and other administrative duties.\n\nRecruited, trained and managed staff. Reorganized filing systems and introduced the first part-time\nlibrarian to maintain the company\xe2\x80\x99s reference materials. Recognized the need to automate the production\nof project specifications which frequently exceeded 400 pages and which had to be produced in a tight\ntimeframe. Brought word processing to the company.\n\nEducation: BS, Physics, Seattle University, graduated cum laude.'