JOSH BLAKE
372 Jasmine Street
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Cell (310) 405-1590
Home (949) 517-4353
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PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
After more than 3 ½ years as a highly successful freight broker / logistics specialist, I have taken a step in a new direction by pursuing a career in recruiting. During my time in the recruiting industry I have become the top producing associate within my company. Through my professional experience I have gained a self-sufficient, results oriented personality with a balanced approach to business. Pro-active sales and account management style. Solid multi-tasking experience, extremely disciplined, and able to focus on need and supply results. Excellent skills in negotiation, telephone based sales, and adaptable to constantly changing environments. Tireless drive to make things happen.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Manpower Business Solutions (RPO Division), Torrance, CA 10/2006 - Present
Recruiter / Database Administration Manager / Sourcing Analyst
www.US.Manpower.com/RPO
Manpower’s RPO division is a premier, global Recruitment Process Outsourcing service provider dedicated to helping Fortune 1000 and emerging growth companies build talent-driven organizations through identifying, hiring and retaining exemplary staff.
Steven Myers & Associates (Newport Beach, CA) www.SMAwins.com
Currently - Supervising team for Steven Myers and Associates.
“SM&A has supported over 150 programs worth more than $1 trillion, including some of the largest in US history. Over 25 years, SM&A has achieved an 85% Win Rate on 1000 proposals worth more than $340 billion, helping to win industry defining programs in diverse markets.”
Experienced at developing pipelines of qualified subject matter expert candidates to fill the needs of a fast paced high volume recruiting environment as well as highly specialized requisitions via referral mining, cold calling, internet sourcing, professional job fairs, database queries and research networks. My concentration is currently in Aerospace and Defense recruiting for positions that require government Secret, Top Secret, SCI/SSBI clearances with a minimum of 15+ years experience surpassing $150,000 salary requirements. These positions provide Aerospace and Defense companies and the Department of Defense (DoD) such as the Missile Defense Agency, (MDA) as well as commercial primes like Boeing, Northrop Grumman, ATK, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics, SAIC, BAE, Loral and Textron with professional consultants bringing awarded and ongoing programs to certain milestones. I am the first point of contact for SM&A to where I source and screen all Systems Engineers and Program Managers for necessary qualifications. Qualifications for these candidates must include active clearances, 100% travel requirements, and the most difficult aspect; 15+ years in full lifecycle “cradle to grave” Systems Engineering and Program Management experiences on programs exceeding $25+ million annually. I also have direct control of all Applicant Tracking System (ATS) activities and training of new recruiters and talent scouts as database manager utilizing PeopleCapital software. Direct creation of weekly reports/Metrics of recruiting team sent directly to VP of recruiting for SM&A.
See below for a listing of current recruiting program needs.
BDS Marketing (Irvine, CA) www.BDSMarketing.com
Recruiting focus was on Market Development Managers (MDM) and Assisted Sales Reps. (ASR)
SONY, Philips, Sharp, Time Warner and Kyocera were all recruited for Nationwide.
TRUCK TRANSPORTATION SERVICES (TTS), Wilsonville, OR 11/2002 – 6/2006
Freight Broker / Logistics Specialist / Business Development
· Providing nationwide transportation logistics
· Servicing clients and brokers; managing 12 phone lines
· Troubleshoot scheduling, freight content, delivery, and payment issues
· Direct control over multi millions of dollars of merchandise on a daily basis
· Calculating quotes on rates-per-mile; negotiating rate ceilings to maximize profits
· Coordinating nationwide shipments to meet shipper/receiver schedules and budgets
· Setting up new carriers and approving payments, insurance and system verification
Major Accomplishments:
* Through a pro-active “can do” approach to clients and forward selling seasonal shipments increased company revenues to $500,000 in the first year; $1 million in second year; and $2 million in third year. Fourth year projected sales revenue is $3 million.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
PACIFIC FINANCE, Portland, OR 11/2001 – 11/2002
Loan Officer / Teller (1 year)
Customer service, sales, accounting and loan coordination.
Pre-approving loans and following through on documentation.
Accountable for thousands of dollars in daily loan payment processing.
RELIABLE REMODELER, Portland, OR www.ReliableRemodeler.com 06/1999 – 08/2001
Telephone Based Sales (2 years)
Sales of home renovation contractor services to home owners.
Sourcing contractors for estimates, and to join Handyman-Online services.
Awards: “Top Sales Associate” for numerous continuous months out of 25 telemarketers
MERRILL LYNCH, Lake Oswego, OR www.ML.com 06/1997 – 09/1997
Summer paid intern
Telephone based sales of stocks, bonds and mutual funds.
Sales associate in efforts of finding investors with a minimum of $25,000 towards stocks, bonds and mutual funds. I was handpicked in an effort to increase revenues for several of the top financial management representatives.
CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAINING
· Equal Employment Opportunity
· Direct Sourcing: Competitive intelligence and cold calling
· Internet Sourcing Level I and II
· Behavioral Based Interviewing
· Managing the candidate relationship
· Managing the hiring manager
· Offer Negotiation
· Metrics
EDUCATION
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
1998-2000
REFERENCES
References will be furnished based upon a mutually beneficial agreement.
ORGANIZATIONS
· Friends of NASA
· TechExpo – Top Secret Hiring Events
· Top Secret Candidates
· Cleared Connections
· Defense Connections
· Defense Recruitment
· Security Clearance Jobs
PROGRAM NEEDS
· Ground Based Midcourse Defense (GMD)
· Advanced Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation System (AEGIS)
· Theater High Altitude Air Defense (THAAD program)
· Battle Management Command Control and Communications (BMC3 program)
· Spaced-Based Infrared System (SBIRS program)
· Ground-based Interceptor (GBI program)
· Energy Kinetic Vehicle (EKV program)
· Upgraded Early Warning Radar (UEWR)
· Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)
· Future Combat Systems (FCS)
· Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH)
· Mobile User Objective System (MUOS)
· Joint Strike Fighter for the Department of Defense (JSF)
· Future Combat Systems (FCS)
However, any experience in Command, Control, Communications, radars, rockets, missiles, missile defense and associated experience is still valuable in my recruiting efforts.