1. Tad Thornton
Talent Management Talent Acquisition Full-Life Cycle Recruiting Project Management
Vail Resorts Broomfield, CO
Talent Acquisition Group/Hospitality Sr. Operations Manager 2013 - Present
● Leads the day-to-day operations of centralized team (25+ recruiters and five leads) which interviews and processes applicants
for over 18,000 seasonal hires annually for Vail Resorts Mountain, Retail with an emphasis on the Hospitality divisions.
● Top to bottom hospitality responsibilities include food and beverage (fast-casual, fine dining, and café style), hotel and
restaurant staffing at all 12 mountains resulting in 2,644 hires for FY15 and 3,360 for FY16 (June – Present)
● Staffing for five different call centers ranging from 20 – 80 agents including reservations, rentals, transportation, and vacation
planning sites.
● Created seasonal screening team workforce plan to meet the field hiring needs
● Responsible for sourcing, hiring, training, goal setting and performance evaluation for Team Leads and Screening Team
members
● Identify opportunities to continuously improve the processes of the screening team and lead efforts to improve the recruiting
process, in partnership with the Divisional Talent Acquisition Managers
● Determines operational strategies, capacity planning, and cost/benefit analyses; identifying and evaluating state-of-the-art
technologies; defining user requirements; establishing technical specifications, and production, productivity, quality, and
customer-service standards; contributing information and analysis to organizational strategic plans and reviews.
● Maintains and improves operations by monitoring system performance; identifying and resolving problems; preparing and
completing action plans; completing system audits and analyses; managing system and process improvement and quality
assurance programs
Aimco Denver, CO
Senior Director of Talent Acquisition/Recruitment Operations and HR Analytics 2011 - 2013
● S & P 500 Financial and Real Estate organization operating in 44 states with 11 regional offices, ~250 communities and
serving ~250,000 residents
● Direct all aspects of talent acquisition and report directly to the head of Human Resources.
● Management of entire recruiting team that is responsible for hiring all Corporate, Field, and Executive functions (Insource,
Outsource and offshore) which included assisting in searches and providing hands-on support/guidance resulting in ~ 2500
hires annually
● Proactively evaluating with Operations partners using predictive modeling and analytics to forecast the increases in recruiting
needs of the business.
● Continuous evaluation and refinement of recruitment process to exceed or meet service level agreements, customer service
scores, and established metrics.
● Direct all employment marketing strategies and budget management.
● Oversee supplemental recruiting programs including internships, college recruiting, and military.
● Continuously meeting with leaders of other internal and external organizations to establish new best practices.
● Created and implemented reporting using 30+ standard metrics including TTF, TTS, SPH, Vacancy, CSAT, Cycle times, and
bottleneck reports, and internal mobility.
● Decreased time to fill (TTF) year over year in Q1 to 27 days from 39 days.
● Decreased submits per hire (SPH) YTD to 2.9 from 4.8.
Phoenix Multisport – 401c3 Denver, CO
Colorado Director of Operations 2010 - 2011
● One of the original board of directors for the philanthropic organization.
● Directed up to 47 hours of programming per week for at risk individuals in Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs.
● Managed up to 10 instructors (full-time and contract) that facilitated all of the programming and special events.
● Oversaw all aspects of multi-night trips for up to 150 individuals.
● Conducted outreach on behalf of Phoenix Multisport to other organizations to establish partnerships and collaboration
opportunities.
TAD THORNTON, 303-888-4063, TTHORNTON1219@GMAIL.COM 1

2. Aimco Denver, CO
Director of Talent Acquisition 2006 – 2010
• Act as internal talent consultant to customers, which may include senior leaders, human resources and hiring managers.
• Responsible for the recruitment, selection, and placement of exempt and non-exempt employees; full-time, part-time and
contingency workforce.
• Ensure that all selection decisions are made in accordance with business/site strategic and operating goals through a
consistent and appropriate interview and applicant screening process.
• Lead and support the roll out of HR initiatives related to Talent movement and succession planning and tracking.
• Responsible for coordinating workforce forecasts, succession planning, internal mobility, external recruitment, contingent
workforce management and retention.
• Ensures that the entire talent pipeline is constantly supplied and being updated so that the net measurable impact on a
business is an increase in workforce productivity.
• Managed team of 10 – 20 off-site recruiters/sourcers resulting in 284 corporate level hires for 2007.
Corporate Recruiter 2005 – 2006
● Source passive and active candidates utilizing advanced strategies including internet sourcing/searching/researching, cold
calling, networking, employee referral and job board utilization.
● Evaluate and screen candidate’s/applicants qualifications and make recommendations for selection.
● Manage on-going searches for all areas of the business as to maintain candidate pipeline.
● Participate in the development of new applicant tracking system START (Strategic Talent Acquisition and Retention Tool).
● Participate in the development and implementation in new Sourcing/Recruitment process utilizing outsourced recruiting
efforts.
● Trained outsourced recruiters advanced sourcing techniques and methodologies on an ongoing basis.
National Consulting Service Kansas City, MO
Recruiter/Account Manager 1998– 2005
● Responsible for sourcing, evaluation, and development of clients.
● Develop and coordinate effective search and recruitment strategies.
● Responsible for all Internet recruitment for sales, marketing, security and technical division.
● Evaluation and administration of all Internet links including job boards, corporate affiliations, human resource and sourcing
lists.
● Development and implementation of search strategies utilizing advanced Internet recruiting techniques.
Education
1996-1998 University of Missouri Columbia, MO
1998-2000 Columbia College Columbia, MO
Awards and Accomplishments
● Represented Vail Resorts at SourceCon 2014
● Completed Executive Leadership Training through Eagles Flight (10 month program)
● Aimco was recipient and/or finalist of 2007 Recruiting Excellence Awards from ERE
○ Most effective use of staffing metrics
○ Most innovative recruiting process or departmental structure
○ Best employee retention programs/strategies
○ Most strategic use of recruitment technology
● Completed ACIR (Advanced Certified Internet Recruiter) Certification
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