Jeffrey L Givens has over 10 years of experience as a technical recruiter and lead recruiter. He has expertise recruiting for a variety of technical positions including SAP, Oracle, and various development roles. As a lead recruiter, he mentors other recruiters, addresses challenges, and ensures recruiting goals are met. Givens also has experience in hardware management, store management, and several technical roles outside of recruiting. He has strong leadership, communication, and multitasking skills.

1. Jeffrey L Givens
Expertise:
 Experienced Technical Professional with over Ten (10) years of Industry
experience, Senior Level Technical Recruiting capability with Strong Leadership
skills
 Able to negotiate and problem solve quickly, accurately and efficiently
 Adept at multitasking to achieve individual and team goals
 Able to build a team environment with employees, customers and vendors to
better achieve current and long-term goals of the business
 Exceptional at training employees in all aspects of the tasks required of them,
including the continuation of that training throughout their employment
 Self-motivated and skilled in motivating employees to perform at the highest
possible levels
 Diverse technical experience includes:
o Recruiting for a wide variety of specialized technical positions (SAP,
ORACLE, FACETS, QNXT, SharePoint, DBA’s, BSA's, ETL, EDI, Network
Infrastructure, Technical Project Managers both in Healthcare and out,
JAVA/J2EE, Architects)
o Give guidance to other recruiters as needed to ensure company goals are
met
o Work with Business Development Managers and upper management on
special projects with tight deadlines and specialized skill sets
o Very familiar with client systems used for both recruiting and after hire
business while onsite
Experience and Skills:
MS Office (WORD, Excel, PowerPoint), Outlook, Microsoft Lync, Win7, Win 8.1
Education:
Business Major
Brookhaven Community College
1985-87

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Work Experience:
Synergy Computer Solutions Inc.
Bingham Farms, MI.
September 2007 to Present
Current role: Lead Technical Recruiter
In addition to my normal recruiter duties I am responsible for:
 Partner with Senior Business Development Managers to fill positions with clients
 Develop leads for the Business Development Managers by seeing patterns in hiring
trends
 Maintain excellent relationships with hiring managers, candidates, and the community at-
large
 Lead, Mentor and Develop the new recruiting team members following Synergy’s
recruiting best practices and general real world experience as a Sr. Recruiter
 Conduct regularly scheduled meetings to discuss successes and challenges facing team
 Address issues, challenges, growth areas and successes with direct reports and
leadership team
 Attend regularly scheduled meetings with Operations Manager to discuss challenges,
successes, growth areas and goals
 Build relationships that go beyond client/vendor
Previous role: Sr. Technical recruiter
 Successfully review position requirements to understand the needs of the hiring
manager to identify the right candidate(s)
 Sourcing, Screening and Evaluate candidates from multiple locations--both traditional
and no-traditional
 Understand Technology, Technical roles and Technical skills needed for the right
candidate choice
 Manage and Coordinate Vendor Management Systems (VMS) including, log-ins, on-
boarding information & paper work, compliance, and rates
 Build and manage relationships with consultants, contract houses and clients
 Negotiate rates with candidates
 Work with Business Development Managers to understand the clients they bring and the
needs they have
 Interviewing: Meeting candidates in person, telephone, or video conference etc. to
assess their qualifications
 Following up: Keep all my candidates in the loop, regarding the details of the position

3. Jeffrey L Givens
Rear Axle Assembly (layoff)
Axle Alliance Company
Redford, MI.
January 2007 – September 2007
 I worked on rear axle assemblies and was 1 of only 2 employees’ on my shift allowed to
use the electric lift to lower the parts in the axle
 This was a great job and I had the chance to work with great people
Hardware Manager (Dell)
Chrysler LLC.
Auburn Hills, MI.
September 2004 – January 2007
Second leg of project:
 As Hardware Manager I started to transition from working multiple locations to focusing
on PROC and Chrysler Tech Center (CTC) located in Auburn Hills. We started the
process of migrating Chrysler from Novell Netware to Active Directory as well as roll out
the warranty replacement project and the warranty pull a head project for a total of
64,000 PC's, Laptops, Monitors and associated hardware
 I was again responsible for the collecting of all hardware data for all incoming new
equipment and all outgoing old/replaced equipment. This meant matching the serial
numbers to the employee or location details provided from Chrysler and ensure the
correct hardware, configuration were ready to go for our install team each morning or
night depending on shift needs
 Given "the keys" to multiple locations around CTC to house this massive amount of
equipment and was able to keep track of the contents for the client’s internal database
with the highest of accuracy
 Part of this position also meant meeting directly with Chrysler employees and
contractors to take in old laptops and the end of each day and then again in the morning
to check out the new equipment, this was done daily and was at a rate of 100's per day
all while keeping perfect records to ensure the customer was satisfied
First leg of project:
 During this leg of the project I worked on a large portion of the 20,000 PC's that were
replaced at Daimler Chrysler
 In charge of all equipment (PC, Laptops, Monitors etc.) for refresh project at various
Daimler/Chrysler facilities in southeast Michigan-(SHAP,PROC, Centerline,
Featherstone, Chelsea Proving Grounds). This covered receiving equipment from

4. Jeffrey L Givens
vendors and getting them checked into the client database by serial number, model and
configuration
 Would check in equipment that was replaced and prepare it for disposal
 Had face to face and phone contact with onsite Chrysler direct and contract employee's
to ensure the highest customer satisfaction possible
Area Manager / Store Manager
Walker Franchises – Subway
Canton, MI.
February 1990 – August 2004
 Was in charge of all training for new managers, PC equipment upgrades, store remodels
and orders.
 Covered 4 stores with gross income of Approx. $1.4mil in annual sales
Store Manager
Trans World Entertainment Inc.
Dearborn, MI.
November 1988 – January 1990
 Worked new location openings and 2 of the highest volume stores in the Detroit area--
Ann Arbor and Dearborn
 Held the record for the most Cassette singles ever sold of a single title in one week
>2000<
Store Manager
Western Merchandisers Inc.
Dallas, TX.
November 1984 – June 1988
 Music Store manager right out of High School
 This was a great job and allowed me to see and talk to great number of people
 A lot of FUN!!