Kristin Michalski has over 15 years of experience in marketing, event planning, and business development. She currently owns and operates Cork & Brew LLC, a brew-your-own business in Southington, CT that also offers a banquet facility. Previously, she worked as a managing director and senior executive recruiter at a recruiting firm, and held marketing and event planning roles for a nonprofit organization. She has a BA in Journalism and is a certified professional consultant.

1. KRISTIN MICHALSKI
152 Whiting Lane
West Hartford, CT 06119
860-841-3229
michalski.kristin@gmail.com
(Seeking Part Time Contract Employment)
EDUCATION
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
B.A. in Journalism, 1998
National Association for Professional Services
Certified Professional Consultant, CPC, 2000
COMPUTER SKILLS
MS Office Suite, HTML, Adobe/PhotoShop, Illustrator, Corel Draw, PageMaker, Constant Contact
EXPERIENCE
CORK & BREW, LLC., Southington, CT
Owner, 8/11 – Present
Cork & Brew is the first and only destination in Connecticut where you can make your own beer, wine,
hard cider and soda on premise. Cork & Brew is also a full service brew shop for the home brewer and
our beautiful Cork & Brew Banquet facility can seat up to 6o guests.
• Founded Cork & Brew in 2011.
• Opened Cork & Brew Banquet facility in 2013. Customers can rent out the facility and self cater
or Cork & Brew caters.
• Responsible for all aspects of each business. Both businesses continue to grow.
• Responsible for planning all aspects of small to large events from initial contact through follow
up on success of the event. Fundraising events, birthday parties, corporate and nonprofit parties
and meetings, holiday parties, etc.
• Responsible for full lifecycle marketing and business development for Cork & Brew. Utilize
Constant Contact to create and email information to customers. Grew the email database from
zero to over four thousand customers. Responsible for attracting over forty five hundred likes on
Cork & Brew’s face book page.
• Other marketing skills; Create fun, interesting, unique and interactive Facebook postings, Twitter
posts, Four Square, Instagram, paid advertising & other incentives to attract customers and
encourage previous customers to return.
J.MORRISSEY & CO., Windsor, CT (7/00 – 4/03 and 10/5 – 8/11)
Managing Director, 10/05 – 8/11
• Report directly to President. Responsible for all duties associated with Senior Executive
Recruiter role in addition to the following:
• Managing Director of Accounting/Finance & Office Support divisions. Responsible for 3-4
recruiters on a regular basis.

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• Train, mentor, motivate, hire and fire junior and senior recruiters. Responsible for attendance and
covering recruiters duties when absent.
• Responsible for setting and meeting individual and division budgetary numbers on a weekly,
monthly, quarterly and yearly basis. Successfully met or exceeded annual budget every year.
• Final decision maker on client and/or candidate issues.
• Ran a desk. Recruited, interviewed & pitched candidates to clients. Set up interviews and prepped
candidates and clients for interviews. Debriefed candidates and clients. Negotiated contracts,
salaries and other benefits on behalf of the candidate. Placed contract and direct hire candidates.
• Extensive us of web-based recruiting tools, including social media, job boards and
candidate tracking systems
• Built strong relationships with hiring managers and human resource partners to
understand the specific requirements.
• Negotiate new agreement terms, conditions, fees and mark ups.
• Assist in setting new company policies and procedures to benefit employees.
Senior Executive Recruiter/Marketing Representative, 7/00 – 4/03
• Interview, recruit and place permanent (direct hire) and temporary candidates.
• Develop new client relationships and recruit qualified candidates by networking, sourcing, cold
calling, word of mouth, social media connections and long term relationships.
• Maintain and deepen existing client relationships to ensure repeat business.
• Create, edit and place position openings online and other media.
• Coach candidates on interviewing styles, communication skills and resume writing skills.
• Successfully negotiate the best offer “package” possible for candidates considering job offers.
• Provide salary surveys, retention programs and employee relation information to clients.
• Successfully developed client relationships and placed individuals into industries such as Non
Profit, Health Care, Software Development, Insurance, Manufacturing, Retail, Law, Financial
Services, etc.
CASEY FAMILY SERVICES, Hartford, CT, 4/03 – 10/05
Resource Coordinator
• Planned and supervised holiday parties, summer and special events for company employees,
foster parents and foster youth.
• Responsible for creating, editing and distributing company wide newsletter on a monthly basis.
• Supervised, planned, ran and worked recruiting events at local and regional.
• Created successful marketing ad campaigns with local and state agencies for foster care,
reunification and post adoption services.
• Ordered, negotiated and maintained inventory for recruitment materials and special events.
• Increased foster parent enrollment by successful media campaigns, recruiting and awareness.
• Organized and trained at foster care pre service trainings.
• Assisted and supervised successful foster youth run business.
• Worked with local and state officials and other nonprofit organizations to increase awareness
about foster care, adoption and reunification

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KFORCE.COM (Formerly Romac International), East Hartford, CT, 11/99 – 7/00
Executive Recruiter
• Recruited qualified candidates and developed new clients in a variety of ways including extensive
cold calling, placing ads on the Internet and local newspapers, job fairs, referrals, reference
checking and networking.
• Create/post positions via the Internet, newspaper, radio and other media.
• A strong understanding of Client/Server, Software Development, Software Engineering, ERP
Packages and Internet technologies key words, phrases, functionality’s and history.
• Successfully negotiated salaries, rates, and contracts including contract extensions and fees.
• Helped establish and maintain new and existing client relationships. Assisted in effectively
selling traditional and Internet based staffing services for consulting and permanent IT positions
to high-level decision-makers such as CIO’s and VP’s of Fortune 500, Fortune 1000 and small
businesses.
ENHERENT (Formerly PRT Group), Windsor, CT, 11/98 – 8/99
Assistant Recruiter/Human Resources
• Searched and recruited candidates from Internet search engines and databases, company
databases, candidate referrals, candidate’s reference checks, job fairs, etc.
• Responsible for new employee orientations, training manuals and explanation of benefits.
• Set up interviews and coordinated schedules with interviewer(s) and candidates.
• Performed Face to face candidate interviews.
• Create/post job openings via the Internet – MonsterBoard, Tri-State, Net-Temps, The Hartford
Courant and other media as needed.
• Maintained databases, SMS and resume databases, entry of new candidates, searching for
candidates, creating/closing new requisitions.
• Create employment contracts, offered employment and negotiated contracts with candidates.
• Once extended verbal offers, followed up with candidates and managers with appropriate
signatures and/or candidates issues.
• Updated spreadsheets, such as recruiting reports, employee referral awards and other reports.
References Available Upon Request