BIO

Bill Humbert of RecruiterGuy.com, a Washington, DC native, is a graduate of Assumption College in Worcester, MA. He has been a professional recruiter since 1981.

In 1981, MCI Telecommunications was his first client. Over the years other former clients have included The Washington Post, Comsat Labs, USF&G Insurance, Geico Insurance, CSX Technology, Telegroup, LeFebure, Intermec Technologies, Digital Broadband Communications, Latitude Communications in Santa Clara, CA, Identico Systems in Nashua, NH, and Life Investors Insurance Company of America, an AEGON member company, Trex Company, and Harvest Manor Farms. Since 1990, with the exception of 1.5 years as the Recruiting Manager for McLeodUSA in Cedar Rapids, IA, he has had his own contract recruitment consulting business - RecruiterGuy.com, with clients on each coast and in the Midwest. The model of this contract recruitment business enables Bill to partner with his clients in the recruiting process to identify and deliver the best candidates available.

Bill Humbert is an AIRS trained contract recruiter whose professional recruitment experience dates back to 1981. He has read over 300,000 resumes, interviewed over 11,000 candidates over the phone or in person, and has worked with over 2500 hiring managers. In the past 12 years, he has helped companies hire over 1000 new employees nationwide from Vice President level down.

He has presented "Secrets of a Successful Job Search" at Career Fairs in Dallas, Houston, Denver, Ft. Collins, Chicago, Milwaukee, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Des Moines, Quad Cities, Omaha, Kansas City, and St. Louis. He has Presented "Getting the Most out of a Career Fair" in Houston, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and several of the above mentioned cities.

He is RecruiterGuy.com

STRATEGIC CONTRACT RECRUITMENT ASSIGNMENTS Included former CLIENTS NATIONWIDE Such As:

MCI , Pentagon City, VA/Cedar Rapids, Iowa Contract Recruiter - total contract length - 30 months, renewed many times. Impact - Developed and implemented a recruitment strategy that saved MCI approximately $2.4 million by recruiting almost 300 IT professionals without paying a recruitment fee. Approximately 200 of those positions were filled at a remote location. Project completed
Rockwell Collins - Cedar Rapids, IA - Contract Recruiter - 3.5 month contract. Impact - wrote a proposal suggesting a reorganization of recruitment while recruiting for the company. Project completed.
LeFebure, Cedar Rapids, IA/Nationwide offices/plants - Contract Recruiter - 11 months, renewed several times. Impact - Developed recruitment strategy. Filled over 300 positions nationwide in 11 months, including two Vice President level positions. Improved recruitment processes. Project completed.
Telegroup, Fairfield, IA (now Primus Telecommunications) - Contract Recruiter - 11 months, renewed several times. Impact - Developed recruitment strategy. Recruited 60 IT professionals at a $600 cost per hire over 8 months. Project completed.
Amana Appliances, Middle Amana, IA - Contract Recruiter - one month, company sold. Recruited 2 viable Vice Presidents of Marketing and several refrigeration engineers. Project canceled as a result of the sale
Intermec Technologies, Cedar Rapids, IA - Contract Recruiter - 5 months, renewed once. Impact - recruited HR Director, Web Architect, Manufacturing Engineer, Hardware Engineer among others. Improved recruiting processes. Project completed
Latitude Communications, Santa Clara, CA - Contract Recruiter - 7.5 months, renewed several times. Impact - set up successful college recruitment program for software engineers. Invited to speak to seniors at Rice University prior to a career fair.
Trex Company, Winchester, VA - Contract Recruiter - 4.5 months, renewed once (2 separate contracts since 2004). Impact - Recruited a bilingual Director of Spanish Operations, Purchasing Manager, ERP (JD Edwards) Manager, Network Manager, Network Engineer, JD Edwards Developer, Big Box Account Sales Coordinator, Chief Process Engineer, Human Resource Administrator for Winchester, VA plant, nationwide Sales Force for the new Fencing division in Dallas, Denver, Baltimore, LA, Chicago, and Tampa.
Harvest Manor Farms LLC, Cedar Rapids, IA - Contract Recruiter - most recently 4 months, renewed once (4 separate contracts since 2003). Impact - Recruited a bilingual Plant HR Manager (El Paso, TX), Bilingual Director of Manufacturing Technology (El Paso, TX), Bilingual Plant Controller (El Paso, TX), CIO (Cedar Rapids, IA), Manager of Financial Planning and Budgeting (Cedar Rapids), Sales professionals in Bentonville, Arkansas and the Midwest.
Life Investors Insurance Company, a member of the AEGON Insurance Group, Cedar Rapids, IA - Contract Recruiter - 11.5 months, renewed several times (as of 2008, four separate contracts). Impact - Recruited a VP of Internal Audit in Toronto, an Assistant Director of Infrastructure Audit in Cedar Rapids, and 17 Senior/Lead Internal Auditors in LA, Cedar Rapids, St. Petersburg, Baltimore, and Toronto. Introduced Brad Smart's "Topgrading" concept to the organization. Fine-tuned Managers' interviewing skills.

Pre-IPO Contracts/Employment

Pre-IPO start-ups present interesting recruiting challenges, especially in these economic days. However, those challenges are what makes recruitment for start-ups interesting.

McLeodUSA, Cedar Rapids, IA - HR/Recruiting Manager for 1.5 years until IPO. Then returned to RecruiterGuy.com, a contract recruitment firm. Impacts - Developed recruitment strategies. Set up recruitment processes, then automated them with Lotus Notes. Recruited over 200 employees in first year.
Digital Broadband Communications, Waltham, MA - Contract Recruiter - 2 months, Impact - there were 10 employees when we started and recruited 16 employees in 2 months. Developed recruitment strategy. Helped develop company logo. Project completed.
Identico Systems, Nashua, NH - Contract Recruiter - 4 months,renewed once. Impact - Recruited regional sales force and saved Identico Systems $105,000 by not paying a recruiting fee. Developed recruitment strategy. Project completed.