Chris Blair

Background

About Chris Blair

Success-driven sourcing strategy expert and recruiting/talent acquisition solutions professional. • Experience working both as an individual contributor on highly targeted individual roles and in leading teams of sourcers and recruiters on large-scale hiring initiatives. • Experience in a wide range of sectors, industries and countries, start-up to enterprise. • Utilizes cutting-edge best practices and AI tools. • Experience sourcing and recruiting for individuals with high level security clearances such as TS/SCI. • Experience sourcing and recruiting for diversity hiring initiatives. • Co-Authored the industry defining textbook THE SOURCING METHOD (2017) ISBN 978-1928734796. An original and comprehensive manual for successful cutting-edge sourcing techniques and results-driven recruiting practices. • Sourcing expert with skillset including: crafting bespoke sourcing strategy, conducting thorough incisive and detailed intake meetings, logical and Boolean searches, search operators, search string building, search engines, keyword identification, word cloud analysis, social media (particularly LinkedIn and Facebook), image and reverse-image search, Chrome extensions, networking, referrals, cold-calling, outreach content, cadence, and candidate engagement, experience and more. • Proficiencies: Google Suite, Microsoft word, Excel, Final cut, PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Spreadsheets, Slack, Grammarly, Skype, Zoom, QuickBooks, Social Media, Website site building, Dashboard building, Report generation. • Areas of sourcing specialization include IT and Health. 2015 – Present: Senior Contract Sourcer-Recruiter/RPOs Wolfland Group, Sourcing Beast and Hire4ce - Working with clients in both the commercial and federal government space with skillsets both technical and non-technical. Technical skills sourced recruited include: JAVA, UX/UI, J2EE, Azure, Cloud, SAP on Azure, Sitecore Go, OpenWRT, Node.js, SQL, jQuery, Git, JavaScript, HTML, C#.NET, ASP.NET, C++, Oracle, Sybase, Perl, Data Modeling, Salesforce, ore and MongoDB.