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Lindsay Nolan
Lindsaynolan1@gmail.com | 610-812-0486 | https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsayjnolan
Summary of Qualifications
Senior strategic talent acquisition professional with 20 plus years of full life-cycle recruiting, client development, and
people management utilizing contingency, retained, RPO and corporate models. Functional and industry experience
includes: Information Technology, Finance/Accounting, Plant Operations, R&D, Supply Chain, Human Resources,
Pharmaceutical, Consumer Products, Manufacturing, and Building Materials. Clients include both start-up and fortune
500 companies. Identify and implement process improvement. Skilled in qualifying candidates for both the technical
and cultural fit. Successful track record of placing candidates who enjoy both promotion and longevity with client
companies.
Professional Experience
CertainTeed Corporation, Malvern, PA
A subsidiary of Saint-Gobain,one of the worlds’ largest and oldestbuilding products companies,CertainTeed and its affiliates have
more than 5,700 employees and more than 60 manufacturing facilities throughoutthe United States and Canada.The group had
total sales of approximately $3.3 billion in 2015. www.certainteed.com
Manager, Talent Acquisition - TAS, CSSR 8/2012 – Present
 Develop and implement strategic initiatives for recruiting diverse talent in plant and corporate environments.
Successfully partner with multiple businesses within CertainTeed including: Insulation, Pipe and Foundations,
Ceilings, Shared Services, and Siding Products in support of their recruitment needs.
 Develop and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders in order to create partnerships. Present weekly
and quarterly recruiting metrics to senior leadership within each business. Manage full life cycle recruiting
process to meet the multiple staffing goals across all levels within multiple business units. Enforce and
provide behavioral based interview questions to aid the interviewer in talent identification.
 Develop, coach, and lead a team of as many as five full life cycle recruiters and one recruiting coordinator.
Hold weekly team and one-on-one meeting with the group. Provide training for the team by collaborating with
business leaders to participate and discuss their unique business challenges and products. Attend offsite
events such as plant visits to further educate the team on the various manufacturing processes.
 Research and implement best practice talent acquisition tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Skills Survey, Reflik
(crowd sourcing technology) and Interviewstream. Responsible for regular posts to CertainTeed’s LinkedIn
page. Increased CertainTeed followers by 25% over the last two years. Reduced time-to-fill, improved the
candidate experience and increase brand awareness by implementing such tools.
 Consistently perform at the lowest time-to-fill days amongst my peers.
 Process Improvement: Participated in a 6 month project to customize our current applicant tracking system,
Led brown bag series on LinkedIn for Managers. Authored one of four modules for a project named The
Interview Toolkit. Partnered with procurement on a new contract for our preferred vendor initiative. Presented
to business finance controllers an improved process for hiring Plant Controllers. Strategically created talent
pools in specific geographic and functional areas. Developed base line metrics in order to analyze and
provide process improvement for all business units. This resulted in decreased time-to-fill and streamlined the
interview process. Implemented Talent Acquisition Guidelines (TAG) to insure accurate communication and
continuity between the hiring managers, recruiters, HR business partners and senior leadership within the
business unit.
 Led diversity sourcing strategy. Utilized external vendor to build a database of diversity candidates for key
strategic roles. Attend networking organizations such as SWE (Society of Women Engineers).
 Led RFP for a military resource for Saint Gobain North America. Maintain relationship with account manager
and review metric monthly.
 Successfully centralized a customer service organization with one of CertainTeed’s larger businesses.
Decentralized Controller/Cost Accounting organization from Canada to remote locations in the US.
 Led 2016 reboot of CertainTeed’s Employee Referral Program (ERP). Selected external vendor and will
implement in early 2017. Participated in the redesign of the Employee Referral Program in 2012 for Saint
Gobain North America.
Manpower Group – RPO, Valley Forge, PA
Senior Delivery Consultant 6/2007-8/2012
Manpower is the world’s workforce expert, creating innovative workforce solutions for nearly 70 years. As workforce experts, we
connectmore than 600,000 people to meaningful work across a wide range of skills and industries every day. www.manpower.com
 Full life cycle recruiting and people management. Client engagements included; Endo Pharmaceutical (10
months) and CertainTeed a division of Saint Gobain (4 years, 4 months). Develop and maintain strong
relationships with stakeholders in order to create partnerships. Present weekly and quarterly recruiting metrics

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to senior leadership within each business. Manage full life cycle recruiting process to meet the multiple staffing
goals across all levels within multiple business units.
 Researched and implemented best practice talent acquisition tools.
 Develop, coach, and lead a team of as many as five full life cycle recruiters and one recruiting coordinator.
 Identify areas of process improvement and implement solutions.
PSCI (Progressive Software Computing, Inc.) 7/2006-3/2007
Manager, IT, Permanent Placement
PSCI was founded in the early 90s as an IT staffing organization. www.psci.com
 Hired to start up an IT permanent placement division for PSCI reporting to the CEO. Responsible for selling
PSCI's permanent placement services and developing new business.
 Utilized Harte- Hanks and Hovers to source new business opportunities.
 Initiated meetings with hiring authorities to fully understand the clients’ needs for potential candidates.
Negotiated fees, terms and reviewed contracts.
 Sourced and solicited potential candidates through a variety of recruiting methods. Screened, interviewed
candidates and presented to clients. Debriefed with both candidates and clients post interview. Negotiated and
presented offers.
The Judge Group 8/2001-5/2006
Associate Vice President
Judge was founded as a staffing firm,and staffing is still a large part of our business.Our 35+ offices place more than 4,5 00
professionals in both temporary and permanentcareer positions every year. www.judge.com
 Returned to Judge to support the manufacturing division. Initially focused on regulatory affairs and quality
assurance/control. Responsible for both company development and recruiting for Pharmaceutical, Biotech and
CRO's nationally.
 Later maintained the same responsibilities, but focused on placing Food Scientists and Culinary professionals
for food manufacturing and food service organizations to include: Diageo, Ventura foods and Wendy's
International.
 Researched and participated with professional associations: such as RAPS, RCA, SQA and, AFT.
 Designed a succession plan to incent the sales associates. The plan was implemented company wide and is
still utilized today.
 Early in 2005 was asked by the CEO to manage a small but growing IT permanent placement organization.
Promoted to Manager, IT Permanent Placement. Interviewed and qualified candidates for open requirements.
Developed new business regionally. Managed a staff of three.
Tower Consultants
Executive Recruiter 9/1999-6/2001
Tower Consultants,Ltd., Executive Search firm specializing in the placementofHuman Resources talentincluding Consultants to
Executive Leadership. www.towerconsultants.com
 Placed senior level Human Resources professionals (nationally and globally) across every function and
industry utilizing both retained and contingency models. Acted as Client Manager for multiple Fortune 500
clients, divisions and subsidiaries.
 Conducted candidate interviews via phone, in person and video conference. Reviewed, edited and delivered
written candidate assessments to clients. Visited client sites to ascertain their recruitment needs and staffing
goals.
 Conducted client interviews, prepared notes for position specification and edited final job description.
 Sold Tower Consultants retained services and acquired new retained search business. Preformed search
management and researched strategy and approach.
 Met with candidates for client assessment purposes and prepared candidates for client interviews.
 Conducted candidates’ references.
 Updated clients on search progress weekly.
 Attended industry conferences, including, HRPS, WorldAtWork, Compensation Executive Board and ODN.
Additional Experience
Judge Group - Sr. Associate Vice President
TR2 Technical Recruiting Resources - Technical Recruiter
Suky Rosan - Retail Sales Manager
Education
Rosemont College, Bachelor of Science, Sociology