Kathy Staudt
Pearland, Texas 77581
281-***-**** cell – 281-***-**** home – 713-***-**** work
abnu4j@r.postjobfree.com
An innovative Human Resources professional with a proven record of change management successfully implementing
new programs, processes and systems, coaches line managers to executives on human capital issues and initiatives.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Director, Global Recruiting-Knowledge Reservoir (upstream consulting firm) 3/2009 to present
• Centralized global staffing into one department and managed a global team of recruiting resources.
• Re-engineered staffing process into one global process for management insight into recruiter effectiveness.
• Developed revenue tracking mechanism and margin adherence.
• Automated reporting to track resourcing process issues and overcome inefficiencies in recruiting.
• Recruited globally and domestically.
• Worked closely with marketing and regional sales managers on resource marketing strategies.
• Manage HR functions including employee relations and policy development and implementation.
• Developed and implement corporate, team and individual metrics and KPI’s.
Director, Talent Acquisition - Calpine Corp. ($9billion IPP) - 10/2006 to 3/2009 (laid off)
Created a centralized staffing function that includes university relations and a global recruiting strategy.
Accomplishments included:
• Worked closely with executive management to create highly effective organizations through talent identification
and recruitment.
• Worked with executives on leadership identification and development plans assisting with performance
evaluations and promotion practices.
• Effectively worked with business leadership and executives to design organizations, develop roles and create job
descriptions.
• Created corporate HR and team metrics to deliver cost, retention, headcount and position control methodology.
• Worked with executive teams to manage labor budgets and ensure adherence and track variance through
workforce planning strategies.
• Created successful pay strategies for executive recruitment and attraction including working closely with Calpine’s
Stock Plan Administrator to gain equity grant approvals from Calpine’s Board of Directors.
• Implemented an Applicant Tracking System and a paperless application and employee onboarding program.
• Created a measurable, successful, “high touch” onboarding process for new hires using a Lean Six Sigma
methodology which resulted in an 80% increase in reliability and quality both for new hires and hiring managers.
• Implemented diverse recruitment strategies to reduce cost per hire by 70% year over year.
• Coached business leadership in the area employee relations, investigations and resolutions.
• Development and implementation of HR policies, procedures and process including employment, performance and
compensation.
• Created high functioning recruiting teams through process development and team building resultant in lower cost
to fill, lower time to fill and higher quality of hires.
• Negotiated executive search process staffing by identifying and overseeing retained search firms for key areas
including finance, accounting and treasury.
• Worked closely with executive management team to identify internal and external pipeline of high potential
talent.
• Successfully relocated the corporate functions from San Jose, California to Houston.
• Obtained Green Belt Certification.
• Developed an RFP for a global vendor management program.
Lead, Senior Corporate Recruiter - Humana, Inc. - 5/2005 to10/2006
Led staffing function for the Chief Services Officer which included the following: Strategic Consultancy, Information
Technology and Internal Audit.
• Virtually managed seven person team including recruiting and HR specialist.
• Partnered with Business Leadership and HR Business Partners to identify needs in recruitment.
• Developed workforce and staffing plans for all exempt level roles including executives levels.
• Worked with compensation to determine roles and market pricing of positions with key functions.
• Maintained key relationships with strategically targeted universities .
Director, Primavera Consulting- 9/98 to 5/2005
Clients included: Humana, Deloitte, Cheniere Energy, Reliant Energy, PCOrder.com, BMC Software, Enron
International, DataCert, and Aegis.
Accomplishments :
• Developed recruiting teams aligned both regionally and functionally to meet the needs of the business.
• Created high visibility recruitment campaigns by partnering with product marketing.
• Developed & implemented college recruiting and relationship strategies with a focus on diversity recruiting.
• Utilized retained search methodologies to create in-house search teams
• Successfully implemented agency and vendor strategies to streamline cost, to create value, and accountability.
• Educated the organization on the effective use of behavioral assessments in employee selection through training,
education and benchmarking.
• Developed metrics for staffing, tracking most effective recruitment methods.
• Created a successful employment brand strategy resulting in a meaningful employee value proposition.
Manager, Staffing - Texas Instruments (position moved to Dallas) - 8/97 to 6/98
• Created a 9 person team to staff engineering and technical roles in key TI businesses.
• Managed global recruiting and contingent workforce for four sites.
• Created college recruitment strategy strategies focused on diversity recruitment and managed the university co-
operative education, summer intern program and early identification programs.
• Worked with businesses to develop staffing projections and cost effective recruiting plans.
• Supplied HR due diligence support for acquisition targets and did site assimilation for new acquisitions.
Manager, Staffing - AIM Management - 8/1996 to 8/1997
• Developed and defined sourcing and selection methodologies including college, professional and trade school.
• Managed a $1 million advertising budget and partnered with a professional agency to provide a world-class look to
AIM brand.
• Consulted with the Information Technology department management to develop competitive total rewards strategy.
• Member of the corporate employee retention task force.
• Coached managers on employee development planning, succession planning and mentoring programs.
• Implemented an Application Tracking System.
Prior Experience in consulting, technical recruiting and systems management
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science with Majors in Computer Science & Mathematics
Stephen F. Austin State University - 1986
MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS:
SHRM, HR Houston, Human Capital Institute, AIRS
SYSTEMS EXPERTISE:
PeopleSoft, Lawson, SAP, Taleo, Ceridian, HRLogix, SalesForce, Recruitmax, Vurv, MS Office Suite