Kevin has more than 15 years of staffing expertise, mainly focused in the technology sector with additional experience hiring Legal, Public Relations, HR, Sales, and Marketing professionals. He moved into Recruiting because of his love of working with people and technology.
He started his career working for large agencies like Kforce and Matrix, and then moved into the corporate recruiting for large Fortune 500 companies like Home Depot, Microsoft, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Manhattan Associates and Commvault Systems.
In his most recent role, Kevin was responsible for architecting and driving the strategy, execution, and delivery of a Global Employee Referral Program in EMEA, APAC, and the Americas. Also, achieved significant success sourcing and recruiting for several key roles across the globe. One of his greatest accomplishments was his ability to drive awareness, engagement and quality of employee referrals up from 31% to 54% by year end.
Kevin believes in building relationships and continuously learning to stay ahead of potential challenges and disruption. Kevin has presented at ERE and SourceCon and is a past board member of the Technology Association of Georgia, (TAG); TAG Supply Chain & Logistics and TAG Recruiting.
He attributes his success to his focused work ethic, creativity and willingness to take risks. He is currently performing independent consulting to start-ups and large companies on strategic HR initiatives, Employment Branding, Talent Pipelining, Sourcing and targeted Recruiting projects.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinwalters
