Carol Balderson
Midlothian
Summary
Dynamic Talent Acquisition Partner with a proven track record at TruGreen, excelling in full lifecycle recruitment. Adept at building strong relationships and implementing innovative sourcing strategies, I consistently attract top talent while enhancing team collaboration. Detail-oriented and analytical, I drive recruitment success through effective onboarding and strategic planning.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Talent Acquisition Parter
TruGreen
01.2026 - Current
- Primarily sourcing and screening non exempt candidates for lawn care and lawn sales roles.
- Collaborated with hiring managers to identify talent needs and job requirements.
- Developed and implemented effective recruitment strategies to attract qualified candidates.
- Conducted interviews to assess candidate qualifications and cultural fit within the organization.
- Facilitated onboarding processes to ensure smooth transitions for new hires into the company.
- Provided ongoing support during onboarding process by ensuring new hires are properly introduced into the organization.
- Researched industry trends related to talent acquisition processes.
Recruiter
TDB Communications
10.2023 - 09.2025
- Responsible for full life cycle recruitment for both corporate level roles as well as nonexempt level roles.
- Responsible for assisting with the recruitment of 400+ nonexempt season roles between the months of August through December.
- Responsible for screening 10-15 candidates per day to meet recruiting numbers.
- Partner with Operations Teams and HR department to define staffing needs and to ensure smooth recruitment process during open enrollment season.
- Track recruitment metrics to measure performance and to make data driven improvements.
- Implemented new sourcing methods to attract a diverse and updated pool of talent.
- Assisting with both on site Hiring Events as well as career fairs throughout the region.
- Technologies: Freshteams, Microsoft TEAMS, Office, Excel, Sharepoint, Indeed, LinkedIn
Client Facing Recruiter
Booz Allen Hamilton
01.2022 - 03.2023
- Responsible for Full Lifecycle Recruiting including research, requisition management, sourcing active and passive candidates, extending offers, negotiating salaries and closing.
- Managed anywhere from 30-40 requisitions at a time.
- Communicate with hiring managers to define job requirements and sourcing strategies.
- Sourcing for clearable and higher cleared individuals with an Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, Architecture and IT Infrastructure background.
- Conduct phone screenings to qualify candidates for submission.
- Utilize Workday to track, schedule and source candidates.
- Keeping all tasks organized and using time management daily for all the work responsibilities and accomplishments.
- Technologies: Workday, Microsoft TEAMS, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Sharepoint
Recruiting Manager
Averhealth
Richmond
04.2021 - 12.2021
- Responsible for leading/overseeing a Recruiting Team of 3-4 Recruiters performing Full Life Cycle recruitment.
- Assigning New Talent Requisitions to recruiters that are sent through Teamwork Desk from our Manager and Supervisor for Hiring needs.
- Identify and recommend recruitment strategy for all assigned open positions and communicate strategy with hiring managers, leverage online recruiting resources and in-house recruiting tools to identify and recruit the very best candidates.
- Ensure that all phases of the recruitment life cycle including posting, sourcing, screening, scheduling interview with a manager, negotiation of offers, making sure background checks and drug screens are properly coordinated, monitored, tracked, and executed and cleared up until their first day.
- Screens and interviews candidates. Schedules phone, virtual and onsite interviews for hiring managers.
- Extend verbal and written contingent job offers.
- Coordinates pre-employment screens (drug screen, in-house background check, customer specific background checks) and related compliance steps for candidates who accept a position with Averhealth.
- Leads Recruitment Team Meeting weekly to update Hiring Managers on status of open positions, candidates onboarding, etc.
Field Operations Recruiter
Averhealth
Richmond
08.2019 - 04.2021
- Responsible for leading recruitment efforts on Averhealth's Eastern locations which include Virginia (Operations), Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, Michigan and Indiana.
- Partners with operations managers to ensure Human Resources has accurate and up-to-date records of optimal staffing levels for each field location.
- Hires for internal corporate roles that include HR, Marketing, Accounting and IT Infrastructure related roles.
- Processes job requisitions. Seeks additional details when requisitions are unclear or missing key information.
- Posts positions in the applicant tracking systems and on various job boards.
- Screens and interviews candidates. Schedules phone and onsite interviews for hiring managers.
- Screen anywhere from 4-10 candidates per day.
- Extends verbal and written contingent job offers.
- Coordinates pre-employment screens and related compliance steps for candidates who accept a position with Averhealth.
- Completes weekly report on recruitment activity.
- Project manage the hiring process for implementation of new locations.
- Travel as needed to conduct hiring events, interviews, etc. for new locations opening.
- Tracks referrals for the employee referral bonus program and ensures employees are rewarded appropriately.
- Acts as Averhealth's liaison with staffing agencies, workforce development programs, online job boards, and association job boards.
- Partners with Operations and Human Resources to facilitate implementation hiring projects.
- Completes administrative tasks and other duties as assigned.
Recruiter
Averhealth
Richmond
05.2017 - 08.2019
- Maintain Averhealth's applicant tracking system.
- Conduct initial candidate screening and phone interviews.
- Schedule face-to-face interviews with appropriate hiring managers.
- Develop and update job descriptions through formal and ongoing job analysis.
- Identify career fairs and networking opportunities in current and prospective markets.
- Identify additional recruitment sources to improve recruitment efforts.
- Enter recruitment data into HR Metric reports.
- Input new hire data into appropriate HRIS programs.
- File employee paperwork into personnel files.
- Conduct background checks and E-Verify checks for new hires.
- Conducts market research related to potential new customers.
- Technologies: JazzHr, Indeed, ADP, SharePoint, Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Teamwork Desk
Technical Recruiter
Metro Systems, Inc.
Richmond
01.2015 - 04.2017
- Responsible for full life cycle recruiting efforts for all IT related fields and requirements in locations such as (D.C, Richmond, Charlotte, etc.)
- Specialized in identifying qualified candidates for client requirements and placing candidates on temporary, temp-to-perm and/or permanent job assignments.
- Implement comprehensive recruiting strategies that consist of targeted job postings, networking, internet research, cold calling, social media networking, and resume database searches using Boolean search strings.
- Specialized in finding qualified candidates who possess requirements including but not limited to Project Managers, Business Analysts, Project Coordinators, Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product Owners, Data Analysts, SQL Developers, SQL DBAs, Oracle Developers, Oracle DBAs, BI Developers, Data Analysts, Data Modelers, Data Architects, QA Engineers, Java Developers, .NET developer, Web developers, etc.
- Negotiated salaries and hourly rates, extended offers of employment to successful candidates and filled all the necessary paper work after the hire.
- Communicate with candidates via Outlook, outbound phone calls, LinkedIn, Skype and FaceTime.
- Maintained expected daily numbers making anywhere from 50-100+ cold calls per day.
- Motivated, screened, and answered 10-20 applicant's questions per day.
- Successfully managed up to 10 contractors at a time.
- Maintained up to $4000-$4500 in spread.
- Maintained the weekly goal of 3-5 resume submissions a week.
- Technologies: Bullhorn, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, VMS, Outlook
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Communications
Radford University
Radford, VA12.2012
Skills
- Highly responsive
- Detail oriented
- Quality focused
- Strong team building skills
- Analytical skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to take initiative
- Build strong relationships
- Strong organization skills
- Follow-up skills
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Excellent communicator
- Capability to engage others
Timeline
Talent Acquisition Parter
TruGreen
01.2026 - Current
Recruiter
TDB Communications
10.2023 - 09.2025
Client Facing Recruiter
Booz Allen Hamilton
01.2022 - 03.2023
Recruiting Manager
Averhealth
04.2021 - 12.2021
Field Operations Recruiter
Averhealth
08.2019 - 04.2021
Recruiter
Averhealth
05.2017 - 08.2019
Technical Recruiter
Metro Systems, Inc.
01.2015 - 04.2017
Bachelor of Arts - Communications
Radford University