Wendy Wofford

Skills

Talent Acquisition • Full-Cycle Recruiting • Cleared Recruiting • Technical Recruiting • Cleared & Technical Sourcing • Recruiting Strategy • Candidate Sourcing • Candidate Screening • Candidate Pipeline Development • Hiring Manager Partnership • Program Manager Partnership • Interview Coordination • Security Clearance Verification • Offer Preparation • Offer Negotiation • Compensation Discussions • Background Checks • Reference Checks • Government Contract Recruiting • Federal Contracting • Defense Recruiting • HR Operations • Workforce & Staffing Support • Employee Onboarding • Employee Offboarding • Employee Lifecycle Support • HRIS Administration • Paylocity • E-Verify • I-9 Compliance • Personnel Records • Employee Documentation • Performance Management • HR Reporting • Employment Compliance • Process Improvement • PWS/SOW Review • Solicitation Review • SAM.gov Wage Determinations • Boolean Search • Google X-Ray Search • Hiring Our Heroes • DoD SkillBridge • LinkedIn Recruiter Lite • ClearanceJobs • Taleo • ApplicantPro • Microsoft Excel • Microsoft Word • Microsoft PowerPoint • Microsoft Teams • SharePoint

About

Top Secret cleared Talent Acquisition and HR Operations professional with 5+ years of full-lifecycle recruiting experience in defense, intelligence, and federal contracting environments. Experienced partnering with executive leadership, program managers, and hiring managers to translate contract and workforce requirements into recruiting strategies for cleared, technical, engineering, and specialized federal roles.

Managed 103 requisitions supporting 113 hires and placements while managing 5–16 concurrent requisitions. Full-cycle recruiting experience includes sourcing, candidate screening and recommendations, security clearance verification, interview coordination, compensation discussions, offer preparation and extension, negotiation, background and reference checks, and candidate acceptance.

Hands-on HR Operations experience includes onboarding and offboarding, employee orientation, E-Verify/I-9, employee documentation and personnel files, HRIS administration, employee inquiries, job descriptions, performance management, HR reporting, employment compliance, and process improvement. Led the company-wide implementation of Paylocity Employee Action Forms, replacing manual personnel-action forms and multi-step email approvals.

Additional experience includes government contracting workforce and staffing support, PWS/SOW and solicitation review, SAM.gov Wage Determinations, Hiring Our Heroes, and DoD SkillBridge.

SHRM Talent Acquisition Specialty Credential holder with experience using Paylocity, Taleo, ApplicantPro, LinkedIn Recruiter Lite, ClearanceJobs, Indeed, Handshake, ZipRecruiter, Circa, CNortonNet, and Microsoft Office.