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With more than 10 years of recruiting experience spanning agency and in\-house environments, Brian specializes in executive, technical, professional, and high\-volume hiring, particularly in fintech, cryptocurrency, blockchain, IT, AI, cloud, cybersecurity, telecom, and software markets with limited candidate pools\. Brian combines data\-driven recruiting operations with relationship\-centered stakeholder management, helping hiring leaders define needs, build targeted pipelines, and translate talent goals into business results\. His strengths include advanced sourcing beyond LinkedIn, AI\-enabled search tools, full\-cycle recruiting, structured interviewing, talent forecasting, workforce planning, and scalable talent\-acquisition process design\. At DISH Network, Brian helped scale a business from approximately 800 to 2,200 employees, made more than 100 record\-setting hires for a formerly agency\-owned region, and generated nearly $1 million in savings\. At Stern Recruiting, Brian has built SOPs, dashboards, KPIs, metrics, and recruitment strategy while personally exceeding a first\-year goal of 40 hires and making more than 80 hires to date\. Brian has also made more than 30 high\-end placements in fewer than nine full months for the confidential firm\. ## Services - Attention to Detail - Strategic Communications - Learning & Development Solutions - Structured Interviews - Phone Screens - Acquisition Professional - Talent Strategy - Human Resources Information Systems \(HRIS\) - Influencing Others - Data\-driven Decision Making - Candidate Management - Problem Solving - Organizational Learning - Amazon Web Services \(AWS\) - Software as a Service \(SaaS\) - Strategic Planning - Employee Relations - Organizational Planning - Negotiation - Teamwork - Training and Development \(HR\) - Organizational Effectiveness - Personnel Management - Team Building - Organizational Development - Strategic Partnerships - Career Development - Strategic Thinking - Communication - Job Boards ## Highlights - Helped DISH Network support growth from approximately 800 employees to 2,200 employees and counting\. - Made more than 100 record\-breaking hires for a DISH Network region previously owned by an external agency, generating nearly $1 million in cost savings\. - Averaged more than 26 hires per quarter in his first year at DISH Network while managing average pipelines of 20 to 30 requisitions and quarterly goals of 16 to 24 hires\. - Expanded DISH Network responsibility from the Central region to all four Deployment regions, Corporate HQ, National RF Engineering, National RAN Engineering, and Boost Infinite senior\-leadership roles\. - Built teams from scratch at DISH Network through job\-code and level recommendations, reporting\-structure design, and job\-description development\. - Personally exceeded a first\-year goal of 40 hires at Stern Recruiting and has made more than 80 hires to date\. - Built Stern Recruiting’s modern, scalable recruiting foundation, including SOPs, dashboards, KPIs, metrics, and strategies\. - Made more than 30 high\-end placements in fewer than nine full months for a confidential staffing, consulting, and executive\-search firm\. - Helped lead the confidential firm to a number\-one ranking as a staffing partner for a leading global cryptocurrency exchange and fintech client\. - Delivered JobFormance recruiting metrics of 14 days from assignment to recommended candidates and 72 days from assignment to start date\. - Served as the first Account Manager in DMC Marketing Inc\.’s Chicago branch\. - Became DMC Marketing Inc\.’s top marketer in the Chicago branch by consistently generating more leads than any other marketer\. - Created social\-media presence and brand awareness at Systems Research Inc\. ## Experience - **Senior Recruitment Consultant at Confidential Company** (2025\-10\-01–present) — Confidential staffing, consulting and executive search firm\. • I help companies find project resources, temp\-to\-hire and permanent talent in IT and Professional capacities\. • Personally made over 30 high end placements in less than 9 full months\. • Leading the company to a \#1 ranking, as a top\-performing staffing partner for the world's leading cryptocurrency exchange & FinTech Giant\. • This client is known for hiring only the highest caliber of talent based on intense screening processes\. • Full life\-cycle recruiting on bleeding\-edge positions: AI, Artificial Intelligence, LLM and Agentic AI across Engineering, Product Management, Customer Experience, Data Science and Machine Learning\. • Strategic Staffing partner with top global clients across top sectors and industries: Cryptocurrency exchanges, Blockchain, Web3, Healthcare, Top Global consulting firms, Cloud Solutions and networking solutions firms, Pharma, Banking, Fintech, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Engineers, Security Engineeri - **Head of Sourcing and Recruitment at Stern Recruiting** (2024\-10\-01–present) — True startup, soft opening in November 2024 and full launch in January 2025\. • I joined Stern Recruiting to help build a modern, agile recruiting firm that leverages new tools and tech more effectively than traditional firms weighed down by legacy systems\. • We combine high\-touch service with smart platforms to help companies hire better, faster\. • Recruiting through the unique process of combining AI technology, subject matter experts, predictive assessments and comprehensive candidate interviewing, testing and scoring to ensure top talent for the perfect fit for your organization’s needs\. • My leadership style blends analytics with empathy, balancing operational rigor with the human side of recruiting\. • Responsible for creating and building modern and scalable processes: all SOPs, dashboards, KPIs, metrics and strategies\. • Responsible for partnering with hiring managers and technical teams to define requirements, align on hiring strategies and drive efficient decision\-making\. • Wor - **Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist at DISH Network** (2022\-05\-01–2024\-10\-01) — Successfully executing in a tech startup culture within a Fortune 200 legacy business, contributing to a growth in company size from approximately 800 employees to 2200 and counting • Initially brought on as TA Specialist for the Central region, now have responsibility for all 4 regions of Deployment\. • Additionally earned responsibility for roles on Corporate HQ, National RF Engineering, National RAN Engineering and Senior Leadership at Boost Infinite • Quickly and effectively ramped up recruitment efforts for a region previously owned by external agency, making record\-breaking hires \(over 100\) and significant cost savings \(nearly $1M\) • Exceeded performance expectations with goals ranging from 16\-24 hires per quarter \(managing talent pipelines on average of 20\-30 reqs\) • personally achieving an average of over 26 hires per quarter in my first year • Stakeholder management: served as a strategic adviser to senior leadership, aligning human capital initiatives with organizational goals - **Executive Recruiter at JobFormance** (2019\-12\-01–2022\-05\-01) — JobFormance prides itself on being on the front line in the "War for Talent"\. • We are your ambassador, your advocate, and in most cases your first impression to talent\. • With nearly 50 years of collective talent management experience, JobFormance has built trusted relationships and is passionate about finding and developing human capital for clients\. • Talent management is a people business\. • When companies consider talent as simply filling roles instead of people as individuals, top talent will stop knocking at your door\. • Let JobFormance help you solve the puzzle and find a fit\. • Our Values: • JobFormance is a team who maintain high levels of personal responsibility, ethics, moral constraints, and entrepreneurial drive\. • We desire partners who can team with us to create opportunities for success both for themselves and the talent they are seeking\. • Recruiting highly qualified talent for a variety of clients from Start\-ups to small to midsize companies to Fortune 100 organizati - **Search Manager at Systems Research Inc\. \(SRI\)** (2019\-02\-01–2019\-12\-01) — Talent adviser responsible for full\-desk recruitment, collaborating with senior leaders to provide exceptional recruiting services, as well as developing and overseeing a best\-in\-class candidate experience • Responsible for identifying, sourcing and interviewing top talent for traditionally hard to fill mid\-level management to senior management jobs for clients • Establish strong partnerships with Hiring Managers, working diligently to understand business needs and responsible for offering solutions to meet objectives and long\-term business goals • Collaborate with senior leaders and managers to understand business objectives, strategic direction, organizational structure and hiring needs to offer workforce planning solutions • Develop and articulate recruitment and sourcing strategies for open requisitions while fostering a consistent sense of urgency, track candidate process flow, acquire interview feedback and next steps in a timely manner • Continuously build and maintain - **Account Manager at DMC Marketing Inc\.** (2018\-08\-01–2019\-02\-01) — Manager/Mentor: Recruited, interviewed, trained and developed promotional staff in assigned campaigns • First Account Manager in the Chicago branch • Top Marketer at Chicago Branch: • Generated more leads than any other marketer on a consistent basis • Employed direct marketing strategies, brand awareness and customer acquisition concepts to consumers • Face\-to\-Face customer interactions/cold calling - **Mortgage Operations at Allied First Bank** (2016\-06\-01–2018\-08\-01) — Disclosure Desk Supervisor \(June 2017 – August 2018\) • Review and verify borrowers’ income, credit reports, employment histories, property appraisals and title insurance information to prepare loan applications for underwriting submittal • Customer relations with all borrowers • Lock Desk Supervisor \(June 2017 – August 2018\) • Responsible for locking in the rate of every loan to ensure accurate borrower payment and bank margins • Communication with all investors • Mortgage Operations, Centralized Operations \(March 2017 – August 2018\) • Ensure compliance with company policies, underwriting guidelines and lending\-program requirements • Management of Encompass software and Pipeline loans • Loan Assistant \(August 2016 – February 2017\) • Coordinates all related communications with processing the loan to moving a loan through the system to completion • Manages files for lenders and request documentation from the appropriate sources, including customers, operations staff or any other source n ## Education - Wheaton Academy - Sport and Business Management — University of Iowa ## FAQ ### What does Brian do? Brian is a talent acquisition, recruiting, sourcing, and people\-operations professional\. He leads sourcing and recruitment at Stern Recruiting and serves as a Senior Recruitment Consultant for a confidential staffing, consulting, and executive\-search firm\. ### What are Brian’s strongest recruiting capabilities? Brian’s core strengths include talent strategy, full\-cycle recruiting, executive search, technical recruiting, stakeholder management, advanced sourcing, high\-volume hiring, recruitment analytics, workforce planning, talent forecasting, and scalable process design\. He is also experienced in selling candidates and executives on opportunities, especially in startup and specialized technical markets\. ### How much recruiting experience does Brian have? Brian has more than 10 years of recruiting experience and brings both agency and in\-house recruiting perspectives\. His experience includes building talent\-acquisition functions and processes from the ground up, including SOPs, dashboards, KPIs, metrics, and hiring strategies\. ### What does Brian do at Stern Recruiting? At Stern Recruiting, Brian leads the creation of modern, scalable recruiting operations, including SOPs, dashboards, KPIs, metrics, and strategies\. He partners with hiring managers and technical teams to define requirements and hiring approaches, documents best practices, drives talent and people programs that support growth and culture, identifies risks in complex initiatives, and serves as a player\-coach responsible for full\-cycle recruiting from intake through offer acceptance\. Stern Recruiting had a soft opening in November 2024 and a full launch in January 2025\. ### What roles and industries does Brian recruit for at Stern Recruiting? Brian focuses primarily on executive\-level and senior go\-to\-market hiring, including direct, channel, carrier, and wholesale roles, across technology\-related industries\. These include IT, telecom, cloud, AI, data center, cybersecurity, fintech, software, SaaS, CCaaS, and UCaaS\. ### What has Brian accomplished at Stern Recruiting? Brian personally exceeded his first\-year goal of 40 hires at Stern Recruiting and has made more than 80 hires to date\. He also works to foster trust, inclusion, and continuous improvement while bringing structure to fast\-moving initiatives\. ### What does Brian do as a Senior Recruitment Consultant? At the confidential staffing, consulting, and executive\-search firm, Brian helps companies secure project resources, temp\-to\-hire talent, and permanent IT and professional talent\. He conducts full\-life\-cycle recruiting for AI, LLM, agentic AI, engineering, product management, customer experience, data science, and machine\-learning roles\. ### What has Brian accomplished at the confidential staffing firm? In fewer than nine full months, Brian made more than 30 high\-end placements and helped lead the confidential firm to a number\-one ranking as a staffing partner for a leading global cryptocurrency exchange and fintech client\. The client is known for intensive screening and hiring only high\-caliber talent\. ### What markets and role families has Brian recruited for as a consultant? Brian has supported global clients across cryptocurrency exchanges, blockchain, Web3, healthcare, global consulting, cloud and networking, pharmaceutical, banking, fintech, and security\. His searches have included software, full\-stack, backend, frontend, mobile, cloud, systems and network, security, AML/KYC data, Salesforce, data science, data engineering, data analytics, UX/UI, product, program and project management, and crypto financial\-crimes roles\. ### What did Brian do at DISH Network? At DISH Network, Brian was a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist operating in a tech\-startup culture within a Fortune 200 legacy business\. He initially supported the Central region and later assumed responsibility for all four Deployment regions, as well as roles in Corporate HQ, National RF Engineering, National RAN Engineering, and senior leadership at Boost Infinite\. ### What did Brian accomplish at DISH Network? Brian helped support growth from approximately 800 employees to 2,200 employees and counting\. He rapidly took over recruiting for a region previously handled by an external agency, making more than 100 record\-breaking hires and producing nearly $1 million in cost savings\. While managing average pipelines of 20 to 30 requisitions and quarterly goals of 16 to 24 hires, Brian averaged more than 26 hires per quarter in his first year\. ### How did Brian contribute beyond recruiting at DISH Network? At DISH Network, Brian advised senior leadership on human\-capital initiatives using data\-driven insights\. analyzed recruiting metrics and helped build teams from scratch through job\-code, level, reporting\-structure, and job\-description recommendations\. ### What did Brian do at JobFormance? At JobFormance, Brian recruited qualified talent for clients ranging from startups and small and midsize companies to Fortune 100 organizations\. He partnered with hiring managers and senior leadership to understand needs, develop job descriptions, create recruiting strategies, manage job postings, source and interview candidates, and lead hiring through the full recruitment cycle\. He also provided market intelligence and client storytelling as a “Director of First Impressions\.” ### What recruiting metrics did Brian achieve at JobFormance? Brian’s recruiting metrics at JobFormance included 14 days from assignment to recommended candidates and 72 days from assignment to start date\. ### What did Brian do at Systems Research Inc\.? At Systems Research Inc\. \(SRI\), Brian was a Search Manager and full\-desk talent adviser\. He sourced and interviewed talent for hard\-to\-fill mid\-level through senior\-management roles, developed candidate experience programs, built relationships with hiring managers and candidates, created recruitment and sourcing strategies, managed candidate\-process flow and feedback, and consulted leaders on workforce plans, forecasts, trends, metrics, and recruiting data\. He recruited across engineering, executive, finance and accounting, life sciences, HR, IT, management, manufacturing and operations, sales and marketing, supply chain, and customer service, and created social\-media presence and brand awareness\. ### What did Brian do at DMC Marketing Inc\.? At DMC Marketing Inc\., Brian was the first Account Manager in the Chicago branch\. He recruited, interviewed, trained, and developed promotional staff was the Chicago branch’s top marketer by consistently generating more leads than any other marketer and used direct\-marketing, brand\-awareness, customer\-acquisition, face\-to\-face interaction, and cold\-calling approaches\. ### What was Brian’s experience at Allied First Bank? Brian worked in Mortgage Operations at Allied First Bank\. As Disclosure Desk Supervisor and Lock Desk Supervisor from June 2017 through August 2018, he reviewed borrower income, credit, employment, appraisal, and title information for underwriting managed borrower relations locked loan rates to protect accurate borrower payments and bank margins and communicated with investors\. In Centralized Operations from March 2017 through August 2018, he ensured compliance with policies, underwriting guidelines, and lending\-program requirements while managing Encompass software and pipeline loans\. As a Loan Assistant from August 2016 through February 2017, he coordinated loan\-processing communications, managed lender files, and obtained required documentation\. ### What sourcing tools and techniques does Brian use? Brian uses LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, ChatGPT, social\-media platforms, job boards, applicant\-tracking systems, HRIS, and advanced internet\-recruiting techniques\. He is particularly experienced at finding highly specialized candidates beyond conventional LinkedIn searches and building pipelines in small technical talent markets\. ### What additional professional skills does Brian bring? Brian’s skills include strategic communications, learning and development, structured interviews, phone screens, candidate management, data\-driven decision\-making, problem solving, influencing, negotiation, strategic planning, organizational planning, organizational learning, organizational effectiveness, organizational development, employee relations, employee engagement, career development, team building, team leadership, project management, client development, account management, consulting, sales, networking, relationship building, customer service, contract negotiation, contract recruitment, staffing services, permanent placement, corporate recruiting, college recruiting, global recruiting, global talent acquisition, and high\-volume recruiting\. He also has experience with AWS and SaaS environments\. ### What is Brian’s education? Brian studied Sport and Business Management at the University of Iowa and attended Wheaton Academy\. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/brianferrill