Meredith Calloway

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Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist with 8 years of full-cycle recruiting experience across SaaS, fintech, and enterprise software. Specializes in technical and go-to-market hiring, employer branding, and building structured interview frameworks that reduce bias. Reduced average time-to-fill by 31% at current employer while maintaining a 91% offer-acceptance rate across 200+ annual hires.

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Senior Talent Acquisition SpecialistMar 2021 - Present

Vantara Technologies, Austin, TX

Built and managed a 12-requisition pipeline for engineering and product roles, reducing average time-to-fill from 52 to 36 days by deploying structured Boolean sourcing and a talent CRM cadence
Partnered with 6 hiring managers to redesign interview scorecards, cutting mis-hire rate by 22% and improving new-hire 90-day retention to 94%
Launched a campus recruiting program at 4 Texas universities, generating 38 intern conversions over 2 years and reducing early-career sourcing costs by $118,000 annually

Talent Acquisition SpecialistJun 2018 - Feb 2021

Meridian Financial Group, Dallas, TX

Owned end-to-end recruiting for compliance, risk, and technology functions, closing 85 roles per year against a team quota of 90 with a 94% fill rate
Negotiated offers for 60+ mid-to-senior candidates annually, achieving a 10% reduction in starting salary variance while maintaining a 89% offer-acceptance rate
Implemented Greenhouse ATS from scratch, migrating 3 years of candidate data and training 40 hiring managers, which decreased duplicate outreach incidents by 67%

RecruiterAug 2016 - May 2018

Apex Staffing Solutions, Houston, TX

Sourced and placed 120+ contract and direct-hire candidates across IT, accounting, and operations verticals within a 9-month ramp period
Maintained a client satisfaction score of 4.8/5.0 across 22 active accounts by delivering shortlists within 5 business days of requisition receipt
Grew personal billings from $0 to $310,000 in first full fiscal year, ranking 2nd among 14 recruiters in the Houston office

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