Sid Mitchener, partner at Vaco Raleigh, LLC (http://www.vaco.com/raleigh), an executive placement and consulting firm, has announced that Andrea “Andee” Bunten has joined the firm as senior technical recruiter. With 10 years of recruiting industry experience, Bunten will supervise the recruiting, sourcing and screening of active and passive candidates with diverse and hard-to-fill requirements for Vaco Technology, which addresses IT project initiatives and direct hiring needs, ranging from help desk to leading edge developers to visionary CIOs on a project and permanent basis. She has served as a technical recruiting professional with training and experience in a variety of corporate, agency environments and startup companies based in North Carolina and California. As technical recruiter for IBM at Research Triangle Park, Bunten was selected as a member of a two-person team tasked with developing and implementing a targeted recruitment strategy that encompassed the new RPM Model. She has provided full life-cycle recruiting of all levels of staff and departments in biotechnology, software sales, technical pre-sales, R&D, software & hardware development, IT, manufacturing, professional services and telecommunications.

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“Andee has an extensive background in recruiting, particularly in the IT industry, that will help Vaco Technology tremendously in matching the right IT professionals with temporary and permanent positions in the Triangle,” said Mitchener. “She has shown she knows what both job candidates and IT organizations expect from each other for a successful relationship, and we look forward to her efforts.”