Lamond Ayers

Talent Acquisition / Recruiter

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Dallas, TX 75254

acwbvy@r.postjobfree.com

Summary and Accomplishments:

Decreased time-to-fill ratio by utilizing extensive experience in recruiting candidates for IT, healthcare, aviation/aeronautics, technical, engineering, logistics, C-Level, Managerial, accounting, finance, administrative, therapists, high volume call center, sales and general labor positions.

Increased 90-day retention rate by overhauling interview processes and procedures.

Built successful relationships with hiring managers, HR executives and direct reports by creating effective recruiting strategies.

Met or exceeded all recruiting metrics and benchmarks measuring diversity, gender, graduate, veterans, etc. objectives.

Increased quality of submittals and hard to fill positions by leveraging recruiting tools such as social media outlets, major and specialized job boards, referrals, unemployment and work force offices and on the ground sourcing such as community and networking events.

Achieved seamless flow of recruiting processes and HR functions during periods of massive change management and organizational restructure such as company split, merger and organizational restructure from a regional to state-by-state presence.

Saved over $5,000,000 through the successful management of 5-year recruitment strategy and VMS/Agile implementation resulting in renewal of MSP contract.

Increased satisfaction with implementations for customer/client and end users by conducting effective one-on-one and classroom presentations and trainings.

Drafted strategic growth and staffing needs assessment for several $1,000,000 capital projects and service delivery expansions

Created the most successful MSP within healthcare system of 3 major hospitals and 92 satellite locations by leveraging success in VMS management and on-site staffing.

Saved over $5,000,000 through the successful management of 5-year recruitment strategy and VMS/Agile implementation resulting in renewal of MSP contract.

Skills:

ATS Tools: Taleo, Workday, Talent Brew, FIELDGLASS, IQ Navigator, Beeline, Adapt, Kenexa, PeopleSoft, Brassring, SharePoint

VMS Tools: Beeline, Fieldglass, Agile1 (Accelerator), IQ Navigator,

Corporate Recruiting: 10 years (Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Sears Holdings, Henry Ford Health System)

Agency Recruiting: 7 years (ObjectWin Technologies (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) APR Consulting, ACT-1 (Henry Ford Health System)

Contract Advisor/Consultative high volume Recruiting: 4 years (Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cornerstone Staffing, APR Consulting)

Candidate screenings, functional and behavior interviewing: 10 years

VMS/HRIS Administration: 5 years

Education / Professional Development:

Bachelor’s Degree, Business Administration – Columbia College, Chicago, IL.

Studying for PHR Certification, projected completion November, 2016

Certified Mediator – Dispute Resolution Services, Los Angeles County Bar Association

Professional Experience:

ObjectWin Technologies (Hewlett Packard), Plano, TX July, 2015 – July 2016

Contract Talent Acquisition Advisor

Responsibilities:

Plan, direct and lead all phases of successful operations for sourcing, screening and hiring for HPE Healthcare-Medicaid Division to build highly capable and innovative teams.

Review assigned requisitions, engage with hiring managers to verify that job grade, code and job level correspond with job title and appropriate educational and skill level requirements.

Manage workload of over 40 requisitions, nationwide.

Assure job descriptions and requisition abstracts are accurate and all upper level and business unit approvals are in place and meets HPE and Labor Law compliance.

Determine pre-questions and scoring, and screening internal sourcing employees within Healthcare Business Units.

Post positions on job appropriate job boards, engage with sourcers to provide pipeline of passive candidates and develop gorilla strategies for hard to fill positions.

Screen all internal and external applicants and forward to hiring managers for possible interview.

Provide constant updates to hiring managers and candidates. Provide weekly and monthly updates to business leaders and direct reports.

Point of contact for all applicants and guide them through a sometimes lengthy hiring process, keep them updated, provide information and answers to any questions they have, keep them warm and interested in joining HPE.

Update Taleo and disposition candidates for most up to date reporting and status reports.

Accomplishments:

Provided seamless recruitment and backend requisition movement during split of Hewlett Packard into two separate companies.

Shortened time to fill to below predetermined goal set by business.

TAD PGS, Inc. (DynCorp International), Ft. Worth, TX Aug 2014 – Dec 2014

Contract Sourcing Specialist

Responsibilities:

Sourced IT, technical and engineers for work sites located in Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Dhabi, Honduras, and Germany.

Accomplishments:

Completed President’s commitment to have selected personnel home for holidays

Cornerstone Staffing (Samsung, EMSI), Irving, TX Apr 2013 – Dec 2013

Contract Recruiter

Responsibilities:

Responsible for handling recruitment for C-Level Executives, IT Managers, Network Engineers, Healthcare and Commercial Insurance Administrators and Representatives.

Managed sourcing for Field Service Managers, Technical Trainers, Brand Ambassadors, Technical Sales Representatives, Marketing Managers, and Technical Specialists.

Worked closely within the industries of technology electronics, telecommunications, healthcare and commercial insurance.

Performed high-volume recruiting; sourcing, screenings, interview process, and pass qualified candidate to hiring managers

Accomplishments:

Staff all 'Samsung Experience' stores within Best Buys box stores across the nation. Expert at sourcing for remote, rural areas.

APR Consulting, Dallas, TX Apr 2012 – Apr 2013

Senior Staffing Specialist-IT/Technical

Responsibilities:

Skill-sets recruited include Microsoft C#. NET, SQL Server and Java/J2EE, IBM Oracle/MS, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Data Warehouse/BI Architects, Application and Web Developers, ETL Programmers, Project Managers, Database/Systems Administrators, Network/System/Security Engineers, QA Specialists, Test Engineers, Business Analysts, Systems Support, and Help Desk Specialists.

Handled full cycle of submission process sourcing through on-boarding on a wide range of Information technologies/Roles and skill sets.

Sourced and recruited candidates on a nation-wide basis to fill requirements of varying complexity.

Performed initial searches, qualifying, contractor negotiations, submission through VMS portals, and coordination of interviews.

Acted as Primary Recruiter for Dallas satellite office in support of 2 Regional Managers.

Accomplishments:

Account Manager over several national accounts (Caterpillar, Watson Pharmaceuticals, Fujitsu).

Sears Holdings, Inc., Dallas, TX Dec 2007 – Mar 2012

Full Desk Generalist / Full Cycle Corporate Recruiter

Responsibilities:

Managed recruiting and staffing, employee relations, employee recognitions, and coordinated training. Recruited effectively against measurable metrics & benchmark meeting diversity objectives (Managers, Supervisors, Logistics, Supply Chain and light industrial workers).

Assisted in the development and implementation of Human Resources policies and procedures and their dissemination through employee booklets, communications, and/or meetings.

Assisted General Manager with interpreting and complying with OSHA, safety trainings and applicable employment law including pay for performance.

Administered PTO, FMLA,leaves, workers' compensation, short term disability.

Initiated and reviewed 60-day, semi-annual and annual performance reviews, development plans, merit increases, promotions and transfers.

Accomplishments:

Revamped recruitment process duplicated across all other business units across country

Scored highest in employee satisfaction across nation 2009 - 2011

Achieved 100% compliance in annual corporate audit 2009 - 2011

ACT-1 (Henry Ford Health System, Detroit Public School System), Detroit, MI 2002 – 2007

Staffing Coordinator - MSP / VMS Administrator

Responsibilities:

Responsible for coordinating the effort necessary to assure successful implementation of new ATS and VMS within required time frame while partnering with HR staff and management to resolve problems, implement program enhancements and suggest strategic solutions.

Scheduled and facilitated initial implementation meetings with Client and Vendors.

Provided system training to client managers, staff and vendors.

Responsible for all stages of the contract labor acquisition process including: needs definition, requisition creation, submittal management, interviewing of candidates, interview scheduling with hiring managers, consistent follow-up with managers and suppliers to obtain and provide candidate feedback, assistance with the selection process and final candidate on-boarding.

Reduced attrition from 25% to below 15% by improving the recruitment and employment processes that reduces costs and enhances quality of hires.

Drafted strategic growth and staffing needs assessment for several $1,000,000 capital projects and service delivery expansions.

Achieved seamless flow of applicants and placements between clients, vendors, billing and payroll by managing Agile web-based VMS software, PeopleSoft and customized ATS.

Closed requisitions for exempt position on average within 2 weeks, 3 - 5 days for temporaries. 60%+ benchmark established of contract-to-hire ratio of (nurses, allied professionals, managers, project directors, administrative, research, call center, administrative support, facilities and general labor) positions.

Recycled temporary pool into other positions.

Accomplishments:

Over $5,000,000 saved through the successful management of 5-year recruitment strategy and VMS/Agile implementation.

$250,000 + lost revenue captured through the oversight of compliance and performance assessment and audit of vendor contract

Reduced time-to-fill from 45+ days to 21

Awarded second 5-year VMS contract

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