Melody Quine, SPHR

781-***-**** (mobile)

ac3blv@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Agile, senior Talent Acquisition professional. Relationship builder; applies broad business knowledge, sound judgment, and personal integrity to partnering with the business to solve challenges, deliver impact, and add value to outcomes. Career focus on filling specialty technical and corporate professional roles.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

AECOM, Los Angeles, CA and Parsons Corporation, Pasadena, CA

2011 to 2015 and 2017

Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant

Performed full-cycle recruitment duties for major global employers. Supported a variety of fast-paced projects as both a full-cycle Recruiter and Sourcer. Various assignment configurations included on-site, virtual, and ex-patriate. Duties varied from quick-turnaround, hands-on recruitment to staffing planning, applicant tracking, and metrics development and reporting duties.

Using a broad variety of customized strategies, identified, sourced, screened and presented candidates for a wide range of roles:

Executive

Cybersecurity

Project Leadership

Business Development (Marketing)

Engineering

Operations Management

Science

Defense Contracts

Construction Management

FEMA Contracts

Team Mentor on sourcing tactics for challenging roles. Continuously reviewed best practices and strove to create consistent, repeatable results.

National Grid, Waltham, MA

February 2016 to November 2016

Talent Acquisition

During high volume time drove dramatic increase in the service delivery standards of attracting, engaging, and selecting applicants. Partnered across operational and discipline lines to improve intradepartmental and interdepartmental communication and process clarity. Collaborated closely with hiring teams to more effectively identify qualitative and quantitative applicant requirements. Successfully delivered key projects during formal organizational structure vacuum, using resourcefulness and relationship building skills.

Identified the need for and crafted an employee value proposition to better attract needed talent and provided key elements for the employment branding strategy. Customized branding strategy by audience, resulting in higher quality and quantity of the right talent.

Conceptualized and executed hiring events for difficult to find talent and volume roles;

oAn engineering event for passive job seekers (those not looking for a position), resulting in 76% moving to next step

oAttracted 750 attendees for operations and construction roles resulting in the ability to select highest caliber talent.

With teamwork, delivered 969 new hires in four months; 380 were operations and engineering hires for a critical and time sensitive project.

Coler & Colantonio, Inc. Norwell, MA

December 2005 to November 2011

Director of Human Resources

Served as member of senior leadership team during ownership transition and re-structuring of privately held engineering services and construction management firm. Assessed, designed, and implemented strategic HR solutions. Increased employee satisfaction, decreased turnover, increased the level of talent while efficiently managing costs in multiple location/multi-discipline consulting environment. Managed and developed team of HR professionals. First line of defense against regulatory compliance and employment law liabilities. Managed $1.2 million USD budget.

Created an award winning employment branding profile and executed with materials, applicant tracking user interface, and social media connectivity.

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Facilitated the elimination of long-standing operational impediments to the bid process by collaborating to improve interdepartmental processes and optimize efficiency; contributed to a 15% year-over-year revenue growth.

Fully automated recruitment and HR functions; automatic data flow through from applicant tracking system (Taleo platform) to the employee records data platform and Payroll modules. Enabled management reporting to support cyclic and on-demand reporting.

Reduced voluntary turnover from 22% in 2005 to 4% over four years; performed base pay and incentive pay analysis utilizing internal and benchmarked compensation data, revised compensation structure, optimized benefits expenditures, launched employee engagement initiative, and implemented employee onboarding program.

Improved interdepartmental recruitment and on boarding processes and optimized efficiency collaborating with Business Leaders and applying HR best practices.

VAHRS Consulting, Marshfield, MA

2002 to 2005

Principal

Human Resources consulting firm characterized by a client base of high growth and rapidly changing firms in a variety of sizes and industries. Clients included Dunkin’ Brands, Stream Global Services, Bose Corporation, Tufts Health Plan, Boston University Medical Center Hospital, and Nextel Communications. Managed projects aligned with client strategies; talent acquisition, enhancing HR service delivery, strategic planning and HR automation projects.

Developed and implemented recruitment cost optimization programs to maximize economies of scale; Negotiated prices, evaluated and implemented sourcing methods resulting in cost savings of over $250,000/year.

Created and executed staffing plans for two aggressive new business initiatives.

Initiated clinical and allied health recruitment plan and campaign and brought staffing levels from 65% to 95% staffed.

Designed Human Capital Reporting (HR metrics/analysis) and continuous improvement processes for US subsidiary workforce planning adopted by parent company for use worldwide.

Conceptualized and implemented a management decision-making tool resulting in a new delivery model for Human Resources services.

Created practical hands-on tools to meet process and workflow effectiveness needs: 1) Behavioral skills competency framework 2) Comprehensive HR operations manual.

PRIOR EXPERIENCE

American Hospitality Corporation, Inc. Braintree, MA

Regional Human Resources Manager

Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, Wellesley, MA

Human Resources Business Partner

Dunkin’ Brands, Randolph and Canton, MA

Talent Management Consultant

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

Certifications and Continuing Education

Boston University Data Analytics coursework – currently enrolled

SHRM Senior Professional Human Resources – SPHR

Wharton School of Business -World at Work (American Compensation Association)

Certified Employee Benefits Specialist coursework (CEBS)

Balanced Scorecard Collaborative

Bachelor of Arts, Political Science - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Keywords:

“Applicant Tracking”, Boolean, Lusha, HireTual, Prophet, “candidate pipeline development”, analytics, metrics, “workforce planning”, “metrics development”, “metrics reporting”, MS Excel, MS Access, vlookup, “pivot tables”, “employee value proposition”, “employment branding”, global, “client relationship management”, “vendor management”, “behavioral interviewing”, “Brass Ring”, Taleo, Oracle, sourcing

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