Manager Employee Relations

Elizabeth E Reichard

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Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922

908-***-**** ************@*****.***

Summary

Recruitment: Design and manage overall recruitment programs. Successfully control search and contingency assignments on national level. Negotiate contracts, fee agreements and develop performance standards. Evaluate and implement alternate sourcing strategies to compliment recruiting needs. Manage and execute high volume goals.

Strategic Planning: Partner with management to support firm recruiting goals. Assess/ determine long and short term staffing needs. Analyze retention issues and develop action plans. Develop/modify various processes and procedures. Identify training needs, morale issues through surveys and performance criteria. Develop competitive compensation structures.

Employee Relations: Advisor to management on human resource issues to include performance measurement, compensation, benefits, training and development, for all levels of staff. Coordinate outplacement process.

Professional Experience

OUR HOUSE, INC, Murray Hill, NJ (social services agency) 5/2011-present

Recruiter/Trainer-(full cycle recruiting for direct care professionals (average 40 openings.)

Effectively &efficiently source new candidates

Improve interviewing techniques, reduced hiring timeline

Upgrade qualities of new hires

Improved & updated & conduct Orientation/on-boarding process

INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR 1/00-5/2011

Various independent assignments:

Spirit Halloween(Spencer Gifts)-store manager, supervised 12+, achieved 20% over plan

Scoutjobs: independent recruiting effort-source marketing professional for pharma clients

Dun & Bradstreet : Recruiter- Corporate Finance and M&A

Fort Point Partners Inc: HR Director, Perf Measurement, Employee Relations, Comp, etc

Eisai: Recruiter for Clinical R&D, Biometrics, Marketed Products. Heavy internet

useage, successful placement of various professionals

American Home Products: Corporate recruiter for Finance, Accounting

ER development Inc: established residential construction company

CADWALADER WICKERSHAM & TAFT, New York, NY 1998-9/2000

Director- Associate Development & Recruiting

Strategically focused role:

Upgraded human resources function in 400 attorney firm. Supervised staff of 12 (7 recruiting, 5 generalists),

Oversaw HR offices in North Carolina, Washington, DC and the United Kingdom.

Handled employee relations, training and development and compensation for attorneys.

Managed annual budget of approximately $5MM. Recommended lateral partner process update,

Introduced alternative sourcing strategies

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ANDERSEN CONSULTING NYC/FLORHAM PARK 1996-1998

Recruiting Manager-Strategic Services (Communication practice)

Successfully managed:

National recruiting effort of experienced consultants, associates,partners

Retained search effort, contract negotiations, performance standards

Introduced alternative recruitment strategies

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PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE within financial and professional services and manufacturing:

Effectively managed high volume recruitment effort for 3 location

Reduced costs per hire by 50%

Created and implemented national recruiting effort

Successfully rewrote affirmative action manual

Effectively implemented campus recruitment effort

Recruited for IT, Financial, Insurance, Pharmaceutical Industries

EDUCATION

Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ

MBA- Industrial Relations

BA Economics

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