Professional Summary

Creative Strategy to Staffing Challenges Targeting Healthcare

Retention Focus in Gaps of Productive Workflow and High Success for Turnaround Senior Level Recruiting with Sales and Marketing, Training and Acquisition Experience Loyalty in Addressing Long-Term Fixes of Aged Positions with Supporting Team Professional EXPERIENCE

RECRUITER, BROOKDALE SENIOR LIVING (CONSULTING/TEMP) BRENTWOOD, TN, SEPTEMBER, 2016 - PRESENT

Supported Recruiting needs to fulfill gaps in staffing for therapists: PT, OT, SLP, PTA and COTA in Texas primarily. Worked with area company to obtain knowledge quickly about staffing software and process in hiring candidates. (Staffing Soft) RECRUITMENT SPECIALIST, REHABCARE (KINDRED HEALTHCARE), LOUISVILLE, KY, 2011 - JANUARY, 2016

Supported five Area Directors in Operations between Hospitals and Skilled Nursing Sides of Business in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and various other states at different times throughout. Recruited primarily for Therapist roles i.e. Physical, Occupational, Speech, Physical Therapy Assistant and Certified Therapy As- sistant positions. Consistently worked on Challenging positions in markets which had holes with positions that notoriously had positions that could present needs of creativity and what I like to call “Ninja” recruiting. Instrumental in Staffing Calls, Database manage- ment of Hires (Taleo and TalentReach), Marketing hiring tools and website marketing. RECRUITING STAFFING MANAGER, PEOPLEFIRST (KINDRED

HEALTHCARE), LOUISVILLE, KY 2004 - 2011

Recruited to different numbers of Area Directors at a given time of Skilled Nursing Direc- tors in Operations or a combined front of both Hospital and Skilled Nursing. We were

“governed” through a Recruitment department and at this venture. The Recruitment de- MISSY RIEDMATTER

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partment was more centralized which allowed for the recruiting staff to have more of a management role in the recruitment functions. Directed the recruitment with Educational tools and efforts to reduce Contract Labor and led Staffing Calls to more of a Managed Recruitment Model.

Recruiter and Retention Manager, Baptist Hospital East, LOUISVILLE, KY 2000 - 2004

Recruited Nurses and Allied Health positions during the severe shortages of 2000 and on- going when there was transition of mindset and changes in process. Recruited more new grads during this time even though there was the shortage. High paced college recruit- ing. Instrumental in creating candidate database with limited funds in a non-profit setting. EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE, M.ED., EDUCATIONAL & COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY, 1995

UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE, B.A., PSYCHOLOGY, 1993

BUTLER UNIVERSITY, B.A., PSYCHOLOGY, TRANSFERRED 1990 SKILLS

Senior Level Negotiation Skills with High Influence of Delicate “Dance” to Close Position Ability to Bridge Hiring Manager and Candidate together to Close Position Ability to Consider Large picture in Selling position with Challenges and Obstacles Taking Negatives and Turning them into Positives

Hired Experienced Staff as well as New Graduates in a Faced-Paced Environment REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST