Profile

Motivated, personable, business professional with over 16 years’ experience in talent acquisitions, employer branding, networking and relationship building, with a high focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Ability to be diplomatic and tactful with professionals and non-professionals at all levels. Accustomed to handling sensitive and confidential records.

Relationship and rapport building – throughout entire career, have been involved in or ran diversity focused ERG’s, partnered with diversity networking organizations, and collaborated/partnered with marketing to develop a cohesive employer brand image, all with a focus on highlighting and celebrating the organizations diversity focused culture.

Flexible and versatile – Able to maintain a sense of humor under pressure. Poised and competent with demonstrated ability to easily transcend cultural differences. Thrive in deadline-driven environments. Excellent communication, analytical and interpersonal skills, complemented with strong organizational capabilities leading or working within a team.

Skills Summary

SuccessFactors

BalanceTrak

Proprietary HR Systems

Unicru

Deploy/Kronos

Peoplesoft

Taleo

MS Office Suite

ADP

Smart Recruiter/Talent Hub

iCIMS

WorkDay

Professional Experience

Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist – 02/2023 – 09/2023

Robert Bosch Tool Corporation, NA

Conducted full cycle recruiting from new position intake to offer extended.

Focused on behavioral based interviewing/screening; created screening documents per position.

Created a new intake form and updated recruitment tracking spreadsheet.

Collaborated with HR team to develop an overall process from Intake to Offer/Pre-onboarding.

Increased diversity representation through hiring best practices and training hiring managers on inclusive interviewing.

Led the Charlotte Metro Area LGBTQ+ ERG, represented Bosch at the Lowe’s Pride Kick-off event as a panelist.

Part of the Mount Prospect DEI ERG; collaborated with the team to help create an inclusive culture within Bosch PTNA along with improve diversity retention.

Conducted in-depth searches, through LinkedIn for passive candidates for hard to fill or high-volume roles.

Led an internal HR team in identifying DEI metrics and areas of opportunity to help leadership create a more inclusive culture.

Assisted in the intern program by recruiting candidates for summer, 6-month, and yearlong internships.

Sr. Diversity & Inclusion Sourcer/Lead Technical Recruiter (Contract) – 04/2022 – 01/2023

Discover Financial Services

•Played a key role in helping to achieve inclusion & diversity ambitions regarding gender balance and workforce representation.

•Proactively build and leverage existing diversity partnership relationships to source a pipeline of leadership level candidates across various experience levels & backgrounds; Maintain and nurture your pipeline of leads and identify future opportunities that align with their experiences and interests across multiple requisitions

•Leveraged existing diversity partnership relationships to build talent pipelines for several areas of the business.

•Find, engage, and activate passive candidates through the use of Boolean, LinkedIn and alternative search techniques.

•Proactively research tools, organizations, and job boards to expand brand and recruiting reach

•Support the creation and facilitation of events and activities. Attend diversity events, job fairs, networking events and seminars

Sr Recruiter (Contract) – 09/2021 – 03/2022

Lennox International/ADP

•Helped to improve diversity metrics through local partnerships within the Grenada, MS area.

•Full cycle recruiting which involved intakes with hiring managers, creating an employer brand with job postings, sourcing qualified candidates, phone screens and scheduling interviews.

•Trained hiring managers and leadership on behavioral based interviewing.

•Working on developing a structured internship program.

•Working to create a company culture and reduction of employee turn-over.

•Helping manages through training on how to be effective and empathetic managers.

Sr. Talent Acquisition Partner – 9/2019 – 6/2021

Discovery Education, LLC

•Part of the Diversity & Inclusion leadership committee that worked together to create a more inclusive culture/environment through education, acknowledgement, and celebration of the diversity within our employee population.

Worked with the Marketing team to create a companywide careers page focused on creating employer branding, highlighting our benefits, and showing our work in Diversity & Inclusion.

•Partnered with diversity associations focused on People of Color (POC), Women, Veteran and Disability associations.

•Created and implemented a Social Committee (Engagement Committee) focused on raising and maintaining employee moral through engagement activities and providing for interdepartmental communication.

•In 3-weeks, designed and implemented a successful diversity focused internship and co-op program hiring 18 interns and 1 co-op within the 3-week period. Resulting from the program were 6 interns

turning into fulltime employees and 6 interns staying on as contract workers.

•Implemented and setup ADP as the HRIS/ATS platform.

•Created a behavioral based approach to identifying and interviewing candidates through behavioral based screening documents, scenario interviews, creation of a structured interview guide and creation of an evaluation form.

•Developed a Talent Acquisition Tools & Resources site on company SharePoint.

•In 2020, filled 67 open requisitions with an average time to fill at 43 days. Of the hires, 25 (37%) were diversity hires.

Lead Talent Acquisition (Downsized) - 11/2018 – 04/2019

NN, Inc.

•Directed full cycle recruiting efforts along with the development and implementation of a structured global talent acquisition program.

•Streamlined new hire on-boarding experience, developed, and implemented an in-depth new hire orientation, and ensured the organizations compliance with EEOC standards.

•Created standard behavioral based interview guides focused on identifying the "must have" skills to fulfill management requirements.

•Handled employee relations issues/investigations, new hire folders to ensure accountabilities for all required documents and conducted exit interviews for employees leaving the organization.

•Partnered with communications manager on employer branding initiatives and the development of a diversity and inclusion program to create a more inclusive culture focused on the organizations mission/vision/values and creating employee engagement activities.

•Maintained focus on vendor/agency management/partnerships, cost reduction initiatives and reducing company spend on the acquisition of talent to the organization.

Sr. Talent Acquisition Partner - 06/2017 – 11/2018

Jeld-Wen, Inc.

•Worked with Marketing to redesign career site and develop employer branding materials.

•Attended career fairs and networking events to attract and promote a diverse work force.

•Developed behavioral based screening documents to be utilized during phone screens, as well as a standard intake form to be used during intake conversations with HR Manager and Hiring Manager.

•Created a sourcing strategy and campaign while identifying top talent and coordinating phone screens, interviews, offers, and all other relevant recruiting functions.

•Maintained average time to fill of 40-60 days, depending on the level of role and location.

•Provided Tier 1 support of SuccessFactors ATS and training of new employees/managers on how to effectively utilize the system.

•Provided innovative and pro-active methods to deliver result driven metrics to the organization, while striving to attain key metrics of 45% or higher on diverse candidate hires and 80% or higher on the quality of candidates submitted to hiring managers for consideration.

•Transitioned and trained newly acquired organizations into the recruitment processes and ATS.

•Worked with the Talent Acquisitions Team and the Continuous Improvement Team on A3 problem- solving to help streamline recruitment processes.

Corporate Recruiter - 03/2014 – 02/2017

Atlas Copco Compressors, LLC

•Developed employer branding initiatives through such projects as the redesign of the career page, external job description re-writes, the creation of an internship brochure, social media post, and partnerships with technical schools and universities.

•Developed and implemented a streamlined recruitment process that improved the time to fill ratio from six months to 30-40 days.

•Led the Social Committee responsible for employee engagement activities within the corporate office and ensured adherence to the annual proposed budget.

•Coordinated, designed, and implemented a summer internship program by developing relationships, attending career fairs with identified colleges/universities, conducting mentor training, orientations, and weekly check-in meetings, ultimately leading to a corporate wide rollout.

•Managed all talent acquisitions by attracting top diverse talent to achieve overall staffing objectives.

•Decreased the number of unfilled rolls in a three-month period and managed a pipeline of 30 plus active roles continuously.

•Decreased the turnover rate from 20% to 11%.

•Managed and created an employer brand with all job postings through the company’s Internal Job Market and ATS, BalanceTrak which included posting to LinkedIn, Indeed.com and CareerBuilder.

•Created and implemented recruitment forms such as intake call forms, offer forms and phone screen forms that are now being used throughout the company.

•Coached and advised hiring managers on how to properly interview candidates, review resumes and onboard new hires.

•Provided oversight to ensure the organization was compliant through affirmative action planning.

•Managed all vendor relations for the entire organization which involved contract negotiations and vender selection.

•Improved the company’s image through partnerships with non-profits locally and throughout the regions to raise funds and donations.

Additional Experience:

•Software Management Consultants Inc. (SMCI) - Technical Recruiter - 07/2012 – 03/2014

•ITT Technical Institute - Career Services Specialist - 07/2011 – 07/2012

•TIAA-CREF through AEROTEK - Talent Acquisitions Coordinator (Contract) - 01/2011 – 03/2011

•Hewitt Associates - Process Knowledge Expert/Recruiting Coordinator supporting PNC Bank - 08/2007 – 05/2009

Education

Youngstown State University Bachelors in Business Administration Major: Marketing and Management

Cornell University

Diversity & Inclusion for HR – Certification - February 2021

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