HEATHER WHITAKER
Lexington, SC
ad4zgy@r.postjobfree.com
Professional Recruiter skilled in staffing for multiple industries and experience levels with quality employees. Expert at leveraging wide range sourcing methods, interviewing techniques and to build pipeline of qualified candidates. Great at negotiating salaries/pay rates to meet client budgets. Extensive experience with building and maintaining client relationships.
SKILLS:
Solid Recruiting and Source Skills
Full Cycle Recruiting and Recruitment Strategies
Employee Orientations
Payroll, Time Tracking and Audit Timesheet
Job Postings Utilizing various websites
Client Relationship Management
Excellent Communication Skills
Computer and Tech Savvy
MS Office Suites
Bullhorn, Salesforce, PeopleNet, Kronos and Taleo
EXPERIENCE
ADECCO (Remote) 10/2021 – 4/2024
Senior Talent Consultant
Client facing full cycle recruiter for multiple clients. Staffing an array of roles within the manufacturing, management, healthcare and IT fields.
Consult with clients/leaders to identify competencies for specific roles
Creatively source candidates by utilizing numerous resources including our ATS database, career fairs, websites, and networking
Prescreen candidates with detailed phone screens, evaluating candidates’ compatibility with specific job requirements, ensuring a right fit prior to submission to client
Edit and reformat candidates resumes as necessary, adding relevant key words increasing a candidate match with the client
Initiate screening (I9, background/drug screen/ work history and education) through various 3rd party vendors based on client contract. Example: HireRight/ First advantage.
Interview, prequalify, negotiate/ extend offers. Confirm orientations etc. Manage client and candidates’ expectations
Weekly check ins with each candidate - performance and attendance Payroll for each site
Create/Built orders
Assist with training other recruiters
ADECCO, Columbia, SC 12/ 2019 to 10/2021
Client Delivery Manager
On-site for Trane Technologies. Adecco 16th largest site in the world! Daily meetings with the client/ Trane HR.
Managed up to 430 employees.
Checked in daily and maintained relationships with 48 supervisors’
Daily attendance for all shifts, reports and corrective actions issued daily
Weekly new hire check ins 30/90-day employee evaluations
Retentions plans and employee recognition MDI reports & meetings with HR
Ensured all on-boarding is complete though my site (Paperwork,I9, backgrounds, drug screens)
Filled weekly orders of 40-60 associates during peak season and 20-30 during the off season. Which included: 40-80 phone screenings a day, 20 face to face interviews daily, followed up daily to encourage completion of process etc.
Hosted 1-2 orientations per week
Managed a team of Adecco supervisors and recruiters
Always met monthly budget, KPI’s and goals. Also, helped come up with my teams KPI’s At this site we used Bullhorn, Custom Match, Kronos, and PeopleNet
Outstanding quarterly and yearly reviews from the client
MANPOWER, Remote 02/ 2017 to 12/ 2019
Senior Recruiter - Client Facing
Full cycle recruiting including sourcing, posting jobs, in person and virtual hiring events Attend ORD Hiring Events: Plan and set up each hiring event for ORD
Co-managed Outreach team members, attended every event, including coordination of flights and hotels
Ensured outreach activities are recorded and updated in real time with comments on what happened and next step
Help drive the team and give out outreach assignment
Ensured diversity outreach and recruiting activities are taking place ongoing: veterans, Women, LGBT communities, Diverse communities
Updated applicants into Taleo
Managed Taleo Scheduling Center to ensure event dates are set up, event location is correct, monitor applicant flow into scheduling center
Maintain client relationships including weekly client calls
Lead team calls, set goals for recruiters and sourcer. Help train where needed
AMN Healthcare, 01/ 2015 to 01/ 2017
Anesthesia Career Consultant
Sourced and screened providers for locums coverage all over the US
Exceeded individual daily and weekly critical indicator goals.
Maintained relationships with providers.
Negotiated, when necessary, with providers to create a competitive compensation package by probing financial situation and articulating total value in order to achieve profitable booking
Helped navigate the credentialing process, traveling and lodging details
Created presentations that presented candidate files according to order detail/template detailing relevant work history, skills and intangible qualities for clinicians via database to Account Managers in order to highlight the best fit for the orders and place candidates.
Negotiated when necessary, with providers to create a competitive compensation package by probing financial situation and articulating total value in order to achieve profitable booking
SCANA – Jenkinville SC, 06/ 2013 to 01/ 2015
NND Tech Support - HR/ Recruiter
Managed a team of 12 employees.
Ran all reports for the New Nuclear Division department. Making any necessary changes.
Met with department managers and supervisors to create a schedule for all upcoming new nuclear construction work being done on site. This included researching each job and confirming we were in compliance with every procedure and had the necessary signatures for approval.
Kept track of all tasks entered into observation manager by the NND contractors
Created charts to keep contractors on track for scheduled work being done within our unit.
Emailed reminders, double checking to be sure they were entered within 21 days, confirmed that the dates were accurate and that all tasks had appropriate signatures as well as attachments for approval
Ran daily / weekly and monthly reports in observation manager to track all task created and completed as well as observations to Created PowerPoints, spreadsheets and took minutes for weekly safety meetings
Worked closely with staffing agencies to staff open positions within NND. -Conducted first round interviews and scheduled second round interviews with the appropriate supervisor
Approved timecards as well as time off for NND unit 1. All administrative duties for four NND supervisors.
Sourced, interviewed, and staffed for all NND level one helpers
Pure Fishing Columbia, SC
EDUCATION
Purdue Global University Business Administration