Higher Education Start-Up

Erin Chalmers

Denver, CO *****

303-***-**** ***********@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinchalmers/

• I have a productive and robust professional network unique to me from my 12 years in higher education working for top B-schools and 10 years as a diversified national and global recruiter.

• Energetic and purposeful recruiting professional and leader with a dynamic background supporting individuals, teams, and initiatives with 10 years of progressive, well-rounded, and eclectic experience.

• Strategic and collaborative builder, leveraging eye for detail and analytical mindset to achieve critical metrics and KPIs in business, candidate experience, and hiring processes and programs.

• Skilled at prioritizing tasks in high-pressure, fast-paced, hyper-growth environments with a calm sense of urgency and a sense of humor.

• From in-house to agency, start-up to Fortune 500, and Skilled Trades to Aerospace Engineering, I have done it all with measurable success and gusto. CORE COMPETENCIES

• Full Cycle Recruitment- 10 years

• Global Recruitment- five years

• Team Management- seven years

• Multiple ATS- 10 years

• Pipelining- 10 years

• Sourcing- 10 years

• Interviewing- 10 years

• Compensation- 10 years

• Negotiation/Closing- 10 years

• Candidate Experience- 10 years

• Passive Candidate- 10 years

• Employee Retention- 10 years

• Succession Planning- five years

• Onboarding Orientation- 10 years

• Federal/State Hiring Law- 10 years

• Strategic Planning- 20 years

• HR Generalist- three years

• Start-ups and M&A- seven years

• Operations Management- 15 years

• Business Administration- 15 years

• Relational Communication- 20 years

• Exceeding Goals- 20 years

INDUSTRIES

• Hyper-growth start-ups- six years

• Corporate/Executive- 10 years

• Healthcare- seven years

• Creative- 10 years

• Aerospace- one year

• Technical- six years

• Engineering SW/HW- five years

• Skilled Trades- five years

• International- three years

• Higher Education- 12 years

7/2023-PRESENT

LEAD GLOBAL CORPORATE RECRUITER & TEAM LEAD

VISA SOLUTIONS HEALTHCARE

LAYOFFS IMMINENT- START-UP

• Based on RFPs and SLAs, served as a subject matter expert to guide recruitment and hyper-growth planning strategy for expansion efforts in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, North America, and LATAM.

• Lead transparent, legally compliant, budget-conscious, and efficient recruitment efforts, including pre-hire SLA, sourcing, evaluating, and qualifying candidates for International Healthcare Recruitment, Operations, Engineering, Human Resources, Executives, Legal, and Sales.

• Partner and collaborate with leadership, hiring managers, and department management teams to develop strategic recruitment campaigns and budgets.

• Write or edit budgets, position descriptions, scopes of work, and external job announcements and post job advertisements on Global Communities’ career website and external websites.

• Proactively build robust and qualified pipelines for future hiring needs to ensure key metrics such as time to hire, quality of hire, and first-year attrition are well below the national or international average.

• Source, screen, interview candidates and provide top talent recommendations for leadership, hiring managers, and teams.

• Collaborate with HR to determine compensation, benefits, offers, onboarding, and orientation programs.

• Proactively networks to source a prospective pool of candidates and maintain the pipeline.

• Participate in training sessions with staff on recruitment tools and practices, such as third- party agencies, EORs, ADP Workforce Now, and LinkedIn.

• Support leadership, hiring managers, and teams as necessary throughout recruitment processes by scheduling interviews, gathering feedback, and treating candidates with white-glove customer service.

• Represent organization at career fairs, professional conferences, and networking events. 12/2021-6/2023

LEAD RECRUITER & TEAM LEADER

PIPEDREAMS- NEXT GEN, TECH-POWERED SAAS

LAYOFFS- START-UP

• Start-up next-gen, tech-powered home services provider and SaaS developer helping businesses use technology to grow them into industry-leading organizations.

• Founding member of the PDV recruiting team responsible for developing a strategic recruiting action plan, team, and world-class candidate experience for cross-functional, nationwide, multi-business, and corporate talent acquisitions.

• Onboard, train, mentor, guide, and manage the team's performance and career development to ensure recruiters are valued professionally and challenged so that milestones and metrics are exceeded.

• Collaborate with junior recruiters and coordinators, focusing on passive and active candidate talent search and placement, pipelines, process improvement, and strategy development.

• Mastery of the talent market and acquisition trends through initiative-taking research to deeply understand hiring needs and develop interesting job descriptions, accurate job requirements, and interview criteria/questions for each role.

• Source qualified candidates, review resumes, and pre-screen candidates while moving the interview process forward, including phone screening, face-to-face interviews, administering technical skills tests, and contacting professional references.

• Deliver sustainable and qualified candidates to hiring managers and executive teams by effectively assessing applicants, preparing candidates, managing complex negotiations, and closing the candidate.

• Possess sound knowledge of technology concepts, practices, and procedures, including ATS, social media, social communities, social servers/VoIP, career websites, networking groups, career fairs, military connections, and extensive and diverse personal networks.

• Draw on contractual and legislative expertise to ensure compliance with US and state- specific regulations and requirements.

9/2021-12/2021

SENIOR RECRUITER SPECIALIST–AEROSPACE & AIRBORNE SYSTEMS L3HARRIS

CONTRACT POSITION

• Responsible for the full life cycle of recruiting, sourcing a strong pipeline of qualified candidates, screening, scheduling, interviewing, and presenting and negotiating job offers to candidates.

• Collaborate with hiring managers to meet staffing needs and ensure the quality of selection and timeliness of hire.

• Developed and implemented sourcing strategies to generate a pipeline of qualified candidates and to source specific requirements.

• Sourced/Recruited passive and active, cross-functional candidates using sourcing techniques, including online and internal databases, contact lists, networking, social media sites, cold calling, and complex internet searches for qualified talent.

• Worked with search firms or other placement agencies and determined the optimum recruitment method to develop and maintain a highly qualified and diverse candidate pool.

• Pre-screened potential candidates for contract, contract-to-hire, and full-time employee openings and assessed candidates’ qualifications and culture fit through behavioral-based interviews and competency-based evaluations.

• Created companywide processes and SLAs to ensure recruitment programs that were legal, fair, consistent, and timely.

• Prepared salary offers in collaboration with compensation specialists and HR Business Partner.

• Actively participated in professional networking groups, job fairs, and other recruiting events.

• Identified and introduced new, creative ideas for sourcing talent.

• Upheld legal requirements and company hiring policies and coached and guided managers accordingly.

• Proactively tracked progress in the applicant tracking system to ensure metrics were captured and goals were met.

12/2019-12/2021

HEALTHCARE TEAM RECRUITER, ESTATE MANAGER & END-OF-LIFE GUIDE SELF EMPLOYED

CONTRACT POSITIONS

• Provided vital end-of-life services for nine clients over 10+ years to ensure individuals and families feel comfortable and provided for during patient end-of-life care, including estate management, medical insurance billing administration, appointment scheduling, and patient advocacy during crises.

• Developed and delivered care plans with medical providers, recruited and supervised internal and external staff, including legal, financial, estate, and healthcare members.

• Oversaw estate budgets, operations, maintenance, security, grounds, calendars, vendors, and accounts.

12/2018-12/2019

EXECUTIVE RECRUITER, HR GENERALIST & TEAM LEADER

IMPROVEMENT COMPANY & CANNIBAL STAFFING

CONTRACT POSITION

• Start-up venture capital firm helping launch ideas into successful businesses.

• Provided full life cycle, high-volume recruitment, and onboarding for thirty-seven candidates across business, administration, IT, sales, legal, creative services, wellness, and entertainment industries.

• Developed channel partner recruitment strategy to build pipelines across various industries to obtain top talent.

• Sourced, researched, contacted, and interviewed prospective candidates and maintained accuracy and integrity of information in ATS, HRIM, Latitude, and proprietary CRM databases.

• Provided executive identification, biographical information, and in-depth business intelligence on candidates using various online resources to obtain background information.

4/2018-9/2018

CORPORATE RECRUITER, HR GENERALIST & TEAM LEADER

MAI MECHANICAL- A/C/E MULTI-FAMILY AND MUNICIPAL CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT POSITION

• Provided full-lifecycle, high-volume recruiting and placed forty-one qualified candidates across seven departments within skilled trades, including plumbing, HVAC, heating, business unit, administration, engineering, and C-suite.

• Created and managed job postings through Craigslist, Indeed, and LinkedIn and updated ATS and databases for incoming resumes.

• Screened candidates by phone and sold candidates for positions within an extremely competitive market while scheduling in-person interviews for 30-plus candidates weekly.

• Conducted in-person interviews, assessing candidates’ career history and skills to evaluate qualifications, advocated for candidates while making recommendations to department managers, and facilitated the onboarding orientation process for up to ten new hires each week.

• Coordinated start dates, orientation, and first-month plans with department managers and new employees.

1/2015-3/2018

HEALTHCARE TEAM RECRUITER, ESTATE MANAGER & END-OF-LIFE GUIDE SELF EMPLOYED

CONTRACT POSITIONS

• Provided vital end-of-life services for nine clients over 10+ years to ensure individuals and families feel comfortable and provided for during patient end-of-life care, including estate management, medical insurance billing administration, appointment scheduling, and patient advocacy during crises.

• Developed and delivered care plans with medical providers, recruited and supervised internal and external staff, including legal, financial, estate, and healthcare members.

• Oversaw estate budgets, operations, maintenance, security, grounds, calendars, vendors, and accounts.

5/2015-12/2015

CORPORATE RECRUITER, HR GENERALIST & TEAM LEADER

CHANDELLE ENTERPRISES- AUTOMOTIVE AND RETAIL FRANCHISES CONTRACT POSITION

• Provided full life cycle recruiting, human resources, and employee relations for 11 Meineke automotive repair stores with fifty-three employees and seven dining retail stores with 120 employees.

• Managed scheduling, payroll, data/record maintenance, benefits, uniform administration, conflict mediation, tech development, store manager training, and change management. 5/2014-5/2015

CORPORATE RECRUITER, HR GENERALIST & TEAM LEADER

GREEN GARAGE

START-UP CLOSED

• Provided full life cycle recruitment/onboarding for 12+ technicians, service advisors, and shop helpers for a startup while maintaining responsibility for all marketing, such as planning, scheduling, budgeting, content, materials, research and development, and strategies/solutions for two stores.

• Directed two graphic/web designers while overseeing company branding and website, managed social media accounts, including four Twitter pages, two Facebook pages, two Google+ pages, two Yelp pages, LinkedIn, Instagram, Foursquare, and Pinterest and SEO efforts for Google.

• Planned and executed three monthly events emphasizing grassroots collaborations with like-minded businesses, non-profits, and the local community to create opportunities with educational values.

• Conducted market research through Google Ads/Analytics to determine how to expand current and innovative marketing platforms, programs, and sales through findings in market requirements/segments, customer needs/agreements, current market conditions, and competitor information.

• Analyzed productivity of marketing plans and projects, monitored, reviewed, and reported on all marketing activities and sales results. UNIVERSITY OF DENVER

Master’s Degree

Business Communication

METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER

Bachelor’s Degree

Journalism

ADP Workforce Now, Workday, JobVite, EASE, Breezy, Bullhorn, iCIMS, Taleo, LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed Recruiter, Remote, Deal, Phenom, Canditech, Fetcher, SeekOut, Findem Inc, ADP Run, ADP Handbook Builder, ADP Learning Management, Microsoft Suite, Google Workspace, HubSpot, Zoho, Salesforce, and Mailchimp.

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