Talent Acquisition Human Resources

REBECCA FERGUSON

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SUMMARY

An experienced talent acquisition and human resources professional specializing in project planning, process improvement, and people leadership across various industries, including Financial, IT, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Engineering, and Manufacturing. A professional who has held several senior roles, including Senior Talent Acquisition Strategist at Felix Global, Client Services Manager at Cielo Talent, and Resourcing Manager at Recruiter.com. A leader with a proven track record of leading teams, developing talent strategies, and improving recruiting processes and holds an MBA and a BS in Business Management from the University of Phoenix. SKILLS

• HRIS Technologies, Process Improvement, Recruiting Operations, Staff Recruitment and Retention, Employee Relations, RPO/Corporate/Agency, AI and Market Intelligence, System Integration, Governmental Contracting, Contingency Workforce Development, HR Program and Project Management, Orientation and On-Boarding, Training and Development, Business Development, HR Policies and Procedures, Offshore resource management. Contract Negotiations. (*Workday certification in process).

• Project Management, Talent Acquisition Management, Human Resources

• ATS/CRM: Workday, SuccessFactors, Greenhouse, Fieldglass, ADP, iCIMS, Smart Recruiters /Talent Cloud, Lever, Avature, Salesforce Social Media Platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn EXPERIENCE

Senior Talent Acquisition Strategist

Felix Global (Exact Sciences) - Contract September 24 - present

• Recruited with internal TA on an expansion for Exact Sciences in the Oncology Diagnostic space.

• Identified and onboarding 100 new senior associates across the United States within a 90-day window.

• Collaborated with stakeholders, internal TA, and candidates to ensure a successful ramp-up for January 2025.

• Achieved a seamless integration with Felix Global, working remotely to meet hiring goals and support company growth. Talent Acquisition Leader (ASML, Intel and Solidigm) CIELO TALENT June 2022 - December 2023

• Lead a team of 4 direct reports, 20+ indirect reports and an offshore team of recruiting specialists.

• Lead all recruiting operations capabilities, including sourcing, screening, and coordination functions.

• Collaborated with team day-to-day to meet performance goals and objectives setting KPl's and performance-driven metrics and helping the recruiting team meet those goals.

• Partnered with end client to increase efficiency and reduce redundancy in processes and procedures.

• Overhauled reporting suites for multiple business units resulting in positive transparency and aided in workforce planning and overall recruiting initiatives.

• Helped lead implementations and trainings on Workday and GEM.

• Assisted in the creation of upskilling project for recruiting team.

• Provided leadership, inspiration and coaching to the recruiting team.

• Establish regular communications with the recruitment team, such as1-1 meetings, team meetings with established agendas or other regular touch points.

• Helped to drive the team to develop comprehensive, strategic hiring strategies including passive candidate outreach, recruitment marketing plans.

• and utilization of innovative recruitment technologies.

• Worked to further to completion integration projects across the team. Internal TA & Program Manager

RECRUITER.COM (Formerly NOVO Group) July 2020 - June 2022

• Led the internal team recruiting added resources for the Recruiter.com RPO business (Recruiters on Demand).

• Recreated and streamlined the process of the resource team.

• Built KPl's and weekly scorecard.

• Rebuilt the teams and restructured the roles.

• Develop and manage the existing and new talent for future success.

• Placements have risen from 1-3/week to averaging 6-10/week.

• Currently working on an ATS overhaul.

• Established and strengthened candidate pipelines ensuring weekly candidate flow to client. KEURIG DR. PEPPER - RPO Program Lead (Team size: 2-5) Program Lead role (leading a team of 5)

• Reduced escalations from 5+ /week to less than 1 since February.

• Developed KPI Scorecard and reporting for both client and internal leadership.

• The team is now meeting KPI's, and performance has increased to the clients' expectations. MILWAUKEE TOOL - Client Service Lead - - RPO

• Managed and executed approximately 179 Engineering hires within a 6-month period (overall total of 308 hires).

• Develop and implement procedures

• and metrics for Field Recruiting staff to align with talent and operations objectives and goals.

• Confer with Hiring managers, field operations leadership, recruiters, and HR/Talent leadership to prepare and implement talent acquisition strategies.

• Prepare statistical reports and other data to monitor business staffing plans and work with business and HR/Talent acquisition leadership to analyze and develop strategic plans to meet objectives. Manager of Talent Acquisition

TRIZETTO-A Cognizant Company December 2014 - February 2020

• Led team of 14 Recruiters (including 5 FTE's, 6 Contractors, and three offshore resources) providing consultative recruiting support to the business.

• Hired and trained the entire team and oversaw all aspects of recruiting operations for the business.

• Reduced time to fill from 45 days to 37 days and increased total number of yearly hires by 26%.

• Ensured team was tr OFCCP/EEOC guidelines.

• POC for all recruiting initiatives during system integration with Cognizant. POC for multiple phases including sunset and lead initiatives through multiple integration committees.

• Project leader for Horizon BPO project traveling between Phoenix, St. Louis, and Baltimore.

• Hired and trained a team of six recruiters to facilitate the hiring.

• Created and executed the recruiting timeline, process, and plan from initial application to on-boarding and training.

• Developed and executed the Interview training of all new Horizon leadership.

• Project Manager for a five hundred person launch within a 6-month timeline.

• Created recruitment training program for new managers.

• Collaborated closely with client and project leadership to ensure talent needs and compliance guidelines met.

• Collaborated with employers of choice in St. Louis and Surrounding areas to identify talent at all levels of the organization.

• Worked closely with executive level professionals to meet hiring needs.

• Increased branding of company and helped team meet sales goals and increased market share.

• Managed candidate database and Applicant Tracking System, and matrix of candidate interviews, profiles, submittals to clients, interviews, offers, declines, starts, terms, and correspondence. EDUCATION

Master of Science (MBA) in Business Administration University of Phoenix • St. Louis, MO • 2006-2008

Bachelor of Science (BS) in Business Management

University of Phoenix • St. Louis, MO • 2006-2008

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