Virtual Executive Assistant

Jessica Owen

Nashville, TN Metro Area

E-mail: *******.*******@*****.*** Daytime Phone: 540-***-**** LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-p-owen1 Objective

Detail-oriented talent acquisition professional with strong experience in candidate screening, interview coordination, and confidential information handling. Adept at active listening, meeting tight deadlines, and maintaining strict attention to detail. Brings excellent written communication skills, professionalism, and a strong commitment to quality and accuracy. Looking to transition to a virtual executive assistant role.

Employment History

Corpay

Nashville, TN 11/2025-Present

A global payments company that provides businesses with solutions to manage and control expenses through streamlined corporate payments technologies.

Talent Acquisition Partner

• Source and recruit various operations positions in multiple time zones and locations.

• Leverage LinkedIn Recruiter and Indeed to engage with and attract qualified candidates to open roles.

• Interviews applicants to validate their work experience, education, skills, competencies and salary requirements.

• Succinctly summarize candidate information from phone screens and recommend qualified candidates.

• Schedule and coordinate interview activity, providing timely feedback to both candidates and internal stakeholders.

• Provide frequent, data-driven updates to HR leadership to report on recruiting progress utilizing LinkedIn Talent Insights, Indeed Hiring Insights, Power BI and Dayforce. Smith Seckman Reid, Inc.

Nashville, TN 04/2025-09/2025

A 100% employee-owned engineering firm that offers design, consulting and planning services. Talent Acquisition Recruiter

• Source and recruit engineers based on skill set, region and line of business in the design field with a focus on large scale commercial projects.

• Collaborate with hiring managers to gain a thorough understanding of open positions and handle a variety of roles across multiple business units.

• Review applicants in the ATS to identify talent, call and phone screen candidates that appear to meet the requirements of the role applied to.

• Communicate and manage expectations with candidates and hiring managers throughout the hiring process.

• Schedule intake meetings with hiring managers for new roles and post roles through the ATS.

• Conduct thorough initial phone screens with candidates to discuss the role, job requirements and salary expectations and then present top candidates to the hiring manager.

• Coordinate and schedule multiple round interviews between hiring managers and candidates both virtual and in-person.

• Provide offer recommendations and facilitate offer negations. Asurion

Nashville, TN

An industry leader in mobile insurance, technology and support that helps customers enhance their life through their technology every day.

Corporate Recruiter 05/2019-01/2025

• Full life cycle recruiting for professional level roles ranging from individual contributor to people leader director level in Customer Service and Supply Chain.

• Creating and executing sourcing strategies, interviewing, assessment of candidates and salary negotiating.

• Develop and maintain strong business partnerships with hiring managers, HR business partners, and stakeholders to enable effective account management.

• Update and maintain the Applicant Tracking System with all activities related to candidate dispositions, interview progress, and job offer details.

• Metrics tracked and held accountable to included number of requisitions, number of hires, time to offer, quality of hire, source of hire, candidate slate diversity and interview panel diversity.

• Keep current with sourcing strategies and industry trends.

• Create a great experience for candidates throughout the application and interviewing process. Korn Ferry

Dallas, TX

The global industry leader in high impact talent acquisition solutions, offering fully customized, flexible services to help organizations meet their specific recruitment needs. Recruiting Team Lead 11/2017-05/2019

• Promoted to Team Lead to source, interview, assess, present and onboard candidates for the world’s largest wholesale auto auction company.

• Lead a team consisting of an Associate Recruiter and a Recruiting Coordinator by communicating the needs of our 15 sites to meet our monthly goals.

• Complete weekly reports that track the activity of upwards of 50 open requisitions and track the progress of the monthly goals set with the client.

• Communicate daily with Hiring Managers and Human Resource Managers to discuss their hiring needs, present candidate slates, discuss open requisitions and expectations.

• Gather job requirements on intake calls, plan sourcing strategies and provide market trend data to client.

• Manage candidate pipelines to ensure that requisitions close as quickly and efficiently as possible and to meet SLAs.

Recruiter 04/2016-11/2017

• Participate in the outreach of passive and active candidates for multinational companies delivering a high volume of candidates each day to meet weekly KPIs by sourcing, phone screening 100 candidates weekly and scheduling a minimum of 30 interviews a week.

• Deliver talent with impact utilizing sourcing tools such as LinkedIn, Indeed and CareerBuilder.

• Review candidate’s profiles and disposition candidates through applicant tracking systems such as BrassRing, Workday, People Soft and Taleo.

• Travel to locations around the U.S. to attend career fairs and hiring events in support of RPO clients.

• Enhance staff development by facilitating training and assisting other team members when there is extra bandwidth.

Express Employment Professionals

Christiansburg, VA

One of the top staffing companies in the U.S. and Canada that provides a full variety of employment solutions in positions including professional, commercial, and administrative industries. Talent Acquisition Specialist 09/2015-03/2016

• Participated in full life cycle recruitment by placing ads for various jobs, reviewing resumes on multiple job boards, and conducting in-person interviews with qualified applicants.

• Fill job orders quickly and efficiently varying in the areas of clerical, professional, commercial, and medical industries.

• Communicated directly with client’s Human Resources departments and Operations Managers regarding job descriptions, hiring needs, scheduling interviews, and discussing availability of employees and candidates to coordinate interviews and start dates.

• Generated and expanded business with new and existing clients by making at least 25 cold calls a week to meet sales goals.

Education

James Madison University

Bachelor of Arts in Sociology

Relevant Skills

Full Life Cycle Recruiting, Applicant Tracking Systems (Taleo, ICIMS, Dayforce, Workday, PeopleSoft, Avature, Phenom, SeekOut and UKG), Talent Management, Salary Negotiations, Talent Pipelining, Human Resources, LinkedIn, Indeed, Microsoft Office Suite, Interviewing, Sourcing, Recruitment Process Outsourcing, Customer Relationship Management, Team Leadership, Reporting, Power BI, Training, Communication, and Administrative skills.

Professional Projects

Korn Ferry Talent Academy

Dallas, TX

Talent Academy Graduate 04/2016-06/2016

• Interactive program that includes classroom, simulation and experiential learning modules designed to develop and expand core competencies in recruitment as well as business skills.

• Focused on candidate care and client engagement.

• Learned about several recruitment tools and technologies and how to effectively use them.

• Program also included co-op experience to allow for hands-on experience with clients and the recruitment process.

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