SUMMARY

• A Human Resources/Talent Acquisition Consultant/Recruiter with 15+ years' experience including extensive project management experience, recruiting strategies, and highly skilled in Microsoft Excel for tracking various processes and projects.
• Proven sustainable skills in streamlining processes and making suggested improvements to policy. Highly regarded for quickly establishing trust and integrity including coaching and counseling executives, managers and employees. Dedicated, responsive, committed manager with strong interpersonal skills.
• Comfortable performing in demanding fast - paced organizations. Reputation for being a results-oriented professional who shows empathy, enjoys coaching and mentoring others, and is focused on quality performance with a passion for sharing with others, continuous improvement and collaboration.
• Experienced in diverse industries including: electric operations distribution utility, healthcare analytics, information technology (IT), automotive, agricultural and construction, and pharmaceutical and biotechnical. In many roles following and teaching others regarding OFCCP requirements. Solid experience and knowledge, secure information management processes and enhanced employee relations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

Responsibilities:

• Partner extremely well with Recruiters, HR Consultants (HRC) Salaried & Union and HR Directors (HRD) as well as our Director of HR on EEO matters.
• To date, have built an exceptional reputation with all Hiring Managers I've worked with including first-line supervisors and senior leaders for my excellent customer service, collaboration, efficiency, process and continuous improvement, and high-level of care, rapport and follow-through. Continue receiving numerous accolades.
• Decreased Time to Fill positions by proactively coaching and guiding my Hiring Managers and assisting them with weeding out candidates by conducting phone screens as the Requisitions are still open rather than waiting until they close to review, screen, etc. Hiring managers are impressed with my hands-on work with them.
• Well-versed in Sourcing candidates via LinkedIn, Google Custom Search and working on other Social Media strategies; served as back-up to fellow Recruiters when on vacation, unavailable or on leave.
• Have a knack for streamlining processes within the ATS and across the Recruiter space in general and openly share ideas and improvements across the Talent Acquisition team through my research and networking with others inside our team and externally throughout the company:
• Hired the approved headcount for Journeyman Lineman (a/k/a JLW) in 2017 - a niche skill with a nationwide shortage, utilizing ongoing recruitment efforts and strategies with breakthrough thinking.
• Conduct weekly meetings with the "Apprentice / JLW Committee" (includes Executive Directors, Manager, HR Operations, Labor Relations, Talent Acquisition Diversity Inclusion, Outreach and Learning & Development):
• Streamlining the Journeyman Lineman Hiring process:
• LinkedIn InMail campaign to 1,380 current JLWs - January 2017 and Ongoing.
• Prepared and uploaded LinkedIn posts for various roles.
• Investigated Travel Expenses being paid for candidates' other than JLWs who historically had to fund travel to Michigan for Interviews/Assessments:
• Ongoing collaboration with Strategic Communications team, HR, Electric Operations Hiring Managers and key senior executives, Payroll, HRSC, WFC, TA Partners.

Confidential, Ann Arbor, MI

Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is a digital insulin enhancement company dedicated to making insulin therapy easier for everyone involved. The company is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan and has a wholly-owned subsidiary in Northern Ireland.
• The Confidential d-Nav service utilizes an efficient, effective combination of smart cloud-based technology combined with a team of healthcare professionals who provide valuable support to primary care physicians helping people with diabetes to improve their health and wellness. d-Nav brings insulin therapy into the digital age by providing personalized adjustments to enhance and simplify dosing, optimizing insulin for patients and the physicians who prescribe it, so that diabetes becomes a smaller part of their lives.

Confidential

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Responsibilities:

• State Government Senior Recruiter. Filled 215 Requisitions including: Client Services Manager, Consulting Managers, Configuration Management Engineer, DBA/Senior DBA/Teradata DBA, Data Architects, Data Integration Lead, Data Integration Programmers, Data Management Consultants, Data Warehouse Architects, Information Security Analyst, Java Developer (Junior/Senior), Project Managers (Junior/Senior), Research Analyst II, Research Assistant, Senior Development Operations Engineer, Senior Technology Support Analyst, Senior Analytic Consultants, Senior Systems Engineer, Senior Training Consultants, Site Reliability Engineer (Senior Software Engineer), Technical Support Associate, and Technical Writers across the United States.

Confidential

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Recruiter for Pharmaceutical and Biotechnical employees, Scientists, Research Associates and various positions within Clinical Development and Regulatory Affairs located in New York and New Jersey.
• Recruiter for Pharmaceutical and Biotechnical employees, primarily for Clinical Research, Clinical Operations and Medical and Scientific Writing in North America.
• Recruiter for Salaried Manufacturing employees and various Engineering roles in Case New Holland and Kobelco facilities throughout North America.
• Recruited Engineers for the Automotive and Chemical industries.

Confidential, Troy, MI

Client Recruiting Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Maintained accountability for the entire recruiting process, including diversity aspects and quality metrics as defined by the client.
• Interfaced with Hiring Managers, Human Resources and other key stakeholders to ensure client satisfaction.
• Drove business commitments including service level agreements (SLAs), compliance, diversity and quality.
• Ensured process accuracy/compliance with legal and client regulations.
• Managed Hiring Managers' expectations and Demonstrated ability to work with challenging and demanding clients and adapt to changes.
• Demonstrated solid business knowledge in multiple industries and effective business acumen.
• Executed accurate data capture and timely reporting on key staffing metrics in client's ATS and/or other tracking mechanism such as Microsoft Excel.
• Demonstrated knowledge of applicable employment laws.
• Effectively utilized problem-solving and root-cause-analysis skills.
• Effectively managed a consistent requisition load of 25 - 30 open positions.
• Demonstrated the ability to effectively build rapport with Hiring Managers, HR, the client's internal network and job seekers.
• Quickly evaluated and prioritized tasks in a high-volume staffing environment.
• Effectively utilized effective communication, interpersonal, consultative and negotiation skills.
• Identified and resolved potential challenges and risks, engaging in proper escalation procedures.
• Drove sustainable results in a positive and professional manner in a deadline-oriented environment.
• Created/maintained work instructions/procedures/processes and submitted continuous improvement process suggestions.

Confidential, Ann Arbor, MI

Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Recruited candidates for General Managers, General Managers in Training, and District Manager positions across the United States.
• Tracked candidate progress information utilizing Kenexa BrassRing and Microsoft Excel.
• Conducted Reference Checks.
• Redesigned Statement of Work / Contract language assuring adherence to export compliance regulations, and legal and financial requirements with five globally diverse key customers.
• Conducted and facilitated monthly global conference calls with key international customers; follow-up communication resulted in continued information flow across multiple staff areas for internal and external customers to understand and achieve deliverables.
• Avoided internal audit by proactively coordinating and conducting pre-audit export compliance meetings with key managers and stakeholders.

Corporate Human Resources Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for coordinating processes between Marketing Divisions and Corporate International Human Resources for high potential and executive employees expatriating/repatriating for international assignments.
• Responsible for numerous human resource functions for 400 marketing employees at World Headquarters.
• Responsible for various HR team functions including staffing, recruiting, affirmative action, compensation, and employee recognition and employee relations.
• Planned and facilitated monthly HR Management meetings for more than 20 executives from six marketing divisions and the Customer Relationship department and counseled managers on policy.
• Served as liaison between management and employees by handling questions, interpreting policies, and helping to resolve work-related problems. Acted as liaison to Payroll and to the National Benefit Center related to worker's compensation, FMLA and other types of leaves.
• Managed project of placing 45 redeployed marketing employees. Solely created, developed, produced and conducted a presentation to 15 senior key executives. Developed a "war room" devoted to openings, available employees and high potential MBA graduate employees ready for rotational assignment, resulting in sharing candidate profiles enabling key stakeholders to quickly review and place potentially displaced employees.
• Managed summer intern program; facilitated on-campus recruiting functions for Electrical Engineers, Mechanical Engineers and Automotive Technology students, selecting candidates, extending offers, conducting orientations and participating in selected company-sponsored activities.
• Supervised three employees.
• HR Representative liaison for timekeeping system for the HR and payroll databases. Key committee member for transfer from PRISM to PeopleSoft system; administered employment agency contracts, headcount, and suggestion program.
• Facilitated meetings with Sales HR Team to collaborate and share candidate pools to enable employee placement.