Northwestern University is a private research university located on lakefront campuses in both Evanston and downtown Chicago, Illinois. Northwestern was founded in 1851. In fall 2008, Northwestern opened another campus in Doha, Qatar offering bachelor’s degrees in journalism and communications in partnership with the Qatar Foundation.The university employs approximately 7,100 full-time faculty and staff members among its 11 schools and colleges. NU offers over 130 undergraduate programs and 70 graduate and professional programs to the almost 16,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students enrolled full time.Northwestern University is committed to excellent teaching, innovative research, and the personal and intellectual growth of its students in a diverse academic community.Responsibilities:•Source passive and active candidates through networking, LinkedIn Recruiter, internal databases, cold calling, complex internet searches and research.•Identify and develop recruitment plans for sourcing hard to fill roles; maintain a pipeline of candidates.•Create and post requisitions through various career sites to attract a diverse applicant population. •Partner on intake sessions with Talent Acquisition Partners and/or Hiring Managers/Department Administrators to understand requirements of the role and align on recruitment strategy. •Screen resumes, conduct initial phone screens, schedule onsite interviews.•Manage candidates through hiring steps in the applicant tracking system (ATS) to ensure compliance.•Give offers to finalist candidates, generate offer letters, welcome emails and facilitate the on-boarding process. •Conduct employment and education verifications, background checks and complete reference checks. •Support the Facilities Management Department on all recruiting processes which include union roles; ensure ERISA compliance.

Experis is a dedicated business unit of ManpowerGroup – a world leader in employment services for more than 60 years, and a recognized pioneer in the industry. Experis, created through the joining of Manpower Professional, COMSYS and Jefferson Wells, is the global leader in professional resourcing and project-based workforce solutions. Experis finds breakthrough talent and applies their expertise to today's flexible workforce model. That's the type of thinking that builds businesses, and reshapes entire industries.Responsibilities:•Executing all facets of recruiting lifecycle including candidate sourcing, presentation, selection, offer, negotiation, closing and initial on-boarding.•Develop sourcing plans and build robust technical talent pools using traditional and non-traditional sources to attract active and passive candidates.•Strong experience with online recruiting tools along with using social media.•Partner with hiring manager to fully understand job needs, candidate selection criteria, and align on recruitment strategy. •Maintain strong communications with the hiring manager throughout the recruitment process.•Maintain accurate and fully compliant documentation on all candidates search and selection processes within the internal applicant tracking system.•Lead the creation of a Campus Relations team which includes attending career fairs, networking events, establish relationships with local colleges, and manage Experis Chicago Engineering Handshake account.

Conducted the store operations and HR functions of a multi-million dollar store:•Managed store HR functions: conduct performance reviews, succession planning, employee conflict management, process payroll, benefits administration, on-boarding and off-boarding, unemployment, etc.•Worked with District Manager on compliance management and reporting including annual EEO filing.•Ensure labor law posters are up to date, ordered and shipped to store. •Maintained store staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.•Maintained a 100% manager retention rate; promoted two assistant managers to store managers.•Successfully lowered shrink by 15% through the process of inventory management and retraining of sales associates.•Achieved and exceeded monthly sales goals by building rapport with customers, merchandising according to consumer trends and sales projections. •Implementation of seasonal resets by visual merchandising of the sales floor and form bodies.Recruiter: •Consistently recruited talented management candidates by attending career fairs, recruiting events and by actively networking through building relationships.•Partner with hiring manager to fully understand candidate selection criteria, align on recruitment strategy.•Conduct phone and in-person interviews with candidates and make recommendations to hiring managers.•Participate in the candidate selection and offer process, consulting on best talent match.•Responsible for the on-boarding process, new hire orientation and initial training.•Completed I-9s and E-Verify for new hires.•Ensure all recruitment and hiring practices are in accordance with federal and state employment law guaranteeing fair employment practices.