Amy James Email & Phone Number

Greater Milwaukee Area

Within a racial equity and inclusion lens, plan and implement human resources activities, such as talent acquisition and management, onboarding and retention, training and learning, employee engagement, employee relations, performance management, compensation, strategic benefits planning, and human resources policies and procedures. ------------------------------------------The Greater Milwaukee Foundation is how Milwaukee works together. For over a century, we have helped generous people give back to the community. Together with donors and partners throughout the region, the Foundation invests in the potential of people and places, supports community-grown solutions and strives to end the systemic racism that holds our region back. Through the power of transformative philanthropy and social change, we are focused on shaping a future where everyone thrives – a Milwaukee for all.

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Successfully implemented a new onboarding process and mentorship program• Responsible for the success of the onboarding process which included: Sending pertinent information to new hires and ensuring all questions were answered prior to their first day; Communicating when a new hire started with the agency, specifically with the CEO and new hire’s mentor; Coordinating with various departments to ensure all resources were in place for a successful start; Creating an orientation schedule to ensure new hires were properly trained on the agency’s workings; Maintaining a close relationship with new hires during their first 90 days of employment• Managed the agency’s semiannual feedback session process by ensuring managers and employees had all necessary resources to conduct effective reviews• Administered employee benefit enrollments and changes with all insurance carriers• Assisted in employee relations by providing accurate information to employee inquiries

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Instrumental in attracting and retaining talent and maintaining an award-winning atmosphere by keeping high standards of employee satisfaction• Recruited the best talent in the industry by networking and developing relationships. This included building relationships with colleges and universities and inviting student groups to visit Laughlin Constable, as well as maintaining a heavy social presence, specifically in LinkedIn• Educated and trained employees on LinkedIn best practices. Assisted high-level employees with their LinkedIn pages for better positioning of industry keywords and personal branding• Administered the company’s social media channels that were focused on careers at LC: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Intranet pages• Conducted new employee orientation. Ensured new hires had all of their questions answered before their first day and maintained a close relationship with them during their first month of employment• Led the Funn Committee by organizing monthly events for employees (i.e. Root Beer Float Day, Boo Bash, Wellness Wednesday, chair massages)• Wrote and facilitated best workplace award applications. Organized celebration events for our employees when we won

Managed and trained all employees to ensure we were a successful fitness center that helped our members achieve their goals. Ensured we were up-to-date on all human resource/legal requirements. Kept members motivated by setting goals and celebrating results, continuously coached and corrected on proper usage of the machines, and shared healthy information.

• Initiated training and succession planning programs• Maintained compliance standards for FMLA and workers compensation• Ensured union compensation was comparable against the industry• Completed medical benefit billings, open enrollment and new hire coding, and COBRA• Conducted new employee orientation• Participated in all aspects of the hiring/selection process

• Assisted the recruiters in the hiring/selection process • Initiated the onboarding process by creating all offer letters and setting up drug screens, starting the personnel record for new hires and entering all data in the HRIS system, coordinating with various departments to ensure all resources were in place for a successful start, being the point of contact for the new hire before their start date and on their start date, distributing and collecting all necessary new hire paperwork and entering the data in the HRIS system for the Payroll Department• Maintained compliance standards for HR's paper and online records• Administered the HRIS system• Assisted in employee relations by providing accurate information to employee inquiries and benefit administration• Coordinated corporate-wide training and new employee orientation• Administered the termination process and conducted exit interviews

Ba, Sociology

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