Amber Richards Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

• Developed and executed a comprehensive recruitment strategy to meet organizational hiring needs while reducing time-to-fill and increasing candidate quality.
• Analyzed market trends and collaborated with senior leadership to forecast hiring needs, ensuring alignment with strategic workforce planning initiatives.
• Developed and managed the recruitment budget, achieving cost savings through effective resource allocation and negotiation of vendor contracts.
• Led and mentored a team of recruiters, providing guidance and training to improve individual performance and achieve collective hiring targets.
• Oversaw the end-to-end recruitment process, from sourcing and screening to interviewing and onboarding, ensuring a positive candidate experience and adherence to best practices.
• Implemented and optimized cutting-edge recruitment processes and technologies, including applicant tracking systems and digital candidate assessments, resulting in increased efficiency and data-driven decision-making.

Texas, United States

• Ensured the Talent Acquisition Team continuously supported business strategy, goals, shared values, culture and philosophy of both the team and organization.
• Steered numerous Talent Acquisition activities through organization wide expansions, reorganizations & restructures, including assisting client during the SPIN process.
• Effectively managed change while delivering results and securing employee buy-in at all organizational levels.
• Guided numerous process improvement activities, assessed and executed company-wide recruitment and pre-screening process improvements.
• Reported and presented sourcing metrics and results to summarize monthly/quarterly activities and ROI of recruiting resources to senior leadership.
• Led a team of 27 recruiters based in the US, Mexico, Canada and Philippines.

Texas, United States

• Created a recruiting process that focused on the candidate’s experience and set the tone for an all-inclusive company culture.
• Increased headcount by 27% while decreasing cost of hire by 38%.
• Exceeded aggressive hiring goals by successfully recruiting and onboarding 500 highly qualified new hires 6 months under project goal.
• Saved $3million by changing the recruiting module from utilizing staffing agencies to hiring direct.
• Developed and implemented an interview guide that included interview questions as well as a scoring matrix to be used by each facility.
• Implemented a screening process that reflected a true look into what it is like to work for Vestcom.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Built strong relationships with hiring managers and internal stakeholders, collaborated closely to understand staffing requirements, refined job descriptions, and ensured a smooth and efficient hiring process.
• Assisted client team with conversion from TalentLink to Workday (ATS system), which allowed us to streamline automated documents (scheduling of interviews, offer letters and new hire paperwork) thus increasing.
• Led a team of 15 recruiters and 3 coordinators based in the US.
• Organized and traveled to several successful recruitment events.
• Developed and executed innovative recruitment strategies, including leveraging social media platforms, optimizing job board utilization, created both radio and print ads for hiring events, as well as implementing.
• Assisted in lowering the agency fees for contract employees by replacing them with FTE.

Irving, TX

• Acted as a trusted advisor to hiring managers, providing guidance on market trends, salary benchmarking, and competitive intelligence to support informed hiring decisions and optimize talent acquisition outcomes.
• Developed and executed numerous social recruiting strategies to create proactive and targeted searches to help generate more targeted candidate pools and increase the quality of employee referrals.
• Led a team of 4 recruiters and 1 coordinator based in the US and Philippines.
• Organized and participated in several successful recruitment events.
• Successfully led a Customer Service Department project, hiring 80 representatives within 5 months.

Mckinney, TX

Frisco, TX

• Managed and improved the production and efficiency of a team of 11 Recruitment Coordinators.
• Developed the process map from the onset of the account as well as created process improvements post implementation.
• Trained 30 new team members in both a classroom setting and side by side training.
• Actively involved in the day-to-day tasks of the team.
• Recorded daily team performance results, generated weekly production data reports as well as created both Monthly and Quarterly Business Reviews.
• Interpreted data from reports, identified trends and consulted the client on best practices as well as provided a forecast of future staffing needs.

Frisco, Texas, United States

• Assisted in creating SOP, templates, FAQ’s and process for a new account with 13 Coordinators.
• Identified areas of improvement and initiated process improvement plans which aided in the renewal of the contract as well as increased team by 20%.
• Planned hiring events, generated offers including contingent offers, followed FCRA guidelines, monitored the background and drug screen process, helped collect background verification information, completed the.
• Maintained candidate tracker and assisted candidates with applying online.
• Trained a team of 24 in both a classroom and side by side training, while maintaining my workload.
• Operated as back up for the Manager and assigned workload to Coordinators.

Frisco, Texas, United States

• Consistently maintained a time to fill metric below the client goal, effectively optimizing the recruitment process and ensuring timely placement of qualified candidates, contributing to efficient talent acquisition.
• Built strong relationships with hiring managers and internal stakeholders, collaborating closely to understand staffing requirements, refine job descriptions, and ensure a smooth and efficient hiring process.
• Maintained an applicant tracking system (ATS) to streamline the recruitment process, manage candidate databases, and enhance operational efficiency.