• Led all recruitment related capabilities, built a talent community while developing and leading Talent Acquisition branding strategy.• Collaborated with clients, primarily in the manufacturing environments, to develop solutions for Human Resources initiatives such as Succession Planning, Strategic Planning, Training & Development and Employee Relations.• Provided general Human Resources support through the development of policies and procedures, employee handbook reviews and updates, job description creation, compensation analysis along with research and counseling.

Independently contribute and deliver recruiting services to assigned business units. Responsible for building and maintaining positive internal and external client experiences and partnerships. Provide consultative search recruiting services and use innovative techniques through cold-calling, sourcing, and networking to meet client needs. Effectively screen, interview and assess to generate qualified candidates. Manage and drive selection by working closely with hiring managers throughout entire recruitment life-cycle.

Key Accomplishments* Conceived and developed a Human Resources Dashboard that captured information on outstanding licensing and clearance requirements, Performance Appraisal due dates, Pending and Open Positions details as well as up-to-date FTE counts.* Conceived and developed an interim staffing pool utilizing existing technology for use by current employees whose status was less than full time to pick up hours rather than using outside agencies to cover census surges.* Executive Searches including Presidents, Vice Presidents and Directors.* Created and presented a course on recruitment and selection offered monthly to all managers within the organization through Hamot University.Manager, Human Resources* Lead and guided professional level Recruiters, HRIS analysts as well as the Human Resources departments’ administrative and data entry personnel.* Internal consultant advising management on make sound employmentdecisions that enhanced business results and lessened the organization’s legal liability.* Project lead for several cross-department initiatives such as employee records imaging, numerous physician office acquisitions and ensuring compliance with mandated employee clearances.* Generated training materials and conducted training (group and one-to-one) * Presented resume preparation and conducted mock interviews with graduating seniors from a local university and business schools.

Directly worked with clients to understand their needs for the open position, made selections from the Talent Pool and then followed-up with the hiring manager.

Co-owner of a start-up direct hire employment agency.