Candice Henderson Email & Phone Number

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

StartingBloc New Orleans Institute, 2018 Fellow.On the Institute: "StartingBloc focuses on cultivating leadership that is more courageous, creative, inclusive, and connected. Our future asks us for leaders who, from a place of wholeness, will build thriving systems on this planet. These are people driven by a mission greater than themselves, willing to.

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

The Office of Youth and Families works to improve child well-being by increasing coordination between agencies, expanding resources, ensuring equitable policymaking and engaging youth and community input. We envision a New Orleans where all children and families thrive.With both internal and external facing responsibilities--ranging from program and.

Greater New Orleans Area

• Partner with 48 employers across sectors, pre-screen 200+ candidates, and match individuals to job opportunities by making recommendations for hiring to employers
• Placed over 160 employment connections and 30 apprenticeships directly via employment referrals
• Identify barriers to employment and partner with team members and participants to eliminate barriers
• Collaborate with City’s Economic hubs on different large scale workforce initiatives; Nolaba, GNO Inc., and Mayor Cantrell’s Workforce Office

Greater New Orleans Area

• Obtained job placement for 400 graduates through review of open positions, coordination with Network Sector Leads, other job developers, and contacting new companies
• Developed work experience sites/ internships and contracts with businesses in the New Orleans area, such as Southwest Airlines, Sewerage & Water Board, Hilton, Whitney Bank, etc.,
• Worked with trainers to schedule and provide job development introduction, mock interviews, and post mock interview sessions during the four week work simulated program
• Organized on site career fair for graduating cohorts, based on their skill sets and career aspirations
• Planned and promoted Work Readiness Wednesday’s workshop sessions for unemployed graduates in collaboration with retention specialist

Greater Atlanta Area

• Established employment, financial, and education pathways; e.g., Regions Bank, UPS, and Georgia Technical College
• Provided feedback and coaching to over 75+ students
• Managed performance budgeting, forecasting, and vendor operations

Greater New Orleans Region

• Recruited 100+ young adults in the New Orleans area to go through programming and gain meaningful work experience
• Hired, trained, and managed a team of 3 Assistant Enterprise Managers to ensure the needs at 5 different venues in Greater New Orleans Area and Baton Rouge were met and profitable
• Effectively communicated and worked alongside the Site Director to ensure that the $200,000 revenue goal of the social enterprise was met

Greater Atlanta Area

• Recruited, hired, trained, and retained over 15 new associates
• Oversaw 11 stores within District, created and led customer service initiative’s throughout district and individual stores
• Grew districts sales and survey score’s from 4.46 to 4.67 on 5.0 scale
• Monitored and updated UPT, ADT, and sales goals for store. Assigned daily, weekly, and monthly sales goals for individual team members

Woodstock Ga

Woodstock, GA

Oversee 11 store's in my District to improve customer service in stores through customer survey'sWeekly Touch Basis with Brand Managers in all 11 stores to drive successful contests and congratulate associate recognition in surveys.Created MarketForce Monday's so all store's would have knowledge of strengths and weakness for their store.

Bachelor'S Degree, Hospitality Administration/Management

Activities and Societies: Society of Hospitality Administration

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Hospitality Administration/Management

Minor Degree In Business Administration, Business Administration And Management, General

Minor Degree In Black Studies, African-American/Black Studies