As the Director of Talent Acquisition, I am responsible for delivering a quality candidate and employee experience, implementing employer branding activities that attract and retain qualified candidates, leading all sourcing strategies to build talent pipelines for current and future job openings, and managing recruiting strategies for all vacancies. In this role I oversee all stages of the candidate experience, facilitating a smooth transition from application, to hire, and through the first week of orientation/onboarding. In addition to directly recruiting for qualified candidates, I am also responsible for supporting the HR Sr. Director with forecasting activities, managing labor request processes and managing employee relocation programs. In this role I: * Drive all aspects of the Talent Acquisition program design and lead development of new talent acquisition strategies.* Develop and manage internal procedures for staffing programs, internships and temp agency workers. * Provide oversight and direct configuration of end-to-end recruitment systems as the team's Workday Recruiting Administrator.* Supervise recruiting staff.* Serve as a business partner for leaders and hiring managers to develop effective sourcing and recruitment strategies.* Collaborate with Marketing & Communications and Human Resources leadership to develop and implement appropriate employer brand marketing strategies.* Manage the employee relocation program.* Identify metrics and targets to measure program performance and develop and implement change management and communication plans in partnership with business leaders.

I’m primarily responsible for overall recruiting performance across a broad geographic region. I’m a talent advisor and program leader. I partner with field, enterprise and HR leaders to provide feedback on recruiting, talent development and succession planning. I collaborate with leadership in order to build a diverse and inclusive team. I utilize partnerships and build strategy to drive company initiatives and ensure effective communication to achieve superior hiring results. Some highlights in this role include:• Rolling out a new interview process in my area and encouraging its successful adoption elsewhere to improve candidate experience, provide more consistent interview feedback for our teams, and provide a quicker hiring and onboarding experience to claim more talent. • Executing a ‘TA Career Spotlight’ experience to build a pipeline of talent from within the organization for talent acquisition roles across the enterprise.• Representing the field talent acquisition team in an enterprise project to integrate Avature and Workday to create a more efficient ATS experience for our enterprise recruiting teams.• Training new-in-role campus and experienced recruiters and building mentorship relationships.• Leading a team of recruiters to provide the top hiring results in the region for my market. • Voted by peers to receive the ‘Knight Award’ (most likely to save the day) and ‘Chaos Coraller Award’ (routinely turns everyone’s craziest ideas into workable plans). • Proficient in Workday Recruiting, Avature (ATS), Indeed, LinkedIn Recruiter, and Handshake.

In this role, I built and led teams for campus hiring in 6 groups and across 2 regions and with 3 distribution centers and 450+ stores. I worked with teams to create and execute new campus recruitment strategies through identifying trends and market conditions. I oversaw the teaching, training and development of the recruitment teams. I actively worked with the HR leadership team to determine HR process and operational priorities. Some responsibilities I had and projects I worked on during this time included:• Enterprise Campus Cross Functional Team leader – co-led a CFT to create and enhance a number of enterprise recruiting initiatives ranging from recruiting marketing materials to enterprise events. • Created an internship program for hourly leadership positions currently used across the enterprise.• Filled in for the Enterprise Internship manager role during an extended maternity leave. • Executive Internship Program Regional Captain – helped create and roll out changes to our executive internship program and led training to help recruiters and field partners successfully execute the program.• Talent Acquisition Leadership Award recipient and Talent Acquisition ‘Be One Team’ Award recipient.• Led the enterprise campus team in hires (multiple years) while training incoming recruiters.• Helped the enterprise as a National Retail Federation (NRF) programming creator/presenter, Veris Insights collaborator, CareerXRoads participant, Talent Lab presenter and led calls for the campus team.• Supported our recruiters on technical changes and best practices as we rolled out Workday and Avature.• Diversity and HBCU recruiting strategy champion, serving on enterprise teams to support initiatives.

As ETL SF/GE, I fight to establish a culture of pride in work well done by empowering team members with area and metric ownership and showing appreciation for what they do well. My umbrella goal is to use warmth to create a culture of development and unity.* Completed the STL/BP Candidate Program (October 2015)* Co-Captained Red Card performance for D417 (2015)* Member of the District Assessment team. Acted as Chair for the district assessments for 2436.* Trained an ETL and Intern, who have both successfully taken ETL roles.* Helped turn a negative YTD sales comp upon arrival into a team that exceeded company sales comp goals, while leading the district in Red Card performance.* Won individual District Leadership Red Card Contest (Fall 2014)* Completed Business College (2014)* Food Safety Manager CertifiedTEAM LEADERSHIP* Promoted 10 team members to Brand positions (2014-2015). Promoted 2 team members to team leads and helped train a 3rd.* Recognized great performance through ‘Zoning Selfies’ to help instill pride* Helped improve Best Team Survey results to GREEN through engaged listening and action.* Engaged team to support the community by actively participating in community service events.

Connectivity Sales Manager @ Myrtle Beach 855* Engage a team of 40-50 sales associates to take care of our customers, each other and our business results while supporting 80-120 team members’ growth.* Train other peer leaders as a District Specialty Coach and lead weekly calls.* Responsible for business group’s contribution to daily targets and the P&L while driving performance throughout the store.* Recruit, hire and train team members to thrive and advance.* Delivered Territory-leading results during 2013 Tax-Free Weekend. * Transformed a bottom-100 Mobile team into a consistent top-half performing unit with improved employee and customer satisfaction scores.* Completed Harvard ManageMentor courses as part of ongoing development.Deputy of Counter Intelligence @ Harrisonburg 1534* Led a team of 20-30 Geek Squad and Customer Service Agents to consistently perform in the top 5% of Best Buy in key metrics. Delivered banner winning performance in company-leading D106 and D115.* Voted store's Peer MVP and selected Sales MVP.

* Interact with audience while hosting a daily show which includes requests. * Oversee a team in producing ads, including assigning and producing ad copy.* Produce an hour-long weekly artist feature.* Manage content, upkeep and additions to station website.* Lead a team in creating on-air approach to meeting station fundraising goals.