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• Utilize resources often including community networking events, job fairs, online sources, career fairs, and advertising/marketing programs.• Review, enhance and rewrite the employee manual.• Partnering with hiring managers to determine staffing needs.• Screening resumes.• Performing in-person and phone interviews with candidates.• Performing reference and background checks.• Coordinating interviews with the hiring managers.• Following up on the interview process status.• Onboarding; communicating employer information and benefits during screening process.• Staying current on the company’s organization structure, personnel policy, and federal and state laws regarding employment practices.• Conducting exit interviews on terminated employees.

Responsible for managing client expectations, developing social media content and monitoring social media engagement, engaging with the brand’s target audience, managing and monitoring social media advertising budget.Responsible for the design, editing and updating of all multimedia assets including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.Responsible for the design, development and execution of social media campaigns, digital newsletters, emails and photography.

Bowie, Maryland

IT Recruitment Specialist (PT) Interviews, screens and evaluates external and internal candidates for job openings to identify applicants who fully meet the position requirements of posted requisitions and refers them to the hiring manager for consideration.Coordinates and actively participates in the selection of the final candidates. Conducts reference checks and checks if current background/Full Scope is still active. Makes employment recommendations based on information developed through prescreens, interviews, reference checks, applications, and resumes, insuring the compensation offer is competitive and affordable. Negotiates and extends offers.Provide full lifecycle recruiting function to include assisting hiring managers with developing and marketing job positions, sourcing, screening, coordinating interviews, reference checking, extending verbal and written offers while also maintaining candidate information in the automated recruiting system.Conduct direct sourcing of candidates utilizing internal and external databases, social media tools, and search engines; cold and warm calling of target candidates or companies; networking in various ways for candidates and referrals, etc.Updates job knowledge by staying current on recruiting tools, strategies, technologies and sources.

Annapolis, Maryland

• Develops requisitions, recruitment planners and job announcements in JobAps.• Recruit for IT, Administrative and Accounting entry level and management positions.• Writes, post and tracks advertisements in newspaper and various non-agency websites. Tracks and approves the payment of advertisement invoices.• Reviews applications, transcripts and any other required materials in JobAps to ensure all minimum and/or selective qualifications have been satisfied, investigating an resolving any minimum qualifications issues that may arise regarding the accreditation status of university study. • Send notices to candidates to notify them if their disqualification and eligible list placement if applicable.• Rates candidates according to established rating of training and experience criteria and enter scores into JobAps.• Processes examinations, executes scoring protocols and creates certification lists in JobAps.• Sends Interview Scheduling requests to liaisons within assigned divisions and ensures that Interview Notifications & Materials are sent out within the specified timeframe.• Administers written examinations to ensure a standardized, secure and reliable test administration.• Completes preliminary minimum qualification verifications and ensuring that all necessary documentation has been obtained or requested and documented in order to facilitate hires by the Employment Services Unit of OHR.• Responds to general employment inquiries• Interprets and applies various provisions of Merit System Laws such as State Personnel Management System salary plans, COMAR, DBM and Comptroller Office policy, procedures, rules and regulations. • Assist the Manager of Recruitment & Testing with various administrative tasks and special projects such as the tracking of unit work, file maintenance and job analysis reporting.

Columbia, Maryland

• Assist the Human Resources Manager with recruitment efforts by efficiently and effectively fill open positions.• Recruit for Warehouse, Administrative and Call Center positions.• Design and update job announcements.• Post job descriptions to job boards, newspapers, with professional organizations and social medias.• Review applicants to evaluate if they meet the position requirements and conduct prescreening before scheduling interviews.• Conduct in-person interviews to gain a deeper understanding of candidate knowledge and experience.• Guides new hire through the HR onboarding process; completes pre-employment background checks; checks references, prepare new hire paperwork; verifies employment eligibility.• Conduct new hire orientations, in order to foster a positive attitude toward the company’s mission.• Initiate and process all new hire paperwork and maintain files and other pertinent human resource records.• Serve as administrator of Kronos Timekeeper System and Brivo our employee photo ID system.• Download monthly reports for preparation of the performance evaluations program. Helps to monitor performance appraisal process.• Assist in writing and forwarding rejection letters.• Answer, screen, and direct incoming telephone calls ensuring a high level of customer service and confidentiality • Assists employees and outside public with personnel information and interpretation of company's personnel policies or procedures. • Assists with the tracking of advertising costs. • Distributes company-wide annual performance appraisal schedules. Helps to monitor performance appraisal process. • Creates and preserves computerized employee data information. Provides HR Manager with administrative support for designated employee/personnel projects. • Assists with HR related training. Composes various reports and documents to provide current personnel information.

Fulfill both short and long-term substitute assignments across all subjects.Effectively teaching students in varied academic/age levels (grades 7-12) and diverse cultural backgrounds.Foster a safe, positive and supportive learning environment while maintaining appropriate discipline in classroom and in the school.Follow curriculum guidelines to prepare course objectives and course of study.Administer tests and evaluate students' progress, records results, and issue reports. Instruct students utilizing various teaching methods like lectures, visual aids and demonstrations.Assign lessons and correct assignments given as classwork/homework.Experience with at-risk and special needs students.Adhere to non-discriminatory policies and guidelines. Effectively instruct classes with as many as 35 students.Meet with parents to discuss student progress. Liaise effectively with colleagues in team teaching assignments.

Maryland

• Used social and professional networking sites and events to identify and sources students and tutors.• Post job descriptions to job boards, newspapers, with professional organizations and social medias.• Conduct telephone and in-person interviews to gain a deeper understanding of candidate knowledge and experience.• Prepared new hire paperwork for all employees.• Be onsite for all classroom workshops during the school year.• Provided new hire orientation for all employees and exit interviews for terminations. • Managed a team of 2 facilitators, this includes executing room assignment schedules, monitoring and encouraging feedback from facilitators about program delivery and effectiveness, holding facilitators accountable for student attendance records and completed surveys as well as each facilitator’s personal promptness, attendance, and performance as an instructor.• Lead program set up and clean efforts, making sure laptops are ready for the lesson, materials are distributed to facilitators, and appropriate materials (attendance and surveys) are collected when necessary.

Greater New York City Area

• Assisted team members with recruitment efforts by downloading, screening, scheduling interviews, analyzing and distributing qualifying applicant resumes to the Human Resources Manager.• Coordinated new hire paperwork for all employees.• Plan management and administration personnel file management• Assisted with payroll administration and benefits/401 (k)/stock options (100+ employees)• Managed corporate credit cards account and transit program. • Assisted and provided all employees with human resources inquiries.• Collected, distributed, inputted and informed employees on benefit enrollments, status and updates. • Maintained and organized all personnel files in designated folders and spreadsheets.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Coordinated orientation schedules for new hire orientations. This includes compiling and maintaining accurate information on all new hires and preparing new hire announcements. Will also schedule conference rooms for new hires orientation and select the luncheon menu. • Conducted education verifications and coordinated all temporary staffing needs as requested. • Maintained and filed all applicant files and resumes in a timely manner. Prepare and archive files for offsite storage. Retrieve files from the file room and offsite storage as requested.• Administer appropriate applicant testing while monitoring the application process. Evaluate test results and collect all paperwork, ensuring it is accurate and complete. Maintain neat orderly stations. • Downloaded, sorted and distributed resumes and prepare them for distribution to the appropriate hiring managers.• Entered all new hires and temporary/contract employees into the new person intake system (Metastorm) in a timely manner.• Prepared new hire offer letters.

Developed and delivered presentations to Human Capital colleagues and management on the new performance management system.Created performance management resources, handbook, and pamphlet to assist management with developing performance plans.Designed the performance feedback content for the performance management training workshops.Helped maintain the Human Capital Intranet website, by providing both feedback and content support.Scheduled, organized, and prepared materials for team meetings.Conducted research, computed and analyzed statistical data to make recommendations on government projects and programs.

Assisted team members with hotel's recruitment process by updating job announcements, attended job fairs, screened job applicants, and performed reference checks.Assisted with the preparation of employee relation events and issues.Designed and developed monthly newsletters for all Capital Hilton's employees.Prepared New Employee Orientation packets and presentation materials.Maintained and updated confidential information in PeopleSoft system and employees files.

Master Of Science In Administration/ Organization Management, Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General, 3.4

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Sport And Fitness Administration/Management, 3.3

Activities and Societies: Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc, Sport Management Club - Vice President• 2- Time Athletic Department Appreciation.