Heather Rush Email & Phone Number

Tallmadge, Ohio

Responsible for identifying external recruiting sources for hard to fill positions, coordinating all advertising for open positions. Daily responsibilities include: Communicating and following up with all external recruiting sources and candidates, phone screening candidates, conducting reference and other background checks on qualified candidates, working with management on upcoming openings and fine tuning skill sets as needed, coordinating candidate interviews with the hiring department, coordinating on site job fair and providing interview training as necessary to managers and supervisors. Facilitate training and assist leadership regarding use of Workday. Additional tasks outside of recruiting include FMLA, interviewing, exit interviews and training.

Responsible for recruiting, hiring, and implementing strategies to retain high quality staff. Daily duties include: Screening internal and external applicants by reviewing applications/resumes, conducting interviews, background and reference checks, coordinating second interviews with hiring authority, offering positions to successful candidates, scheduling and conducting new employee orientation. Counseling employees on human resource related issues including company policies and procedures, federal and state employment laws, current employee requirements for accreditations, training, discipline, performance reviews, interviewing and terminations. Preparing all advertising for employment opportunities, as well as collecting, analyzing and reporting HR data. Assisting Human Resource Director with file audits.

Provide on the job training in the areas of: processes, policies and services along with attentive supervision to help develop strong, confident and productive team members in the Operations department. Daily duties include: Collaborating with Managers to make educated and smart business decisions, balancing giving great customer service while solving difficult customer concerns, creating and budgeting weekly employee schedules, assisting employees with availability and time off inquiries, and moderating, discussing and defusing any employee concerns or disputes in a positive and professional manner.Accomplishments:Added responsibilities due to superior performanceImplemented innovative solutions to increase productivity and salesHiring CoordinatorDirectly responsible for filling all staffing needs for the store. Daily duties include: Contacting and pre-screening all applicants, coordinating interviews with General Manager and department supervisors for all potential employees, performing all pre-hire work including submitting and receiving: background checks, drug screenings, and reference checks. Responsible for orchestrating and supervising annual job fairs, managing all hiring inquires, organizing and operating new-hire trainings and completing all necessary paperwork for new employees. Accomplishments:Fully staffed store by hiring and training all new employees for appropriate business needs.Received promotion to Operations Senior due to exceptional success in Hiring Coordinator position.

Responsible for matching purchase orders to invoices and submitting them to accounts payable. Daily duties include: Documenting and creating a list of all open invoices, contacting project managers to discuss and request purchase orders, communicating with vendors to verify, correct, or cancel invoices.

Ba, English

*Deans list: 2006, 2007 *Praxis II Principles of Learning and Teaching (7-12): 2007 *Praxis II English Language, Literature Composition.

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