JAJ Consults: your answer for employee engagement, leadership development, and talent acquisition solutions. My boutique approach allows me to work with industries of all types to design processes that locate, place, and retain highly qualified talent in roles that maximize their skillset. I will save your business time, effort, and precious financial capital by implementing people-focused and business-first talent solutions. Working with JAJ Consults can be cheaper than you think! Strategies are available at all price points. Toolbox of Offerings: • Fractional recruiting support • Retained and contract recruiting support• Recruiting strategy development • Employer branding marketing• Executive coaching and leadership development• Employee engagement strategies • Recruiting SOP creation and OKR development • Job descriptions, career ladders, and compensation structures • Interview plans and question bank development• Internship program development• Careers page and LinkedIn page development & maintenance• New business staffing strategy• Tech tool sourcing, vetting & contract negotiation See something that you need that's not listed above? Recruiting and employee engagement are my bread and butter but my toolbox is full of other useful people management tools. FYI- I help job seekers and happy employees, too! I will help you get your resume and LinkedIn up to date to help you succeed in the job search process and maximize your impact in your current role. Let's collaborate! Email: jennifer@jajconsults.com

Serving as talent acquisition consultant by providing strategic recruitment process support for candidates, hiring managers, and people ops team. Future is a Series C startup that combines technology, content, and elite personal trainers to empower our members with custom-made training plans with personalized audio coaching to help members reach their fitness goals at home, in the gym, or at group fitness classes, when and where it's most convenient.

Creative brand positioning, storytelling, and business development with boutique public relations firm. Executes comprehensive media, fundraising, and event support to ensure brand awareness and positive positioning Seeking out stories to tell in a creative and meaningful way.

Contract team member for boutique public relations firm tasked with client relations, media strategy, and brand positioning. Builds and maintains comprehensive public and government relations while collaborating directly with local, regional, and national clients to plan end-to-end media, fundraising, and corporate events while overseeing vendor management, event logistics, talent booking, and event production to ensure flawless execution.

Recruiting Process Improvements • Played instrumental role in ATS system enhancements to standardize recruiting process and increase efficiency of recruiting function, ensuring clean data output and documented core SOPs • Designed and implemented TalentWall dashboards, utilizing key hiring process data to analyze candidate activity and source streams, identify process roadblocks/defects to drive improvements, and monitor company-wide diversity efforts • Collaborated with project team to successfully implement Teamable for email campaigning and candidate relationship management (CRM) strategy• Designed pipeline strategy for CRM to reduce time to hire• Participated in LinkedIn Careers Page design and content generation• Overhauled job descriptions and updated full life-cycle talent management tools using attributes- and skills-based approach• Conducted job title optimization to increase organic applications • Identified recruiting advertising and sourcing tool cost savings for company of over $40,000 per year (reduction of 15% in total team spend) Direct Recruiting Support• Designed and managed recruiting prioritization process for 6 regional real estate portfolios to allocate effort and advertising spend for highest need roles• Executed full-cycle hiring, focused on filling critical, high volume roles - filled 56 hires in '22 (average of 30.1 day time to hire and 47.8 days time to fill) and 17 hires in H1 '23 (average of 23 days time to hire and 42.9 days time to fill) • Overhauled highest-volume role recruiting strategy utilizing turnover and exit interview data to improve quality of hire and reduce regrettable turnover while implementing a highly effective sourcing tool (Indeed) • Developed role-specific and proactive talent attraction plan across diverse methods and channelsOther Initiatives• Served as People-Ops Co-champion on KIND Kommittee employee resource group (DE&I ERG) • Led company-wide book study on Who: The A Method for Hiring

Tech stack proficiency: Applicant tracking systems- iCIMS and Greenhouse - LinkedIn Recruiter - Workday - Text Engagement - Calendly - Corvirtus - Slack - Asana - ClickUp -, Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) - Notion - Lattice - Charthop - TalentWall by CrossCHQ - Teamable (formerly TopFunnel) - Indeed - LinkedIn - ChatGPT - Microsoft 365 - Adobe - Canva - Expensify - TravelPerk - Zoom - Docusign - Ironclad, Checkr)

Direct Recruitment Support:• Leads and executes full cycle hiring process and supervises hiring activity, evaluates incoming applications and actively sources passive candidates to select talent that aligns with profile and culture. •Develops and executes on-going plan to achieve staffing objectives and tracks recruitment metrics to drive efficiencies and retention.•Leads NRO Crew hiring events to ensure successful hiring and onboarding Crewmembers to meet Raising Cane’s staffing pars•Responsible for attracting and sourcing both internal and external candidates to create a talent pipeline to coincide with the organization’s growth strategy•Evaluates incoming applications and identify management talent that aligns with the organization’s model and culture•Leads the interview process and works with hiring managers to ensure candidates advance through the process according to standards set forth by the organization•Builds Raising Cane’s employment brand by increasing our presence in our communities and establishing relationships with universities, networking organizations, community-based organizations, workforce centers and vendors to provide a pipeline of qualified and talented candidates•Super user of iCIMS, Text Engagment, Calendly, Workday, LinkedIn Recruiter, and Corvirtus tools and serves as first line of defense and support for management team•Conducts new in position training sessions•High volume recruiting - 46 hires in 2017 (half year), 94 hires in 2018, 128 hires in 2019, 71 hires in 2020, 110 in 2021, 6 YTD in 2022. Regional Partnerships:•Responsible for developing annual Talent Plans for each Business Unit (Restaurant, Area, Region), review on a quarterly basis to measure progress and amended as needed•Responsible for communicating and presenting regional recruiting data to the talent acquisition and regional operations leadership teams

Program Management:• Oversaw daily operations, marketing, and communications of two statewide programs- LA ProStart and LRAEF Scholarship Fund. • Engaged volunteers, develop relationships with donors, and advocate through positioning with state agencies and boards, post-secondary advisory boards, and participated in public speaking opportunities. • Guided board committee through annual scholarship recipient selection process and grant allocation decisions. Program development: • Grew ProStart program from 48 to 65 schools and 1200 to 1750 students and tripled number of scholarship applicants in two years. •. Implemented annual review quality improvement process and analyzed data to strategically implement fund, staff, and volunteer time allocations and development of new initiatives. • Created job opportunities and internship programs for students and graduates. Served as LRA designee on Workforce Investment Council.Relationship management:• Increased number of program donors and volunteers, recruited effective committees for strategic decisions and tactical implementation.• Developed collaborative relationships with the LA Department of Education, post-secondary partners, school-based employees and volunteers.Development:• Solicited donors for event based and annual partnerships through corporate sponsorships, foundation gifts, private donors, and grant writing. • Led volunteer committees through event-based sponsorship identification and acquisition and auction item donations solicitation. Event management• Planed annual, multi-day events. Managed all event details and logistics from venue setup to event marketing and communications and participant recruitment for a variety of event types, including training conferences, competitions, and galas.Program marketing:• Implemented new marketing and communications plan, generated web content strategy, and increased social media presence and engagement. • Wrote content for quarterly newsletter.

Program Management:• Oversaw operations and provided administrative support for the Office of Medical Education. • Served as program manager for three educational instructional technologies and learning management systems and provided daily support and solutions for student and faculty challenges.Strategic research and planning:• Provided oversight of school-wide curriculum development and set strategic departmental goals as part of a leadership team. • Designed and executed evaluation of curriculum-based research studies to improve instructional techniques and content delivery. • Built curriculum database and redesigned scheduling, evaluation, and competency tracking program.Employee development:• Designed and implemented in-house training curriculum for over 50 faculty members through traditional and blended learning modules. • Planned and delivered webinars, faculty retreats, and orientation sessions. Developed multimedia communication materials, handbooks, and job aids.

Professional development and training:• Designed and led school-wide, comprehensive staff development sessions as training manager for 60 faculty members. • Developed change management plans, instituted mentorship program, and created multimedia communications and instructional materials. • Introduced new method through researched-based techniques and strategic design based on school-specific, data driven learning needs.