Responsible for the development, implementation, and coordination of the talent acquisition program for FCBT . I also provide various talent acquisition services to affiliated lending cooperatives. I serve as the Diversity and Inclusion leader for the bank.Additional responsibilities include: Full life cycle recruiting including recruiting strategy, sourcing, assessing and delivering a high quality, diverse talent pool to hiring managers. Developing and implementing innovative sourcing techniques to meet the needs of the business in the most cost effective and timely manner. Sourcing/recruiting active and passive candidates from on-line databases, contact lists, networking, cold calling, university relations, social media, and complex internet searches and research. Proactively conduct research and investigate new ideas to create innovative sourcing, advertising, and talent acquisition marketing strategies to result in a diverse candidate pool.Foster a consultative relationship with managers, business leaders and affiliated lending cooperatives to advise them on recommended recruiting options, best in class hiring practices, and diversity and inclusion in talent acquisition and management.

As a Recruiter, I am responsible for the full life-cycle recruiting efforts at Farm Credit Bank of Texas, a cooperatively owned wholesale bank. I utilize both proven and customized sourcing techniques to build relationships that will result in a high quality, diverse talent pool for my hiring managers inside the bank as well as providing various talent acquisition services to our affiliated lending cooperatives in the Farm Credit System. Check out the current opportunities at Farm Credit Bank of Texas! http://fcb.balancetrak.com

As a Retail Hiring Manager, I was responsible for keeping our entire market effectively staffed in our AT&T retail stores. I worked seamlessly within my group to schedule, interview, make hiring decisions, and on board great employees. I was a volume leader in YTD hiring for 2016 and 2017, only second to Houston. When I was not involved in the day to day hiring, I also took on extra projects to ensure we had consistent candidate flow by holding job fairs, both internally and externally. I worked hard to impact and reduce our market attrition by writing and delivering a hands-on workshop for managers level employees and below on how to progress their careers internally using our existing HR systems and tools. In 2015 and 2016 I was awarded a peer and leader nominated Service Excellence award for going above and beyond while living out our company principals. No matter the task or project I was working on, the people I worked with were amazing and a gift to be around.

I supported all the sales and training for the National Retail partners of AT&T Mobility. I supported the accounts of Best Buy, Radio Shack, Sams Club, and Walmart. By building strong relationships with store leadership and staff, I ensured sellers were knowledgeable and promoted AT&T products and services to meet our respective sales goals. I visited locations daily and resolved customer issues. I managed a team of AT&T weekend special event sellers that I stratigically placed across the market to lift results.I wrote and delivered trainings to managers and front line sellers. In 2010 I was awarded the prestigious AT&T Summit trip for top performance nationally.

Among my 12 years in the retail store, I promoted from inventory control, to customer service, to inside sales, to assistant manager and then store manager. As a Store Manager, I was responsible for exceeding goals while ensuring customers were provided an outstanding experience. Coached sellers on utilizing discovery questions and cross selling all products. Also responsible for all day to day store operations. Recognized in 2008 with the AT&T Summit trip as a top ranked Store Manager.