Joyce Wood Email & Phone Number

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

The Launch Pad is a unique and customized coaching service for the New Graduate needing help in finding that first position, High School students wanting to explore college major and career options, and Professionals looking to change careers.Coaching services include resume review, interview practice, networking strategies and a BrainStyles assessment. The BrainStyles assessment brings clarity to each individual’s career choice allowing them to focus in the area of their natural strengths. The coaching program also helps the new grad with stress reduction and provides career strategy maps to guide them in their first year in a new position.

Richardson, Tx

Recruiting services for all industries and levels. Specialty in high tech, telecom, sales, and B2B marketing. Super networked for fast candidate identification. An experienced interviewer who can deliver quality matches for your organization.

Lead North American team of professional HR Business Partners to deliver timely HR support to 675 sales employees. Develop strategies to deliver corporate programs in a unique way to serve the needs of the diverse Sales teams.Minimized turnover and attracted highly skilled sales professionals through utilizing constant up to date knowledge of sales force trends in the industry.Coached sales professionals for maximum career growth utilizing standard and non standard talent succession systems resulting in the ability to fill many senior roles internally.Collaborated with the CEO and Sr VP of HR on Sales Organization design which helped the company maintain account coverage with lower fixed costs. Lead a team of professional recruiters for the North America recruiting effort. Implement strategies and recruiting policy to meet and exceed the goals for North America talent acquisition and development. Manage and balance an average requisition load of more than 500 annually. Work with vendors on evaluation and selection of recruiting tools which increased the pipeline of relevant talent. Monitor the offer flow process for optimum customer service to hiring managers and applicants which resulting in same day offer generation.Re tooled the College Recruitment effort to focus more budget on targeted campus activities which increase our access to targeted college New Grads and Co-opsHR Lead National Security Program- Strategic Project 2007 - 2008Assisted in drafting the company process required by National Security Agencies for the Alcatel-Lucent merger. Author of the Background Investigation Process for North American and International Hires allowing the company to demonstrate compliance.

Established the first recruiting function for the Sales and Marketing organizations.Reduced outside agency usage by 60% in the first year.Decreased the requestion to hire metric by 4 weeks by establishing custom interview processes for each Sales team.Established a Sales Associate program to recruit and train Junior Military Officers to become high functioning technical sales professionals.Participated on many global merger and harmonization committees to assist with globalization and standardization of HR and Recruiting practices

The world's largest provider of outsourced business solutions including HR, Payroll, Tax and Benefit Services with revenues of $9B and more than 570,000 clients.; Directed the overall HR function supporting the Southwest region with locations in Dallas, San Antonio and Houston. Led a team of HR Professionals to provide support for Customer Service, Operations, Payroll Conversion, Tax and Sales. Responsible for the Annual Affirmative Action Plan. Managed revenue generating business group offering Unemployment Compensation Services.Developed new channels for recruiting entry level Customer Service Associates which reduced 1st year turnover. Participated in the region wide programs to develop training for high potential employees.

Bs, Human Resources

Graduate Certificate - Dispute Resolution/Mediation