• Developed effective recruitment and advertising strategies to generate interest and ultimately new applicants. Utilized social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and a variety of job posting websites to source and advertise to potential qualified candidates. • Worked closely with hiring managers to understand the staffing needs and their preferences in a potential candidate. Composed creative and eye-catching job advertisements that captured the duties, qualifications, and benefits for a variety of positions such as mechanics, salespeople, administrative staff, and more. Also utilized this information to determine the transferability of a candidate’s skills and experience to the position when responsible for screening resumes and creating a candidate shortlist.• Conducted numerous phone interviews and reference checks per week, using strong communication and inquisitive techniques to question short-listed candidates and their references, which yielded information that was highly effective in determining the candidate’s suitability to the position. The knowledge gathered from these techniques contributed to a more efficient hiring process for the respective hiring managers, and a lower turnover rate.

• As a part of the procurement and marketing department in the motorsports category, assisted the category manager in planning, buying, allocating, and analyzing products and sales in over 120 Northern Retail stores• Oversaw the process of attaining products available to customers, including picking out items based on past sales and customer trends, running sales analysis to allocate appropriate amounts of product to specific locations, creating purchase orders to vendors, and troubleshooting and acting quickly on any relevant product problems needing to be resolved with various departments. A high-level of attention to detail, decision-making, and analytic skills were gained from the various responsibilities taken on in this position.• Completed a project on environmental regulations and conducted an internal audit on The North West Company practices. Found areas where improvements to the remittance processes could be made and implemented necessary changes by initiating meetings with various departments and documented the project in a report for the Senior Category Manager.

• Developed effective recruitment and advertising strategies to generate interest and ultimately new applicants. Utilized social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and a variety of job posting websites to source and advertise to potential qualified candidates. • Worked closely with hiring managers to understand the staffing needs and their preferences in a potential candidate. Composed creative and eye-catching job advertisements that captured the duties, qualifications, and benefits for a variety of positions such as mechanics, salespeople, administrative staff, and more. Also utilized this information to determine the transferability of a candidate’s skills and experience to the position when responsible for screening resumes and creating a candidate shortlist.• Conducted numerous phone interviews and reference checks per week, using strong communication and inquisitive techniques to question short-listed candidates and their references, which yielded information that was highly effective in determining the candidate’s suitability to the position. The knowledge gathered from these techniques contributed to a more efficient hiring process for the respective hiring managers, and a lower turnover rate.