Kendra Tate Email & Phone Number

Deerfield, Illinois, United States

Planet Forward is a global professional staffing and recruitment company specializing in strategic solutions for the Energy & Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, and Technology sectors. We provide experienced consultants across a range of industries delivered by a team of senior-level technical recruiters. Our goal is to connect talent with opportunities worldwide. Our placement options include contract, contract-to-hire and direct-hire (permanent) placement.Planet Forward delivers proven global solutions - every day. Whether you are searching for your next career move or need to hire a team to support an upcoming project, our experts will make themselves available.

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• Executed hiring events based on labor projections to meet the labor order demands.• Guided applicants through the hiring process including on-line application submittals.• Consulted with applicants on the best match for their desired position and available opportunities.• Administered pre-employment tests.• Assisted in the delivery of all HR initiatives including retention, recognition, onboarding, and off boarding.• Organized, scheduled, and assisted with internal and external interviews. • Assisted with new hire orientation including scheduling, office tours, and documentation collection.• Provided new employees with an explanation of benefits and enrollment procedures for all sponsored insurance plans.• Tracked and maintained statistics on effectiveness of recruitment through weekly reports.• Prepared and supported new hire orientation including sending new employee packages via email.• Provided overall administrative support where necessary for the HR Team

Trained new professional tax preparers & insuring all federal income tax laws are enforced.Liaison between Internal Revenue Service & tax clients in handling all tax issues.Scheduling staff, reporting payroll, distribution of federal income tax refunds & payment plans.Duties also consisted of general office duties, data entry, filing, faxing, and pulling client files for retrieval of pertinent information.

Answer inbound life, health, retirement and other human resource related calls and provide excellent customer service to current and future policyholders. Navigate in a Windows-based system through a series of databases in order to access appropriate information to service the customer.Enroll new hire, retirement, and current customers in life insurance, health and retirement products including long term care and annuity products. Identify and resolve the customer's issues in a manner within specified service level agreements. Anticipates future needs by explaining, suggesting and providing additional information. Research and resolve complex issues by using various online databases. Inform customers of the resolution with follow up calls. Work with management, customers and internal departments on all related issues.Maintain current knowledge of policies, products and departmental procedures.Maintain departmental goals for quality and productivity. Assisted with the training of new Benefits Specialist.

Answer and process all incoming orders and inquiries for Hurricane Katrina Victims.Placed orders via phone and internet Business to Business (B2B) site for major accounts. Assisted with the training of all new Customer Service Representatives. Assigned as the special accounts team leader to administer heavy workloads and to ensure proper work code and ethic.After Hours Formal Wear

Developed professional sales clerks for formal wear eventsProcessed rental and purchasing orders for formal wear eventsScheduling of staff, reporting of revenue to the bank and corporate Performed general office duties

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General

A.A, Business Administration