Just as its name implies, FamilyCore understands that strong families, equipped with the tools and support needed to succeed, are at the heart of any vibrant, tight-knit community.FamilyCore (previously known as Counseling & Family Services) employs over 90 individuals that work with schools, the court system, and other social service agencies to connect counseling, intervention, preventative education, and other support services with those who have a need. FamilyCore takes a holistic approach in its continuum of care, often providing boosts of support to multiple generations. The end goal is to maintain the integrity of family, however, it may be defined.FamilyCore has been a leader in the Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford counties for 123 years in “Strengthening Families for a Stronger Community.” This is done through our many services including Adoption, Child Welfare, Counseling, Single Parent Support, and Outreach. Last year alone, FamilyCore touched over 15,806 lives in the area.

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Creative Team Recruitment approach that decentralized management of staff recruiting to team members in the specific departments where the vacancy existed, thereby minimizing overall involvement and labor hours for HR/hiring managers.Delivered a 25% reduction in costs and overhead by shaping and implementing the new recruitment process while increasing employee relations and team collaboration/communication. Innovative work remote approach leading to a retention rate of 89% while performing research, analyzing information, and enabling corporate participation in six university career fairs.Benchmarking best SaaS practices, implement policies, and organizational strategy across all global business units while conceiving and executing international HR policies and procedures grounded on social justice with robust controls and board approval. Speaking, listening, and collaborating with all employees to develop engaging quizzes and lunches and learns to ensure the understanding of new policies, in addition to recruiting top interns for Houston and developing several university talent pipelines for domestic/international internships.Managed and filled all open positions with STEM university interns for SaaS positions within 45 Time-to-Fill targets, establishing corporate HR and financial policies and achieving process excellence.Partnered with senior leadership to develop and implement global organization compensation, total rewards philosophy, and specific compensation and total rewards strategy for the Americas operation.Deployed software gained approval for budgets and account charts and assigned a temporary accountant to enter 2017/2018 transactions while preparing the 2017/2018 Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss reports. Partnered with the accountant to complete corporate taxes.

Served as a business partner/social conscience to leadership, advised executives on HR compliance issues, and appointed as the lead candidate within a 2-week handover and onboarding COO to assume full responsibility for corporate operations.Inspire HR Team to position the company as an 'Employer of Choice' while conducting market research on local compensation, benefits, and labor law to execute a successful HR strategy. Prepared board and executive presentations to ensure success.HR team members dedicated teamwork to lead strategy execution, streamline HR service delivery, gather data sets to examine engagement levels, and provide surveys to employees, highlighting the importance of confidentiality and data use. Ensured easy accessibility of surveys to each hotel, resort, sales office, and across HQ while leading preliminary screenings and interviews, performing background and reference checks, and presenting short-listed candidates to the company proprietor.Collaborated with the company proprietor to identify criteria and expectations while leveraging an extensive personal network and LinkedIn to establish a pool of qualified candidates.

Spearheaded the reliability of high-performance human capital practices and outcomes by providing effective business leadership and coordinating HR functions for four hotels, two serviced suites, a national sales office, and shared services finance team. Partnered with the CEO and senior leadership to determine a new company vision/values, prepared an initial training draft and secured approval to proceed with the pilot program, and oversaw office setups, employee desk assignments, and office orientations.Spearheaded communications between all employees and implemented two training programs designed around a passion for service and empathy for supervisory and line employees while presenting employees for shared services appointments and acquiring approval for and enabling transfers.Launched engagement training across all properties to consolidate two brands and institute a unified corporate culture while collecting feedback from the pilot, finalizing material/media, and commencing in the form of a Train-the-Trainer Certification program.Developed performance management programs for corporate brands/teams based on CEO/senior leadership input while conducting first performance reviews under the new system completed by mid-year to perform any required revisions within the year.Improved cost-effectiveness of sales compensation and efficiencies of sales operations by finalizing sales and accounting back-office shared service center while assessing and leading all office operations monthly for the first three months to ensure the achievement of intended goals.

Served as the human resources strategic business partner for four hotels, two serviced suites, a national sales office, and a shared services finance team.Designed, implemented, and evaluated programs that facilitated professional development and continuous learning of employees across the organization. Conduct needs analysis studies and partner with regional leadership to determine learning needs based on communications, management experience, performance management, projected competencies, organizational development, business process, and other external factors