Kim Rojas Hernandez Email and Phone Number

Handshake is the #1 place to launch a career with no connections, experience, or luck required. Handshake’s community includes 20 million students and young alumni around the world from 1,400 educational institutions, including four-year colleges, community colleges, boot camps, and 290+ minority-serving institutions. The platform connects up-and-coming talent with 650,000+ employers - from Fortune 500 companies like Google, Nike, and Target to thousands of public school districts, healthcare systems, nonprofits, and even sports teams like the LA Dodgers. Handshake is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Denver, New York, and London and teammates working globally.

-Scale recruiting coordination at Handshake by creating, documenting, and implementing scheduling processes to drive positive candidate experience and efficiency-Manage recruiting projects to increase the efficiency of our recruiting team; most recently revamped the process of generating an offer-Manage our applicant tracking system (Greenhouse) and provide ad-hoc reporting for the recruiting team-Track and maintain consistent documentation and updated metrics around new requisitions, offer approvals, and closed roles -Co-lead the Latinx Employee Resource Group (ERG) and planned the most participated event in the company’s history with 90+ employees in attendance-Coordinate and provide an exceptional candidate experience for over 1k candidate onsite interviews and schedule 2k phone and technical phone screens-Coordinate as we rapidly scale the company. So far helped bring on 100+ team members over the past year (more than doubling the size of the company) through scheduling and coordination-Build out the Sales Development Representatives organization at Handshake through resume review, phone screens, and closing candidates.-Hired 22 new Handshakers including 12 Sales Development Representatives, 4 Software Engineers, and 6 Interns

-Regularly created and delivered individualized lesson plans for a caseload of ten 9th and 10th graders strategically tailored to their reading levels, interests, and goals-Co-designed and co-facilitated an eight-week curriculum to assist ninth graders transition to high school. Topics included: time management, organization, stress and wellness, study skills, etc-Designed and facilitated a 15-week long curriculum on immigration to simulate a college seminar for junior high school students-Translated documents into Spanish to effectively communicate with our scholars’ families. Documents included newsletter, quarterly scholar letters, orientation packet materials-Coordinated 8 learning opportunities and events relating to the arts, culture, civics, and/or the STEM fields; recruited groups of 10-20 students to participate in these events

-Coordinated 12 events for the 380 members of the Class of 2017 as chair of the Senior Class Committee; represented student interests at weekly student government meetings and discussions with administrators-Partnered with the Alumni Office and the Dean of Students Office to launch a grant fund of over $90,000 aimed to cover DACA application fees, naturalization costs, academic or family emergencies and other immigration-related expenses for undocumented students-Tracked the Senior Class Gift Campaign and collaborated with campus partners including other departments, student groups, and committees to promote giving; the campaign reached an 80% participation of seniors-Partnered with the Career Development Office to provide panels, workshops, and/or events with alumni-Managed the recruitment and volunteer management of the Senior Class Committee-Created and updated the Class of 2017 website, which communicated information about the class gift, commencement activities, and social and professional development opportunities

-Assisted with academic department programming throughout the semester -Managed the department library catalog to ensure it was up to date