Katy Kickham Email & Phone Number

Greater St. Louis

• Manage team of talent support analysts in delivering efficient and high-quality onboarding and offboarding services, and ensure processes remain in compliance with various guidelines, data integrity is maintained and.
• Collaborate and liaise with various stakeholders and HR COEs
• Resolve escalations with hiring managers, and manage a variety of vendors
• Lead daily meeting to provide executives with status updates and recommendations
• Hired and trained a new team of talent support analysts
• Provide regular feedback, conduct weekly tag-ups, facilitate goal-setting sessions and deliver performance evaluations

Greater St. Louis

• Recruited for executive-level roles, including attracting and hiring more women into information technology leadership roles than ever before
• Managed team of talent support analysts
• Developed and maintained strong relationships with candidates and hiring managers
• Advised executive leadership on talent acquisition strategies
• Led and participated in diversity outreach initiatives
• Participated in audit and remediation efforts

Greater St. Louis Area

• Led and managed full-lifecycle recruitment process for multiple divisions, as well as Bank-wide executive-level roles
• Developed, trained and mentored recruiters and an analyst
• Met with hiring managers up to the C-Level to define business needs, essential job functions, and candidate skill requirements, identify potential issues and establish strategy and timelines
• Maintained strong candidate pipeline, sourced, selected, and interviewed applicants, and provided recommendations to managers
• Provided coaching, consulting and strategic services to business leaders
• Collaborated with and delivered solutions to leadership to achieve business goals

Greater St. Louis Area

• Led and managed full-lifecycle recruitment process for a variety of Bank positions simultaneously
• Met with hiring managers to define business needs, essential job functions, and candidate skill requirements, identify potential issues and establish strategy and timelines
• Consistently met with business leaders to maintain relationships, provide status updates and reprioritize as needed
• Sourced, selected, screened and interviewed applicants, and provided recommendations to managers
• Managed staffing vendors, maintained relationships with representatives, qualified supplier candidates and negotiated candidate rates
• Measured deliverables, including time to fill and number of candidates

Greater St. Louis Area

• Performed full-lifecycle IT recruiting for top companies
• Conducted phone and in-person interviews to screen, qualify and gain an in-depth understanding of candidates’ skills, career goals and motivations to better identify and pursue the most appropriate opportunities that.
• Built and maintained a candidate pipeline through consistent outreach and relationship management
• Advised candidates on resumes and interview techniques

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Ranked consistently among the top 5% of recruiters nationally for a top-10 IT staffing firm
• Received Top Performer Award
• Sourced, identified, qualified and placed IT professionals in mid-sized to Fortune 500 companies
• Developed and mentored new recruiters for branches
• Led weekly recruiter meetings
• Promoted contractor retention by establishing and maintaining relationships through high-level of customer service, lunches and phone calls

Clearwater, Florida, United States

• Primary contributing writer for the first edition of County Connection, a quarterly publication that promoted County initiatives
• Advised department leaders on the direction of the publication
• Gathered and reported stories and took photos showcasing the positive impact of County programs

Sarasota, Florida Area

• Covered local government, crime, real-estate development, features and business stories for The East County Observer, The Longboat Observer, The Siesta Observer and The Sarasota Observer
• Produced majority of weekly news content by aggressively seeking out, reporting and writing enterprise and feature stories, in addition to briefs, photo spreads and police columns
• Managed the Siesta Key office, including training and assigning stories, and helped launch The Sarasota Observer
• Quickly built and maintained relationships with reliable and loyal sources – from local officials to residents – for news gathering
• Conducted thorough research, reported and wrote investigative pieces, and scooped a New York Times owned newspaper with a high-profile story