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 SLAs are met• 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• Develop and revise documentation and reference guides, and facilitate regular training sessions• Identify and troubleshoot problem areas and gaps in processes, and recommend and implement enhancements• Act as audit liaison throughout multiple, simultaneous and successful audits• Presented goals and accomplishments to multiple departments throughout the organization

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 • Created and managed sourcing and campus recruiting strategies • Designed, developed and delivered training for leadership on attracting, hiring and retaining high-quality talent• Wrote and delivered state of employment market presentation to Bank leadership• Coached internal candidates on career development

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• Pioneered and led the organization’s first employee resource group• Managed creation and rollout of Bank-wide diversity and inclusion training• Created and presented leadership training for attracting candidates in the current market• Partnered with compensation to develop strategic enhancements to offer process• Won the President’s Award for rapidly recruiting top talent to staff the acquisition newly-acquired business lines

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 met both candidate and client needs• 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• Conducted candidate phone screens and in-person interviews• Coached and prepared candidates on resumes and interviewing skills• Fielded and promptly resolved contractor and client issues and concerns• Negotiated contract terms and rates• Generated leads on existing and prospective clients

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