Larissa Strong, Csp Email & Phone Number

Mansfield, Tx, Us

Connecting talent. Attract, screen, select and onboard qualified and suitable personnel to fill job openings. Attracting top talent to grow a candidate pool, gain competitive advantage and fuel company’s growth. • Source and attract candidates by using databases, social media etc• Screen candidates resumes and job applications• Conduct interviews using various reliable personnel selection tools/methods to filter candidates within schedule• Assess applicants’ relevant knowledge, skills, soft skills, experience and aptitudes• Onboard new employees in order to become fully integrated• Monitor and apply hr recruiting best practices• Provide analytical and well documented reports to the rest of the team• Act as a point of contact and build influential candidate relationships during the selection process• Use various selection processes (phone interviewing, reference check etc) to screen candidates• Familiarity with hr databases, applicant tracking systems and CMS• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills Recruit, interview and coach potential candidates• Design and implement overall individual recruiting strategy• Perform job and task analysis to document job requirements and objectives• Prepare and post jobs to appropriate job board/newspapers/colleges etc• Strong decision making skills

Connecting talent and companies.Full cycle recruiting to attract, screen, select and onboard qualified and suitable personnel to fill job openings. Attracting top talent to grow a candidate pool, gain competitive advantage and fuel company’s growth. Uncover new business by engaging with clients via telephone and email. Nurture existing relationships by offering solutions and solving problems for diverse hiring needs.• Build, maintain and manage account relationships through constant contact and advocacyUtilize CRM system to qualify new prospects• Profile and analyze accounts to overcome any objections and generate quality opportunities• Recruit, interview and coach potential candidates• Design and implement overall individual recruiting strategy• Develop and update job descriptions and job specifications• Perform job and task analysis to document job requirements and objectives• Prepare and post jobs to appropriate job board/newspapers/colleges etc• Source and attract candidates by using databases, social media etc• Screen candidates resumes and job applications• Conduct interviews using various reliable personnel selection tools/methods to filter candidates within schedule• Assess applicants’ relevant knowledge, skills, soft skills, experience and aptitudes• Onboard new employees in order to become fully integrated• Monitor and apply hr recruiting best practices• Provide analytical and well documented reports to the rest of the team• Act as a point of contact and build influential candidate relationships during the selection process• Use various selection processes (phone interviewing, reference check etc) to screen candidates• Familiarity with hr databases, applicant tracking systems and CMS• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills• Strong decision making skills

Health/Accident/Life Insurance Brokerage, offering multiple opportunities for clients in their financial planning for future and current needs.• Recruiting, On-boarding, Training, Hiring of 12 person sales team, training on inbound/outbound calls for insurance sales• Creating monthly/yearly budgets, analysis, variance reports• Financial analysis of all sales, projections, forecasting• Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Annuities, Long Term Care, Medicare, Medicaid, End of life transition planning• Maintaining confidentiality of new and existing client base, cross-selling of other company products• Manager of sales call room, team of 12 callers and sales associates, as well as maintain personal sales from leads, build/meet personal and team goals.• Train callers/sales associates on lead generation, cold calling, organization, and closing sales. Report weekly and daily sales to management, create and report on sales projections, creative business proposals for new products.• Oversee financial planning, and provide business analysis forbetter value.• Provide forecasts to team of daily/weekly/monthly goals.• Proficiency in Sales Genie & Oracle.• Obtained Health Insurance License, rated highest Medicare advantage sales broker in Colorado in 1st year.• Developed and implemented new product lines/processes for sales.• Developed and maintained organizational program for sales representatives/telemarketers.

$5M-$10M revenue, private composting and recycling facility in Colorado, Nevada, and Georgia. • Maintaining calendars, domestic travel planning, event coordination, vendor relationship management and negotiations, expense reports compilation (travel, gas, business expenses for meetings with clients) for all c-level management and up to 15 direct sales personnel. • In first month, wrote and presented 5 year plan for company. Provided company-wide financial planning for budgeting and monthly forecasts, as well as yearly analysis.• Developed and implemented collection processes, bringing receivables delinquency from 70% to 30% in 3 months by relationship building and constant contact with vendors. Taking ACH payments, EFT payments, and promise to pays, as well as renegotiating net receivable times with vendors.• Developed and implemented professional organization processes for c-level managers. Implemented and Sales Force for sales tracking and for employee actions tracking. • Developed and maintained daily results book for CEO & CFO with results of sales and other business means for keeping track of all sales team results & overall business results.• Within 6 months, tasked as assistant sales trainer/supervisor for sales team: tracking sales, reporting activities, assigning tasks/delegating responsibilities, training of Sales Force system. • Developed process for group interviews/hiring/training.• Developed and maintained filing for current business and prior business.

San Francisco, California, Us

• #1 in sales cross-country for sub-prime lending, yearly. • August 2005, hired for inbound sales in Student Loans: Taking inbound sales calls, recommending student loans for each potential applicant, taking personal information over the phone and selling loans. Follow-up with applicants for approvals/denials, recommending other opportunities. Keeping spreadsheets for tracking of sales, clients, and loans sold. • February 2006 Promoted to Relationship Representative: 90% of training completed independently, while also achieving #1 in sales outbound calls sub-prime loans/lines of credit. Calling existing client base as well as call lists of other loans that were bought by Wells Fargo, introducing the new clients to our services and selling HELOCs, Home Equity loans, CC's, personal loans, and car loans (based on applicant qualifications). I was the first person to achieve 20 HELOC sales in a month, in sales department history. Working with underwriting, title, attorneys for approvals on credit worthiness, clean titles, estate paperwork for issuing loans as simply as possible. Mentoring and training new hires. • Promoted to Credit Manager February 2009, then promoted to Senior Credit Manager based on sales achieved in by April 2009: Inbound/Outbound calls to existing and new clients for Wells Fargo Bank, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, and other sister companies and affiliates of Wells Fargo, in order to open new accounts, loans, lines of credit. Working with underwriting to have loans approved, compilation and review of income documentation, reviewing credit reports, cross-selling to other products if the loans are denied, if possible. Debt-to-Income ratios, phantom payments, loan to value on homes review and analysis. • Promoted to Personal Banker and moved from South Dakota to Colorado in October 2009: Developed and maintained book of business as Personal Banker. Developed and maintained organizational book that was implemented as standard for all bankers.

New York, New York, Us

Headquarter for call center in Sioux Falls, SD. • Inbound customer servicing on personal credit cards. • Updating profiles for contact, explaining statements, fees, and various charges. • Cross-selling other Citibank affiliates and sister company products and services. • Taking and processing applications for credit worthiness. • Meeting and exceeding sales goals. • Mentoring new hires and training in cross-sales.

Bachelors, Sociology And Accounting

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Accounting And Finance