Lori E. Chesson, Csp Email & Phone Number

Chesapeake, Va, Us

United States

Partner with Hiring Managers and Sr. Leadership to understand and anticipate hiring needs and proactively identify strategic recruiting solutions to meet those needs. Manage the full cycle recruitment process for all open positions with a focus on identifying and tapping into new sourcing resources and utilize proactive techniques to recruit diverse, high value candidates. Engage in tactical and strategic sourcing to help business units proactively source and place top talent. Redefine and redesign current recruitment processes to better meet the strategic needs.Manage and create key relationships with high potential community partners, including military, K-12 schools and higher educational institutions.Serve as the Internship Program Manager for internship programs across the company.Coach program participants, managers, and liaisons: Provide onboarding, training, and communication to ensure engagement and assimilation while supporting the continual development and career progression of program participants.Analyze key team and program metrics with an emphasis on assessing talent pipeline effectiveness to meet business needs and develop counter measures as needed. Utilize these metrics to implement process improvements for talent programs.Lead events aligned to talent development and business requirements while utilizing project management, event planning, and budget management skills.Serve as back up for HR Team Leader and Generalist in areas of performance management, training, reporting and benefits.

Led and mentored a team of very talented, high-performing recruiters and sourcers, recruiting positions in the areas of administrative, accounting, human resource, sales, IT, finance, legal and medical personnel. Assisted in increasing and accelerating our recruiting capabilities that allowed us to recruit even faster while maintaining our high bar for talent, our research systems and processes.Provided executive and hiring manager reporting that allowed for real-time visibility into progress on roles via eEmpAct. Helped refine interview process to ensure we maintained high standards on values and culture while continuously raising the bar on talent.

Conducted targeted personnel searches for administrative, accounting, human resource, sales, IT, finance, legal and medical personnel. Worked within tight deadlines to source, interview, and present qualified candidates to client companies for temporary, temporary to hire, and direct hire opportunities. Established effective relationships with diverse populations including employees, client companies, and HR professionals. Effectively multi-tasked and prioritized requisitions, counseled employees on performance issues, conducted terminations, and participated in unemployment hearings. Proficient in eEmpAct, Virtual Edge (VE), Taleo, ADP, IQNavigator and all of Microsoft Office.

Managed the retail sales and service team. Primary goal was to serve the customer’s total financial service needs by creating a vital sales and service organization. Accomplished this by promoting teamwork with immediate staff, partners and other corporate departments. Created, trained and coached a successful sales team through goal setting and maintaining performance standards. Developed and administered budgets, goals and staffing models. Administered weekly and monthly employee reviews. Directed all outbound sales and service calls.