Lori Rush Email & Phone Number

Portland, Or, Us

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Provides services as an outsourced HR Consultant, assisting businesses in hiring and on-boarding of employees. Specializes in employee management support, including employee handbooks, position descriptions, performance reviews, on-boarding, and general HR management.

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Providing support, resources and expertise for the job seeker with customized resume development, improving interviewing skills and job search accountability to position them to find the right job for them.

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Providing support, resources and expertise for the job seeker with resume development, interviewing skills and networking strategies to position them to find the right fit by working with the client to customize a plan to suit their specific situation and needs.

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Search Firm specializing in placing Senior to Executive level Technology Professionals, core competency primarily in Software Development Companies. Relationship and partnership based approach cultivating strong, long-term relationships built on a foundation of trust. *Recruiter focused primarily on permanent placements with some contracts, designing and implementing targeted recruiting strategies for each position.*Identify, qualify and develop a candidate pool for presentation to clients consisting of both active and passive candidates.*Source, cultivate and maintain candidate relationships.*Recruitment on a national level, managing candidates with emphasis on remote sourcing and recruiting, salary negotiations, resume coaching and prep/post interview coaching/review with tight time frames in highly-competitive markets. *Keep current on business trends, hiring trends and market trends.*Networking and Business Development representing the company at networking events.

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Member of 6-person Executive Team that oversaw company strategy, direction, activities and culture. *Director of Operations-Accountable for total operation of Client Service, Scheduling and Installation departments. Managed a $4M budget and up to 60 staff. Addressed an unhealthy level of turnover by developing formalized recruiting and training programs to attract and build more professional staffs. Annual turnover improved by 74%. *Marketing Director-Responsible for acquiring quality, low-cost leads resulting in improved sales. Increased leads 78% resulting in increased sales of 69%, with consistent double-digit increases yearly. Managed advertising budgets of over $1.6M; directed and managed all marketing activities both internal and external as well as developed and maintained relationships with key partners and vendors.

*Recognized for skill in introducing major organizational changes to long-time employees as well as training Management Staff.*Newly created position. Implemented extreme cultural change where decision-making was moved to Corporate level from District and Store level.*Managed Basic Woman's Apparel for 107 stores and $80M in revenue. Increased revenue 14%.*Managed entire Home Division for 25 stores and $64M in revenue. Increased revenue 24%.

*Recruited, screened, conducted STAR Certified Interviews and hired Management Trainees and Interns for 25 Stores as well as select positions for the Home Office in Plano, TX. *Coordinated and managed Recruiting at College Career Fairs and local Career Fairs. *Increased Management Trainee retention rate by 7%.*This responsibility was in conjunction with District/Store responsibilities.

*Held Profit and Loss Responsibility for $35M store with 350 employees. *Recruited, sourced, interviewed, hired and trained employees. *Accountable for Salary Cost, Expenses, Shrinkage, Retention of Employees, Safety.*Increased employee retention rate 8% and reduced absenteeism 15%.

Bachelor Of Science, Business Administration: Marketing And Accounting. Clothing And Textiles Minor.

Activities and Societies: University Appropriation Committee: Determined the funding for all campus organizations. OSU Marketing Club, Pi.

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