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Charlotte, Nc, Us

Charlotte, Nc, Us

🔹 Talent Acquisition Leader with a track record of developing and executing recruitment strategies aligned with organizational goals.🔹 Collaborated with senior leadership to forecast long-term talent needs and create proactive recruitment plans for top-tier talent across all departments.🔹 Full-cycle recruitment expert: from sourcing, screening, and interviewing to offer negotiation, while prioritizing an exceptional candidate experience.🔹 Data-driven approach to optimize recruitment processes, tracking key metrics such as time-to-fill, quality of hire, and candidate satisfaction.🔹 Continuous improvement focus: Implementing process enhancements to boost efficiency and streamline operations within talent acquisition.🔹 DEI advocate: Driving initiatives to ensure diverse and inclusive candidate pipelines, fostering a culture of equity and representation.🔹 Strategic partnerships: Consulted with hiring managers and executives to align recruitment strategies with business goals, ensuring tailored solutions for staffing needs.🔹 Cross-functional collaboration with HR, marketing, and external vendors to lead recruitment marketing campaigns that elevate employer brand visibility and attract diverse talent.🔹 Managed high-volume requisitions (20-40+ at a time), delivering a seamless candidate journey from job posting through onboarding.🔹 Served as a subject matter expert on recruitment best practices, market trends, and talent acquisition technology to drive overall success.

Seattle, Wa, Us

🔷 Recruitment Marketing Leadership: Drove initiatives positioning AWS as a top employer in the technical space through strategic campaigns and digital marketing (e.g., "Meet The Hiring Manager" events).🔷 Strategic Talent Acquisition: Designed and executed recruitment strategies for specialized technical roles, achieving a 100% offer acceptance rate and expanding key security teams.🔷 Data-Driven Process Optimization: Utilized recruitment metrics and analytics to enhance efficiency, quality of hires, and overall candidate engagement.🔷 Team Building: Successfully scaled a recruitment team from 0 to 13 members, achieving 63% of hiring goals prior to a hiring freeze.🔷 Talent Mapping Expertise: Contributed to Amazon’s Talent Mapping project, optimizing internal and external sourcing strategies to attract top-tier candidates.🔷 Recruiting Coordination Oversight: Managed 2 Recruiting Coordinators handling 15-20 requisitions, ensuring seamless interview processes and exceptional candidate experience.🔷 Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement: Fostered strong relationships with hiring managers by understanding business needs and delivering on recruitment expectations.🔷 Standards & Best Practices: Championed Amazon’s “2&5 Promise” and advanced DEI initiatives to standardize processes, promote diversity, and improve documentation in recruitment.

We are a professional services organization that focuses on end-to-end cybersecurity, cloud strategies, enterprise connectivity, and collaboration solutions to serve the needs of our clients; we also work with our clients to help recruit top technical talent for their staffing needs.🔷 Cultivate key relationships with best-in-class talent and evangelize a culture focused on hiring top performers for the long-term.🔷 Collaborate with teams to deeply understand hiring needs.🔷 Develop and refine unique full hiring strategies and interview criteria for each role.🔷 Source qualified candidates, review resumes, and prescreen candidates while ensuring timely interview processes.🔷 Organize and facilitate interview debriefs.🔷 Drive offer approval, extension, and negotiation.🔷 Manage candidates in process and provide a positive experience.🔷 Develop and drive the Staffing Services program.🔷 Build upon the onboarding process and advocate for new team members, integrating them into the company culture.🔷 Work closely with management to tailor learning roadmaps for team members that align with organizational goals and individual aspirations.🔷 Collaborate with leadership on departmental enablement roadmaps for group training, collaborative learning sessions, and creative brainstorming meetings.🔷 Track, coordinate, and drive strategic partnership programs, cultivating relationships with channel liaisons to drive development investments from partners.

Irving, Texas, Us

- Update current and design new recruiting procedures (e.g. job application and onboarding processes)- Supervise the recruiting team and report on its performance- Keep track of recruiting metrics (e.g. time-to-hire and cost-per-hire)- Implement new sourcing methods (e.g. social recruiting and Boolean searches)- Review recruitment software and suggest the best option for company needs- Research and choose job advertising options- Advise hiring managers on interviewing techniques- Recommend ways to improve our employer brand- Coordinate with department managers to forecast future hiring needs- Stay up-to-date on labor legislation and inform recruiters and managers about changes in regulations- Participate in job fairs and career events for corporate and University Relations- Build the company’s professional network through relationships with HR professionals, colleges and other partners

North Canton, Ohio, Us

• Lead recruiting strategy / intake meetings with business stakeholders and/or hiring managers• Develop recruitment strategies, hiring plans and succession management plans• Provide strategic solutions to attract talent to fill open positions and anticipate future needs• Provide support for cross functional teams, locally and globally • Create a recruiting strategy that fits the needs of that particular role as it pertains to sourcing needs• Developed an ongoing and diverse pipeline using research, networking, database mining, etc. for prospective applicants• Identify strong diverse talent by designing and executing creative sourcing strategies• Serve as the main point of contact for candidates under consideration to guide them through the interview and offer process • Understand and know the business needs and what approach may work best to find and attract top talent• Built partnerships with candidates, hiring manager and key business stakeholders by collaborate and communicating effectively • Maintain accurate and well-ordered documentation on candidate searches, hiring manager interactions and other recruiting activities to ensure company and legal compliance with employment practice • Work to provide a positive candidate experience• Experienced and proficient in using staffing tools such as applicant tracking systems (Taleo), HRIS systems, electronic job boards and candidate sourcing applicationsAdditional areas of expertise : • Creator of the I am DN employer branding / employee recognition campaign • Ownership of recruiting channel effectiveness by ensuring appropriate utilization of LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook, etc.• Created and executes campaigns that generate candidate interest and interaction• Oversees TA's' social content that drives talent engagement and brand awareness • Responsible for ideation and analyzation per Social Media campaign effectiveness as it pertains to reaching top talent and driving interest

North Canton, Ohio, Us

TALENT ACQUISITION & HR :• Target strong diverse talent by designing and executing creative branding strategies• Focus the development of DN’s employer brand while monitoring the image and positioning compared to competitors.• Serve as the point-person for developing, implementing and executing marketing initiatives and activities for our employer brand and campaigns.o Such initiatives include the creation of web, career fair and social media posts, creator of trending hashtags and career website content (video and photo).• Developed a solid understanding of the audience while utilizing strong creative, analytical and organizational skills.• Collaborate closely with departments, globally• Continuously monitor marketing trends as it pertains to Talent Acquisition/employer branding• Take ownership and provide the vision, mission, goals and strategies to match up to employer branding across job searching markets.• Willingness to listen closely to both current and prospective employees, think creatively and innovatively all while analyzing/forecasting and identifying trends and challenges of the brand as it pertains to hiring and retention for North America.RECRUITING RESPONSIBILITIES:• Marketing ability, professional demeanor, and ability to work independently, excellent verbal, written communication and time management / organization skills.• Ability to develop and sustain excellent working relationships with candidates • Aggressively recruit while adhering to ethical practices and the highest degree of professional standards• Built a robust network of top talent, gaining market intelligence and assessing candidates to gauge talent alignment for a specific role or business function• Internet sourcing and partnering to develop sourcing and recruiting strategies/campaigns• Building and developing high value relationships with potential candidates• Acting as search expert leveraging networking and complex internet searches and research

North Canton, Ohio, Us

Works as an integral role supporting the talent acquisition function, and contributes to the overall success of the HR team by providing a high level of customer service, administrative support, and project coordination.. I assist multiple TA specialists in all recruitment activities Director level and below from the approval of the requisition to the selected candidate being offered the position.ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:• Supporting multiple Talent Acquisition Specialists at a time.• Interfacing with candidates, Talent Acquisition Specialists, and hiring teams.• Ensuring adherence to the selection process.• Ensuring data accuracy in ATS; by monitoring and auditing requisition information, candidate status, etc.• Coordinating administration for employee referral program.• Scheduling and coordinating all phone and onsite interviews between Talent Acquisition Specialists, candidates, and hiring teams.• Coordinating travel arrangements and hotel accommodations for non-local candidates.• Providing conflict resolution on scheduling challenges.• Representing and promoting talent acquisition inside and outside of the organization.• Assisting University Relations team - coordinating events.• Managing billing invoices for Talent Management team vendors/suppliers.• Actively contributing to the continuous improvement of the Talent Acquisition process.• Assisting on special projects as needed.CANDIDATE MANAGEMENT:• Often serve as the first point of contact from Diebold Nixdorf• Create a positive experience for our applicants and newly hired team members.• Ensuring proper correspondence to candidates is maintained including: regret letters, and interview confirmations.• Respond to phone and email requests from candidates and potential candidates in a timely manner• Coordinate New Hire Orientation day and logistics

North Canton, Oh, Us

Talent Acquisition Specialist / Lead Recruiter Provides established skills to create, manage and execute end-to-end recruiting processing to fill various positions efficiently with the highest regard to integrity. Maintains communication and close rapport with supervisors, the field and candidates to build pipelines for future needs.• Manages three company’s hiring needs that total over 150 job requisitions at a time • Proven track record of successful recruiting strategies and processes to obtain quality applicants for various level positions• Continuously create innovative ways to improve recruiting processes to attract and maintain quality applicants• Communicates with all levels of the field including entry level, managers, Business Unit Leaders, Directors and EVP’s• Awarded mentor-ship status to new hires to help ensure their success after 6 months of employment.• Effectively manages and creates advertisements for online and print job posting websites such as Monster, Indeed and ZipRecruiter.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Knowledge of and the ability to recognize the different perspectives and priorities of different customers. Advise, educate and engage clients/customers on a variety of technological tools and resources allowing them to explore solutions to achieve their goals and financial well being.

Norwalk, Ct, Us

Responded to inbound customer inquiries regarding consumer credit accounts. Knowledge of and ability to detect, address and prevent fraudulent situations. Promoted to Fraud Underwriter to assist customers with identity theft complications.