Mark Larocca Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Human Resource leader for the Casino Queen Hotel and Casino. Provide tactical and strategic corporate support for the organization. Oversee and execute company priorities in the areas of talent acquisition, performance management, state gaming compliance, training, total rewards, policy development, workforce planning and employee relations.

St. Louis, Mo And Chicago, Il

Human Resource Consultant providing strategic and tactical HR project expertise. Develop and implement policy and procedure for talent acquisition, performance management, employee relations, and workforce planning. Provided HR consultant support for a variety of organizations including Prudential Select Properties, Panera Bread, Quest Management Consulting and the Casino Queen Hotel and Casino.

Nationwide

* Consulted individually with clients regarding search strategies and tactical concepts.* Coached clients in the areas of interviewing, resume preparation, and networking.* Traveled extensively to provide support and guidance to assigned client base.* Utilized high-level communication and organization skills to tailor coaching to individual situations.* Provided evaluation observations, feedback, and skill building to individual clients.

* Provided strategic and tactical human resource support for retail, supply chain, contract sales, and call center business lines.* Developed and led field HR team of managers and generalists in providing day to day functional guidance in talent assessment, performance execution, workforce planning, associate engagement, and employee relations.* Facilitated regular talent assessments of field and unit leaders to identify high-potential and high-risk performers and coordinated corresponding action plans.* Engaged in performance management process of coaching and counseling to ensure consistency and fairness.* Played key role in lateralizing HR functions across multiple legacy business lines in blending of two companies into a single field operating unit.* Leveraged expertise between field and corporate partners to drive operational excellence.* Operated with strong sense of urgency and high level of accountability.* Helped drive associate engagement efforts to foster positive associate relations.* Led efforts at internal career development.* Applied organizational consistency and fairness to complex employee relations issues regarding investigations and conflict resolution.* Demonstrated strong operational foundation, linking people decisions to business execution.

Comprehensive Human Resource support and guidance to region of retail stores.

Day to day human resource support to specialty retail chain.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Education

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Egnlish