• Trains and guides departments on best hiring practices, including leading a portion of the "Hire the Best" class.• Fill in for new employee orientation• Trains and mentors junior Talent Acquisition & Retention Specialists and interns on sourcingMethods and best practices.• Contributed to pay and class study by conducting staff interviews and standardizing minimum education and experience qualifications for each class. • Expanding internship program among county departmentsTalent Acquisition & Retention SpecialistDecember 2018 to October 2019• Establish recruiting requirements by studying organization plans and objectives and partnering with departments to identify staffing needs.• Determine applicant requirements by studying job description and job qualifications.• Assist departments in creating and editing job descriptions and interview questions that reflect each position's minimum qualifications to include maintaining standardized qualifications for each class specification.• Developed coordinating banners and handout materials for job fairs.• Expanded county presence at job fairs and recruitment events both in person (before covid) and virtual (post covid.) Before I joined, the county only attended job fairs within Pasco County, now we attend job fairs throughout the state both in person and virtually. • Build and maintain applicant pool through contact with colleges, employment agencies (CareerSource), media and internet sites as well as developing new relationships with other outside groups.• Source potential candidates through online channels such as LinkedIn, Indeed, Handshake and other online job boards.• Monitoring job offers and compensation practices, emphasizing benefits and perks.• Tracks negative turnover rate and conducts exit interviews to capture critical information with respect to turnover.• Recommend new policies and practices

Duties are the same as International Recruiter, just more people on assignment!

Currently on Kforce's International Recruiting team. We specialize in working with international consultants, who are currently in the US working on an H1b, OPT, CPT or L2EAD visa and looking for better opportunities and green card sponsorship with Kforce.

I was part of the specialty recruiting team which focuses on Java and .Net candidates across the country.

As an NRC TIS, I served several roles on a couple different teams. Teams include: Sourcing, Search, Healthcare IT, Redeployment.Job duties included sourcing for talent, calling and intervewing candidates, updating spreadsheets in Excel, SharePoint and proprietary software.The Search team focused on finding candidates for permanent technology roles in the NYNJ area.My duties on our Healthcare IT team focused on working recruiters to keep in touch with all of our technology candidates so that the candidates are more informed about the hiring process as well as conducting all reference checks for Kaiser and Blue Shield candidates and formatting resumes.The Redeployment team focused on connecting with current Kforce consultants who were nearing the end of a contract and lining them up with their next contract.

Project manager, primary writer and photographer for the District’s 12-page, full color bi-monthly newsletter, “Water Matters.” Writing approximately 300+ press releases annually, press kits, guest columns and feature stories for the District’s web site and outside publications. Tracking area media coverage, handling media phone calls and requests, and updating mailing lists and media contacts.

Researching, developing, writing and editing online continuing education courses for architects, engineers, and land surveyors. Prepare courses using HTML, Photoshop, and FrontPage to post on RedVector.com. Updating company website

Writer and producer on "Good Day Tampa Bay", noon show, and top-rated weekend edition of "Good Day Tampa Bay". Performing under tight deadlines, news writing, coordinating live shots and graphics, timing show. Management experience includes assigning news crews and working with production crew.