Global Talent Attraction & Engagement Leader, which supports hiring for all roles across the enterprise. Responsible for the strategic programs, initiatives and channels focused on accelerating the attraction.

Committee: Future of Talent Acquisition & Technology

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We believe that our company’s success depends on the passion and creativity of our amazing employees. To create environments in which our people can fully thrive, we turn to our guiding behaviors: Be human. Make it real. Think about tomorrow. These set the tone for Best Buy, along with our Rallying Cry: Let’s talk about what’s possible. These allow us to enrich lives through technology, and this happens best when our employees feel empowered to connect with customers by bringing their full selves to work. If you like to have fun while you work, build confidence and grow your career, you’ll fit right in.

Best Buy helps customers pursue their passions and enriches their lives with the help of technology. My team is responsible for the enterprise TA Capability (Recruiting Operations) that supports corporate, Field Leadership and Retail Stores. I manage all recruitment vendors, data, measurement & analytics, business process, recruiting strategy, recruiting budget, co-support the ATS/Career Site and all while providing amazing candidate experience in our Corporate Staffing Center.

The MN Talent Advisory Board is a group of local Human Resources professionals that get together on a quarterly basis to discuss current HR and Recruiting trends and topics. I current help facilitate and drive relevant and current content to help group members become better professionals. https://twitter.com/MN_TABhttp://www.facebook.com/mntalentadvisoryboard

Talent Acquisition Excellence:• Worked with or consulted for over 250 companies (76 Fortune 500)• Successfully designed and executed recruitment strategies that have resulted in an average of 15% reduction in vendor cost, improved time to fill by an average of 19 days, decreasing the need for outside agencies by 22% and growing their brand awareness • Implemented and Conducted recruiter development programs resulting in improved recruiter effectiveness and improved returns of investment on recruiter/sourcing tools • Developed and Launched 22 company career-specific social media campaigns from scratch, built large social audiences through low-cost targeted campaigns and increase Social Media as a source of hire by 17%Branding: • Successfully improved Company’s employment branding strategy and how they go-to market with candidate messaging• Implemented 9 employment branding campaigns resulting in improved company candidate ratings by 50% • Doubled the number of employees with optimized social presence • Reduced attrition rate by 14% over • Implemented a Candidate Bill of Rights initiative company wideEmployee Referral Programs:• Improved Employee Referrals by 100% over 6-months by redesigning employee referral program and was not focused around monetary increases• Integrated Employee Referral program with ATS resulting in reduction of recruiter workload• Leveraged employees social media presence to increase referral traffic by 71%• Created military employee referral campaigns and grew retention rate to 93%• Reduced average cost of hire by 22% • Leverage mobile to allow for text referrals and received 8x better response rate• Implemented employee referral technology application that resulted in 300% increase in referral activity in first 60 days. Referrals are 60% of hires in 2014.

Currently, I am a National Account Manager in the Minneapolis market and I am managing 22 of the 26 Minnesota Fortune 500 companies utilizing my sales and business development skills while leveraging my vast knowledge of the recruiting space. Currently, 46% of my sales are non traditional recruitment products are more media based products. Also, 33% of my sales are accounted for in technology and recruitment branding solutions.

Sales and Account Management

Management of over 40 clients and 145 different brands. Work with global leaders and nationwide recruiters to provide recruiting strategies and solutions. Work with local, national and worldwide job boards to design packages for my clients to best utilize the resources and niche boards in order to locate qualified candidates and fill requirements around the world.

Was responsible for problem resolution via phone & email and consistently provided effective & timely solutions through knowledge transfer and effective communication. Worked within Arbita’s back-end systems to set-up new clients. Manually posted on average 75-100 client requisitions to job boards that Arbita did not have established relationships with. - Through dedication, motivation and diligence I was able to come into a new company with no previous technical support or online recruiting experience and was successful in quickly learning the ins and outs of the industry, technical terminology and concepts of the proprietary and online tools I was supporting. - Throughout the course of my 9 months working as a Technical Support Associate, I had the opportunity to build relationships with several clients that were based on trust, dedication and mutual respect. Because of these relationships I was promoted to Strategic Account Manager before my one year anniversary.

Logistics Team Leader (Key Carrier) * Transformed a focus process to a green process in 6 months* Efficiently scheduled Logistics team according to payroll guidelines* Effectively worked in best practices* Assisted with a successful right-sizing process (re-model)* Member of Customer Feedback board* On panel for improvements in the Workplace board

Ramp Ops Team Lead* 2 years of On-time departures * Team Trainer* Assistant Chairperson on safety committee * Load Captain (weight and balance)