Sandy Yaffe, Cdr, Prc Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon, United States

Greater Los Angeles Area/Southern California

Nominated by management for the Lean Human Capital 2019 Elite Honor Roll Recruiter representing the top 10% of recruiters in the country for my commitment to continuous improvement, innovation, and passion for lifelong learning.• Responsible for the sourcing, interviewing and hiring of all levels of clinical staff, including Director level and other leadership/manager positions. The areas supported are Maternal/Child Health, Oncology, Neurology Telemetry and Telemetry units, Sub-Acute.• Filled ~ 550 positions since starting at Providence in June 2016• Decreased Time-to-Fill from 55 days to 44 days in 2018• Acted as the Project Lead for high profile project at Providence Tarzana Medical Center to bring the EVS caregivers in-house. This was a very complicated, politically charged, ever-changing and challenging project. We hired 50 EVS caregivers for 3 different shifts as well as supervisors for each shift. • Project lead for a Certified Nursing Assistant Float pool hiring project. Filled 25 full-time, part-time and per diem CNA positions successfully.• Exceeded expectations and have proven results on hard to fill and executive level positions through finding candidates through sourcing, building strong relationships with managers and assessing the jobs accurately to provide viable alternatives and have had a direct impact on the speed, quality and number of hires.• Established trust and built strong relationships with managers and HR Business partners as well as Ministry leaders on a continuous basis, while building rapport with entry level to executive candidates and all levels of the client’s hiring process.• Represented Talent Acquisition at the bi-monthly Recruitment and Retention meetings at Holy Cross with the CNO, nurse leaders and educators to see what we could do to reduce travelers, how we can help our caregivers to move to the next level and what we can do to reduce turnover rates.

Woodland Hills, Ca

• Responsible for all recruitment functions by partnering with hiring managers and HR business partners to develop and implement sourcing strategies and selection processes for finding the best talent, for the Clinical, non-clinical and management positions for Anthem's Government business division enterprise wide, as well as California's Medicaid division.• Worked with leadership and led the recruiting effort to build the California Medicaid division Quality Management and Clinical Health Care Management teams through on-site facility interview days utilizing strategic sourcing methods and social media.• Carried an average requisition load of 60 -80 requisitions at any given time, screening and hiring candidates with an average time-to-fill of 25-30 days.• Previously supported Anthem's Commercial business for all clinical and non-clinical positions• Participated and lead various Talent Acquisition projects including Behavioral Interviewing, Taleo 10 testing and prescreening projects, lead the California Medicaid Expansion project, lead for the California Medicaid business recruiting and sourcing. • Collaborated with hiring managers, HR, and strategic sourcing partners to ensure positions are filled with the most highly talented/diverse candidates.• Consistently exceeded target scores for Manager Satisfaction and Quality of Candidate Pool.• Monitored, tracked and prepared bi-weekly staffing/variance statistics for client groups to include: number of jobs filled, offers accepted, open requisitions • Responsible for the sourcing and selection of all non-exempt Administrative, Finance, IT and HR positions in multiple locations.

Newbury Park, Ca

• Performed HR Generalist functions to include employee relations, attendance and performance issues• Conducted exit interviews and documented findings.• Conducted and documented "in-take" interviews to assess and evaluate level of urgency and assign to necessary HR Manager.• Provided confidential support to HR Director while supporting 1900 associates and 150 managers. Interfaced with HR Managers to include employee relations, Business Inventory (monthly, quarterly and annual), research documentation, investigations, problem identification and resolution.• Assisted in the implementation of HR Management training for the Newbury Park facility with an 85% participation rate of 150 managers. As a result of the success, the program was implemented Nationwide.• Corporate liaison with attorney for investigations and other sensitive issues.

Woodland Hills, Ca

• Performed HR Generalist functions including employee relations, terminations, workers' compensation issues and benefits at Prudential's Western Dental Operations.• Participated in hiring/recruiting events for large-scale hiring HR Service contact for 2200 employees and 5 site locations