Devi (Divender) Sharma,Ccdp Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Providing the vision and execution of the program to meet the funding mandate and fulfill the goal of supporting women to achieve sustainable employment • Hiring team members, scheduling and supervision of program staff and supervision of volunteers where applicable. • Establishing and fostering effective relationships with local community partners to promote the program and recruit eligible participants• Developing a creative marketing strategy with YWCA marketing staff• Overseeing day to day operations and provide back-up facilitation when needed• Monitoring and managing a perf0rmance based budget to ensure revenue generation• Conducting performance reviews of staff• Mitigating client complaints and liaising with senior management as necessary.• Overview of data input and accuracy utilizing the MAEST database, and ongoing program development, evaluation and design• Keeping accurate records for funders, agency, business partners and participants

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Provide career guidance to students graduates and alumni in Post Secondary Studies. Support hundreds of students each year in their career development using evidence-based approaches in one-on-one and group interactions• Educate students about resume building, interview process, job expectation and professionalism.• Maintain regular contacts with companies for new job opportunities.• Provide job placement assistance to students including Employment,Industry and Community resources and leads • Hold seminars on interview skills and job search strategies.• Organize job fairs, career programs,career panels, pop up shops and various student activities.• Conduct research to analyze employment trends both locally and nationally.• Develop strong relationship with potential employers to build job placement opportunities for students.• Maintain student graduate records and student placement files according to school policies.• Maintain a database of available job opportunities for students.• Interview students to understand their career goals and accordingly provide career guidance.• Work effectively and collaboratively to achieve student placement goals.• Attend Community Networking Events and Liaison with Organizations and Mentors• Generate reports to school management on student employment progress when requested.

Vancouver, Citycentre

●Provide group and one to one career advising through facilitation, assessments and professional skills development in Career Exploration, Job Search and Social Media● Personality Dimensions and Holland Interest Inventory Certified facilitator●Work with diverse clients facing multi barriers to employment in various age groups and cultural backgrounds including survivors of Violence and multi barriered clients●Compile community and Labour market resources, networking, and experiential learning to educate clients and peers •Assesses outcome-based client learning using various career related assessment methods, and compiles summaries for further collaboration and case management follow ups.•Collect and record statistical information and qualitative data as it pertains to client participation rates and outcomes through use of Excel, ICM and B2W Technology•Promote client and employee learning through curriculum design, hands on learning approach and execution of best practices.• Contributes to the development and implementation of strategic communication content through on line digital platforms and written communication• Maintain and build relationship with Community partners to enhance service delivery and support for clients• Promote Life Line Experience activities to engage clients and create opportunities for them to reflect on their learning, and translate it into career planning

Pacific Centre, Flagship Store

Start up of Flagship location, including full cycle recruitment and Training for 950 Employees.Created and Facilitated a Service Experience Training Program for Canadian StoresSuccessfully on-boarded all 950 employees, and facilitated Technology and Point of Sale TrainingResponsible for Recruiting, Training and Managing the largest Service Experience Team in the company of dedicated Service Experience Specialists, and Cash Room Teams and systemsManaged Companies Loyalty Rewards program, participation rates, incentives and Results

Key Responsibilities include Store Operations, Full cycle recruitment and HR management. P and L analysis and budget control, profitability, Credit and loyalty program implementation Regional Champion ( Hosted weekly conference calls Nationally and regionally to acknowledge successes and opportunity locations). Inventory control and execution of yearly Inventory. Identified high loss departments and implemented successful strategies to ensure compliance to company goals.

Richmond Centre

Key responsibilities included execution of all National Marketing Initiatives, Visual strategies, and Full cycle recruitment of Marketing Teams including Performance Management, Career Planning , Analyzing Sales trend effectiveness against Marketing initiatives weekly.Store liaison for all community outreach, including representing HBC on the Cadillac Fairview Board, in Richmond Centre. Created partnerships with Richmond Youth Services, CHIMO crisis services as Charitable partners and created events specifically targeted at supporting these 2 non-profit organizations. Networked closely with Cadillac Fairview partners to negotiate and secure complimentary Marketing leasing space within the Centre to promote HBC merchandise, and host Cosmetic events and VANOC merchandise during 2010.Project leader for multi million dollar Renovation project . Responsible for Reverse engineering the process to ensure timelines were met and all contractors and employees were accountable for their execution daily. The project lasted 6 months in total and we completed it ahead of schedule and on budget.

Flagship Store, Vancouver Downtown

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