Tamara Smith Email & Phone Number

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Gather feedback from candidates and continuously improve our deliberate candidate experience through the recruitment processes.New Hire Onboarding Experience:• Welcome Programs: Create warm welcome experiences, including introductions to team members, company culture, and organizational values.• Coach hiring managers around best practices for successful candidate care, new hire onboarding and new employee engagement. New Employee Experience:• Engagement Initiatives: Develop programs to integrate new employees into the company culture. Coach hiring managers around best practices for successful candidate care, new hire onboarding and new employee engagement. Pair new hires with mentors or buddies to facilitate their transition.Internship and Early Career Programs:• Internship Experience: Oversee internship programs, including recruitment, project assignments, and mentorship. Organize events to connect interns and early-career employees with senior leaders.• Early Career Development: Create pathways for early-career professionals to grow within the organization.

United States

• Support the full-life cycle recruitment for operations. Support TA strategies to source, identify, attract, and hire top candidates in a timely fashion and share best practices with team members.• Effectively use current and future sourcing tools to identify and connect with passive candidates.• Accurately assess candidates for cultural, competency and skill fit, synthesize candidate and hiring manager feedback and routinely pre-close candidates to ensure high acceptance rates.• Act as a business partner by advising hiring managers on effective interviewing techniques and collaborate with others throughout the organization to ensure a smooth process that meets required business objectives.Support with the creation of a diverse pipeline of talent for open positions.• Engage and build relationships with organizations and sources that will expand the scope and diversity of the candidate pool.• Utilize business acumen to influence key stakeholders, develop trusting• relationships and affect business outcomes.• Understand and adhere to compliance, diversity and talent acquisition policies and processes.• Collaborate with hiring managers and other key players to ensure streamlined and positive candidate experience.• Leverage social media to promote Kindeva’s culture and opportunities.• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed. • Actively supports the achievement of Kindeva’s Mission and Values. • Participate in continuous improvement projects where applicable.

St. Louis City County, Missouri, United States

• Assisted Sponsors with budget forecasting.• Coordinated with MMT Management/Sponsors to discuss and write Statement of Work, deliverables, job descriptions, develop cost estimates, make engagement offers to suppliers, obtain necessary approvals, route, and track requisition packets.• Managed Contingent Worker issues, conduct disciplinary conversations with agencies and with termination processes.• Drafted and negotiated Contingent Worker Agreements Service, Statements of Work, develop cost estimates, obtain all required approvals from management.• Coordinated with MMT Accounting to report on status of all Contingent Worker Purchase Orders, including close-out of Purchase Orders once contingent worker assignments are completed.• Built relationships with over 40 agencies.• Scheduled Contingent Worker interviews with agencies.

St. Louis , Mo

• Scheduled 1400 interviews over a 16 month period• Assist talent acquisition partners by attending and providing logistical support for job fairs and college recruiting events• Built relationships with the local colleges and universities• Assisted with benefits orientations • Identify opportunities for improving both hiring managers and candidate experiences and scheduling efficiency; make process recommendations to achieve operational excellence• Create offer letters • Format and update job descriptions• Develop and manage relationships with third party vendors, recruitment agencies and staffing firms; evaluate partnerships to ensure goals and expectations are being met • Administer and coordinate the drug screening and pre-employment background check – enter new-hire paperwork in ADP, update candidate and hiring managers on background check status once candidate is cleared to start• Organize and coordinate the internal and external interviews, travel arrangement, create interview agenda and schedule debriefing after each interview with the hiring manager and interview panel• Provide effective communication to the hiring managers, and the leadership team • First point of contact for hiring managers with questions on submitting a new headcount request through Pereless• Coordinate all aspects of the on-boarding process• Pull compensation data for recruiters and work closely with compensation to ensure utilizing the most updated salary, bonus and equity data• Ensure that all candidates apply through our website prior to coming onsite for an interview• Organize and coordinated all new hires relocation with Global Mobility to ensure effective processes are completed• Manage phone solicitations, candidate inquiries, and maintain candidate files and records• When request, assist the Talent Acquisition Partner by performing basic screening of job applicants over the phone to ascertain whether they meet the minimum requirements of the open position

Master Of Arts - Ma, Human Resources Management, 3.8

Knowledge of multiple recruiting methodologies, including direct sourcing, networking, cold calling and strong business acumen.

Bachelor Of Science In Business Administration, Management, 3.0

Activities and Societies: Student In Free Enterprise (SIFE) member since August 31, 2011SIFE is an international non-profit organization.

Associate In Arts Business Administration, Management, 3.0