Tess Thomas, Cir, Cdr, Hcs Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Palo Alto, California, Us

*Talent Acquisition: In partnership with executive team, designed, executed, and owned recruiting programs for the organization. Doubled annual headcount multiple times. Defined & executed diversity sourcing, diversity recruiting, and inclusive hiring practices.*Strategy: Designed and executed new strategies for candidate experience, hiring manager experience, and employer branding. Identified & developed KPI’s and key metrics. Measured, tracked, & analyzed data to uncover barriers and improve efficiency and effectiveness markers (i.e. time to hire, candidate experience, source of hire, etc.). Leveraged data to improve employer brand (increased Glassdoor rating from 3.3 to 4.3) in 6 months.*Operations: Designed interview processes, developed new assessments & interview questions, and built candidate sourcing best practices. Owned customization & implementation of Greenhouse (ATS) as well as Lattice (performance management software). Designed & managed Paradigm’s first website career page. *Talent & Culture: Promoted to lead people, culture, & employee engagement. Redefined company performance management model and feedback culture, resulting in a 45% increase of performance feedback within 90 days. *Learning & Development: In partnership with executives and internal learning experts, owned & led a company-wide L&D program. Created and delivered custom training programs and organized training efforts from internal & external trainers and speakers.*DEI: In partnership with executives and internal diversity, equity, and inclusion subject matter experts, wove inclusive and equitable practices into all aspects of Paradigm policies, culture, hiring practices, and performance management. *Management: People manager to 2 direct reports. Managed performance by defining and measuring goals, guiding professional development, training, coaching, and mentoring.

Palo Alto, California, Us

Palo Alto, California, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

•Talent Acquisition: Managed recruiting initiatives for San Francisco consulting practice area. Hired 45+ FTE’s into management consultant and leadership/executive roles. •Strategy: Improved KPI metrics of time to hire, time to fill, offer acceptance rate, and candidate experience by redefining best practices and improving operational efficiencies.•Operations: Led recruitment process redesigns; developed and implemented evaluation tools and interview guides that incorporated diversity recruiting & inclusive hiring practices. Managed recruiting transformation during operating model change. •Management: People manager to 1 direct report. Managed and measured performance and oversaw goal setting. Trained & mentored junior recruiters on sourcing strategy, candidate experience and stakeholder management.•Diversity: Co-founder/leader of 2 employee resource groups (ERG’s). Facilitated unconscious bias workshops. Drove inclusion, culture change, and diverse employee engagement within the organization.•Awards & Nominations: Winner of “Freestyle Award” 2016; winner of “Candidate Experience Award” 2017, nominee of “Woman of the Year” 2016.

Seattle, Wa, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

•Recruiting: Designed, developed, and implemented a performance-based talent acquisition strategy from scratch. Led company to a 95% increase in headcount (28 total full-time employees and contractors). Researched, selected and implemented an applicant tracking system (ATS) and other recruiting technologies.•Talent: Designed and developed a performance management program. Partnered with Senior Leadership on goal setting and structuring performance objectives at the corporate, management, team and individual levels.

•Recruiting: Conducted contingency-based direct hire searches for companies in the healthcare, transportation, oil & gas and food & beverage industries. •Candidate Consulting: Consulted job seekers on job search strategies, social media/LinkedIn strategies, interview coaching and resume writing.

Zurich, Zurich, Ch

•Business Development: Marketed and sold contract, contract-to-hire, direct hire and staff augmentation resource services to companies in the Banking, Retail, Healthcare, Software / Technology and Government industries. Responsible for business development, account management and contract negotiations.

New Berlin, Wi, Us

Managed and executed field marketing, brand awareness and marketing program activation for Beam Global products through GMR Marketing and Donna Baldwin Talent.

Denver, Co, Us

•Recruiting: Managed a full cycle recruiting desk, specializing in the recruitment and placement of accounting, finance and administrative support professionals.•Business Development: Managed the complete business development lifecycle including prospecting, securing new business, account management and contract negotiations

Lead diverse teams in designing and implementing marketing programs and direct marketing “touch” campaigns.

Denver, Co, Us

Provided office management, administrative support, event coordination, and marketing assistance to a leading Denver-based architecture, planning and design firm.