Human Resources & Marketing Specialist
Dedicated & compassionate human resources professional with more than 17 years of experience specializing in recruitment, higher education, onboarding, training and development, business practices and writing.
Education:
SALISBURY UNIVERSITY, SALISBURY, MD
Bachelor of Arts in Communication: Mass Media
Career Details:
2024-PRESENT
HUMAN RESOURCES & MARKETING SPECIALIST, SHOW ME QUALITY CONSULTING, LLC
2022 - 2024
TEAM LEAD & SENIOR RECRUITER, HUEMAN PEOPLE SOLUTIONS, RPO DIVISION (UC HEALTH CLIENT)
- Screened and interviewed qualified candidates for supervisor, manager, director and VP-level roles for the UC Health system.
- Led the Training and Development Committee: planned training sessions, created team newsletter and reviewed team learning needs.
- Conducted training for new recruiters, scheduled sessions for orientation and adjusted based on their survey feedback data.
- Developed policies and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) on various topics including coverage plans.
- Analyzed Business Intelligence data for weekly strategy meetings with junior recruiters to help them improve.
- Collaborated with Compensation to update job descriptions; Executed offer, relocation and sign-on bonus contracts.
- Developed complex on-site and virtual itineraries.
- Sourced candidates from LinkedIn, Indeed, iHire and other niche job boards for hard-to-fill positions.
- Wrote and helped compile the UC Health Team Employee Handbook/Playbook with information on various topics and procedures.
- Completed leadership projects to help with process improvements and team submissions, interviews and hires.
2021 - 2022
RECRUITER II, HUEMAN (UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL SYSTEM CLIENT)
- Interviewed qualified candidates for more than 85 open nursing positions throughout various UMMS facilities.
- Organized meetings weekly with nurse managers and directors to discuss candidates and creative ways to recruit.
- Compiled weekly BI reports to send managers and directors information on open and recently closed requisitions.
- Regularly reviewed and updated job posting to include new and relevant info on sign-on bonuses or special programs.
- Scheduled candidate interviews and share days with hiring managers virtually or on-site.
- Extended offers to candidates and processed their offer letters to align with their transfer or new hire orientations.
- Selected to serve on the UMMS training team after three months at the company, to train new hires on procedures and programs.
- Taught new teammates about paper screening, phone screening and how to access and use our HR system-- Lawson.
- Served on the Marketing Committee reviewing email campaigns and other sourcing efforts for fellow recruiters.
- Recognized for 2021 Q4 outbound call leader for the team and was selected four in one year as team MVP.
- Staffed a new med surgical telemetry unit from scratch to 80% filled for nurses in less than six months
2018 -2021
PHYSICIAN RECRUITER & ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
- Supported and managed schedules for 12 hematology providers in the Division of Hematology and Hematologic Malignancies.
- Updated providers monthly on their various funding for clinical trials, studies and business related expenses/travel.
- Planned more than 100 multiple-day physician recruitment visits and 100 remote visits, increasing to a 20 percent success rate.
- Reviewed applicants, organized flights, reserved hotel rooms, planned dinners, scheduled 12+ interviews and presentations.
- Developed recruitment transportation policy which developed options for candidate visits, including compensation for staff.
- Organized large day-long patient forums for the CLL Society and Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to update families & patients.
- Onboarded new providers: requested PCs, obtained ID cards, email setup, answered questions and organized orientation.
- Reviewed medical school student applications through VSAS for clinical hemostasis elective and entered grades.
- Created PowerPoint presentations for providers used for educational purposes and at national and international conferences.
- Assisted with grant proposals; updated curriculum vitaes (CVs) and bio-sketches for providers.
- Organized & distributed Inpatient Attending Schedule for Heme 1, Heme 2 and BMT services at the Huntsman Cancer Hospital.
- Organized agendas and ran biweekly staff meetings for the division; setup CME credit for large-scale faculty seminars.
2015 - 2018
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS DEAN'S OFFICE
- Wrote and distributed regular college communications to the 13 departments and more than 200 college faculty and staff.
- Compiled overload, distance education, independent study and individualized instruction pay for college faculty.
- Set agendas, compiled minutes and presented at monthly Liberal Arts Council of Chairs meetings and college-wide meetings.
- Reviewed all credited college internship applications and student transcripts to prepare for the dean’s approval.
- Organized all aspects of annual two-day Liberal Arts Symposium which promoted liberal arts majors and career paths through more than 30 distinct sessions to more than 2,000 unique students and brought back more than 50 alumni guest speakers.
- Established agendas & proposals for college curriculum committee; prepared proposals for university-wide committees.
- Promoted and planned annual College Research and Creative Projects Day with more than 300 student presenters.
- Secretarial support for the Center for Visual and Performing Arts, a group that promotes the arts to the greater community.
- Monitored department temporary and tenure-track complement requests from proposals to issued contracts for faculty appointments.
- Reviewed new faculty hiring packets to prepare for dean’s offers and initiated the background clearance process.
- Kept confidential faculty and student records and ran reports for further analysis; managed office calendars and appointments.
- Interviewed, selected, supervised and trained work study students; trained new department secretaries in the college.
- Planned new hire orientation for tenure-track faculty in the College of Liberal Arts; planned Spring Awards ceremony.
- Processed special budget requests and presidential strategic initiative grants housed in the college.
- Served on search committees to attract and select staff members and administrators.
2012 - 2015
HUMAN RESOURCES COORDINATOR, FISERV
- Supported a regional human resources manager responsible for approximately 500 associates at various offices.
- Gathered information for quarterly technology and building audits.
- Compiled new hire packets, filed new hire paperwork and certified I-9s.
- E-Verify program administrator who completed employment eligibility verification for new associates.
- Phone screened potential new hire candidates/interns and scheduled in-person interviews.
- Reported Workman’s comp claims, headed building safety committee and kept OSHA logs for several offices across the country.
- Processed and created security/photo badges for the Salt Lake City and Lindon offices.
- Planned associate appreciation events, summer parties, town halls, blood drives, flu shot clinics and health fairs.
- Organized charity drives for the Family Support Center and Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Salt Lake.
2010-2012
FREELANCE WRITER, VARIOUS
- Held various positions with work appearing on social media, in newsletters, The Tampa Tribune and Greenwich Time.
- Developed story ideas about topics which included landscaping, remodeling, real estate and animal rescues.
- Wrote neighborhood and Realtor profiles for Journatic.
2006 - 2010
STAFF WRITER, PHOTOGRAPHER & VIDEOGRAPHER, THE CURRENT NEWSPAPERS
- Wrote news and feature stories on deadlines for use in 13 editions of weekly newspapers in Atlantic and Cape May counties.
- Compiled news briefs, police blotters and event listings for my two coverage areas: Linwood and Egg Harbor Township.
- Proofread, edited and uploaded news copy to www.shorenewstoday.com .
- Photographed a variety of subjects, wrote captions and composed photo slideshows and videos for the website.
- Served as producer, video editor and reporter for July 2009 video edition of the newspapers, a special week of stories that appeared with original video content in the online version.
Certification/Certificate
- Professional in Human Resources® (PHR®) Certification, HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®)
- People Analytics Certificate, Wharton Online, University of Pennsylvania
Awards & Accomplishments
- 2023 Hueman Core Value of the Year Nominee (1 of 15 honored in a company of 400 employees)
- Selected for the Hueman Remote Committee in July 2022 to help mold processes for our 50 percent remote workforce
- 2020 Nominee for the University of Utah Department of Internal Medicine Second Annual Staff Excellence Awards
- 2008 New Jersey Press Association Better Newspaper Contest Second-Place Winner in the Business and Economic writing category for a weekly newspaper with circulation over 6500 homes
- 2008 Spirit of Renaissance Community Award winner from Belhaven Middle School in Linwood, NJ
