Talent Development Specialist - SERCO of Texas - Houston, TX
(2023-12 - 2025-09)
- Provide career counseling, mentoring, employment, and financial aid services to trainees who are eligible training and apprenticeship programs
- Provide tailored coaching to trainees, focusing on personal and talent development, strategic decision-making, and interpersonal skills.
- Deliver training on leadership best practices, communication, and time management tailored to the client's unique operational context.
- Support leaders in identifying areas for improvement, setting actionable goals, and achieving measurable results.
- Guide leaders in managing and resolving workplace challenges to foster a collaborative and productive environment.
- Develop and manage individual employment and service plans
- Regularly assess progress through one-on-one sessions, providing feedback and actionable recommendations to enhance leadership effectiveness.
- Regularly follow up with past and current trainees and apprentices to keep informed of employment status and of any possible certifications gained.
- Other duties, as assigned.
Recruiter I - Valaris Drilling (Prime Ocean) - Houston, TX
(2023-06 - 2023-09)
- Source, screen and disposition resumes
- Perform preliminary interviews
- Schedule in person interviews
- Create and extend job offers to qualified candidates
- Initiate hiring process with recruiting coordinators once offer acceptance
- Manage assigned employment requisitions (reviewing, editing and final approval of completed requisition)
Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition (Contractor) - L3Harris (Acara Solutions) - Waco, TX
(2022-06 - 2023-03)
- Manage a target load of forty job requisitions, including building job requisition, routing for departmental approvals, editing requisition and posting requisition
- Conduct intake calls for new requisitions with Hiring Managers
- Source, qualify and interview candidates for various positions
- Recruit for Engineering and Operations in the Aerospace and Defense industry, with focus on Avionics and Maritime sectors
- Schedule virtual and face to face interviews between candidates and Hiring Managers
- Extend verbal offers to candidates
- Create offer letters, route offer letter details to Hiring Managers and Human Resources for approvals and extend formal offers to candidates
- Inform Hiring Managers, Human Resources and Talent Acquisition Coordinator of candidate's offer acceptance or offer declination
- Ensure that all steps and forms are completed and marked as such in ATS (PeopleFluent) to move selected candidate into on-boarding stage
- Assist at hiring events, as needed
Recruiter (Contractor) - Boeing (Collabera) - Dallas, TX
(2021-11 - 2022-05)
- Manage over fifty job requisitions to fulfill deadlines
- Conduct intake calls with Hiring Managers
- Source and communicate daily with candidates
- Submit counter-offer requests when necessary
- Create offer letters to extend employment for suitable interns and entry-level candidates
- Ensure that all appropriate forms are completed to move selected candidates forward to on-boarding stage after offer acceptance
Talent Acquisition Partner - Summit (Formerly Fire & Life Safety America) - Richmond, VA
(2018-09 - 2020-01)
- Proactively manage and prioritize open roles to source, select and onboard for eleven out of nineteen of FLSA's districts, nationwide
- Develop and maintain a strong network of Talent Pipelines with trade schools, universities, community colleges and military and government agencies
- Attend job fairs, trade shows and conferences, to generate highly qualified leads
- Partner with Hiring Managers to drive the recruitment process all nineteen locations, providing them with a high flow of applicants for specialized skilled labor and management opportunities
- Utilize ATS (UltiPro), as well as LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, Facebook, TalentNeuron, and other social media recruiting platforms, to assist in identifying and reaching strong, high-quality candidates
- Monitor key recruiting and retention matrices and proactively engage with Hiring Managers to make staffing adjustments, as needed
Recruiter - Zachry Group - La Porte, TX
(2015-02 - 2017-05)
- Source and screen candidates
- Perform preliminary interviews
- Coordinate site interviews with Hiring Managers to select qualified candidates for project-specific requirements
- Make contingent job offers based on federal/state employment law
- Manage assigned employment requisitions (reviewing, editing and final approval of completed requisition)
- Track and report staffing data using MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, etc.
- Assist in building and managing Employment Staffing Plans per employment and hiring requirements
- Build and update job requisitions based on project and scope of work
- Coordinate and conduct re-deployment initiatives
- Conduct operations and administrative ports of hiring process (background checks, drug screens, health screens, I9 compliance, E-Verify compliance, employment paperwork and site-specific requirements)
- Worked closely with HASC, DISA, NCCER and NCCCO
- Traveled both in-state and out of state to staff up turnarounds, as needed
- Assist at hiring events
- Other duties as assigned
HR Specialist - Conn's HomePlus - Houston, TX
(2011-09 - 2015-01)
- Designated Human Resources Representative for Houston Market
- Assisted with New Hire Orientations and Sales Training Classes
- Assisted HR Manager with internal investigations
- Conducted high volume Recruiting for Sales, Service and Distribution Departments
- Administrative Assistant to the Director of Training, Scheduling Director, Sr. VP of Retail, District Managers and Director of HR, as needed.
