Gretna, Virginia, United States
Director of Talent Acquisition with 15+ years of experience leading enterprise, multi-state, and high-volume hiring across healthcare, workforce solutions, and RPO environments. Proven success building scalable TA strategies for organizations exceeding 7,500 employees and supporting 2,000+ active requisitions nationwide. Expert in workforce planning, recruiter enablement, process optimization, and candidate experience, with a strong record of reducing time-to-fill, improving compliance, and leading distributed onshore and offshore recruiting teams.
Provide domain expertise to evaluate and help to improve AI model outputs.
• Built and executed an enterprise talent acquisition strategy supporting multi state hiring and global offshore delivery, increasing hiring efficiency and scalability • Designed and implemented a premium, white glove hiring process achieving a 31 day time to hire across shared services and executive roles with 100% first year retention • Led and developed distributed talent acquisition teams through performance metrics, workforce planning, and continuous improvement initiatives • Partnered with systems analysts to automate a previously manual position review process within the ATS, saving an average of 22 minutes per requisition while ensuring full compliance • Drove candidate experience improvements through end to end process redesign, enhanced communication touchpoints, and targeted recruiter enablement • Centralized multi state background check workflows, reducing time to hire by 18% through streamlined compliance and operational alignment • Built and sustained a talent development culture, mentoring Talent Acquisition Specialists and Coordinators and resulting in multiple internal promotions
• Managed a team of senior recruiters who comprised inaugural team for centralized recruiting in North America • Designed and implemented training collateral for new hiring initiative Worked with recruiting teams and human resources representatives to accomplish hiring objectives with a focus on grassroots sourcing • Supported management in developing and implementing workflows and processes to hire frontline employees • Expanded cross-functional organizational capacity by collaborating across departments on priorities, functions and common goals
• Streamlined HR efficiencies, coordinated new hire orientations and provided onboarding for new frontline employees across 15 locations. • Elevated new business opportunities by participating in contingent staffing planning. • Educated management on fair, equitable, and successful recruiting practices in order to prevent employee legal entanglements. • Worked with managers to achieve compliance with organizational policies, providing clarifying information and recommending necessary changes. • Currently involved in the development of forward-thinking initiatives to improve candidate pools for hard-to-fill trade positions. • Worked as effective team member while contributing to local and network wide HR projects. • Developed marketing strategies to generate candidate interest. • Maintained optimal staffing levels by tracking vacancies and initiating recruitment and interview processes to identify qualified candidates. • Served as representative in various civic and community functions to further enhance company image and develop additional candidate pipelines.
Teaching Organizational Behavior to junior and senior underclassmen.
• Managed a team of Talent Acquisition Specialists. • Plan and facilitate cost-effective events in order to improve ROI for organization. • Reduced the number of temporary and contingent workers by increasing the number and quality of direct hires, resulting in overall cost savings of $823,000 annually. • Developed tracking systems to ensure contingency requirements were met in a timely fashion. • Responsible for entry level, senior level, and specialist hires. • Established consistent language and methodology for talent discussions, development and succession. • Optimized sourcing networks and used proactive methods to direct source candidates. • Created and drove talent acquisition and job placement strategies to attract diverse candidates. • Acted as brand ambassador to educate candidates on culture, career growth, benefits and advantages of working for company. • Conducted compensation conversations with human resources and hiring managers to foster internal and external equity.