Aja Smith

- Support employee relations and full-cycle industrial manufacturing recruiting on a national scale; Also support recruitment & training for our HR personnel, college internship program, and veteran sourcing.

- Traveling to provide recruiting assistance and facilitate (HR) processes for multiple decentralized business locations; Recruiting for the following different manufacturing and industrial roles: Machine Operators, Production Technicians, Process Technicians, CNC Machinists, Industrial Maintenance Technicians, Line Technicians, & Material Handlers.

- Project coordinated with marketing team on budgeting, company approved copy, and quality control language to sponsor job postings and advertisements on social media and other grassroots recruiting efforts (banners, flyers, billboards, etc.)

- Coordinated with Career Events Manager in College Career Services to coordinate resume reviews, virtual career fairs, and on-site career fairs.
- Advanced knowledge of ADP, Calendly, Sense, and Workday; Utilizes MilitaryRecruit to source veterans, as well as PurpleBriefcase and Handshake in partnership with college career centers.
- Recruitment database updating with potential candidates for robust pipelines.

- Collaborates with internal teams on continuous improvement recruitment processes, strategies to execute as efficiently as possible; Consult weekly/bi-weekly on successful recruiting and retention practices to minimize turnover.

- Evaluate applicant credentials, conducted initial interviews and pre-screening assessments.

- Maintain and update the weekly recruiting report, including the addition of new regional positions and candidates, removal of filled positions and candidates no longer in process, and coordinating recruiting updates with the Home Office.

- Ensure all candidates have a high touch, candidate centric experience.

- Performs other ad hoc job projects as needed.

- Sources, recruits, and hires primarily nonexempt and some exempt applicants in a very high-volume and demanding environment through referrals, networking, job postings, resume searches and reviewing applications.
- Develops sourcing contacts and maintains relationships with colleges, technical schools, driver training schools, alumni groups, military recruitment centers, diversity groups and other local public organizations to find and attract applicants.
- Works with hiring managers to identify skill and culture fit required for each position, and operationally setting up processes for seamless flow of candidate processing and pipeline.

- Provides training and coaching to hiring managers in HR compliant interviewing techniques, applicant selection and company hiring processes and procedures.

- Accurately reports on status of filling positions, identifies hiring barriers, implements plan to resolve, escalates issues not resolved timely and is accountable for candidate acquisition goals.
- Reviews applications/resumes to match prospective employee's work history, education, job skills and salary requirements with our current job openings.
- Utilizing Workday with a Greenhouse plugin for candidate pipeline and HRIS

- Build trusting relationships with stakeholders while always keeping a pulse on both short and long term hiring needs; Experience hiring facility food manufacturing professionals.

- Calibrate candidates with hiring managers and senior leadership. Hiring for Accounting, Manufacturing Food Procurement, HR, and Creative Marketing roles, i.e. Graphic Design, Product Design, UX/UI, AI Product Design, Jr. Graphic Designers, and Web3 professionals.

- Visited local colleges and represented company at job fairs to inform potential candidates about job opportunities.

- Creates effective sourcing strategies to build strong pipelines across all sourcing channels and lead client update meetings on active searches.

- Collaborated with various departments to define job qualifications.

- Provides strategic guidance and advice in true partnership with senior leadership.

- Experience managing and prioritizing multiple searches in a full-lifecycle recruitment environment by building and executing effective sourcing strategies.

- Experience performing and leveraging market research and data by suggesting new operational techniques to help influence company growth strategies.

- Utilizing Workday and Greenhouse for HRIS and ATS; Introduced text recruiting as an an additional sourcing tool.

- Working with subsidiary on multiple RPO’s throughout the company.

- Working closely with hiring managers in various departments to define recruitment needs and plan the hiring process

- Advance knowledge of Workday, BrassRing, and HireRight.

- Track recruitment KPIs like time to hire, source of hire, and time to fill

- Source candidates on job boards, resume databases, by building pipelines professional networks through events and referrals.

- Interview candidates at various stages of the hiring process (phone screening calls, virtual video interviews, panel interviews, and in-person meetings).

- Use skill assessment tools and tests to screen candidates

- Familiarity with full cycle and social media recruiting

- Proactively identifying candidates using multiple techniques including cold calling into competitors, on-line databases, social media websites, Boolean Keyword searches, job boards, contact lists, networking, employee referrals, etc.

- Evaluating candidates and make recommendations to leadership.

- Process documentation and prepare reports relating to personnel activities (staffing, recruitment, training, performance evaluations, terminations, etc.).

- Coach, counsel, and guide supervisors through employee relations matters.

- Manage LOAs/ADA accommodations and vendor communications.

- Assist with training, learning and development initiatives.

- Perform a wide range of duties relative to the operational maintenance and processing of personnel records and reports.

- Assist HR Director with ad hoc projects and research as assigned.

- Advanced knowledge of Ultimate Software.

- Worked under the general direction of senior staff in obtaining the most appropriate carrier coverage based upon client needs.

- Supporting role in larger, more complex insurance placements with leading role in smaller, less complex placements. Marketing management, and closing 1M + liability in reoccurring/new accounts.

- Submitted coverage specifications and obtains quotes from potential carriers; consistent renewal retainment; business development travel

- Determined and marketed insurance coverage needs and developed proposals for potential accounts; strong renewal retainment and management of 1+ M in account liability; Southeast business development and travel.

- Received and responded to calls/requests concerning problems, delays, discrepancies, etc. and provided resolution so that all parties are satisfied - Worked with agents and markets customizing wholesale insurance programs.

- Built retail/agent relationships and added to the retail agent/base.

- Served as gatekeeper, wearing necessary hat in department/office for seamless support.

- Providing coordination for Human Resources & Recruiting team, Payroll and Benefits, Learning & Development, and Starbucks leadership team.

- Create job postings for recruitment team through multiple job boards

- Held phone interviews with prospective store leadership for positions across the country

- Onboarding data entry and requested information clarity from new hires submitted for payroll

- Updated all stores across the county by state of updated changes in OSHA and labor laws

- Was point person for Short Term and Long Term Disability claims and processing and Org Chart updates.