AMY TISDALE
HR & Talent Acquisition Professional
Pittsburgh,PA
Summary
Dynamic Human Resources & Talent Acquisition Manager offering 10 plus years of progressive career across diverse industries. Proven history of designing and implementing recruitment, training and conflict-resolution initiatives for companies up to employees. Insightful and creative with strengths in partnering with cross-functional business executives to strategize personnel-management solutions. Known for identifying improvement opportunities and spearheading projects to drive effectiveness.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
HR & Talent Acquisition Manager (Contract)
Venture Engineering & Construction, Inc.
03.2023 - Current
- Developed communication and marketing plan and leveraged talent acquisition tools, resources, and campaigns to source and attract top talent.
- Optimized sourcing networks and used proactive methods to direct source candidates.
- Created and drove talent acquisition and job placement strategies to attract diverse candidates.
- Analyzed recruiting metrics to share reports and recommendations with stakeholders.
- Identified and created recruitment and administrative performance metrics and data to analyze trends, drive change, and assess progress.
- Negotiated contracts and managed budget for recruiting expenses.
- Cooperated with company leaders in change management and talent solutions to gain competitive edge in job market.
- Established consistent language and methodology for talent discussions, development, and succession.
- Created effective talent acquisition training materials that supported culture and performance objectives.
- Recruited top talent to maximize profitability.
- Created and implemented forward-thinking initiatives to improve employee engagement.
- Discovered and resolved complex employee issues that affected management and business decisions.
- Facilitated successful policy implementation and enforcement to maintain legal and operational compliance.
- Fostered positive work environment through comprehensive employee relations program.
- Devised hiring and recruitment policies for 92-employee company.
Senior Talent Acquisition, PrismHR (Contract)
PrismHR
04.2022 - 07.2022
- Major responsibilities included the following: Managed hiring process (full life cycle recruiting) which included sourcing, interviewing, evaluation and offer negotiation
- Created and implemented innovative sourcing methodologies (networking, social media campaigns, and marketing)
- Provided consultative advice and coaching to hiring managers during process including final hiring decision and offer negotiation
- Managed ATS (JazzHR)
- Participated in various Talent Acquisition projects and initiatives that supported PrismHR’s long-term growth and success.
Talent Acquisition Partner (Contract)
CVS Health
11.2021 - 04.2022
- Major responsibilities included the following: Functioned as high-level recruiting strategist, handling full life cycle recruiting processes for open requisitions
- Partnered with hiring leaders and HRBP’s
- Met goals and metrics for the team
- Partnered closely with specialty sourcers
- And agencies.
HRBP-Talent Acquisition (Contract)
Bayer
05.2021 - 09.2021
- Major responsibilities included the following: Provided strategic HR leadership for client groups on a broad range of talent acquisition issues of critical importance to the business
- Proactively anticipated business needs and provided strategic and innovative
- HR solutions
- Developed and monitored workforce plans for client groups
- Led operational HR partners to provide guidance and influence key staffing decisions
- Led all talent management processes (alongside business) through identification and assessment of talent strengths and development opportunities
- Provided leadership to client groups to develop and/or assess effectiveness of career paths, job ladders, and job descriptions.
Head of Talent (Contract)
RE2 Robotics
02.2020 - 02.2021
- Major responsibilities included the following:|Recruiting-Provided oversight/drove entire recruiting process, worked with leadership to identify staffing needs (hiring plan), identified viable recruiting events, helped to coordinate recruitment events/community organizations
- Onboarding-
- Created/evolved on-boarding process, created/facilitated new hire orientation, coordinated with all stakeholders to ensure that every onboarding action was completed according to the timeline
- Employee Relations – Provided oversight with employee terminations, ensured departing employees were out-processed, developed strategies to improve employee morale, fielded any complaints, issues, concerns that employees had in a confidential manner, updated employee manual annually, participated/led response to employee performance or hygiene issues
- HR Compliance -engaged with third party consultants as needed, created/maintained Affirmative Action Plan, filed annual EEO report, ensured proper training of personnel with regard to HR issues, ensured proper training of interviewers on appropriate/inappropriate questions and interviewing techniques, filed other HR related reports
- Process Development- Created job descriptions for all existing employee positions, improved HR processes to ensure timely and accurate processing of employee data
- Benefits Administration - Processed benefits enrollments (401k, medical, dental, life, etc.), worked with employees on processing of short and long-term disability claims, identified areas of opportunity.
Recruitment Manager
TTG HealthCare & Integrated Health 21
03.2019 - 06.2019
- Established recruiting requirements by studying organization plans and objectives and partnering with hiring manager(s) to design, develop and execute recruitment plans to meet staffing needs.
Engagement & Inclusion Specialist
WESCO Distribution
07.2018 - 02.2019
- Designed, developed and implemented programs to cultivate an inclusive workplace, foster a diverse workforce and improve employee engagement.
HR Administrator
Pitt-KATZ Graduate School and CBA
05.2016 - 07.2018
- Responsibilities included: Provided expertise to
- KGSB/CBA leadership on such matters as the internal HRIS as well as other HR administrative functions.
Engagement & Inclusion Consultant
UPMC Center
12.2015 - 05.2016
- Responsibilities included: Served as lead resource and partner to manage and support internal engagement and inclusion initiatives for business units, committees, and HR teams
- Acted as a consultant, providing support for all internal employee resource groups (ERG).
Senior Recruiter
University of Pittsburgh
06.2013 - 12.2015
- Major responsibilities included: Acted as partner to Director of Recruiting and Client Services to mentor and development newly hired recruiting staff
- Worked alongside University hiring managers to incorporate recruitment strategies to support specific needs of each school/department
- Served as interim Director during times of absences and/or leaves
- Assigned as lead in creating and facilitating training and development presentations for hiring managers and other internal staff University- wide.
Recruiter
University of Pittsburgh
11.2010 - 06.2013
- Major responsibilities included: Served as liaison to University hiring managers to support with various hiring needs
- Provided support for all temporary staffing needs across the University
- Conducted all new hire orientations
- Assisted in implementing
- University background check process.
Staffing Specialist
Manpower
11.2008 - 11.2010
- Facilitated recruitment process, consulted clients, negotiated rates, sourced, interviewed and placed candidates
- Assisted managers during termination process
- Conducted background checks
- Administered payroll on a weekly basis utilizing multiple payroll tools/systems.
Team Leader/Paralegal
Weltman, Weinberg, & Reis
09.2006 - 11.2010
- Monitored team performance and provided constructive feedback to increase productivity and maintain quality standards.
- Supervised team members to confirm compliance with set procedures and quality requirements.
- Worked with team to identify areas of improvement and devised solutions based on findings.
- Conducted training and mentored team members to promote productivity, accuracy, and commitment to friendly service.
- Mentored and guided employees to foster proper completion of assigned duties.
- Held weekly team meetings to inform team members on company news and updates.
- Assisted in recruitment of new team members, hiring highest qualified to build team of top performers.
- Optimized customer experience by delivering superior services and effectively troubleshooting issues.
- Collected, arranged, and input information into database system.
- Gathered, organized and input information into digital database.
- Evaluated staff performance and provided coaching to address inefficiencies.
- Conducted regular reviews of operations and identified areas for improvement.
- Developed and updated tracking spreadsheets for process monitoring and reporting.
Education
Master of Science - HR Development
12.2017
Bachelor of Arts - Communications
05.2006
Skills
- Talent Management
- Contract Negotiation
- Manage Applicant Tracking Systems
- Develop Talent Hiring Plans
- Employer Branding
- Interviewing and Prescreening
- Candidate Pipeline Management
- Global Recruitment
- Human Resources Law Expertise
- Work Authorizations
- Technical Industry Knowledge
- Compensation Analysis
- Training Needs Analysis
- Corrective Actions
- Unemployment Claims
- Employee Referral Programs
- Employee Relations Oversight
- Performance Management Systems
- Onboarding, Training and Development
Accomplishments
- (RE2, Venture, CVS) Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets which increased efficiency tied to recruitment efforts
- (Bayer) Developed partnership with Port Authority to assist with "hard to fill" role-translated to successful hires (program still active)
- (Pitt) Supervised team of 7 staff members-provided training to assist with position efficiency, career progression.
- (Pitt) Collaborated with United Way in development of "21 and Able" program which served candidates from underrepresented groups.
- (RE2, Venture) Developed onboarding which translated to increased employee morale, efficient/accurate new hire enrollment form completion
- (RE2) Met hiring goal six months sooner than deadline, ultimately leading to quicker time-to-fill, etc.
Timeline
HR & Talent Acquisition Manager (Contract) - Venture Engineering & Construction, Inc.
03.2023 - Current
Senior Talent Acquisition, PrismHR (Contract) - PrismHR
04.2022 - 07.2022
Talent Acquisition Partner (Contract) - CVS Health
11.2021 - 04.2022
HRBP-Talent Acquisition (Contract) - Bayer
05.2021 - 09.2021
Head of Talent (Contract) - RE2 Robotics
02.2020 - 02.2021
Recruitment Manager - TTG HealthCare & Integrated Health 21
03.2019 - 06.2019
Engagement & Inclusion Specialist - WESCO Distribution
07.2018 - 02.2019
HR Administrator - Pitt-KATZ Graduate School and CBA
05.2016 - 07.2018
Engagement & Inclusion Consultant - UPMC Center
12.2015 - 05.2016
Senior Recruiter - University of Pittsburgh
06.2013 - 12.2015
Recruiter - University of Pittsburgh
11.2010 - 06.2013
Staffing Specialist - Manpower
11.2008 - 11.2010
Team Leader/Paralegal - Weltman, Weinberg, & Reis
09.2006 - 11.2010
Villanova University - Master of Science, HR Development
Carlow University - Bachelor of Arts, Communications