ANDREW TICKNOR
Waterloo,IA
Summary
Workforce development professional with additional background in Talent Acquisition and Retail Management; focused on building pipelines, strengthening community partnerships, and supporting candidate success. Background includes recruiting, requisition management, Workday reporting, grant tracking, compliance monitoring, and career pathway coordination to improve participation, employee retention, and hiring results.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
CAREER PATHWAYS NAVIGATOR
Unity Point Healthcare
Des Moines, IA
09.2025 - Current
- Identify, implement, manage, and track participation of workforce development programs, partnering with local agencies, high schools, and colleges.
- Enhance community partnerships identifying workforce gaps and opportunities along with training programs and education. Identify ways to better serve our community and enrich our talent pool through active participation in groups, learning about the various population groups in our market.
- Collaborate with grant writing and the grant management team to identify and process grant applications to assist in the funding of career development
- Track current grants to ensure compliance, utilization of funds and reporting ensure grant is retained.
- Maintain a current list of community and educational partners being leveraged for pathways programs at the market level.
- Monitor participant progress and compliance with the commitments within the career pathways program.
- Partner with operational leaders to ensure pathway participants have a schedule, clinical rotation, or other plan to meet the educational goals of their time at UnityPoint.
- Continuously evaluate the effectiveness of programs and the participant experience.
- Develop, maintain, and track metrics for reporting results and support data driven decisions.
- Connect pathways participants to available/applicable financial assistance programs such as FAFSA grants and scholarships and benefit-offered Ed Assist.
- Provide career coaching services to individuals interested in career pathways programs.
- Market, recruit and select participants to target career pathways.
TALENT ACQUISITION PARTNER
Mercy One Healthcare
Des Moines, IA
03.2025 - 09.2025
- Requested, maintained, and processed job requisitions for diverse healthcare functions.
- Reviewed and selected candidates to advance them through the hiring process.
- Supported executives, managers, professionals, colleagues, and vendors by sharing information and completing HR operational policy, procedure, and process tasks.
- Reviewed, completed, and processed HR transactions; used Workday and other HRIS tools to verify, update, audit, and report on records.
- Monitored select compliance requirements, including licensure and sanctions.
- Facilitated HR service events to improve employee engagement and streamline operational processes.
- Resolved system discrepancies and processed payroll items while supporting HR communications and administrative tasks.
RECRUITER
HCA Healthcare
Austin, TX
04.2021 - 03.2025
- Reviewed, and selected candidates to be forwarded through the hiring process.
- Requested, Maintained and processed job requisitions for a variety of healthcare functions.
- Supported executives, managers, professionals, colleagues, and vendors by sharing information and completing HR operational policy, procedure, and process tasks..
- Monitored select compliance requirements, including licensure and sanctions.
- Assisted with HR service events
- Performed data audits, maintained system data such as supervisory orgs, resolved system discrepancies, processed billing, expense, and payroll items, supported HR communications, advanced process improvements, and provided general administrative support across Workday, Kronos, and related systems.
- Maintained collegiate academic partnerships through presentations and career fairs to enhance recruitment pipelines for student and new graduate nursing programs.
- Successfully partnered with facility officers to design and implement workforce development programs to enhance our recruiting strategy for nursing units with high time to fill and turnover metrics.
STAFFING RECRUITER-ACCOUNT MANAGER
KeyStaff inc.
Austin, TX
08.2020 - 04.2021
- Recruited candidates for KeyStaff inc. temporary and contract placements across client sites.
- Reviewed employment applications and job orders to match applicants with job requirements.
- Informed job applicants of details such as duties and responsibilities, compensation, benefits, schedules, working conditions, or promotion opportunities.
- Oversaw the completion of all new hire onboarding paperwork, and necessary employment testing.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration (Human Resource Management)
Park University
Parkville, MO05-2020
MBA - Corporate Finance
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO10-2026
Skills
- Workforce development
- Grant Writing and Reporting
- Program Management
- Community Engagement
- Process Improvement
- Fiscal Responsibility
- HRIS Database management (Lawson and Taleo)
- HCM Database management (Workday, and Kronos)
- CRM Database management (Salesforce, Eemcact, iCIMS)
Timeline
CAREER PATHWAYS NAVIGATOR
Unity Point Healthcare
09.2025 - Current
TALENT ACQUISITION PARTNER
Mercy One Healthcare
03.2025 - 09.2025
RECRUITER
HCA Healthcare
04.2021 - 03.2025
STAFFING RECRUITER-ACCOUNT MANAGER
KeyStaff inc.
08.2020 - 04.2021
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration (Human Resource Management)
Park University
MBA - Corporate Finance
Colorado State University