Cat Smith
Tacoma,WA
Summary
HR Business Partner with over a decade of strategic hiring and relationship management expertise. Ability to quickly build rapport and mutual respect across organizations. Demonstrated success in becoming a consultative expert and trusted advisor for hiring leaders throughout career. Adept knowledge leveraging tools like Paylocity, and LinkedIn Analytics to paint a story with data. Well-qualified HR leader skilled in managing employees, associates, and day-to-day department operations with a decisive and organized approach. Skilled leader, problem-solver, and persuasive communicator with open and authoritative style.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
HR Business Partner
The Rescue Mission
07.2024 - Current
- Continue to perform all HR Recruiter essential duties and responsibilities & Back up for HR Project Coordinator
- Administers and interprets various prisons ensuring compliance, making recommendations, and implementing strategies that enhance TRM’s effectiveness
- Responsible for open enrollment and managing associated tasks, including updating benefits, dependent and qualifying events
- Supports HR Director in guiding managers regarding employee/labor relations, performance management, investigations, policy and procedure application, etc
- Assist internal employees with HR-related questions
- Provides recommendations to hiring managers regarding employee relations including processing terminations
- Provides expertise, consultation, and direction to internal staff and external customers on a variety of topics i.e
- Most recently with Paycom and their desire to do business with TRM
- Ensure equitable and non-discriminatory hiring practices
- Participates in vendor meetings i.e
- Parker, Smith & Feek most recently with our benefits transitions to Voya
- Member of Benefits committee
- Facilitates and participates in workshops to provide guidance and best practices to our internal leaders
- Responsible for termination administration including communicating with employees regarding benefits and coordinating and conducting the exit interview.
HR Recruiter
The Rescue Mission
12.2023 - 07.2024
- Develops and implements sustainable recruitment and selection strategies to hire and retain high-caliber talent for 15+ hiring managers
- Collaborate with the Board of Directors for executive hiring
- Generate internal and external job posts and advertisement
- Responsible for analyzing internal equity and experience to determine whether new hires' salary recommendations are fair and equitable
- Responsible for pre and post-offer onboarding including i9 verification and E-verify
- Coach hiring managers on HR processes, significantly improving recruitment efficiency
- Oversee onboarding, background checks, and drug screens for seamless new hire integration
- Facilitate new hire orientations, and present HR and Benefits portion
- Work closely with department heads to identify staffing needs, ensuring optimal team performance and alignment with company goals
- Responsible for analyzing Recruiting Reports and Analytics
- Facilitates and participates in workshops to provide guidance and best practices to internal leaders
- Back up for HR Project Coordinator- i.e
- Creating passwords for new hires and resetting passwords across all systems, textedly and Relias, paystubs for contract claims, SharePoint monthly EAP & Wellness newsletters JD, salary schedule, Policy & Procedures, etc
- Responsible for all new hire, promotion, transfer, and termination activation/ deactivation notifications.
Senior Talent Acquisition Partner
UNQORK
12.2021 - 02.2023
- Primary GTM Recruiting partner for Series B company, 10+ hiring managers including working directly with C-Suite on executive-level leadership roles
- Lead the development and implementation of talent acquisition processes for my hiring teams
- Proven track record of independently balancing multiple requisitions and talent-driven projects simultaneously while remaining effective in both a structured and ambiguous environment
- Research and understand the current recruiting environment to improve sourcing and onboarding initiatives to lead the way in inclusive recruiting
- Facilitated Interview training including bias and diversity training
- Actively sourced passive talent and decreased TTF
- Successful and creative use of social, professional, and networking sites to identify and source passive candidates
- Solid understanding of Applicant Tracking Systems, and LinkedIn Recruiter
- Created weekly cadence with hiring managers
- Exceed KPIs
- Successfully influenced strategic talent initiatives
- Member of Chocolately and Veterans ersg
- Managed end-to-end talent acquisition for executive roles, collaborating directly with C-suite to meet hiring goals.
Global Technology Sales Recruiter
GARTNER
12.2019 - 01.2021
- Partnered with 4-5 regions and actively conducted full-cycle recruiting for up to at least 10 open requisitions at a time
- Drove open headcount down to zero for GTS regions by Dec
- 31, 2020
- Recruited all levels within Global Technology sales from Account managers and account Executives to Client Directors
- Q1 2021 55% diversity hires
- Prepared detailed candidate profile presentations to hiring managers before final panel interviews
- Created LinkedIn Video Interviews with hiring managers to attract passive talent for specific teams
- Created role-based interview questions for hiring managers to ask all candidates
- Thoroughly vetted candidates and provided timely interview feedback
- Member of Women at Gartner and Mosaic.
Executive Direct hire Recruiter
EXPERIS, MANPOWER GROUP
10.2014 - 12.2019
- Actively brought in new clients to recruit for/ Client development and full-cycle recruiter
- Consecutively 1 of the top 3 perm recruiters out of 20 recruiters in the region
- Promoted to Senior Recruiter within 8 months
- Successfully recruited a variety of Financial services roles including C-Suite, Directors, Staff, and Data Analytics within FS
- Successfully placed specialized candidates for challenging geographical locations.
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) - Business Management
NORTHWOOD UNIVERSITY
Cedar Hill, TXSkills
- Strategic Hiring
- Boolean Search
- Creative Sourcing
- Relationship Management
- Consultative Business Partner
- Bias Training
- HRIS Systems
- Talent management
- Employee Relations
- Onboarding Processes
- Benefits Administration
- Employee Wellness
Timeline
HR Business Partner
The Rescue Mission
07.2024 - Current
HR Recruiter
The Rescue Mission
12.2023 - 07.2024
Senior Talent Acquisition Partner
UNQORK
12.2021 - 02.2023
Global Technology Sales Recruiter
GARTNER
12.2019 - 01.2021
Executive Direct hire Recruiter
EXPERIS, MANPOWER GROUP
10.2014 - 12.2019
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) - Business Management
NORTHWOOD UNIVERSITY
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