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Emma Thorbjornsen

Chicago,IL

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Corporate Human Resources Associate

Great Dane
08.2023 - Current
  • Spearheaded a Form I-9 Audit across corporate offices, manufacturing plants, and service centers to ensure USCIS and E-Verify regulation.
  • Enhanced employee retention and workplace culture by organizing various events, boosting EAP participation, facilitating employee recognition programs, and promoting an inclusive environment.
  • Contributed to the development of long-term HR strategies, streamlining HR policies, and the standardization of HR processes across our corporate offices, manufacturing plants, and service centers.
  • Supported management in addressing employee concerns, facilitating open communication channels and fostering a positive work environment.
  • Handled sensitive information, while maintaining personnel records and data to establish accuracy and compliance.
  • Recruited for mid to executive level roles across engineering, IT, finance, accounting, and IT.
  • Conducted onboarding, initiated background checks, and completed I-9's for all corporate level new hires.
  • Delegator for unemployment cases in Equifax, practitioner of benefits related items, and approver of timecards for payroll using UKG.

Recruiter

Grubhub
08.2021 - 06.2023
  • Full-cycle recruiter for high volume sales roles, responsible for closing 10+ hires per month.
  • Owned additional requisitions ranging from mid to director level across marketing, finance, account management, logistics and legal.
  • Partnered with hiring managers and internal HR teams to understand job requirements, team needs, salary ranges, and onboarding processes, while facilitating and coordinating the interview process.
  • Developed strategies to improve the hiring process with the sales team to increase funnel conversion rates for candidate pipelines and ensure quality hiring.
  • Maintained applicant tracking via iCIMS, Workday, LinkedIn Recruiter, and Indeed while building strong relationships with internal and external candidates to ensure an excellent hiring experience.

Recruiter

LaSalle Network
10.2019 - 08.2021
  • Managed 5-10 open requisitions for mid to director level roles across finance, sales, accounting, marketing, supply chain, and human resources.
  • Collaborated with internal and external stakeholders to fulfill hiring needs, developing strategies to identify and attract passive candidates.
  • Utilized Boolean searches, LinkedIn and CareerBuilder to source 50-100 qualified candidates a week and conduct 10-20 initial screens.
  • Exceeded daily metrics of 70+ cold calls, 2+ schedules, and 20+ InMail messages sent to passive candidates.

Logistics Account Executive

Total Quality Logistics
07.2018 - 08.2019
  • Performed 500 outreaches a week to prospects and dispatchers to establish new revenue and exceed weekly sales quotas.
  • Built and maintained a book of business by prospecting, cold calling, negotiating, and networking through use of an internal CRM software.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Public Relations

Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI
04.2017

Skills

  • Workday
  • iCIMS
  • Oracle
  • DISA
  • E-Verify
  • Equifax
  • Canva
  • UKG
  • UltiPro
  • Bullhorn ATS
  • LinkedIn Recruiter
  • Sharepoint
  • Google Suite/MS Office
  • Boolean Searches

Timeline

Corporate Human Resources Associate

Great Dane
08.2023 - Current

Recruiter

Grubhub
08.2021 - 06.2023

Recruiter

LaSalle Network
10.2019 - 08.2021

Logistics Account Executive

Total Quality Logistics
07.2018 - 08.2019

Bachelor of Arts - Public Relations

Western Michigan University
Emma Thorbjornsen