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Heather Nigliazzo
Arlington Heights,IL
Summary
Hardworking Senior Recruiter offering 15+ years of experience in Financial and CPG industry. Adept at sourcing, screening and sorting candidates for relevant openings. Knowledgeable about assessment, interviewing and onboarding processes. With an additional 4 years of Talent Acquisition management experience.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Recruiter, Beer Operations
Constellation Brands Inc
12.2021 - 07.2025
- Collaborated with hiring managers to develop/refine job descriptions, interview questions, and ensure alignment with organizational needs and market trends.
- Partner with cross-function teams, such as HR and legal, to ensure a smooth and compliant hiring process.
- Manage any escalations, challenges, and roadblocks to the TA Strategy while informing the TA manager of progress/updates
- Lead meetings with the HR Business Partners and TA Manager – providing updates on current requisitions
- Managed full-cycle recruitment process for all beer operations roles, including sourcing, screening, scheduling interviews, and managing the offer and negotiation process.
- Analyzed recruitment metrics to identify trends, driving continuous improvement in hiring practices.
- Operated and maintained applicant tracking and candidate management systems.
- Streamlined hiring workflow by implementing HireVue, cutting down time to fill from 55 days to 47 days.
- Utilize technologies such as Workday, Talent Neuron, LinkedIn Recruiter, and HireVue to enhance knowledge and understanding of hiring and market trends.
Senior Talent Acquisition Partner
Interfirst Mortgage Company
09.2021 - 11.2021
- Support Wholesale team with their recruitment needs
- Conduct full-cycle recruitment
- Maintain ATS and ensure that all compliance documentation is recorded in the system.
- Collaborated with hiring managers to define role requirements and streamline selection processes.
Talent Acquisition Consultant II
Fifth Third Bank
05.2019 - 09.2021
- Conducts intake sessions with manager to learn about position and gain all necessary information about role/responsibilities, department initiatives and competencies to successfully source.
- Conducts screening interviews with qualified candidates.
- Refers qualified applicants to respective hiring manager.
- Communicate with candidate on the benefits of working at Fifth Third Bank, both personally and professionally.
- Collaborate with managers on hiring decisions and work with HC collaboration partners on offers for candidates.
- Ensures that all necessary pre-hire testing for all candidates have been completed.
- Maintain ATS and ensure that all compliance documentation is recorded in the system. These documents include interview notes, offers documentation, and candidates are appropriately dispositioned.
- Develops and maintains positive working relationships with hiring managers and HR partners.
- Seek out and develop positive relationships with internal and external clients to maintain a pool of qualified job applicants.
- Work with outreach organizations to build up diverse and inclusive applicant pools.
- Organize, plan and execute virtual job fairs.
Retail Recruiting Manager
MB Financial Bank
06.2015 - 05.2019
- Assign, direct and guide work of retail banking recruiters. Evaluate performance and provide mentorship and development of team.
- Encourage collaboration amongst Retail Recruiters to engage candidate network and cross market candidates. Review documentation of cross market activities to ensure recruitment policies and documentation are followed.
- Develop and foster strong relationships with Retail Divisional Managers and SVP, Retail Sales Management. Regularly consult with retail managers and solve more complex problems/issues.
- Conducts first review of background and compensation of retail recruiters pre-offer packets before presentation to approval parties. Provides direction and insight accordingly.
- Participate in the enhancement and improvement of retail banking recruitment processes.
- Manage temporary staffing process, placement and reporting.
- Partner with Staffing Manager in management of summer employment process and provide direction to HR Coordinator in onboarding process.
- Develops and maintains strong working relationships with MB Financial leaders, vendors, community organizations, and other team members to create a partnership that yields success, results and credibility.
- Creates and fosters relationships with colleges, community agencies, staffing firms, and diverse professional organizations to attract and recruit diversity candidates.
- Reviews resumes and credentials and prescreens and/or interviews candidates for appropriateness of skills, experience and knowledge in relation to position requirements.
- Performs background checks in compliance with Bank policies and procedures on selected candidates and reviews results with human resources management.
- Extends offers of employment to selected candidates with approval from the Staffing Manager, Compensation and the hiring managers.
- Maintains accurate and well-organized documentation on all candidates, searches, hiring managers interactions, and other recruiting activities to ensure a safe and thorough audit if required. Complies with EEO and Affirmative Action policies and reporting requirements.
Corporate Recruiter
Restaurant.com
01.2011 - 07.2012
- Manage full-cycle recruitment for sales and corporate positions.
- Partner with hiring managers to understand their needs.
- Develop effective recruitment strategies to attract diverse top candidates for corporate headquarters and field locations.
- Create dynamic newspaper /Internet ads for vacant positions.
- Ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations to include EEO guidelines.
- Manage open requisitions, understand job specifications, and fill positions in a timely manner.
- Conduct phone screening and face-to-face interviews and contribute to the hiring decision.
- Help train new recruiters
- Actively mine on job boards and post new positions.
- Attend weekly recruiting meeting
- Conduct expense reports for Sales team
- Book hotels and meeting space for VP of Sales
Internet Specialist Recruiter
ACE Limited - Combined Insurance Company of America
07.2008 - 01.2011
- Help set up recruiting seminars and interviews for field sales agents
- Actively mine Careerbuilder.com and Monster.com
- Recruiting for Nationwide locations
- Heavy outbound cold calling campaigns
- Meet production and activity standards
- Attend regular meetings concerning goals
- Achieved the goals that are preset (Need a minimum of 30 sets per week)
- Complete required training activities and programs
- Help conduct interviews for future HR candidates
- Help train new co-workers
- Assisted in interviewing recruiting candidates for Company
- Help conduct interviews for new Internet Recruiting Specialist
- Work with an online applicant tracking system: Wonderlic Online
Intern for Human Resources and Marketing Department
Park National Bank
05.2007 - 08.2007
Education
Bachelor - University Studies: Specialties in Psychology and Sociology
Illinois State University
Normal, IllinoisSkills
- Communication Relationship Building
- Time Management
- Problem Solving
- Workday
- ModernHire (HireVue)
- AIRS Certified
- Sourcing
- Offer Negotiations
- Recruiter training and mentoring
- Onboarding process management
- Collaborative teamwork
Interests
Timeline
Senior Recruiter, Beer Operations
Constellation Brands Inc
12.2021 - 07.2025
Senior Talent Acquisition Partner
Interfirst Mortgage Company
09.2021 - 11.2021
Talent Acquisition Consultant II
Fifth Third Bank
05.2019 - 09.2021
Retail Recruiting Manager
MB Financial Bank
06.2015 - 05.2019
Corporate Recruiter
Restaurant.com
01.2011 - 07.2012
Internet Specialist Recruiter
ACE Limited - Combined Insurance Company of America
07.2008 - 01.2011
Intern for Human Resources and Marketing Department
Park National Bank
05.2007 - 08.2007
Bachelor - University Studies: Specialties in Psychology and Sociology
Illinois State University
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