Jennifer Compton
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Director of Talent Acquisition
Deer Oaks Behavioral Health
01.2023 - 01.2025
- Company Overview: National Company responsible for leading team recruitment and retention of physicians, psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, therapists, HR team members, executive leadership team members, marketing, IT, Revenue Cycle etc.
- Integral member of senior leadership responsible for driving the organization’s executive and clinical recruiting and retention process for nursing homes in over 30 states.
- Charged with implementing directives for a $750,000 annual budget.
- Plan and execute initiatives for large behavioral health company that services over 350 nursing homes.
- Implement successful strategies to fill difficult placement positions and serve on network provider panels.
- Interface with hiring managers to create requisitions that with company culture, appeal to candidates and ensure efficient and effective hires that are retained.
- Align systems and processes with root cause analysis that drives leadership hiring and retention practices.
- Responsible for 20% revenue growth each year.
- Set and maintain company benchmarks for recruiting and retention.
- Develop training metrics for optimal ROI.
- Oversee growth of recruiters and ensure each territory growth exceeds expectations.
- Lead the marketing team to ensure brand awareness is optimized in each state.
- Provide directives on sourcing/recruiting/onboarding/retention/benefits/compensation/social media & marketing/wage analysis studies/applicant tracking and background check systems/coaching & implement solutions.
- National Company responsible for leading team recruitment and retention of physicians, psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, therapists, HR team members, executive leadership team members, marketing, IT, Revenue Cycle etc.
Director of Talent Acquisition
Villa Healthcare
01.2022 - 01.2023
- Company Overview: Nursing homes in Michigan and Ohio
- Develop strategic, regional, recruiting and retention initiatives for 17 long-term care health communities.
- Lead a team of 21 Regional Recruiters, Regional HR Directors and HR Directors.
- Coach Executive Leadership, Healthcare Administrators and Clinical Directors on company best practices.
- Guide employees through compensation, benefits, wellness and safety, HRIS, payroll, and information data departments to ensure optimal productivity.
- Restructure department programs and initiatives to meet the Villa 2.0 evolution.
- Establish and monitor metrics and tracking mechanisms to measure results and cost effectiveness.
- Determine wages based on wage analysis for each location.
- Increase retention based on employee needs and employer parameters.
- Completed agency elimination goals for most buildings.
- Join forces with leadership to create marketing campaigns for social media platforms/employment branding.
- Examine recruitment metrics and determine effectiveness and efficiency.
- Take part in networking events to build relationships and secure optimal recruitment opportunities.
- Monitor governmental policies on clinical wage incentives and union contracts.
- Nursing homes in Michigan and Ohio
Regional Talent Acquisition Specialist/ Leadership Development Team Lead
CarDon & Associates
01.2019 - 01.2022
- Company Overview: Nursing homes in Indiana and Ohio
- Developed and delivered executive leadership training focusing on coaching and mentoring others.
- Recruited to ignite company growth and catalyze immediate positive changes.
- Cultivated lasting partnerships with local hiring agencies, resulting in increased productivity.
- Pioneered transformational initiatives to dramatically decrease project gaps by successfully mentoring staff on best practices and protocol while monitoring performance quality control for corrective action planning.
- Impact driving force behind the implementation of employee engagement and development activities, presentations, and training to maximize productivity and unite the workforce.
- Directed employees across compensation, benefits, wellness and safety, HRIS, payroll, and information and data departments to ensure optimal productivity.
- Launched a new initiative to reduce process lags by quickly processing personnel actions, awards, flags, legal incidents, sponsorship, evaluations, morale, and welfare documentation.
- Strengthened traceability by developing organization systems for records, reports, and agendas.
- Liaised between employees and senior leadership to address inquiries and foster problem resolution.
- Solicited to optimize recruitment efficiency and retain top talent by implementing a new recruiting program.
- Tasked with evaluating staff performance at multiple facilities and made recommendations for training improvement.
- Supported executive decision-making by reporting on metrics and recommending actionable improvements.
- Nursing homes in Indiana and Ohio
Senior Regional Talent Acquisition Manager
Trilogy Health Services
Louisville, KY
01.2013 - 01.2019
- Company Overview: Managed team of 15 recruiters in 4 states
- Hired, interviewed, and trained recruiters, administrators/HFAs, leadership directors and line staff for 30 plus- long term care communities.
- Paved the way for the company by establishing campuses for Indiana, recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and training leaders and line staff until the campus achieved stability.
- Administered representative, building partnerships with IVY Impact/ResCare and Adult Resource Academies to facilitate Trilogy personnel advancement and increase the available pool of medical support staff and nurses within Indiana.
- Turned around culture, creating an employee-friendly and high-performing department by facilitating leadership training on policies/procedures, recruiting/interviewing, salaries, talent match, social media, advertising, and marketing.
- Established partnership with Indiana Work One to make Trilogy a preferred recruiter and enhanced an internship program to increase Trilogy’s visibility to qualified applicants.
- Architect behind the opening of new healthcare and senior living facilities in new markets. Set up the systems, processes, competitive insights, wage studies, labor to census guidance, recruitment, hiring, selection of all people, building relationships in new markets, community outreach, and training.
- Provided strategic direction and execution company-wide for talent programs, information systems, and operational processes as it relates to hiring, staffing, scheduling, time, and attendance.
- Managed team of 15 recruiters in 4 states
Program Administrator/Recruiter/Employee Relations/ Grant Writer
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
01.2007 - 01.2013
- Company Overview: Student Entrepreneurial Competition
- Recruited, trained, and mentored over 1800 students and 80 professors as their products moved from inception to completion. Soy candles and crayons were invented and patented during these competitions.
- Spearheaded and administered a $300,000 budget annually.
- Wrote grants and managed funding in excess of $2,000,000.
- Developed leadership curriculum for engineering professors and trained them.
- Mounted and executed strategies for large-scale events for Purdue football games, Future Farmers of America, Indiana State Fair.
- Functioned in an international competition with China and subcontracted with North Dakota State University to create a product innovation competition.
- Student Entrepreneurial Competition
Instructor
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
01.1997 - 01.2013
- Human resource management, supervisory skills, public speaking, interviewing, critical thinking, leadership soft skills, marketing, business, international business, rhetoric.
- Developed leadership and a soft skills course for professors to use via a grant.
- Created, marketed, and taught life-skills courses.
Timeline
Senior Director of Talent Acquisition
Deer Oaks Behavioral Health
01.2023 - 01.2025
Director of Talent Acquisition
Villa Healthcare
01.2022 - 01.2023
Regional Talent Acquisition Specialist/ Leadership Development Team Lead
CarDon & Associates
01.2019 - 01.2022
Senior Regional Talent Acquisition Manager
Trilogy Health Services
01.2013 - 01.2019
Program Administrator/Recruiter/Employee Relations/ Grant Writer
Purdue University
01.2007 - 01.2013
Instructor
Purdue University
01.1997 - 01.2013
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