JENNIFER TATE
Salt Lake City,UT
Summary
Talent Acquisition leader with 25+ years of experience leading enterprise recruiting strategies, recruiting operations, ATS optimization, employer branding, and workforce planning across higher education, healthcare, call centers, financial services, and aviation. Proven success partnering with executive leadership to build scalable hiring programs, reduce recruiting costs by more than $300K, decrease time-to-fill by nearly 50%, implement recruiting technology, and develop high-performing recruiting teams. Recognized for combining data-driven decision making with an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience.
Overview
1
1
Certification
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager of Talent Acquisition
Brigham Young University
08.2024 - Current
- Led university-wide talent acquisition initiatives for over 5,400 staff positions.
- Partnered with senior leaders and HR business partners to create workforce and recruiting strategies.
- Implemented digital interviewing platform, saving approximately $45,000 annually while enhancing candidate experience.
- Developed recruiting marketing and employer branding strategies across LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and other digital channels.
- Mentored recruiters and hiring managers on Workday recruiting best practices and candidate experience.
- Grew social media presence from zero to 518 Facebook followers and over 2,450 Instagram followers in one year.
- Established scalable recruiting processes along with campus-wide recruiter training.
Regional Recruitment Manager
Global Medical Response
11.2017 - 08.2024
- Directed nationwide fixed-wing pilot recruitment amid industry-wide talent shortage.
- Increased staffing levels from 50% to 105% through strategic initiatives.
- Reduced time-to-fill positions from 45 to 23 days, enhancing hiring efficiency.
- Eliminated over $300,000 in agency spending by implementing an in-house recruiting model.
- Served as ICIMS subject matter expert for 13 operating companies, ensuring best practices.
- Developed executive recruiting reports and workforce analytics for senior leadership.
- Designed training programs for manager interviewing and compliance processes.
Manager of Talent Acquisition
Myriad Genetics
06.2016 - 11.2017
- Directed corporate recruiting efforts for technical and corporate functions.
- Managed recruiters, optimizing ATS, employer branding, and university recruitment strategies.
- Collaborated with executives on workforce planning and hiring approaches.
- Achieved a reduction in staffing agency expenses from $380k to $170k.
- Decreased ATS-to-HRIS feed errors from 90% to 1%.
- Led recruiting integration process for newly acquired company.
Manager of Talent Acquisition & Corporate Recruiting
Lexington Law / Progexion
02.2011 - 06.2016
- Scaled workforce from 820 to over 3,000 employees during rapid organizational growth.
- Reduced call center attrition from 110% to 33% through targeted recruitment strategies.
- Implemented enterprise background screening solution to enhance hiring process efficiency.
- Developed interviewer training programs and recruiting analytics for improved candidate evaluation.
- Collaborated with operations, IT, marketing, finance, and executive leadership to align recruitment efforts.
- Led a high-performing recruiting team to support organizational expansion objectives.
- Established metrics-driven approaches to measure recruitment effectiveness and optimize processes.
HR Generalist / Business Partner
URS
04.2009 - 02.2011
- Supported HR operations for 1,000+ employee government contractor.
- Managed recruiting, employee relations, HRIS, benefits, compliance, and reporting.
Education
Bachelor of Science -
Brigham Young University
Skills
- Talent acquisition strategy
- Recruiting operations
- Executive and professional recruiting
- Workforce planning
- Employer branding
- Recruitment marketing
- ATS administration (Workday, iCIMS)
- AI-enabled recruiting
- Recruiting analytics
- HR business partnership
- Interview training
- Change management
- Team leadership
- Workday recruiting
- iCIMS proficiency
- Spark Hire expertise
- LinkedIn Recruiter proficiency
- AI recruiting tools knowledge
- Microsoft Office proficiency
- Social media recruiting
Certification
- Human Resource Management Certificate – Utah State University
- PHR Preparation Coursework – Salt Lake Community College
Accomplishments
- Employee of the Year, Guardian Flight/Global Medical Response
- Featured in Influential Women in Leadership publication
Timeline
Manager of Talent Acquisition
Brigham Young University
08.2024 - Current
Regional Recruitment Manager
Global Medical Response
11.2017 - 08.2024
Manager of Talent Acquisition
Myriad Genetics
06.2016 - 11.2017
Manager of Talent Acquisition & Corporate Recruiting
Lexington Law / Progexion
02.2011 - 06.2016
HR Generalist / Business Partner
URS
04.2009 - 02.2011
Bachelor of Science -
Brigham Young University