Joni Jensen
Human Resources
Kearney,Nebraska
Summary
Dynamic Talent Manager offering 20-year progressive career across diverse industries. Proven history of designing and implementing recruitment, training and conflict-resolution initiatives for companies. Insightful and creative with strengths in partnering with cross-functional business executives to strategize personnel-management solutions. Known for identifying improvement opportunities and spearheading projects to drive effectiveness.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Staffing Manager, BTS-D&TT
IBM
04.2019 - 06.2022
- Serve as a single point of contact for the Operating Unit
- Using in-depth practitioner and skill knowledge, taking career development into account
- Manage staffing escalations with accounts and/or Service Lines
- Create innovative programs that positively and strategically impact business objectives
- Clearly understand client requirements to effectively satisfy Business needs by providing value added service
- Supports On-boarding of New Hires, forecast activities and utilization driven activities
- Provide solutions that deliver value in any market condition.
Talent Acquisition Partner
IBM
02.2016 - 03.2019
- Execute multi-faceted sourcing strategies to ensure a diverse, qualified candidate pool for management consideration
- Develop collaborative relationships with the IBM Hiring Management and Human Resources team
- Provide advice and counsel on effective job descriptions
- Manage candidate flow within the Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)
- Review candidate submissions, screen for qualifications and present qualified candidates to Hiring Management
- Provide consultation to candidates and hiring managers to provide sound advice and counsel
- Ability to quickly assimilate technical information and build solutions to meet business needs.
Team Lead, U.S. Human Resources
Savanna Energy Services Corp.
03.2014 - 11.2015
- Acts as first contact and provides advice for employees and management on HR related matters including: company policies and procedures, employment legislation, performance management, and employee relations
- Responsible for the day to day tactical Human Resources delivery to the business
- Contributes to the ongoing improvement of HR practices at Savanna
- Serves as the initial point of contact for terminations and guidance of the progressive discipline process
- Acts as an advisor with respect to employee relations
- Suggest and implement employee engagement and retention initiatives in the US
- Propose and update company policy and procedures related to changes in legislation and best practices
- Identify immediate and long range training needs through needs assessments and consultations
- Assist and participate in the delivery of workshops, seminars, lunch and learns, etc
- Advise on staff development and assist employees with individual career goals and training needs
- Provide support to the Manager, HR, Canada or VP of HR on requested matters
- Prepare reports, stats and forms as requested by Manager, HR, Canada or VP of HR
- Responsible for full cycle recruiting efforts for open positions, including approvals, offer letters and background checks
- Complete onboarding activities with new employees (new hire paperwork, orientation and pre-employment testing)
- Assisting managers and employees with performance management processes.
Senior Corporate Recruiter
Insperity (formerly Administaff)
07.2012 - 03.2014
- Consulted with Insperity Corporate Managers to set clear process expectations, determine personnel needs, job specifications, duties, qualifications and skills in order to prepare and implement recruiting efforts
- Consistently top performer in the department based on number of hires per month/quarter/year as well as customer service scores from Insperity Corporate Managers
- Nominated for employee of the month multiple times
- Partnered with Insperity Corporate Managers to recruit for nationwide positions in specialized fields such as Human Resources, Legal, Management, Midmarket, Account Executives and Marketing
- Gained expert knowledge of various resume search engines and job boards such as Monster, CareerBuilder, Dice, Indeed, Google, Bing, Yahoo and LinkedIn
- Use of direct sourcing, industry networking, internet, resume database, employee referrals and appropriate trade and industry organizations to create talent pools and build pipelines for future openings
- Prepared and placed advertising for corporate positions including establishment of media goals, objectives and strategies for ad campaign and monitoring of advertising costs
- Maintain corporate job advertisements in local media, job boards, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Dice, CareerBuilder, Monster, Craigslist and various other sites
- Trained and mentored new and existing employees.
Recruiting Consultant
Insperity (formerly Administaff)
01.2007 - 07.2012
- Conducted client prospect meetings to market recruiting services
- Met with team of Insperity recruiters to discuss and lay out the best plan for servicing a new client
- Then would lead onsite new client meetings to review recruiting needs
- Established and implemented recruiting strategies, processes and best practices
- Acted as a liaison between the recruiting department and service teams assigned to each client
- Worked closely with the recruiting team to manage status of positions, weekly meetings, issue resolution and reporting
- Utilize our applicant tracking system to be able to provide weekly reports to clients on candidate activity such as number of candidates applied for each position, number of interviews conducted for each position, background check status and overall hiring status for each position
- Able to customize reports to accommodate the client need
- Responsible for background check discrepancies and exception review.
Senior Recruiting & Outplacement Specialist
Insperity (formerly Administaff)
06.2006 - 12.2006
- Full cycle recruiting for Insperity clients
- Ranging from clients with 10 employees up to 1,500 employees
- Consulted with Insperity clients to set clear process expectations, determine personnel needs, job specifications, duties, qualifications and skills in order to prepare and implement recruiting efforts
- Performed pre-employment activities including: generation and screening of resumes, conduct phone and/or in person interviews, conduct reference checks to obtain skill, education and salary requirements, coordinate and schedule skill testing and personal interviews.
Education
Political Science -
Arizona State University
Skills
- Talent Management
- Contract Negotiation
- Salary and Benefits Negotiations
- Work Authorizations
Professional Competencies
- Develop market presence within potential labor pool to attract high quality candidates that align with our values, provide necessary skills and expertise, and achieve strategic goals.
- Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and decision-making skills
- Proactive and independent with the ability to take initiative.
- Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines
Timeline
Senior Staffing Manager, BTS-D&TT
IBM
04.2019 - 06.2022
Talent Acquisition Partner
IBM
02.2016 - 03.2019
Team Lead, U.S. Human Resources
Savanna Energy Services Corp.
03.2014 - 11.2015
Senior Corporate Recruiter
Insperity (formerly Administaff)
07.2012 - 03.2014
Recruiting Consultant
Insperity (formerly Administaff)
01.2007 - 07.2012
Senior Recruiting & Outplacement Specialist
Insperity (formerly Administaff)
06.2006 - 12.2006
Political Science -
Arizona State University