Nicole Smith
Talent Acquisition and Management Professional
Northville,MI
Summary
Results oriented Human Resources, Talent Management and Acquisition professional with 15+ years of experience in full life cycle recruiting, employee relations, leadership and employee development. Experienced Talent Acquisition Manager devises strategy and recruitment processes to execute sourcing and recruiting campaigns. Finds and screens candidates and develops corporate policy for talent bench-marking, talent assessment and interviewing policies. Develops and leads strategic initiatives to recruit and select high caliber, professional and diverse workforce that identifies with business culture.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Talent Acquisition Manager
Mastronardi Produce
12.2019 - Current
- Oversight of a team of 10 Talent Acquisition Specialists who sit Nationwide
- Work a full-life cycle recruitment desk supporting Corporate and Executive openings
- Partnering with business leaders to sustain a culture that works for employees
- Develop and recommend various human resource plans and procedures
- Partner with our Sr Compensation Analyst on recommended compensation bands, market trends, team recommendations and build out of new job titles and descriptions
- Providing Manager development; coaching managers, leading monthly meetings, and identifying growth potential
- Working with leaders and employees on career pathing; designing and managing employee training, helping with performance reviews
- Provide guidance and input on business unit restructures, workforce planning and succession planning
- Reduction in usage of third-party agencies to fill internal positions; Reduced third party spend by Over 2 million dollars
- Provide monthly and weekly reporting to leadership; partnership with HRIS team on creating and developing reports in UKG
- Partner with Talent Management on Professional Development Plans and identifying high potentials within the organization to promote internal growth from within
- Develop and grow Mastronardi’s internship program with the emphasis on making our intern recruiting strategy a part of our overall organizational recruiting strategy.
Talent Management & Acquisition Manager
Atwell, LLC
04.2018 - 11.2019
- Worked full life-cycle recruitment desk and had proven success filling positions across the country
- Serve as a partner to the business, HR Team and Talent Acquisition Team providing leader consultation
- Collaborate with team members and internal clients to deliver best in class talent management solutions
- Implement and oversee the company's on-boarding process
- Implemented companywide leadership training; areas of focus Communication, People Excellence, Talent Acquisition & Performance Management
- Structured and doubled the size of the company's intern program nationwide
- Developed an intern specific training program
- Built a road map for identifying high potential employees for leadership opportunities and implementing a training program for these employees
- Assisted with the company's workforce planning and hiring initiatives
- Conducting skills gap analysis
- Developed evaluation strategies to assess the ROI on talent related initiatives.
Recruiting Manager
BEDROCK DETROIT
03.2016 - 04.2018
- Created and developed Bedrock's Recruiting team from scratch
- Developed a leadership interview training course
- Partnered with our HRG business partners to support business growth; workforce planning
- Prepared and led recruitment strategy discussions by creating sourcing plans, providing market intelligence, role value proposition, reviewing recruitment process timeline, etc
- Developed position titles and descriptions according to business needs
- Worked directly with our Compensation Manager on market trends
- Developed Bedrock's intern program and implemented a University Relations program
- Worked directly with the marketing team on implementing Bedrock's branding strategy
- Run weekly meetings to review recruitment metrics and requisition progress
- Within in my two years at Bedrock my team and I hired over 400 new team members; taking the company from 183 team members to 522 employees.
Recruitment Relationship Manager
Allegis Global Solutions
02.2013 - 02.2016
- Managed multiple accounts including Schlumberger and CDW
- Responsible for the strategic recruitment of bilingual accounting professional for the world's leading oil field service provider, Schlaumberger
- Assisted with the implantation, testing and training of our ATS system Avature
- Sourced passive candidates for accounting roles with very specific qualifications including the ability to travel out of country and bilingual competencies in Spanish or Portuguese
- Exceeded Recruitment expectations and goals
- Trained and mentored other team members on recruiting, sourcing and understanding the use of our recruiting technology and tools
- Responsible for managing the overall relationship with CDW and serve as a liaison driving the recruitment processes and the full life cycle management of open positions including developing sourcing strategies and process improvement
- Managed a team of 10 Recruiters and 5 Recruitment Coordinators for CDW
- Provide consultative guidance on process improvement and effective staffing/hiring techniques to CDW Recruiters and HR business partners
- Create and implement Requisition/Candidate tracking reports to be utilized by our Operations Managers and CDW partners during weekly status meetings
- Advise CDW Managers of recruitment issues and process improvement recommendations
- Partner with the CDW partners on all related recruiting issues and ensure issues are escalated and resolved appropriately and in a timely manner
- Managed Recruiter performance with weekly MS Excel reporting and dashboard reporting out of Taleo provided by our Business Analytics team
- Involved with the implementation of the work flow process and reporting of requisition work load.
Senior Recruiter / Team Lead
TALASCEND
01.2011 - 01.2013
- Supported our RPO client, Alstom Power
- Mentored and led a team of 3 Recruiters
- Worked directly with hiring managers staffing their respective groups Solar, Gas, HRSG, Wind and Rail as well as staffing the Human Resource team
- Provided reporting and metrics to our Director and Alstom's HR Director
- Responsible for full cycle recruitment of alternative energy engineers and technical staff for our RPO nationwide
- Positions also included the Director of Talent Acquisitions, Director of Human Resources and the VP of Financial Services of which had been open a year and was staffed by myself within 2 months
- Before Alstom, supported Nissan, Whirlpool and GM MSP programs.
Human Resource Coordinator / Recruiter
GHAFARI ASSOCIATES
01.2008 - 01.2011
- GHAFARI is a leading architecture, engineering, consulting and construction firm with offices in North America, South America, India and the Middle East
- Worked directly with department managers to ensure we are properly staffed for upcoming projects throughout the world
- Recruited for Architecture, Engineering, Technical and Sr Management Openings including the Director of Architecture and the Director of Marketing
- Provide support for Six Sigma and Quality initiatives
- Obtained necessary immigration approval for our employees traveling overseas and tracked engineering/architectural licenses and registrations.
Education
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - PsychologyBiology
Oakland University
Rochester Hills, MISkills
- Recruitment strategy design and implementation
- People leadership management
- Workforce planning
- Interviewing expert & trainer
- Talent management and staffing
- Goal management
- Performance management
- Employee retention
- Talent management
- Contract Negotiation
- Candidate tracking
- Applicant Tracking Systems
- Salary and benefits negotiations
- Data-driven decision-making
- Compensation analysis
- Global recruitment
- Employee Development
Work Availability
monday
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thursday
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saturday
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morning
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Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeWork Location
RemoteHybridImportant To Me
Company CultureWork-life balance401k matchQuote
"Don't wish for it, work for it."
Accomplishments
- Supervised a team of 12 staff members across the US.
- Reduced third party fees by effectively building an internal Recruitment team.
- Collaborated with team of leaders in the development of a training program.
Timeline
Talent Acquisition Manager
Mastronardi Produce
12.2019 - Current
Talent Management & Acquisition Manager
Atwell, LLC
04.2018 - 11.2019
Recruiting Manager
BEDROCK DETROIT
03.2016 - 04.2018
Recruitment Relationship Manager
Allegis Global Solutions
02.2013 - 02.2016
Senior Recruiter / Team Lead
TALASCEND
01.2011 - 01.2013
Human Resource Coordinator / Recruiter
GHAFARI ASSOCIATES
01.2008 - 01.2011
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - PsychologyBiology
Oakland University
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