NORMA FINLEY

• Transitioned from corporate work to prioritize young adolescent children and family, while overseeing the family budget, meal planning, and home maintenance.
• Successfully enhanced key educational skills for three children. I helped them improve academically by creating activities that incentivized them to read books, participate in sports, engage in personal care, and encouraged them to volunteer.
• I volunteered at various non-profit organizations to help those in need and participate in fundraising events.

Key Achievement:

• Children improved their grades from Cs to As and Bs in all subjects within two semesters due to personalized tutoring and guidance.
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• Maintain SLA’s with internal and external business partners.
• Deliver end to end talent acquisition services of all internal and external open positions including: sourcing strategies, selecting and presenting qualified talent, and job offers along with providing compensation data within the market.
• Partner with hiring leaders, senior leaders, HR business partners and candidates to lead and manage full-cycle recruitment for hires across the US for Operations, IT and Private Client.
• Consult with Hiring Managers to assess appropriate sourcing strategies.
• Manage 20-25 requisitions with time-to-fill averaging 30-45 days performing strategic searches on LinkedIn, job boards, referrals, professional associations, college & universities, and networking.
• Proactively source, identify and attract both active and passive talent pools.
• Oversee, coach and mentor Recruiting Coordinator and Sourcing Specialist remotely.
• Act as the main recruiting contact for key client groups, internal and external candidates.
• Manage business relationships with external search firms to effectively source high quality and diverse candidate pool.

• Identify and assess talent for Executive Director and above positions, manage talent through the interview process with high levels of interaction with each candidate to maintain a positive experience throughout the entire recruitment process, establish the search strategy with hiring managers, HRBPs, Compensation, at all levels to include internal search, networking, posting and partnering with executive retained search partners.
• Participate in intake meetings with hiring managers, search firms to discuss recruitment strategy.
• Source, screen and interview Executive Management candidates.
• Schedule interviews with hiring managers, feedback sessions with hiring manager and HR Partners to debrief on next steps.
• Gather final candidate compensation documentation to prepare and extend offers.
• Update weekly Executive Recruiting Activity Report and update Management on progress.

• Lead all nationwide and international recruiting efforts for U.S. Department of Defense hiring contract, supporting military and air force clients.
• Source, screen, interview, recruit, and hire scientists, engineers, and logisticians to fill exempt/non-exempt environmental, project management, and corporate roles.
• Support hiring managers by defining job requirements, writing job descriptions, and devising strategies to attract best talent.
• Led successful implementation of company’s first ATS, Taleo within 9 months of hire.
• Led project outside scope of responsibilities that dramatically improved recruitment and on-boarding.
• Introduced innovative recruiting tools, processes, and strategies, capitalizing on Internet search methods, social networking sites, job boards, career fairs, college recruiting, and employee referrals.
• Identified and recruited passive candidates for hard-to-fill positions by implementing new recruiting strategies, including subscribing to Linked-In, Monster, Military niche boards, and CareerBuilder resume databases.
• Standardized operations by drafting and instituting company’s new internal application policy for corporate employees.
• Pinpointed top talent by overhauling candidate screening questions as well as crafting behavioral and technical interviewing scripts.
• Awarded 5 Certificate of Excellence awards for key contributions and stellar job performance.

• Met fast growing company’s needs by filling executive and exempt/non-exempt positions in sales, (Territory Managers, account managers) finance, accounting, project management, clinical nursing, IT, and corporate.
• Identified candidates via traditional and new media recruitment methods.
• Sourced, recruited, and acquired, talent whose core values, competencies, and interest levels aligned with corporate objectives.
• Managed full cycle recruitment process, presenting qualified candidates to managers, coordinating logistics for new hires, and handling internal transfers and promotions.
• Improved recruitment efforts by establishing, strengthening, and preserving key relationships with hiring managers, directors, and senior vice presidents.
• Managed high volume workload of 30+ requisitions simultaneously by leveraging refined multi-tasking and organizational talents.
• Moved forward qualified candidates in the recruitment process by consulting with and debriefing both hiring managers and contenders.
• Advised managers with sound recommendations regarding salary requirements for new hires, internal promotions, and lateral movements.