Omar Mendez
Summary
Results-focused recruitment professional with significant experience in talent acquisition and workforce planning. Skilled in identifying top talent, building strong candidate pipelines, and managing end-to-end recruitment processes. Strong focus on team collaboration and adapting to changing needs, ensuring timely and effective hiring outcomes. Known for excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills, contributing to seamless integration and high performance within dynamic environments.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Select Staffing
03.2020 - 12.2024
- Help candidates apply to newly open positions with various sales teams at different companies
- Use social media to promote the business and look for new candidates to add to the talent pool
- Write job descriptions for open positions that describe the job duties and qualifications
- Conduct interviews with candidates to determine which jobs they might fit best
- Check in about candidates' statuses with the hiring managers at companies with pending applications
- Updated the company database regularly to show each candidate's application status
- Worked with a team of two other Recruiters to share resources and match candidates to the best positions
- Reached out to potential candidates over the phone and email to tell them about our services
Adecco
03.2018 - 02.2020
- Recruiting new employees
- Search for employees information
- Update employees profiles
- Distribution of health insurance information
- Check time cards / emergency check / correcting miss punches
- Process EDD forms
- Fill out employees application
- Process Background check and Drug test
- Fill out job request
- Keep manager update with candidates
HR Assistance
Central West Produce
02.2016 - 03.2018
- Recruiting new employees
- Preparing new employee files
- Onboarding new hires applications W-4 and EDD
- Health Insurances and 401k Meetings
- Filing employee information, personal leaves and employee layoff
- Maintaining Current HR files and databases
- Updating and maintaining employment status and records on Famous
- Answering employee question
- Process incoming mail
Sales Associate/ Customer Service / Assistant Manager
JCPenny
06.2013 - 01.2016
- Helped customers with any questions they may have
- Handled all cash transactions and balanced register at the end of the day
- Maintain the work area clean, and orderly
- Unload all merchandise when deliveries arrive
- Organize merchandise to get it ready to be displayed in the store
- Display in a very orderly manner all merchandise
- Responsible for opening and closing the building
- Resolved all customer complaints in a professional manner while prioritizing customer satisfaction
- Completed all point of sale opening and closing procedures, including the contents of the cash register
- Strategically scheduled team members to maintain optimal staffing levels all times
- Performed sales calls with prospective clients
- Managed workflow to exceed quality service goals
- Interview new employees and coach them
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Graphic Design
Cal Poly
San Luis Obispo, CA09.2015
Associate of Arts - Mathematical Sciences, Liberal Arts, Language
Allan Hancock College
Santa Maria, CA05.2015
Skills
- Bilingual English and Spanish
- Data entry
- Talent sourcing
- Candidate assessment
- Interviewing techniques
- Relationship building
- Applicant tracking systems (CRM, Indeed and social media)
- Job offer negotiation
- Diversity and inclusion strategies
- Time management
- Communication skills
- Collaboration with hiring managers
- Pre-employment screening
- Networking and outreach
- Job fair participation
- Employer branding
- Data-driven decision making
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Computer skills
- Customer service
Timeline
Select Staffing
03.2020 - 12.2024
Adecco
03.2018 - 02.2020
HR Assistance
Central West Produce
02.2016 - 03.2018
Sales Associate/ Customer Service / Assistant Manager
JCPenny
06.2013 - 01.2016
Associate of Arts - Mathematical Sciences, Liberal Arts, Language
Allan Hancock College
Bachelor of Arts - Graphic Design
Cal Poly
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