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Tia Freeman

Mebane,NC

Summary

Dedicated Talent Acquisition Specialist successful at managing full recruitment life cycle. Develops and implements customized strategies to meet specific position requirements and source qualified candidates. Offering 15 years of recruitment strategy development, with expertise in college, professional, executive, & direct source recruiting methods for a wide range of exempt and non-exempt disciplines.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Planned Parenthood
04.2023 - Current
  • Manage full cycle recruitment to include employees’ onboarding
  • Timely recruiting, screening, interviewing, and onboarding of applicants for positions in the organization
  • Use behavioral-based interview techniques to assess candidate competency and eliminate unqualified candidates from the hiring process as early as possible
  • Communicate the hiring process to candidates and provide timely status updates
  • Develop strategic outreach plans and processes to ensure a diverse candidate pool, to include attending career fairs and professional events to develop relationships
  • Work closely with the HR team and hiring managers to understand staffing needs and develop proactive, innovative sourcing/recruitment strategies to attract and retain top talent
  • Prioritize and successfully collaborate with hiring managers for optimal responsiveness and timeliness
  • Perform reference and background checks, verification of licensure, and/or certification per PPGNHAIK policy
  • Successfully sourced and hired Medical Assistant, Floating MA’s and RN’s, Phlebotomist, Registered Nurses and Per Diem Physicians.

Senior Corporate Recruiter - Contract

Cherry Bekeart
10.2022 - 04.2023
  • Strategize with client’s hiring managers and hiring teams during kick-off meetings, to calibrate and align and to understand each position’s expectations and requirements
  • Developed Talent Management Strategies to enhance or improve Hiring, Retention, Performance and Development
  • Track key recruiting KPIs, cost per hire, time to fill and source of hire to gage what’s working
  • Understand and recruit for various in demand positions such as: Tax Specialist, International Tax Accountant, Tax Senior, Administrative Lead, Tax Partners and Client Service Coordinators
  • Source active and passive candidates via Employee Referrals, LinkedIn, Indeed, Dice, GitHub, Twitter and Zip Recruiter
  • (Average Time-to-Fill Ratio: 33 Days.)- (Average Monthly Hires: 7)
  • Coordinate availability and schedule interviews between candidates and hiring managers using WORKDAY ATS System
  • Consistently follow up with candidates to provide interview feedback and/or any other status updates
  • Prepare candidates for telephone, video & in-person interviews to ultimately present, negotiate and execute offers
  • Implement weekly meetings with Hiring Managers and Jr
  • Recruiters to track progress, in addition to mentoring, training and developing junior recruiters.

Senior Lead Regional Recruiter

Bridgestone via PeopleScout Inc.
05.2021 - 03.2022
  • Heavy Client Services responsibilities include managing daily information/candidate data tracking, identifying potential areas of improvement, providing information to Bridgestone as needed, resolving problems, participating in meetings, and maintaining a high level of candidate retention and satisfaction
  • Tasked with leading and implementing and resolving staffing and recruiting processes issues with the team
  • Also providing strategies, and solutions to roadblocks and other obstacles hindering the recruiting process such as: Non-responsive Hiring Managers and/or candidates, Requisition Management, Time Management and Performance issues
  • In addition to Lead Recruiter responsibilities, also carried a full desk which entailed Sourcing, Recruiting, Screening, Interviewing and assessing a high volume amount of candidates for exempt and non-exempt roles
  • Always exceeding the client's needs and expectations
  • Also maintained accurate candidate records and ensure Workday ATS is accurate, proactively sought new avenues to attract candidates, such as meetups, joining new associations and groups, reaching out to local labor boards for nonexempt skilled labor and participating in virtual and on-site career fairs
  • Source active and passive candidates via Employee Referrals, LinkedIn, Indeed, Dice, GitHub, Twitter and Zip Recruiter
  • (Average Time-to-Fill Ratio: 18 Days.)- (Average Monthly Hires: 21)

Sr. Talent Acquisition Business Partner

American Airlines Federal Credit Union via PeopleScout Inc.
04.2016 - 05.2021
  • Partnered with hiring managers to build effective candidate recruiting, sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage Credit Union Client expectations
  • Wrote, managed and posted job descriptions to company website and internet job boards to attract top talent
  • Sourced candidates via internal database, employee referrals, Boolean google searches, LinkedIn, twitter, cold calling, networking, and other creative sourcing activity techniques to generate and accommodate high candidates/requisition demand
  • Sourced and Recruited for; Accountants, Member Services-Branch Operations-Account Quality Assurance, Business Systems Analyst, Collection Specialist, Mortgage Loan Officers, Sr
  • Analyst-Data Analytics, .IT Help Desk, Network Engineers and Systems Engineers
  • Screened and reviewed applications/resumes to properly move candidates through the hiring process using Taleo, from interview, evaluation, recommend for hire to extend offers and schedule orientations
  • Determined, evaluated and negotiated appropriate salaries using market and competitive data information
  • Proactively developed a pipeline of talent for future needs and stayed current on recruitment trends by building and maintaining a network of contacts in the Financial Industry
  • Coordinated and participated in American Airlines Credit Union Hiring Events as needed.

Senior Staffing Manager

Bank of America
08.2014 - 03.2016
  • Consistently built a diverse pipeline of potential candidates by proactively networking through social media and other organizations
  • Recruit, review and interview candidates; manage the recruitment process through offer acceptance
  • Establish and maintain ownership of assigned positions; continually monitor and analyze positions and provide alternative solutions for locating talent, if needed
  • Work directly with Talent Acquisition Director to advise on and influence talent attraction and selection
  • Recruited for the following positions: Client Services Associates, Loan Officers, Relationship Bankers, Operations Analysts and Merchant Services Analysts
  • Actively identify candidates using various recruitment techniques, strategies, web-based tools (LinkedIn, CareerBuilder, Monster etc.), networking, outside events and cold calling
  • Developed deeper more in-depth sourcing strategies for hard to fill requisitions that included email blasts on jobs boards (Indeed, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter) tapping internal candidates and direct sourcing from competitors
  • Candidates targeted were usually local or non-local or CONUS candidates depending on requirements
  • Provide regular progress updates; drive recruitment progression and solicit feedback on candidates.

Sr. Corporate Recruiter

AT&T
11.2010 - 07.2014
  • Recruitment planning and procedures for researching the best possible recruiting solutions and procedure to hire attract and retain the best and most talented candidates
  • Utilization included Direct Sourcing; Internet/in house database research, clubs, associations and referral incentive programs for the firm and its clients for passive active candidates
  • Primarily recruited for Retail Sales, Marketing/Public Relations and Call Center and Accounting and Finance positions; roles recruited for include Sales Consultants, Retail Store Managers, Product Marketing Managers, Customer Service Reps, Financial Analysts and Tech Support
  • Maintained the complete recruitment life cycle: sourcing, initial contact, screening, identifying, testing and hiring of all levels of professionals
  • Performed a combination of behavioral and situational based interviews to penetrate candidates experience
  • Ensured recruiting and hiring practices were compliant with all applicable local, state and federal employment laws
  • Coordinate with candidates to schedule phone interviews, onsite interviews, and book travel, participate in recruiting status meetings to evaluate current needs and go over previous weeks performances and challenges.

Recruiting Coordinator

ExxonMobil
06.2009 - 10.2010
  • Provide support for members of our dynamic Recruiting team to include: support with offer letters/rejection letters, job interviews, job postings, resume review and screening, candidate and hiring reports
  • Conduct reference checks of candidates prior to offer extension
  • Workforce planning analysis with Hiring Managers to get a firm understanding of current and future needs, assisting with job /candidate requests, and formatting resumes for submittal to managers
  • Work collaboratively with recruiting team to assist with any and all needs pertaining to candidate hiring
  • Manage job board accounts (Monster, CareerBuilder) and develop/maintain relationships with approved staffing vendors and acted as the sole point of contact for candidate submittal, progression and decisions
  • Organize planned and surge recruiting events (i.e
  • Career fairs, open houses, college recruiting events) and related logistics
  • Develop tracking and metrics reports to improve and simplify data gathered from recruiters to be presented to the leadership.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Accounting

Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL

Skills

  • Effective Sourcing skills
  • Behavioral Interviewing skills
  • Relationship Building
  • Training and Development
  • Bank of America Certified Recruiter
  • Certified Professional Recruiter
  • Salary negations Offer Management, Onboarding and Scheduling
  • Performance Management
  • Employee Timesheet Processing
  • Applicant Tracking Systems
  • Internal Mobility
  • Social Media Platforms

Education Certifications

Bachelors of Arts (Accounting) – Florida Atlantic University

Timeline

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Planned Parenthood
04.2023 - Current

Senior Corporate Recruiter - Contract

Cherry Bekeart
10.2022 - 04.2023

Senior Lead Regional Recruiter

Bridgestone via PeopleScout Inc.
05.2021 - 03.2022

Sr. Talent Acquisition Business Partner

American Airlines Federal Credit Union via PeopleScout Inc.
04.2016 - 05.2021

Senior Staffing Manager

Bank of America
08.2014 - 03.2016

Sr. Corporate Recruiter

AT&T
11.2010 - 07.2014

Recruiting Coordinator

ExxonMobil
06.2009 - 10.2010

Bachelor of Arts - Accounting

Florida Atlantic University

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