Talent Director

Talent Director — Apex Enterprise Partners

Chicago, IL | January 2024 – Present

• Directed a team of 8 recruiters and human resource specialists to hire 120 salaried employees across 4 regional offices, exceeding annual corporate hiring targets by 14% while using Workday.
• Designed a structured candidate onboarding curriculum that boosted early employee engagement metrics by 22% and reduced first-year turnover from 15% to 6% across all departments.
• Managed a recruitment advertising budget of $150,000, renegotiating contracts with job boards and LinkedIn Recruiter to cut overall cost-per-hire metrics by 18% over a 12-month period.
• Optimized the recruitment database and applicant tracking workflows in Greenhouse, reducing candidate screening times by 32% and improving candidate satisfaction ratings to 95%.

Senior Recruiter — Vertex Talent Solutions

Evanston, IL | August 2020 – December 2023

• Managed full-lifecycle recruiting for 45 active job openings simultaneously, reducing average time-to-fill from 45 days to 30 days while maintaining quality-of-hire metrics.
• Onboarded and coached 6 junior recruiters on advanced sourcing techniques, improving their individual outreach response rates by 28% and decreasing new hire ramp-up times by 15 days.
• Audited talent acquisition database records and pipeline metrics weekly, resolving candidate tracking anomalies and increasing data accuracy from 82% to 98% in Salesforce CRM.
• Spearheaded a localized diversity recruiting campaign that attracted 350 applicants, resulting in 40 hires and increasing department representation by 16% over 18 months.

Talent Acquisition, Workforce Planning, Talent Management, Employee Retention, Onboarding Programs, Candidate Sourcing, Interviewing, Budget Management, Vendor Negotiation, Workday, Greenhouse, ADP Workforce Now, LinkedIn Recruiter, Salesforce CRM, Microsoft Excel, Team Leadership, Communication

Global ATS Integration and Database Clean-up

Role: Talent Acquisition Lead

Tools: Greenhouse, Workday, Excel, Slack

Led the 4-month transition of candidate databases to Greenhouse, importing 15,000 resumes and improving candidate pipeline visibility by 42%.

Onboarding Experience Standardization Initiative

Role: Talent Director / Project Lead

Tools: Workday, Canva, Google Sheets, Zoom

Redesigned the new hire training curriculum for 8 departments, reducing average onboarding ramp-up times by 10 days and improving retention by 18%.

• Professional in Human Resources (PHR) (2021)
• SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP) (2022)
• Greenhouse Software Certification (2023)

• Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Conversational)
• Volunteer Work: Career mentor for local non-profit employment services (2022–present)
• Availability: 2 weeks notice