Human Resources: and Offshore, Specialist and Generalist

Human Resources:
On and Offshore, Specialist and Generalist Roles

Illinois, USA Expert is a hands‑on strategic and tactical Human Resources Professional with solid consultative skills in Talent Acquisition. He also posseses strong business partner skills to collaborate with leadership in achieving business objectives, developing strategies, implementing solutions, and managing change. He has extensive experience serving as a culture champion, balancing the interest of the business and employees through positive employee relations.

Skills include:

• Employee Relations
• Expatriate Hiring
• Change Management
• Talent Management
• Policy implementation
• Relocation
• Benefits Design & Administration
• Global HR
• Coaching
• Performance Management
• Succession Planning
• Mediation
• Learning and Development
• Diversity
• Boolean Search
• Organizational Development
• HRIS
• Onboarding
• Compliance
• Organizational Development
• Talent Acquisition
• Immigration
• Succession Planning
• Post Acquisition Integration Management
• Systems Implementation
• Background & Reference Checking

1987 Bachelor of Arts Mass Communications and Public Relations Morehouse College

2021 to Present Undisclosed Recruiter Human Resources

Expert is partner, coach, and counsel. In this capacity, he is responsible for hiring managers to successfully acquire the needed talent.

Expert develops and executes outreach strategies to improve access to and engagement of passive and diverse talent. He builds and cultivates relationships with candidates and hiring managers to facilitate successful hiring outcomes. He plans and executes candidate selection processes, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and conducting reference checks.

Expert also identifies and utilizes alternative sourcing methods -- Boolean Search strings, X-rays, peel backs, and other resources -- for various niche roles. He reviews and provides feedback to hiring managers on developing appealing job descriptions and postings.

2010 to Present Undisclosed Consultant (Pro Bono)

As an independent consultant, Expert performs résumé reviews, practices interviewing, and counsels job seekers in person, by phone, and via video.

Expert provides coaching and counsel to individuals on various human resources issues, including performance management, development, motivation, and successful onboarding. He presents sessions on Strategic Job Searching and Networking using Boolean Search to leverage publicly available Internet resources to identify professional opportunities and contacts.

He conducts training on Boolean Search for job seekers and networkers to various groups. He coaches individuals on career development and related subject matter areas. He also serves as stand-in for the Chicagoland Human Resources Transition Group host as needed.

2018 to 2020 HCM Partners Contract Recruiting Consultant

Expert managed full lifecycle recruiting for exempt and non-exempt corporate and administrative roles. These capacities included: defined job requirements, advertising and sourcing, screening candidates, and negotiating and presenting offers and supporting remote onboarding via iCIMS.

Among other responsibilities, Expert:

• Sourced and developed talent pipelines across a diverse set of disciplines across multiple markets
• Developed creative solutions to source, recruit, and hire top active and passive talent including use of social media, networking, community contacts, staffing firms, college recruiting programs, advertising, and online job services
• Utilized Talent Acquisition metrics to drive efficiencies and process improvements
• Promoted company brand across all recruiting initiatives
• Build a positive candidate experience from first contact through final candidate disposition
• Cultivated relationships with managers by understanding business objectives and talent needs
• Coached and counseled hiring managers on all recruitment and interviewing processes
• Identified and communicated opportunities for recruiting process improvements
• Supported remote new hire onboarding via iCIMS

2016 to 2016 HHG Advisory Servces Human Resources Director Human Resources

Expert managed full employee lifecycle activities to develop, empower, coach and counsel managers and staff. He supported the company philosophy concerning talent, employee relations, supervision, and disciplinary action.

Expert partnered with managers to facilitate open communications to respond and resolve workplace grievances. He performed multi-national passive candidate sourcing to identify and engage offshore talent. He also conducted open house and career fair events to expedite local candidate identification and selection.

2014 to 2016 Portfolio of Civil Services Senior Human Resources Executive Human Resources

Expert provided support, management, and strategic counsel in the development of policies and delivery of full employee lifecycle initiatives -- including talent management, employee relations, and succession planning.

He dispensed…