Oversaw daily operations, marketing, and communications of two statewide programs- LA ProStart and LRAEF Scholarship Fund- run by the trade organization, National Restaurant Association. Enhanced fundraising efforts through programmatic enhancements and execution. 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Grew the ProStart program from 48 to 65 schools and 1200 to 1750 students and tripled the number of scholarship applicants in two years.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Implemented annual review quality improvement process and analyzed data to strategically implement fund, staff, and volunteer time allocations and development of new initiatives.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Created job opportunities and internship programs with community partners and industry networks for statewide workforce development; Served as LRA designee on Workforce Investment Council.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Planned and executed annual, multi-day events (training conferences, webinars, book studies, faculty retreats, orientation sessions competitions, and galas) as lead project manager, including vendor management, contract negotiation, venue setup, and layout planning, event marketing material creation, development of multimedia communications materials, handbooks, and job aids, and participant and exhibitor recruitment.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Implemented marketing and communications plans, authored website, newsletter, and LinkedIn page content, and increased social media presence and engagement.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Built and managed effective committees and volunteers for strategic decisions and tactical project implementation.</li>
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Executed full-cycle hiring, focused on filling critical, high-volume roles in growth-focused startup businesses- filled 110 in 2021, 71 in 2020, 128 in 2019, 94 in 2018, and 46 in H2 2017 while developing role-specific and proactive talent attraction plans across diverse methods and channels 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Developed and maintained market-specific and regional relationships to generate creative recruitment strategies through community, educational, and vendor partnerships; connected with leaders and decision-makers to identify new opportunities within current and new partnership base, diversify candidate pool, and build pipeline for future hiring needs; strategically leveraged and marketed career opportunities through daily interactions and at large scale events as brand ambassador.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Recognized as top of company-wide recruiting team in objective recruiter hiring metrics (time to fill, candidate review, interviews conducted, interview-to-hire ratio, internal/external hire percentage).</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Analyzed data as Business Unit Leader to own manpower planning and talent selection process to ensure appropriate staffing levels and long-term stability.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Promoted internal career growth through talent management and succession planning and investigated causes for turnover to develop retention plans.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Led proactive training efforts to prevent and recover from roadblocks in the hiring process.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Provided strategic support for manager and crewmember hiring strategy for seven new restaurant openings and executed near- and long-term manpower strategy for new market and business development, including both hourly and salaried roles to ensure fully staffed teams and successful onboarding and business opening.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Promoted internal career growth through talent management and succession planning; conducted individualized development plan meetings and presentations.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Served on state and national-level workforce development councils and program development panels.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Built a network of over 250 educational institutions, community groups, employers, and statewide boards to develop candidate pipelines and company connections.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Created job opportunities and internship programs with community partners and industry networks for statewide workforce development programs.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Provided technical support for a full suite of technology-based recruitment tools and was the first line of defense for training and support; conducted new in-position training for all new managers and provided ongoing professional development to improve processes and utilization of best practices.</li>
</ul>

Led and executed full cycle hiring process and supervised hiring activity for multi-level, dispersed hiring teams, ensured new hire alignment with candidate profile and company culture, allocated advertising spend based on hiring need and application data, developed and met quarterly data-driven OKRs and hiring team goals, and tracked recruitment metrics to drive efficiencies and increase retention.
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Revamped recruiting sourcing strategy by identifying over $40,000 per year in recruiting advertising and sourcing tool cost savings (reduction of 15% in total team spend) by implementing new data collection and analysis channels and setting impact metrics.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Designed and implemented dashboards, utilizing key hiring process data to analyze candidate activity and source streams, identify process roadblocks/defects to drive improvements, and monitor company-wide diversity efforts.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Implemented transformative full life-cycle talent management toolkit for entire operations career ladder; project included job title optimization, revamping job descriptions, succession planning, development cards, performance management tools, interview plans, onboarding plans, and job leveling using attributes- and skills-based approach.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Implemented, designed, and managed recruiting prioritization process for 6 regional real estate portfolios to allocate effort and advertising spend for highest need roles.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Overhauled highest-volume role recruiting strategy utilizing turnover and exit interview data to improve quality of hire and reduce regrettable turnover while implementing a highly effective sourcing tool.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Designed pipeline strategy for candidate relationship management (CRM), reducing time to hire by over 7 days.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Executed full-cycle hiring, focused on filling critical, high volume roles in growth-focused startup businesses- filled 56 hires in '22 (average of 30.1 days time to hire and 47.8 days to fill) and 17 hires in H1 '23 (average of 23 days to hire and 42.9 days to fill) 110 in 2021, 71 in 2020, 128 in 2019, 94 in 2018 and 46 in 2017 (half year) while developing role-specific and proactive talent attraction plans across diverse methods and channels. </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Created pipeline strategy utilizing tech tools for candidate relationship management (CRM) leading to reduced time to hire.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Played an instrumental role in ATS system enhancements to standardize the recruiting process and increase the efficiency of the recruiting function, ensuring clean data output and documented core SOPs.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Served as People-Ops Co-champion on KIND Kommittee employee resource group (DE&amp;I ERG).</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Led company-wide book study on Who: The A Method for Hiring.</li>
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<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Led full cycle recruiting process for a specialized engineering role, implementing out-of-the-box recruiting strategies and marketing to increase organic application flow, connect with passive candidates, and drive interest in niche roles.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Served as mentor to In Ceremony Productions through the Tulane University Innovation Institute to In Ceremony Productions.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Coached job seekers through resume writing, LinkedIn creation, interview prep, offer negotiation, and networking coaching.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Appeared on podcasts and authored blogs and articles designed to educate and enhance LinkedIn presence and integrate strategies for job acquisition, marketing, and sales positioning.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Implemented CRM tech tool to modernize and optimize the sales process for a healthcare staffing company.</li>
</ul>

Jennifer Jeansonne, owner of JAJ Consults, is a Recruiter On Demand for your startup. Passionate about people, innovation, and relationship building, she is on a mission to take the headache out of the hiring and retention process by helping you implement efficient and effective solutions. She uses 10+ years of in-house talent management and workforce development experience to provide strategic guidance and design customized talent acquisition processes for startups and early-stage businesses, saving you time, money, and precious financial capital. Every hire is a risk, especially as an early-stage business, and Jennifer helps you de-risk the hiring process from start to finish to make sure that you build your business the right way from the start.

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