Danielle Patel

About Danielle Patel

Danielle is a senior-level talent acquisition professional with over 20 years of full-cycle recruiting experience. Her search service includes a strategic approach leveraging networks, immersion of company culture, and identifying quality talent beyond listed job descriptions. Her energy, high-level communication, and connections with applicants, customers, and hiring managers have led to quick time-to-fill ratios with a history of establishing quality long-term employees. Clients include publicly traded companies such as Ryman Hospitality Properties Hilton- a Fortune 500 Company, to Convention Visitor Bureaus (CVB) and Independent Event Management Firms. She began her hospitality recruiting career as an internal operations recruiter with Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center. She was promoted to Gaylord Entertainment corporate hiring professional employees and Leaders before transitioning to becoming a Full Time Consultant. Danielle is currently exclusive to the Ryman Hospitality Properties brands: Gaylord Hotels Corporate Division and Opry Entertainment Group OEG includes Grand Ole Opry, Ryman Auditorium. Ole Red, formerly Circle All Access, and Austin City Limits (ACL) Live. Danielle’s cradle-to-grave HR services include team alignment, job description creation, sourcing, interviewing, presenting and hosting strong talent, and salary negotiations to the signed offer. In addition, Danielle has a passion for wellness, her family, working out, the beach, and sneaking time to read a good book. Other Skills: Recruiting process management, project management, leveraging networks, executive placements, corporate/college/international H2-B recruiting, phone, video and in-person interviews, pre-opening processes and hiring for hotels and restaurant music venues. Positions Hired: Corporate Professional, Field and Operations, Hotel and National Sales Managers/Directors/Vice Presidents, Food & Beverage Leadership, IT, Marketing Leadership, Design & Construction, as well as C-Suite talent. Systems: MS Office Suite, Zoom, WebEx, LinkedIn, Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)

Experience

1. Senior Executive Recruiter

   Ryman Hospitality Properties

   Jul 2014 — Present · National, US

   Executive Recruiter and HR Projects for: Gaylord Hotels Corporate Division and Opry Entertainment Group OEG includes Grand Ole Opry, Ryman Auditorium. Ole Red, formerly Circie All Access, and ACL Live.

Education

• Ball State University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Health Science

  1996 — 2000

Skills

• Time Management
• Hospitality Management
• Succession Planning
• Talent Management
• Sourcing
• Personnel Management
• Hospitality Industry
• Sales
• Training
• Performance Management
• Employee Training
• Onboarding
• Hotel Management
• College Recruiting
• Applicant Tracking Systems
• Leadership
• Interviewing
• Talent Acquisition
• Executive Sales Recruitment
• Hotels
• Human Resources
• Employee Relations
• Interviews
• New Hire Orientations
• Hospitality
• Recruiting