Ginger Cook

About Ginger Cook

I’m a Senior Talent Acquisition professional with 20+ years of experience delivering…

Experience

1. Sr Corporate Recruiter

   Zenith Insurance Company (United States)

   Jun 2006 — Present

   Something really special happens when you join Zenith. You start off focusing on the job. Pretty soon you feel like you’re part of the family. Gradually, your role takes on more meaning as you use your experience, knowledge, and compassion to help our Workers’ Compensation customers’ employees stay safe and heal from their injuries or provide exceptional claims service for our Property and Casualty customers and agency business partners. We are proud to have built a company where employees can feel fulfilled in their work. And to have created an environment where our employees know they come first. We think that feeling inspires our people to perform at their very best when it comes to our customers and their employees.Highly knowledgeable and skilled in full-cycle recruitment, sourcing, screening, interviewing, and identifying candidates for various levels within IT, Finance & Accounting, Legal, Marketing, Medical, Operations, Admin, and several industry-specific specialties. • Consult with business and functional leaders to define competencies for specific roles• Manage heavy requisition load• Interview applicants by comparing candidates’ compatibility with specific job requirements in order to ensure the right fit • Negotiate offers and close hires • Coach hiring leaders on interviewing techniques• Regularly troubleshoot difficult positions, source identify, attract, secure and close hard-to-find candidates• Prescreen candidates with detailed phone screens • Partner with all levels of management to develop and implement staffing plans, conduct interviews, assist managers with candidate selection, and source candidates at open houses and career & college fairs• Collaborate with immigration attorneys and manage various visa, EAD, & GC related situations• Negotiate rates on contract to hire basis• Recruit for specific technologies such as ERP, CRM, ETL/Data warehousing, database experts, BI, Systems Admin, Middleware, Telecom, and Networking

Education

• Sonoma State University

  Bachelor's degree

Skills

• Resume Writing
• Staffing Services
• Human Resources
• Personnel Management
• Internet Recruiting
• Performance Management
• Employee Training
• Permanent Placement
• Job Fairs
• Screening
• Hiring
• Leadership
• Management
• Employee Relations
• Interviews
• Talent Management
• Taleo
• Corporate Recruiting
• College Recruiting
• Workers Compensation
• Executive Search
• Behavioral Interviewing
• Applicant Tracking Systems
• Talent Acquisition
• Screening Resumes
• Employment Law
• Workforce Planning
• Building Relationships
• Staff Augmentation
• Technical Recruiting
• Job Descriptions
• Succession Planning
• Background Checks
• Hris
• Vendor Management
• Temporary Placement
• Cold Calling
• Employment-Based Immigration
• Recruiting
• Recruitment Advertising