Michele Cook
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist @Texas Education Agency
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist @Texas Education Agency
Austin, TX, US
Talent Acquisition Operations: Independently manage a cohort of requisitions, ensuring requisitions are compliantly managed daily; review job descriptions and relevant selection documentation, ensuring candidates are comprehensively screened and assessed as to select and secure high-quality talent to the agency; prepare and post vacancies to internal and external job boards; and review and disposition candidates accurately using the applicant tracking system (ATS); provide limited support with recruitment marketing that will attract a robust pool of high-quality candidates, including attending career events and other activities to enhance our talent acquisition effortsSelection Consultancy: Serve as a strategic thought partner to business line leaders and hiring managers through the duration of the hiring process by effectively providing ongoing guidance, training, and support that adheres to state/federal laws, as well as agency policy and talent acquisition best practices; serve as a resource to agency business line leaders and hiring managers by providing support with job descriptions, selection design, classification, and compensation-related inquiries; provide exceptional customer service that builds credibility and rapport with all stakeholders in the hiring processHiring Analysis: Support the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of hiring-related policies, practices, and processes by reviewing stakeholder-centered processes and strategy related to hiring; analyze selection documentation including all hiring recommendations and offers to ensure all hiring decisions and personnel actions are compliant with state/federal laws; produce timely and accurate analyses of the hiring data to inform talent acquisition practices, procedures, and decisionsManagement of Special Projects: Oversee the development and/or continuous improvement for Talent Acquisition related initiatives including ideating, planning, developing, and executing the project
EDUCATION
The University of Texas at Austin
B.S. in Communications
Walden University
Master of Science (MS)
SKILLS
ABOUT MICHELE COOK
In-depth, progressive experience in human resources including talent acquisition, initial onboarding, training, benefits and leave, process improvement and change management. Significant accomplishments include efforts to improve candidate experience by leading the redesign of the employment website pages to provide critical guidance for navigating the hiring process and creating and implementing candidate experience survey to gather data for process improvements. Comfortable working across organizations, collaborating with and influencing all levels of employees and vendors, and as a trusted advisor and business partner to senior leaders. Key characteristics attributed to career success are credibility, persuasive skills, and the ability to effectively solve problems and resolve critical issues.
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