Sheldon Woods

About Sheldon Woods

As a seasoned Talent Acquisition Partner, I have successfully managed full-cycle recruitment for diverse roles and portfolios, building high-quality talent pipelines and delivering exceptional candidate experiences. With a strong focus on diversity, efficiency, and strategic partnerships, I have consistently achieved outstanding results in talent acquisition and employer branding initiatives.Career Highlights:Led the talent acquisition efforts for Customer Experience, Pre-Sales, Professional Services, and AE roles at Zendesk, achieving an average acceptance rate of 88%.Successfully supported candidates throughout the recruitment process, ensuring a superb and transparent candidate experience with consistent check-ins.Played a key role in a talent brand overhaul at Zendesk, leveraging the employer value proposition to attract more candidates and serving as a Brand Ambassador for external diversity outreach events.Consulted with hiring managers and people partners on business needs, salary negotiations, diversity initiatives, and market trends, leveraging data and metrics to optimize recruitment processes and provide recommendations.Developed recruitment guides, candidate experience guides, and streamlined processes at Chicago Public Schools, resulting in improved quality hiring decisions, equitable interview processes, and successful hiring rates of 88% women/people of color.

Experience

1. Early Careers Talent Partner

   S&P Global

   Aug 2023 — Present

   Collaborate with Program Managers, Finance, and People Partners to design and implement 5 internship programs and 3 graduate programs aligned with business needs while facilitating training for hiring managers.Utilized AI tools to promote Early Career opportunities, simplifying interview process for hiring managers including re-vamping job descriptions to attract talent, create interview questions aligned to manager expectations and company values.Serve as a trusted partner to Commodity Insights senior leadership and university stakeholders for large scale recruiting events, implementing a divisional wide recruitment strategy to identify high potential candidates, create personal out-reach, utilize a digital tool to engage with prospects, and fast-tracking top candidates to assessment and offers leading to highest divisional acceptances.Proactively build and maintain a robust pipeline of high-quality candidates for research analysts, price reporters, energy consulting, technical, and commercial sales profiles, achieving 89% diversity in hires through innovative sourcing techniques and outreach to diverse talent pools, including universities and career fairs.Engage with top universities and colleges to meet future talent needs and enhance our employer value proposition through career fairs and recruitment events. Drive DEI initiatives to exceed hiring goals and increase diversity, particularly women of color, by partnering with disability organizations and HBCUs.

Education

• Indiana University Indianapolis

  Bachelor’s Degree, Journalism & Communication Studies

  2010 — 2014

• Ball State University

  Master of Arts (M.A.), Higher Education/Higher Education Administration

  2014 — 2016

Skills

• Public Speaking
• Student Affairs
• Leadership
• Social Media
• Higher Education
• Powerpoint
• Training