Experiences at The Seattle Times

Developed and managed to a $500,000 departmental budget; supervised up to five recruiters and administrative support staff. Filled 46 openings in 14 months. Resolved sensitive candidate issues; initiated supervisor tutorials (interviewing techniques, managing the candidate experience, professional networking, effective use of temporary and placement agencies). Improved recruitment advertising campaigns. Initiated content redesign of Employment intranet site. Initiated college and community outreach. Prepared staffing metrics; standardized metric collection (days-to-fill, cost per hire, source of hire); updated EEO data collection; developed temporary headcount report. Implemented stand-by applicant tracking system to ensure business continuity. Created new hire direct deposit of pay policy, procedure, and communication plan....

Developed and launches corporate recruitment strategies; improved efficiency and effectiveness of recruitment operations; managed a $500,000 budget and supervised a team of four.

I was the administrative assistant to the Automotive Classified department. I provided clerical and administrative assistance to the Automotive manager, as well as inside and outside salespeople and their ad designers.

Seeing my friends Jarod, Shannon and Kelly everyday. The atmosphere. Their employee benefits were pretty great too!

If you're working in the creative marketing department, make your peace right now with the fact that you will be working in a basement. You will not see a window. The office is beige. The carpet is gray. The lighting is flourescent. But the people are great!

Laadla, the Indian restaurant on Fairview. Also, it's great to walk over to REI and sit amongst the waterfalls.

The amazing team of talented freaks in the Creative Marketing department! Almost all of us have moved on to bigger and better things, but it was one of the best teams I've ever worked with in Seattle.