Destiny Talley, M.Ed.

● Supports recruitment management for the school’s ten academic departments’ full-time graduate programs (master’s and PhD), Engineering for Professionals online graduate programs, and the Doctor of Engineering (DEng) degree. ● Represents the WSE graduate programs at academic/industry conferences and events, and supports recruitment initiatives both domestically and internationally. ● Coordinates with the admissions and enrollment team to achieve strategic recruitment and yield goals, monitors data to ensure the efforts meet responsible ROI thresholds, and creates recruitment communication plans.

● Attends quarterly meetings to assess overall progress of community outreach programs and impact on Rockingham County student population ● Strategizes impact practices and policy implementation to build organizational power for providing resources to students, parents, and educators in Rockingham County ● Maintains relationship with internal partners including executive team, community college personnel, high school counseling staff, and other board members located nationally

● Continued all Global Talent Acquisition Specialist responsibilities with a more complex scope of global recruitment cycles; industries include health, education, operations, monitoring & evaluation, communications, and data analysis. ● Served as the first line of contact for policy, procedures, and updates to hiring managers and global candidate pool across regions within the US, LAC (Latin America and the Caribbean), Africa, and Europe in over 100 recruitment cycles. ● Cultivated mutually beneficial relationships with institutional stakeholders by consistently engaging with universities and colleges to pinpoint evolving demands and anticipate potential opportunities for partnership through a deep understanding of sought-out perspectives. ● Directed and/or participated in 4 multi-personnel workstreams dedicated to increasing candidate pipelines through external relationship management, early career & intern engagement, structured interview processing, and organizational marketing. ● Developed recruitment reports to analyze engagement trends and provide actionable conversion insights to senior leadership aligned with long-term organizational talent attraction and engagement goals. ● Engaged in business development activities from pre-capture through proposal submission. ● Coordinated and provided direct onboarding support for project staff identified through the proposal process to support rapid mobilization at project award.

● Contacted candidates, developed and document profiles and maintained contact notes within RTI systems to ensure a high-touch candidate experience. ● Utilized digital platforms (email, calling, CRM, ATS, social media, etc.) for excellent recruitment management to source and sustain leads, referrals, and other potential prospects matched in qualifications and organizational fit. ● Built and strengthened expansive networks of 30+ internal and external partners to assist in meeting assigned recruitment goals. ● Facilitated and participated in over 20 campus/career fairs, school visits, technical presentations, and targeted large-scale events (local, national, and virtual) to improve gaps in talent awareness and pipelining; Developed and disseminated compelling, informative recruitment communications content during events. ● Provided support to end-to-end strategic recruiting activities such as job classification, sourcing, candidate relationship management, and negotiation; established consistent full-cycle recruitment for all stakeholders including but not limited to: hiring managers, HR business partners, talent operations team members. ● Supported documentation gathering and reference checks for finalist candidates to ensure compliance with client and RTI requirements.   ● Provided data management for candidate relationships and support recruitment database administration in collaboration with talent operations team members.

● Provided remote support to a caseload of up to 160 high-achieving, low- and moderate-income students in college application and transition processes ● Analyzed self-constructed data management system to track progress on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) used to inform data-driven advising practices and monitor advancement towards student milestones ● Scheduled monthly individual meetings to assess student progress and provide guidance in completing college applications, financial aid forms, and local/national scholarships ● Pioneered Decision Day initiative to celebrate student success and milestone completion through facilitating post-grad networking opportunities and technology prize management/distribution valued at over $8,000

● Developed weekly distance-learning curriculums to involve students in various stages of college application processes including financial aid, virtual campus touring, and FAFSA/scholarship application review ● Attended to over 50 student and parent inquiries per week through several virtual platforms including text, email, and video ● Designed a college access webpage to centralize over 10 different resources for student use in college search and application processes

● Maintained a caseload of 300 students per year while working at two sites, Reidsville High School and Rockingham Early College High School ● Utilized a database to log over 1,000 interactions with seniors per school year including one-on-ones, college application submissions, and scholarships ● Increased parent/guardian engagement in college application processes by 12% and FAFSA priority deadline submissions by 10% ● Managed a $5,000 grant to boost college campus tour participation and execute initiatives to ease application processes providing resources and experiences at no cost ● Contributed to long-term sustainability efforts by giving targeted feedback and by training 50 fellow advisers on strategic planning and data contextualization

● Served as career coach and campus partner to conduct over 15 virtual and in-person presentations, workshops, and one-on-one advising sessions per week on resume and cover letter building, LinkedIn utilization, and majors and careers exploration ● Supervised annual career development curriculum for UNCG’s flagship student success program, guiding over 50 students through key performance indicators for improved professional development ● Coordinated campus recruitment through virtual career fair registration and targeted outreach, resulting in 100 employers participating, 800+ students registering, and 2,000+ sessions being offered ● Interviewed candidates with leadership team leading to full-time employment for 83% of vacant positions including 1 Associate Director for Employer Relations, 1 career coach, and 3 graduate assistants ● Targeted student population career needs through newsletter construction in order to market professional development opportunities on a biweekly basis, generating up to 120 unique clicks and over 40% open rate

● Spearheaded the development of leadership curriculum for Sankofa Leadership Certificate including 5 workshop sessions, competency-based assessments, scheduling, and module delivery ● Assisted retention efforts by supporting the ed tech program, Path Navigator, to enhance new student experience by linking over 150 first-year students with one-on-one peer mentors and monitoring flagged escalations about transition concerns ● Developed content for curriculum and course outline of 16-week Current Trends & Topics in Diversity seminar lab

● Ideated and facilitated an 8-hour Empowerment Conference, serving over 80 self-identifying high school women in grades 9 through 12 ● Designed all four 45-minute session rotations with concrete objectives and activities focusing on self-worth, empowerment, leadership, and fellowship ● Managed supporting relationships with members of the Prince George’s Board of Education, resulting in full financial support through donations and fundraising opportunities

● Interacted with 5,000 UNC incoming first-year students throughout 18 summer orientation sessions by hosting 30-minute presentations on collegiate leadership experience ● Collaborated with Senior Associate Director and several UNC cultural groups in over 15 Carolina Union Initiatives to support heritage month initiatives in service of over 100 students ● Advertised quantified and qualified impacts of The Office of Student Life and Leadership and campus partnership programs to over 1,000 people, students and parents included

● Researched race-relations within education alongside Associate Chair ● Coded 44 transcripts on ATLAS.ti for surface and in-depth qualitative research ● Revised official code book by creating and defining over 250 relevant codes

● Drafted a grant proposal for The North Carolina Career Development Association’s Best Practices Grants and was approved for $800 towards professional development programming ● Planned seven professional events during the 2017-2018 academic school year with focus on career development for women of color at no cost to participants ● Designed a networking opportunity for 20 sophomore women of color to connect with inspirational women in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area

● Pioneered a cohort-based mentorship program, helping 25 first-year women of color to ease transition into academic and social climates at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ● Organized a three-day retreat focused on cultivating self-worth and leadership skills for 25 first-year women of color

● Supervised a network of over 50 people within UNC’s Minority Advising Program annually, promoting motivation for smooth and helpful relationships between 15-20 peer mentors and their assigned mentees groups ● Compiled over 300 contact forms in Qualtrics and Citrix Receiver database in order to log mentor-mentee relationships ● Examined over 75 files and literary sources to create a digital log related to retention of black male students at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill